In January of 2024, I left for Chengdu, China with Illustrate Your Life to present the ACE! Australian Comics Exhibition. My work from Ghost Beach, Meet Me In The Pit, Australia Burns and others will be on display with comics from all your Australian favourites. I'll be doing press, speaking on a panel, running a workshop and eating as many noodles as I can. Illustrateyourlife's Jakub (the same Jakub from Illustrated City) and I worked on the brand for the exhibition together, and came up with a koala mascot named Casey: a representative of Australia's laid-back nature, four-seasons-in-a-day climate and affinity for little shorts. The poster shows a sequence of Casey going on a daytrip into the city, noticing comics all around him. Casey appears across signage, merchandise, promotions and and two gigantic interactive photo op displays - one a sculpture taller than both of us!