Voice Over (00:04):
What’s going on?

Voice Over (00:11):
Let’s make a comic book, but let’s make it a little bit different. Instead of one person or a team making the whole book, we’re gonna have every panel made by a different cartoonist. We are gonna do one page per episode. So the number of guests is the number of panels on the page. So now you’re probably wondering, what’s this comic book going to be about? Well, lemme tell you. It’s gonna be about a robot. This robot whose name is blank. What happens next? Nobody knows, but it’s gonna be fun finding out.

Edmund Kearsley (00:51):
Hello and welcome to let’s make a comic book where we make a comic book with a different artist for each panel. And today we’ve got some artists with us. We’ve got Neil. There you go, mate.

Neale Blanden (01:04):
Good, thank you. That’s

Edmund Kearsley (01:06):
Good. And we got Brenton.

Neale Blanden (01:08):
How you go guys?

Edmund Kearsley (01:09):
Thanks for joining us and we’ve got Chris down the bottom.

Neale Blanden (01:12):
Hello? Hello? Hello. Are you frozen?

Edmund Kearsley (01:15):
You back? It’s all good. Let’s start off. We’ll have a quick look at what the guys did last week. Is that page actually put me onto full screen? There? Si?

Neale Blanden (01:29):
Yeah, sure.

Edmund Kearsley (01:32):
We’ll have a look on here. Okay, so we had, oh, bear with me, I press the wrong button. So we’ve got Ken Bess with this panel, with the flying eyeball, with the, with the knife. And he’s introduced the Lucky My Metal is Mu Tanium. And see we’ve got the big sky across the face. And then Nick Clary is added. The, the blanks attack, the, the flying eyeball and the eggs popped out. And then Tom Tongue has given us the, the end of the attack with the egg landing and this tentacle eyeball thing is coming out of the egg. And get a close up of that. There’s tentacles and eyeballs and all sorts of stuff going on. So that’s where you guys will be falling on from. you go back to the, everyone says, right? So first we’ll choose the order of who’s gonna go first and to choose that. Neil, I’ve got some, oh, put me back to full screen actually.

Neale Blanden (02:57):
<laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (03:01):
Thank you. So we’ve got some eighties toys, the tiny variety we’ve got Transformers, metal Beast, or the Muscle Figures. So you choose one of those guys.

Neale Blanden (03:16):
I’m gonna have to go for Transformers.

Edmund Kearsley (03:19):
Transformers. So you’ll be doing panel two. Oh,

Neale Blanden (03:25):
Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (03:25):
And then Brenton, you get to choose out of can I go the Battle Beast?

Edmund Kearsley (03:31):
The Battle Beast is number three.

Edmund Kearsley (03:34):
Oh my God.

Edmund Kearsley (03:35):
So Chris will be going first. <laugh>,

Neale Blanden (03:40):
We

Chris Pitcairn (03:41):
Love a Muscle man.

Edmund Kearsley (03:43):
These are the, oh wait, these are the four page layouts that we’ll be choosing from. And Chris, you get to choose from the hand of choosing.

Chris Pitcairn (04:01):
Oh God,

Edmund Kearsley (04:03):
Just pick a number panel, what page they have.

Chris Pitcairn (04:08):
All right, I guess 3, 3 0 3

Edmund Kearsley (04:15):
Is layout four, which is

Neale Blanden (04:23):
Ah, yep. Nice. Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (04:29):
You guys have got that on your things. So with the, the order was Chris and then Brenton? No, Neil, Chris Neil, Chris Neil, and then Brent.

Neale Blanden (04:44):
Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (04:45):
Okay. So then go back to the people. This is excellent. Put my camera back on

Neale Blanden (04:57):
<laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (04:59):
All right. So Chris, you’ve got the, the first panel. You can start drawing away. You can have a,

Chris Pitcairn (05:09):
Oh God

Edmund Kearsley (05:10):
Can have another look at the, the page there.

Chris Pitcairn (05:13):
All right,

Edmund Kearsley (05:15):
So you’ve got the, when we last left our hero, he was right on his back. He just killed a bad guy and it had a baby in front of him.

Chris Pitcairn (05:27):
Oh,

Neale Blanden (05:28):
God.

Edmund Kearsley (05:29):
So

Neale Blanden (05:31):
You sound very confident. <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (05:35):
Well, us, usually I get someone else to do the writing for me. I just do other people’s stories. So coming up with stuff, not really my value work. all right. what do part of me wants to have him holding the the dead monster going, why did it have to end like this

Edmund Kearsley (06:02):
<laugh>

Chris Pitcairn (06:03):
With like the baby just kind of crawling out in the background, like going, what, what’s, what’s going on? So, sounds good. Alright, I’ll do that. All right. Lemme get started. my screen should still be, let me just double check. Yeah. My screen should still be shareable if we wanna see what I’m doing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (06:27):
Yep. Cool.

