This one is a comic-form staging of a post from the website Write Badly Well called “Include Detailed Stage Directions“. It’s nice sometimes to have a script already in existence so one can focus on one’s shitty drawings.

One of those literal renderings of a popular phrase. Originally I had the people thinking something like “this is shit”, but Rilla suggested they’d actually be thinking about what they were doing.

In my time-honoured role as a devil’s advocate, I felt the need to contradict Johan Huizinga’s observation about dogs playing in his book “Homo Ludens” (a seminal text in game studies).

A little vignette of honesty about the process of reading weight books of theory about games and media and so on. Sometimes you zone back into the real world and its concerns.

I picked up a pamphlet on “Swadhyay” (self-confidence) at a local shoe-repair store in Wellington, New Zealand. It has some great slogans which I translated into a kind of symbolic comic.

Sometimes the news is all you need for a great and bizarre story. In this case tales of megarexic men and a necessary (kung fu) sweep.

Song lyrics are often so incredibly strange when you think about their meaning literally, as evidenced by the whole ‘literal music video’ movement. This is a literal chorus comic…

I love the song “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” by the Beach Boys. I also love the flat sound of computer voices. Combined, it all ends up sounding surprisingly sweet and melancholy.

There this ad in New Zealand where a girl recounts advise given to her by her mother which is kind of hilarious. This is that advice reinterpreted by three objects.

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.