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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

HEAR ME, MELBOURNE! We're testing out the script of a brand new graphic novel, live on stage! Join a crew of incredible actors and comedians for chapter one of CRYER! November 2, 6:30pm at the mighty Motley Bauhaus in Carlton! Book quick! www.eventfinda.com.au/2026/cryer-c...

An illustration of a huge head with explosive sound issuing from its mouth. Two tiny men alongside are buffeted by the incredible volume.

"The year is 1614, and Jonathan Cryer is the loudest town crier in all England! What will he do when his industry is disrupted by the infernal technology called 'newes-papers'?"

Come see CRYER! Chapter One! performed on November 2, 2026 at 6:30pm, at The Motley Bauhaus, 118 Elgin St, Carlton. Bookings (free!) at https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2026/cryer-chapter-one/melbourne/carlton

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Things not going well on the Aus conservative train?

Email from CPAC saying they only have one major sponsor this year (the IPA) and offering a cut-price IPA membership

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Australian Cartoonists Association now has a generative A.I. policy: www.cartoonists.org.au/about/ai-pol...

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Australian Cartoonists Association › ACA Generative AI Policy

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You would have known how pleased I am about this much earlier if I hadn't evacuated social medias! Cockatoo is the best 💓

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

MELB! save the date -- Monday November 2nd, 6:30pm. We're gonna be doing a bit of a theatrical experimental experience. Tickets avail soon.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People who aren't from Melbourne think Toorak must be our fanciest suburb, but they haven't been to Onerak

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I must have said something very truthful in that cartoon for the Oz to still be banging on about it.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yesterday's heraldsun printed an A.I. generated cartoon on page 4. News Corp = slop Sorry to all the News cartoonists and illustrators being shat upon; reach out please to myself and/or the Australian Cartoonists Association if you want to talk about this situation.

Drawing of a news corp paper pooping on a group of cartoonists and illustrators. The poop is extra wet looking

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You might be feeling isolated or intimidated by your situation, the state of things in your industry or the social platforms you're forced to take part in. You aren't alone! We didn't get ourselves into this, but we can get ourselves out. Let's keep having good conversations, especially offline.

Some black and blue blobs of watercolour, with a yellow blob at the centre.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It's ideal for historians, yes, and for researchers in the future (which I am at times). Whether they/we "deserve" to have all that they can get hold of is another question. Generally I'd favour getting over not getting, but I think the article raises good questions.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Yeah, I totally understand. You've been on the receiving end of more shit than I can imagine

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

So... not keen on the discussion then

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I like IA but the question of what govs and historians deserve to have access to is interesting and important.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Making one of these helps me comprehend!

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Honoured to be asked to produce a graphic scribe video for my good friends at the Liberal Party! It explains exactly what went wrong for the Liberals in the 2025 federal election, from their point of view, in their words (mostly). #sketchnote #graphicrecording www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4MX...

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The Secret Liberal Party review of the 2025 Federal Election

YouTube video by Nakedfella Productions

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Ben Law was forced to read out the entire title ❤️

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Just popping onto the news sicko website for a mo to say that, as the main Jewish person in Australia, I'm proud to know "Activist Cartoonist @cathywilcox.bsky.social". Here's a drawing of my Holocaust-escapee grandfather. Hope you're all well today!

Drawing of my Czech grandfather: "I don't mind you can be a Muslim, you can be anyting, that's I respect you. Od'e leave me alone."

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MariNaomi (they/them) @marinaomi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad. www.patreon.com/posts/139743...

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update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases | MariNaomi

Get more from MariNaomi on Patreon

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Patrick Alexander @chickennation.com · 28/06/2025

An excellent fan uploaded another old issue of Mania magazine (featuring Pink Chickens) to the Internet Archive. This one had Dolly Douglas ON THE COVER, which I'd forgotten about, but I was incredibly stoked about at the time. archive.org/details/Mani...

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Mania Magazine May 2002 : Nextmedia Pty Limited : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

May 2002 issue of Australian kid's magazine Mania.Comics featured:FunkbotKung Fu CowPink Chickens

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I went to Reimena Yee's masterclass on book research as part of Q-lit Festival! Here are my notes (except pg 5 cos I can only post 4pgs here). #sketchnotes #sketchnoting #graphicscribe #comics #comicsresearch #bookresearch

How do you turn a mountain of fun facts into a book?

Plan. Sourcing. Assessing the source. ID'ing the goods. Extracting the goods. Processing.

