corporate memphis (Patreon)

hey how's it going

here is a new comic about that cancerous drawing style called 'Corporate Memphis', it's going to be published by Overland soon.

tech journalist Josh Gabert-Don wrote in Wired that “the immense reach of Corporate Memphis, or the design possibilities we’ve been deprived of because of it… is, after all, simply a reflection of big tech, and how it has constructed a world with users on one side and executives on the other.”

a couple of days ago i got my hands on this PRINTED THING :

extremely cool to hold it and to recognise it as something that is no longer mine.

you can now pre-order the book here, and it will get to you in like a months time, it comes out May 31st 😅🤢🥰 

if you wld like to come to the official launch in Melbourne on June 2nd, pls let me know and i'll ask Scribe to send u a formal invite.

drew the below sticker for our friends at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, using one of my favourite quotes from that chapter of history ~ "I call it a darn solid mass of different colours and tribes, blended together, woven, bound, interlocked, tongue and grooved and glued together in one body". an explicitly anti-racist uprising of coal miners, 100 years ago, 40 years before the civil rights movement, in the same Appalachian mountains that are today routinely dismissed as permanently and unforgivably backward.also rejigged the mural designs i did for them into these screenprinted stickers:

did the above work paid only by u patreon supporters cos the museum doesn't have much money (they did offer me some so no shade to them, but they have very little $ as u might imagine). if anyone wants any of the stickers, u can become a supporter of the museum or hit me up im happy to send. also, im gonna do a big mail out soon to ppl who have become supporters here in the last few months (thankyou for ur patience!!!!)

someone called the OG Auspol Shitposter made the above meme template based off of the dumb drawing of Scomo that i did a while ago, if anyone wants to use it feel free hahah

we are coming up to May Day which is genuinely exciting imo. i made this poster for a big in-person celebration in Western Australia that was planned until recently - sadly it got cancelled last minute, with the novel coronavirus cited as the concern!? they must have only just heard of it lol.

instead, they are making shirts with the design on them now, and had me get rid of the event details from the design and change the text to read "celebrate apart” :-|
fingers crossed for a huge in-person event there next year.

u can get one of the shirts here if u want, they were made in WA and they're only $20 including postage.

melbourne’s may day is shaping up to be a good one. years ago as the labour movement gradually shat itself, celebrations went from being held *on may day*, with tens of thousands of people walking off the job, to being held on the sunday closest to may 1st, so as to be less disruptive. this sucks and shld be reversed, there has been a small contingent trying to correct it over recent years, getting back to marking international workers day on the same day as the rest of planet earth, but melbournes official may day committee has been a bit stubborn. fortunately this year, May 1st itself happens to coincidentally fall on the sunday closest to May day (!), so both events will happen on the same day. the hope is that this will be a bit of a factory reset, and next year we can stick with the may 1st date for getting together. Joe Toscano is running this anarchist walking tour in the morning before the usual festivities:

designed this colouring book for the SA May Day Committee, if anyone wants a copy let me know im happy to mail u one. there are around a dozen pages in the booklet, i will put a few of them below:

drew this cos i keep getting shat off by hearing about CEOs from Amazon / Starbucks / etc saying that they don't want a union coming between the employer and the worker, as if the union is an external entity :

i have work in a few exhibitions atm which is unusual, one of them is a one day only thing happening this afternoon / evening at Goodspace in Sydney, with work by Nicky Minus, Judy Kuo Hollie Moly and other agit-prop artists 🙃

another is a retrospective of 5+ years of Climarte Poster Projects, which is a yearly poster exhibition about climate change, usually just taking place on the streets of Melbourne but this year it's also in a gallery. these are the ppl who i made that big 'Just Transitions' poster and the 'Make the yarra swimmable' piece for. there are 30 or so different street posters on display at 120 Bridge rd Richmond, Wed - Fri 12 midday to 5pm and Saturdays 1pm to 5pm.

there is now a pretty comprehensive digital walk-through of the Museum of English Rural Life exhibition about the Commons that i was part of recently.

okay i might leave it there thanks for the continuing support it means alot!!!! talk to u next month, hope some of u can make it to the book launch on the 2nd of June and dont forget u can pre-order it from here if u want. sorry i dont have copies to mail u all, its weird to be doing this through a publisher it's pretty cool though they rly HELP with a lot of STUFF, very strange after like 15 years of exclusively DIY sludgery. i thanked patreon support in the acknowledgements page of the book, honestly i wldn't have been able to make the thing without ur help, i worked out that i prolly got paid about 80 cents an hour over the 5 years of making it, tru labour of love, but this Patreon helped me keep going and make a proper go of it <3 i hope you're all keeping well