Don’t forget! DMA #34 Live Tuesday @ 11:00 am EDT with Special Guest Cartoonist & Author Alex Hallatt!
Join me Tuesday for a FREE livestream at 11:00 am Eastern for a conversation with Alex Hallatt—cartoonist, author, environmental storyteller, and creator of the long-running comic strip Arctic Circle
That’s right—Tuesday at 11:00 am Eastern, I’ll be drawing and chatting with the brilliant Alex Hallatt live on Substack! We are staring into the abyss of the Large Language Models and trying to draw our way out of it.
👉 ADD IT TO YOUR CALENDAR NOW!
Last time I had Alex on Draw Me Anything, we spent an hour barely scratching the surface of the single biggest anxiety facing anyone who holds a pen for a living: The Robots.
Alex is the creator of the long-running syndicated comic strip Arctic Circle, but she is also one of the sharpest minds writing about the intersection of art and technology over at her Substack, Cartooning in the Age of AI.
We realised last time that we had way too much to talk about and not enough time to do it. So, we are doing a redux. A sequel. The Empire Strikes Back, but with more ink and fewer laser swords.
Alex and I go way back to our newspaper days in Australia—back when comics still had their own page in the paper. Her strip ran above my legacy strip Ginger Meggs, so this reunion feels a bit like finding an old colleague from the funny pages trenches, only now the deadline is live, and there’s an audience.
We’re going to talk about the reality of being a cartoonist in 2026. We’ll discuss how to protect your work, how to navigate an internet that feels increasingly like a firehose of AI sludge, and how to maintain your sanity (and your “enough”) when the algorithms are demanding more, more, more.
It won’t just be doom-spiralling, I promise. We’re going to draw, we’re going to laugh about the absurdity of it all, and we’re going to figure out how to keep making human art for human people.
Bring your questions, your sketchbooks, and your existential dread. We’ll try to fix at least one of them.
What is a DMA?
You’ve heard of an AMA (Ask Me Anything). A DMA is the same idea—but instead of staring at my face for an hour, you get to watch me draw while you ask questions, make requests, and maybe pick up a few tricks of the trade.
See you tomorrow!
Your pal,
P.S. Got a question for Alex? Drop it in the comments here or in the chat during the stream. She’ll be remarkably patient with my rambling questions—but I’m sure she’d appreciate some variety.