Souvenir

Now, when you design your wall panel, you have to touch base with the person on either side so your design elements overlap. But when they put the wall panels up they weren't even touching. There was like a metre gap between 'em. Oh sorry, wrong topic.

This illustration below was rejected from Airbury because I couldn't manage to fit a subplot in where Psyche somehow leaves the campus and goes for a nighttime ride through Sydney in the back of a fancy car holding an old-style German camera.

What can I say? What the comic drops, the blog picks up! Enjoy. It's on devoART, too.

By the way, my iPod played Gorillaz' "November Has Come" on shuffle today. How did it know??

Polaroid Camera

A couple of people wanna see it, so here goes.

When I started using my first Lomography camera on my 31st birthday, I began to enjoy the reputation as that guy who carries around a weird-looking analogue camera.

Actually, it wasn't all that recent. I first had that reputation much earlier than that. 25 years earlier, to be exact. I received a Polaroid camera for my 6th birthday. I used to carry it around taking photos of any old rubbish until all the film was used up.

I was disappointed, as I'm sure you were, when Polaroid went bankrupt two years ago and ceased production of SX-70 film. Hopefully Polaroid revivalists The Impossible Project will toss a few of their stocks down to Van Diemen's Land, and the little grey box below will rise again. Retro? Don't insult my intelligence. Let us now. In return we offer a little incentive.

Pete's Polaroid Land Camera, manufactured 1983 (final year)

Little Friends II

SD Ping Ping. Gah!

RAQ (Randomly Asked Questions), Part 1

Five questions I have recently been asked:

How much of what we see in your comics is based on your real-life experiences?

All of it. I really have crashed a spaceship into the planet Earth from space.

With Spike's age, in some places it's 22, in other places it's 27.

How old is he?

27. At first he was 22, but when I began to approach that age myself, it didn't seem that 'old' anymore. My sister told me to increase it to 27.

Why does the number 61 keep coming up?

61 is my lucky number and I put it into every one of my comics and some other artwork as well. Try and find them! In the fineliner sketch of Flinders Street Station on my deviantART page, I put a 61 on the dome where a tiny circular window should be.

Did you know the band China 5 have a song called "Theme From Juliet Prime"?

Yeah, it's no big deal. Notice how they don't actually say Juliet's name in the lyrics so they can't be sued for copyright infringement.

How did you learn to draw like that?

Like what?

A stick to poke fun with

You knew they would, right?