Every two years I publish a list of the books which I read during that period. Here is my 2013-15 list, featuring the reasons why Feral by George Monbiot was my favourite book from that period.
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A list containing my favourite musical album, book, graphic novel, comic, film and article from 2014.
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Every two years I publish a list of the books which I read during that period. Here is my 2011-13 list, featuring the reasons why A Small Book About Drugs by Lisa Pryor was my favourite book from that period.
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I have recently moved cities from Brisbane to Canberra, which has disrupted progress on my Rat Park comic. Coincidentally, I have just finished reading a book about climate change titled The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding.
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Released to the web in 2009, my comic Amusing Ourselves to Death was the most popular thing on my website, and a mini internet phenomenon. So how come I decided to remove this comic from my website?
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn was my favourite book that I read in 2011. Broadly about the concept of ‘sustainability’, it is a book about the author’s quest to understand the deep reasons why our civilisation acts in destructive ways.
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Blankets by Craig Thompson was my favourite book that I read in 2010. It is an autobiographical graphic novel which tells Thompson’s experiences growing up in small-town Wisconsin in a religious family.
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Why are we drawn to excessively sweet and fatty foods?
Why do we find it hard to pull our eyes away from the flicker of TV sets in waiting rooms and cafés?
Why are we compelled to check and re-check our inboxes and Facebook pages throughout the day?
These questions are answered in my new comic Supernormal Stimuli.