Chris Pitcairn (06:29):

Neale Blanden (06:33):
All right. Oh, <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (06:36):
Yeah,

Neale Blanden (06:36):
I had to draw it with a ruler. <laugh> 7.4. <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (06:45):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (06:49):
Brittany, are you drawing digital or, or traditional? I,

Brenton (06:52):
I thought I’d tried. I, I I usually do traditional. I, I thought tonight I, but I, I, I, I’m tempted to go back to traditional is anyone else doing that or

Neale Blanden (07:04):
Just me? Yeah, I might.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:07):
Yeah, you can do either.

Brenton (07:09):
Oh, either.

Neale Blanden (07:10):
Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:12):
Whatever you’re more comfortable with, I guess. Yeah.

Neale Blanden (07:15):
Okay. Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:21):
So you go traditional, get the ruler out. <laugh>.

Neale Blanden (07:23):
Yeah,

Brenton (07:24):
All of the dimensions. What, what are we

Neale Blanden (07:26):
Finding with,

Edmund Kearsley (07:26):
It’s on the, on the thing. Did you get sent the, the layout

Neale Blanden (07:33):
Double check?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:33):
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I did. Yeah, you, it’s it’s the top one that I sent you. They must have gone in reverse order.

Brenton (07:44):
Oh yes. No, no. Sorry. Yeah. Thank you. No, I, yeah, I can, I’m gonna try and be smart.

Neale Blanden (07:53):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (07:57):
Okay. We had Nick make some fun of us for being late. I don’t know where about you, but I’m here. Kerry said, me too. Hey, Nick. Dave Dyer gave us a Hi all Alex Major. He has given us a, Hey, guys, looks like a killer page. We’ll be coming up. Of course, <laugh>.

Neale Blanden (08:21):
Has Chris

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:22):
Confirmed a romantic mermaid yet? <laugh>. <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (08:27):
I was sorely tempted, but there wasn’t enough time in the panel.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:32):
<laugh>. Cool.

Edmund Kearsley (08:41):
So Neil tell us about yourself. What comics you do and stuff.

Neale Blanden (08:47):
Well, comics I do, well, I just happen to have some here. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (08:51):
I know you should mention it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (08:54):
I’ll boost you up. Neil

Edmund Kearsley (08:56):
Put in full screen.

Neale Blanden (08:57):
So gee, you’ve boosted me up. All right. So that’s my latest. It’s an underground comic. It’s called Zpi. And I did a parody of, of ugh, underground ca. Oh, I better check the pages. I’ll, I, I did parody of underground cartoon, its kind of thing. So look, he’s smoking dope there. Is that Okay, <laugh>. and I’ve got a sketchbook out at the moment, which has got sketchbook stuff in it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (09:26):
Oh, cool.

Neale Blanden (09:27):
All of these unavailable to anyone unless I go to another festival or something at the moment, <laugh>. and I’ve got an autobiographical, three parter. My daddy problems are bigger than your daddy problems. They’re about my daddy problems. Oh, no. <laugh>. It comes in a pink ribbon with it. And so I’ve been pumping it out at the moment. This stuff hit, oops, this stuff here ha is is really quite old, and it’s just been sitting in my files and I decided to print it up. So it’s, it yeah, so I’m not that prolific and it sounds like I’m doing a real comic soon. I can’t talk too much about it, but I’m doing a real comic. Cool. Yeah. But it’s just, it’s gonna be the stuff that I’ve done for mini comics, so it’ll be put into a real proper comic.

(10:16)
And there’s a couple of people who are doing anthology stuff and I’m just waiting on that stuff to come out. And I’ve got some, a few pages in those, you know who you are editors, get it done <laugh>. and that’s about it. I’ve been really kind of busy and I’m, I’m kind of like, I’m just organising the, the thing that’s gonna end up being a comic book. And it’ll probably be just called Bland with an explanation mark, the end of it. And I’ve gotta, I guess really, I’ve just gotta make a cover and get to picking stuff for it. I was gonna do that today, but I was spent my most of my time on YouTube today watching three hours of this show to figure out where, where we were going.

Edmund Kearsley (11:03):
That was time well spent in.

Neale Blanden (11:05):
Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:06):
Very well spent. And

Neale Blanden (11:08):
That’s about it. Excellent. I can’t think of anything else right now.

Brenton (11:12):
<laugh>.

Neale Blanden (11:14):
Oh, that’s better. Geez. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:17):
I knew that’s what you were waiting for. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (11:24):
All right, let’s have a chat with Brenton and tell us about your comic books.

Brenton (11:28):
yeah, going good. But it’s probably,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:32):
Yeah, I’ll you

Brenton (11:33):
Up. Yeah. yeah, those three Abby’s one book, two book three, and thus one that came out earlier this year in April. well, let’s, yeah, I was having Gold Coast not long ago, so it’s doing well. It’s doing okay. oh, that’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (11:51):
Awesome.

