PinnedMember-onlyI Asked ChatGPT to Create Comics, Then I Drew Them.By now you’ve likely heard of ChatGPT, the open AI chatbot that seemingly does everything from being able to write code, write essays for high school students, content for websites, or even explain the James Webb Telescope while pretending to be Bodhi from Point Break.Funny6 min readFunny6 min read
Oct 19Drawing Cartoons on a Desert Island.Why One of The Oldest Cartoon Tropes Still Survives. — In the last installment of this series, we found ourselves halfway up a mountain, tasked with the Sisyphean task of drawing comics. This time, we’re headed down to sea level, presumably the tropics, and specifically to a very familiar cartoon island…Cartoon6 min readCartoon6 min read
Oct 12Member-onlyThe Life of a Joke.The joke was discovered at 2:45 p.m. in a local cafe as Harry McDonald was ordering a coffee and a croissant. It wasn’t where, or even when, he ever expected to come across a joke and yet, there it was. He repeated the joke again in his mind, his internal…Comedy3 min readComedy3 min read
Jul 5Member-onlyWhere to Waste Your Time Now That Twitter is Turned Off**…or at least rendered near useless. A few days ago Elon decided to limit the number of tweets people can see. For a man desperately trying to encourage people to use more Twitter, deliberately limiting the amount of Twitter people can use might sound counterintuitive, however Elon’s genius knows no…Funny4 min readFunny4 min read
Jan 18Member-onlyEntire Joke of Satirical Article Made in its Headline, Rendering Article Itself Fairly Tedious.Today in satire news, in what many people are now claiming ‘could have been a tweet’, a joke was written utilising the oft-used News Article Literary Device in order to make light of a fairly run-of-the-mill relatable situation. After having enjoyed the headline, many readers were then left red-faced as…Funny2 min readFunny2 min read
Jan 14Member-only25 Things You Should Have Given Up for January Instead of Alcohol.Sleep: Admit it, it was never coming anyway, so you may as well have made it official. To everyone wide awake in bed reading this on their phone at 4am, you’re welcome. Not Potatoes: Why avoid things you love, when you could avoid everything that isn’t something you love, leaving…Humor4 min readHumor4 min read
Published inHuman Parts·Oct 20, 2022Member-onlyThe Sisyphean Task of Drawing SisyphusOr, how to draw comics, again, and again, and again — “Drawing comics can be an uphill battle” is a cringingly obvious way to start this article, so I’d like to apologise for that first and then apologise again for this next one before we get things rolling. The undisputed home of single-panel cartoons is of course, a largely unknown weekly…Drawing5 min readDrawing5 min read
Sep 27, 2022Member-onlyStart Living in the Past.Because you’re already here. — Despite what you may like to think, this is the past, so clutch those dying vestiges of future nostalgia and enjoy them before they either fade away or switch to a monetised subscription model. Walk outside and enjoy the unobscured sun shining through trees that aren’t yet on fire. Meander…Future2 min readFuture2 min read
May 1, 2020Member-onlyCorona Comics.This virus has just dominated every thought, conversation, news article, every Everything for the last few months. So, it’s not at all…Comics2 min readComics2 min read
Mar 22, 2020Member-onlyCompletely Useless Advice for Surviving Self Isolation.Not the advice you asked for, but still pretty good. There’s been a lot of articles this week telling you the best ways to survive self isolation and how work from home and all that boring stuff (my own writing included). Well to hell with that! Here’s the advice that…3 min read3 min read
