summer (Patreon)

hey mates hope you’re all keeping well.

here are some test pages for Jeff Sparrow and my sum-day book ‘12 Rules for Strife’. they’re proof of concept type pages, won’t make it to the final thing but thought i’d share them

The ‘12 Rules’ project is what i’m going to be working on in Perth when i head there for six weeks toward the end of this month, cannot fkn WAIT.

Here are some scrappy events im gonna do there, if u or any of ur friends live over that way:

made the below piece at Troppo Screenprinting in Coburg a couple of weeks ago. Troppo is a rly special thing, u pay a cheap membership and they teach you how to screenprint and let u use the space whenever you want. The added appeal is that u can print with fucked up colours like the fluro green below, and also print on different kinds of surfaces like wood n fabric. If there’s anything you’d like to see me print / print on to let me know

i also rly like how wonky the registration is, the way the colours don’t quite match up 😻

most of the copies of this print i made were toooooo scrappy tho, cos it was my first time, i have one more that wasn’t too fugly, if u want it click “like” on this post and i’ll choose someone at random to mail it to.

i’m hoping to screenprint some copies of the below piece eventually, a new drawing based on some rly sound old organising principals that Matthew sent me:

below drawing is my first one for Overland for the year, it’s based on something the head of the Maritime Union said at a rally last month. “In attacking us, they bring us together" / Overland

drew this for the Rail Tram and Bus Union in WA, to celebrate two of their formerly divided branches uniting after a long time. The RTBU are selling prints of them to fundraise, if u want one https://www.rtbuwa.asn.au/2023/01/01/happy-amalgamation-day/

here are some mental health posters that i made over the last while, maybe they’re a bit corny, it’s a hard brief to make these kinds of resources for super blokey workplaces 😅

drew this on christmas eve cos i was annoyed at all the bad faith arguments about the strikes taking place, especially in the UK :

I’m still slowly getting through mailing everyone out new printed stuff, i ran out of some of the things so had to do another print run which held things up a bit but now i’m back into it. If i send u copies of stuff u already have feel free to regift or chuck in the bin without telling me heh

the new job is going well, especially cos i am not having to wring $ out of my drawings as much, it’s making me fall in love with making stuff again which i’m grateful for. i diiddddd go ~8 days~ without a shift last pay period tho💀 so still v grateful for the patreon. when i get permanency i’ll wind this up i reckon.

thanks mates see u in your post box soon if not already, as usual lemme know if you’ve changed addresses 😁 ty for the support!!!!!!!!!!!!❤️