Brenton (11:52):
Yeah, it’s been really, really nice. And I was just just saying how the process for doing a much smaller one in black and white’s been a lot, lot easier on, on my publishers, on my, it is just been a different process. And no, it’s been good. It’s been, I can finally officially say it that yeah, we’ve got a, a multi-book contract in the work, so there’s gonna be more hairy holes for sure.

Edmund Kearsley (12:17):
Excellent. Woo

Brenton (12:19):
<laugh>. Yeah, it’s going good. So everything’s going well. Going well. The the newspaper, the Old Champ cartoon strip. it’s still Monday to Friday which I’m quite lucky ’cause I know, I know that a lot of newspapers are dropping their, their cartoon sections. So last I heard from the, the guys, they said, no, just keep pumping ’em out. nothing’s gonna change in the immediate future, so, you know, hopefully they keep me around. Yeah. But no, no old champs going good. Harry Hols from what I gather is doing really well. it’s, we’ve literally just crossed the sixth month since it’s, since it’s launch date on April 1st, like this, yeah. October 1st, I guess. So I’ll find out officially, you know contract details and, you know, if, if, if my publish is still really happy with it, I really hope they are. They, I don’t hardly hear from them, so I, I think that’s good news. If news is good news. Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (13:18):
Excellent.

Neale Blanden (13:19):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (13:22):
Can we have a look at what Chris is

Neale Blanden (13:25):
Got? Yeah. Yeah. Press <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (13:30):
There you go. How are the things coming out? The egg? Yeah. Is that enough for you, Neil to

Neale Blanden (13:40):
Yeah, sure.

Edmund Kearsley (13:42):
<laugh>,

Neale Blanden (13:45):
Just thinking. I know it’s really weird because Yeah, I don’t I, looking at the process, it’s kind of going, it’s really nice, it’s consistent, but we are kind of, yeah. What are we up to page five, aren’t we? yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t wanna do anything too dramatic. Suddenly there was an ice cream truck, you know

Edmund Kearsley (14:09):
<laugh>

Neale Blanden (14:10):
Not doing that.

Edmund Kearsley (14:15):
It’s a great thing about the show is that you just don’t dunno where the artist is gonna take the story. It’s like one little thing in a panel can just completely change the direction of where it was heading. So,

Neale Blanden (14:29):
Oh, that’s the bad thing. I might try and I’ll see if I can add the the thing coming outta the egg. I’ll see if I can do something like that. Awesome.

Edmund Kearsley (14:40):
It a good idea.

Brenton (14:42):
I, I think I’ve gotten the wrong path. So, which, which order am I, I’m going last, is that No,

Neale Blanden (14:46):
Yeah, you’re going last my friend.

Brenton (14:48):
Yeah, no worries. Okay. I think I’ve got the wrong. Yeah, no, no. Readjust that

Edmund Kearsley (14:52):
So I can show you which one it is.

Brenton (15:00):
I go 15. Okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:06):
Do you want me to bring it up, ed?

Edmund Kearsley (15:11):
It, there is,

Brenton (15:13):
So I’m the, the bottom one. Sorry, I think I had the bottom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect. No, I got the other way around. Sorry.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:22):
So we’ve got Nick May is saying to Neil, stop relying on other people. I think there was a comment to you waiting for editors for editors. Bit of an old comment. Sorry about that. Says the guy, massive comics. They’re always covered. Our, his comic books <laugh>, and we’ve got Lee Chalker has given us a, a peace sign. I think that is.

Edmund Kearsley (15:52):
Thanks Lee. And Nick.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (15:55):
Yeah, thanks.

Edmund Kearsley (16:00):
I suppose that’s Chris’s turn to tell us about him is, oh gosh,

Chris Pitcairn (16:05):
Can I speak and draw at the same time?

Edmund Kearsley (16:08):
Let’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (16:09):
Fine out You do it. I believe in you <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (16:12):
alright. What am we, what am I working on at the moment? so there’s, obviously, there’s Fox and Hound. the last issue of this current arc of Fox and Hand will be coming out next year. I’ve, I’ve got the script for it. It’s wild. And I genuinely can’t wait to start working on it. It’s like it’s so cool and exciting and like, as the artist I just love reading it, so I hope everyone else does as well. there’s also hang on, I was given a list <laugh>, so oh yeah, these are all with NS Kane comics because like I said at the top of the show, I don’t write my own stuff because I suck at writing. so yeah, I generally work for other people. Oh, that’s right. So there’s currently Objects of Virtue, which is an anthology with an SK and comics that’s currently in Kickstarter which I think is like halfway there or something. but yeah. so that’s a collection of all Chris

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (17:26):
While he’s talking.

