This one came out of looking at some warnings on the packaging for a microphone headset. The image of a baby with a plastic bag over its head was too extreme not to follow up on, I feel.

I drew a horrifically bad drawing of a man in sunglasses in my notebook, and it somehow segued from that into this horrically bad piece of photoshop collage. Ouch.

Sometimes I see disappointed-looking people on the streets and I imagine that they are thinking, “mother was right.” This sad realisation that after all these years, that trite advice was actually good.

A long time ago I saw a ribbon twined in a fence on Tasman street in Wellington, New Zealand that said “I will call u.” It seems so poignant and I wanted to invent a back-story for it.

I watched a documentary featuring the insane thinking of Richard Pipes on terrorism and counter-terrorism and wanted to write something about it. I paired it with a furniture catalogue for no real reason.

Had a conversation with a small girl at Gloria Jeans Café in Wellington about her drawings. This is a more or less faithful reporting of what she had to say about it all.

There’s a great comic called “The Guy I Almost Was” which I’ve always liked. Add that to a stolen essay about McCahon repurposed to be about me and there you have it.

That Bowflex commercial with the woman walking around the poolside in a purple bikini. I love that commercial.

I set myself the objective to make a comic in two hours no matter what, text included. And this is what I ended up with – using photos instead of drawings in order to be able to get it together.

My lack of interest in Turbulence, the 3rd Annual Auckland Triennial combined with Experimenta’s response to Telecom Prospect 2007 exhibition