Completed across weeknights and weekends in January, MOVE FORWARD is a comic book adaptation of my CV from 2024.

“DEATH SPEAR” is a one-page comic for the sixth issue of Budlife magazine, about the monocarpic life of the agave deserti.

A very dense three pages for an upcoming non-fiction Covid-19-themed anthology published by Graphic Mundi, an imprint of Penn State University Press. The story focuses on how local businesses respond to NSW’s changing Covid-19 precautions and regulations and how a sense of community can be found within family-owned restaurants.

A comic adaptation of a scene from the streaming series Normal People, completed as a birthday gift for a good friend. This is one of the most emotional things I’ve drawn, and my first time doing all the dialogue in sentence case, rather than all uppercase.

A 4-page dark comedy for the OzComics charity anthology, Australia Burns: Tales of Devastation and Courage Under Fire. While other stories focused on superheroics and camaraderie, my story looked at meme culture and fast fashion responding to nationwide catastrophes without really responding at all.

A good portion of the story lampoons the idea of purchasing filter masks (to prevent smoke/dust inhalation) that are fashion items without actual filtering capabilities. This was a red hot three months before Covid-19 happened, and boy is the egg on my face. Masks are great!

A short story featuring the characters from Ghost Beach, written in celebration of Newcastle’s performance poetry scene.

Available to read in full here.

Lesson One was written in collaboration with Luke Dolan, about the mid-2000s Newcastle hardcore band The Dead Walk. It was produced in 2019 for Meet Me In The Pit Vol 4, published by Blueprint Comics.

Released in 2017, Ghost Beach is the longest and most ambitious of all the comics in my Storm Clouds series - 108 pages, perfect bound, 2 colours with a 3-colour fluro section in the middle.

For more information about the Storm Clouds series, including where to buy, check out the Storm Clouds website.

Chino, Dobson and the rest of their police friends are headed to Bontown to investigate a new party drug with sinister side effects. Jared discovers the mystery man on the train was actually the son of a local politician, and the city is in a panic to uncover what happened to him. Frankie and Charlie, while working together at the local hospital, encounter a familiar face in the emergency room. And we meet Erin Rhyse, Jared’s best friend and housemate, who is getting closer and closer to unravelling this entire mess. Is Jared still the target of The Party, after their chance encounter in the last comic? Is Chino ready to return to Bontown, after leaving it all behind? Why does everyone call it Ghost Beach? Be the first to find out, this Winter in Bontown!

Completed for the HFoot 2019 zine, where I use iconic street art mascot HFoot to represent my own sense of defeat when travelling on the light rail.

Written and illustrated in collaboration with Dr Vun Peng Chang for the Annals of Internal Medicine. Read the full story, here. 

Another comic story with Dr Chang, this time focusing on regular people learning basic life skills through the use of AED machines. We wrote this one together, with the dialogue and narration being based on a discussion we had about AEDs prior to writing. 

A series of comic shorts about emergency medicine produced in collaboration with Dr Vun Peng Chang, for collected publication in the future. Dr Chang is an emergency medicine specialist, and working with him has been illuminating. 

Published by Halftone Productions.

Illustration, typography and layout for a guest spot on Kieran Jack’s fantasy comic book In Purgatory: The Rights Of Passage. The story features Kieran’s characters Death, War, Conquest and Horace entering the belly of a Leviathan and hallucinating based on its stomach acids, resulting in a drastic shift in the style of illustration, typography and layout. Enter me.

Kieran’s characters are extremely different from the kinds of (human) characters I usually deal with, so this was truly an exercise in style and working outside of my comfort zone.

A collaboration with comic writer Big Tim Stiles for Rise of The Walking Dead, published in 2019 by Halftone Productions.

I did the branding, posters and a series of one-panel gag strips for short-lived Islington night club Cheap Banter in 2016. For a while there, they even let me write the gags myself. They originally asked me to do my usual illustration style but make it look grittier. At first, I felt like this was the antithesis to the ligne-clare style I'd built up in the Storm Clouds series, but the grittier look ended up defining my natural style. I loved doing these comics - it's a shame the club night has rebranded and relocated!

A one-page autobiographical comic about running, completed for the Get Lost In These City Streets exhibition and walking tour, for the Newcastle Writers Festival in 2016.

The sequel to Storm Clouds, released in 2015 as part of a creative grant from This Is Not Art. 60 pages, risograph printed. Focuses on the mental health of the character Jared Paige, using graphic depictions of his adrenaline levels to demonstrate his struggle with anxiety. The story was written alongside songwriter and sound engineer Jordan Crotty, who produced a two-track EP as Jared's hardcore band, Chances, released as a cassette tape limited to 99 copies.

For more information about the Storm Clouds series, including where to buy, check out the Storm Clouds website.

The year is 2011, several years before Jared Paige is wanted as prime suspect for the Sydney city serial murderer, the Party Killer. The suffocating anxiety endured by Jared has been brought to an all-time high in the wake of the farewell show for his infamous hardcore band, Chances, and the lingering remorse for turning his entire city against Nadia Chino. As the public image he has built for himself feels more and more like that of a stranger, the future-fugitive is ready to snap. The story begins to bridge the gap between Jared Paige, hardcore barista and Jared Paige, anarchist assassin, as the dark secrets behind Bontown’s small community grow deeper and more mysterious.

A 4-page story released for Free Comic Book Day the year after Don't Panic came out, introducing the character Erin Rhyse. This was the introduction of the character-driven narrative style I started using before Ghost Beach.

For more information about the Storm Clouds series, including where to buy, check out the Storm Clouds website.

My full-length debut as a comic artist, Storm Clouds is a 60-page, risograph printed mystery story that plays with page layout in weird ways. It was a hit with my friends, and later spun off into a series. Currently in its fourth edition.

For more information about the Storm Clouds series, including where to buy, check out the Storm Clouds website.

A young police officer is promoted to detective status when a horrific incident leads her department to believe she shares a connection with a notorious serial killer. Working together with a new partner, the search for the killer leads them to her old hometown, 2 hours north of Sydney. In the infamous Bontown, NSW, the once-abandoned small town punk rock drama is the least of their troubles, as our heroes stumble upon something much bigger.

A short pitch for a full series, written by Blake Jolly. It reminded me a lot of the tv-show Angel, except without vampires. I was going for a Batman: The Animated Series sort of vibe.

One of the first comics I ever produced was a pitch for a science fiction series called Strange Travels - it featured dual narratives both telling stories about blue-collar workers being taken advantage of by big corporations. An engineer is sent into space as an experiment that he doesn't realise is a one-way trip, and a pulp bounty hunter discovers a fabled Tin City on another planet, built entirely by one architect. I never turned it into a full series, but I had big story plans - maybe I'll be able to return to these characters some day.