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Rat Park crowdfunding rewards: printed comics have been dispatched

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.

The Great Disruption

The Great Disruption

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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Lessons learnt from crowdfunding a comic

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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Why is Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen inside a box?

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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Crowdfunding comics: Brisbane trio drawing support from fans

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.

Stuart McMillen's first crowdfunding video

Rat Park crowdfunding video

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!

Maus parody - Rat Park

Crowdfunding: your generosity needed to fund my next comic.

For the first time, I am asking readers for money to support my cartooning. I am using crowdfunding to finance a sequel to War on Drugs, entitled Rat Park.

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Thin Air reflections: the ‘making of’

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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Type III reflections: the ‘making of’

This is a reflective essay about my comic Type III. I describe the underlying concept of ecological succession, and reveal how I decided that Mount St. Helens should form the backdrop to my comic. I also mention real-life examples of Type III systems, such as the Kalundborg Eco-Industrial Park.