Figuring out your goals with this story. Research will help you do this. Search engines can be useful but not Google with AI switched on (you can switch it off by adding &udm=14 to the end of the results URL)

Look at old professor websites for good stuff, and use Wikipedia for its keywords and footnotes to actual sources. Also hit up libraries and scholars

Also non-academic sources, hobbyists and enthusiasts, they know stuff too and aren't necessarily as in thrall to Great White Men of History

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Watched The Maltese Falcon for the first time; now can't stop doing a Sydney Greenstreet imitation. Aha. Ha ha ha! Indeed! You're quite a character! Quite a character.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Salaam alaikum and sholem aleichem mean the same thing. And if you want a free comic book, have this one: cartoonistsforpalestine.org/book Off to go grill sausages now!

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Read the Book

We aim to publish the book and begin donating proceeds in the summer of 2024.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Gutless politicians are taking their cues from really terrible people in my Jewish community who make a career of creating that propaganda. I was on the receiving end of a firehose of that shit for a long time. I don't swallow it, and you don't need to either. Today, I hope we tell Parliament that.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Today we have an election on. Both major parties have benefited from actual, real anti-Muslim propaganda, no more sophisticated than this joke, as well as by directly attacking/dismissing/ruining the careers of people with Arab backgrounds.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We have lots of old coasters on the walls at Squishface, and, recently, I spotted this one up there. I figured it might be misconstrued as actually anti-Muslim, since it's now totally removed from whatever context it had on the day. I took it down, and it's been sitting near my keyboard.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is a mean way to look at it, and a put-down to young artists, who often begin their comics journey drawing other people's characters, but fits with the nasty propaganda idea).

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

(drawing fan art commissions -- pictures of licensed characters you didn't create -- is sometimes looked down upon as a "crutch" for artists who want to make some money adjacent to the comics scene and whose original works don't sell well.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

One year I drew this, imagining what anti-Muslim propaganda would look like if it was targeted at the comics making community.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

At Squishface Studio we do an event called the Coaster Show where friends, fans and family come visit, eat snacks and draw on cardboard coasters, the idea being that drawing on bits of card made for absorbing beer is inherently freeing -- you don't need to think too hard or produce masterpieces.

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is one of those jokes that would only make sense to a few people and shouldn't be shared widely. I'm going to share it widely today since it's #ausvotes #auspol and #freecomicbookday too. It needs too much explanation to actually be funny but it kind of means something to me.

A drawing imagining what anti-Muslim propaganda would look like if it was targeted at the comics making community. It reads "Did you know Islam hates comics and loves fan-art". A stereotypically scary Muslim man holds a drawing of Spider-Man and says "I'll sell this to your wife".

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sandy Gutman feels unsafe at the ABC, everybody

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’ve got more wonderful heartfelt supportive messages about my latest book, REVOLUTION IN 35mm, & the difference it’s made to people, than any others I’ve done. If you haven’t picked it up yet, it’s available from @pmpress.bsky.social and all the usual online platforms pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thank you to the ABDA judges for longlisting SQUISHBOOK in the 73rd Australian Book Design Awards! Thanks to our illustrators and Jeffries Printing Services too.

The covers of the books nominated in the Australian Book Design Awards' Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Book category, and the nominated designers and publishers listed below them

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · 25/02/2025

HEY COMICS PEEPS, apply for this amazing opportunity!!! So proud that we’re able to offer a program like this, esp to international creators where residencies like this are short in supply (or non-existent)

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Was happy to sign this. It's in today's Age and SMH. I went along to a nice rally in Melb recently; it was good and big. here's my drawings from it. I only had a dead pen with me. #OzJewsSayNO

Full page ad from The Age and SMH, Feb 25 2025. Headline is "Jewish Australians say NO to ethnic cleansing!" 500 names under it (about all that would fit)

Drawings of David arriving at the protest but walking past the police into the conservative asshole zone

Drawings of police being angry at David for going into the Israeli flag and techno pen where all the Zionists were being kept. David went to the correct area several blocks away and then stood in the shade

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David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Vote Squishbook in the Vic Premier's Literary Awards people's choice! wheelercentre.wufoo.com/forms/peopl… Vote comics! Vote indie press! VOT IBIS!

The cover of Squishbook, with a drawing of an ibis next to it. Above is the word "VOT" and below the words "For People's Choice", with "people's" crossed out and "ibis" added in

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