By ‘drug period’, I refer to the 12 months I spent researching, writing and drawing War on Drugs and Rat Park. This blog post discusses everything I think and feel about drugs as a result of this research.
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This is a lengthy blog post about the behind-the-scene ‘making of’ Rat Park. Includes historical photographs of the actual Rat Park experiment from the 1970s, and interesting tidbits which I couldn’t quite fit into my comic.
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Some good news: the War on Drugs and Rat Park printed comics were delivered to me on 16 May. I have now posted these rewards to my crowdfunding supporters, and will soon upload the comic to my website.
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Good news! My crowdfunding campaign was successful. This blog post shares all of my lessons learnt from crowdfunding. Including many tips I wish I’d known beforehand.
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Speaking from inside a box, I discuss the story of my proposed comic Rat Park, about the science of drug addiction. This is the second video from my crowdfunding campaign.
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After I launched my Rat Park crowdfunding campaign, I discovered that two other Brisbane-based cartoonists were also using Pozible for this purpose. We decided to join forces to promote ourselves, and our diverse uses of the comics medium.
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This is the first video from my crowdfunding campaign. And indeed, the first time I have shown my face to my readers via this website!
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This is a reflective essay about my comic Thin Air, about the counter-intuitive fact that trees build themselves from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. They are built from exactly the same stuff that breezes past their trunks! This essay describes my research process, including my view that van Helmont was actually a bad scientist.
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