Come See My Live Lecture in NYC!

Lectures on Tap: Dismantling the creative process while drinking an IPA, and sharing my stories of surviving the brutal reality of the publishing industry...

Leaving the apartment is generally a terrible idea. Putting on pants is even worse.

On Wednesday, April 8th, I am doing both.

I am hosting a live Lectures on Tap event at a bar in the West Village. I will desperately try to explain how I went from drawing with literal rocks on remote Australian dirt roads to actively arguing with editors at The New Yorker over a sketch of an elephant buying peanuts.

We are going to dismantle the exhausting myth of the lone genius. The actual creative process is not glamorous. It consists entirely of sharing terrible shower notes and hoping someone else fixes them before the deadline.

I’ll cover the whole messy journey, breaking down the specific and horrifying afternoon that Rupert Murdoch unceremoniously killed an iconic century-old comic strip. I also explain why aggressively annoying your heroes until they agree to teach you is the only valid career strategy left in this industry…

Come grab a beer and listen to me talk about the realities of making art for a living.

Grab a ticket at the link below. The organisers will email you the exact address so we can all gather in a dark room and collectively avoid eye contact.

‘til next time!
Your pal,

PS. Look, if this actually did something for your brain (or at least distracted you from the creeping dread of your own inbox for six minutes), please consider restacking this and sharing it with your people. It’s the only way the word spreads.