Edmund Kearsley (17:28):
Ah, <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (17:30):
So that’s a collection of all the sort of shorter ash cans that Nick has done with various artists. I think there’s like six different artists involved, including me. I did the cover, there’s the circle in there, which was the very first comic that I did. and I’ve also recolored one of the comics. So given it a bit of a fresh coat of paint and made it look a bit schmick and shiny and new. and that’s, yeah, like I said, that’s currently in Kickstarter. there’s also a new short comic that’s gonna be in there. So for people who have bought all the others, there is still a reason to get it. There’s new stuff in there, so that’s gonna, that’s gonna be really cool. and the last thing is again, with n SK and Comics, we are working on a new graphic novel called Lucky Country.

(18:38)
And it’s a bit of a post apocalyptic it’s got some future vibes. it’s got a little bit of social commentary in there. I’m not actually sure how much I’m allowed to say about it, but <laugh>, again, reading the script like, ’cause normally I like to, you know, give Nick some notes in terms of like, oh, you’ve spelled this wrong, or, oh, this bit’s redundant. I had like, one note. And it’s a, it’s a big script. Like it’s, I’ve got it sitting next to me. It’s, it’s chunky. It’s a big book. and yeah, I had like one note out on the whole book. It’s, again, it’s, it’s great. It’s such so well written. again, I hope people like it. I’m doing something kind of new that I’ve not done with my art before like a new way of painting and a new way of drawing. So art-wise for me, it’s like a really good challenge. But yeah, we, that should be coming out sometime early next year, so keep an eye out for that. So yeah, three, three big things. The end, Foxen Hound, six objects of Virtue, and lucky Country.

Neale Blanden (20:11):
Excellent. Cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:14):
There you go. I’ll take you off the big screen.

Chris Pitcairn (20:16):
Whew,

Neale Blanden (20:18):
There. how you going, Neil, with you? I’m kind of getting there, what I’m doing, because I better explain. Yeah. Can we even see this? We really can’t, but it’s, I’ve got the guy and I’ve got, yeah. Can you see those pencils there? Look, I’ve got, I’ve brought the alien in. He’s kind of around the blank there holding the eyeball thing. Does that make sense? Yes. I can see it made sense, made sense from that, that resounding Yes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (20:50):
<laugh>. I can see that. I can only just barely see it. Sorry.

Chris Pitcairn (20:53):
Oh, I’m

Neale Blanden (20:53):
So sorry. <laugh>. Let me ink a bit.

Edmund Kearsley (20:58):
Okay.

Neale Blanden (20:59):
I’ll be as fast as I can. I’ll get the, I’ll get the a like, so I’ve got the, the egg in the corner there and it’s kind of cracked open with the little alien guy who’s in it. So I’ve tried to bring him in.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:13):
Oh,

Neale Blanden (21:14):
I’ll if I do this fast and then I can do it later. <laugh> in, compete fast.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:25):
We got Justin Randalls just said, good day to Brenton.

Neale Blanden (21:29):
Hey bud. Good to hear from the bro.

Neale Blanden (21:32):
We hope you hope. You good bud?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (21:48):
So we’re getting there. So we’ll go back to Chris’s picture, I guess. No pressure, Chris.

Chris Pitcairn (21:56):
Yeah, well, these people can’t really see the faces I make every time I make a mistake, so, oh God, why did I do that? It’s this face, it’s this. That’s the face I’m drawing now is the face of me making mistakes. Why? Why did I do this? Why did I think this was a good idea?

Neale Blanden (22:26):
What, what you’re drawing.

Chris Pitcairn (22:29):
Oh, well, it’s fine. It’s more of a Did I, did I just price off more than I can chew? Possibly? No, but, oh, well,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (22:39):
<laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (22:43):
I’m gonna ask if I, you want to have dialogue in your panel?

Chris Pitcairn (22:49):
do you wanna have a,

Edmund Kearsley (22:52):
A word balloon?

Chris Pitcairn (22:53):
I don’t know. Maybe, probably. I can, I can probably like just scribble something in and then take it out when I shoot through the actual file. yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (23:06):
just <crosstalk>, I can do the lettering.

Chris Pitcairn (23:08):
Yeah. Yeah. Don’t trust me with lettering or writing or if someone else thinks of something better.

Edmund Kearsley (23:15):
But yeah, the, the, the problem is that you, you have to do the dialogue as well. You have to tell me what to put in or,

Chris Pitcairn (23:25):
Okay. Okay. You gotta

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:26):
Write over it, Chris.

Chris Pitcairn (23:28):
Oh God. The whole

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:29):
Panel. You’re in control.

Chris Pitcairn (23:33):
Oh God.

Edmund Kearsley (23:34):
It’s all you body. You got this

Chris Pitcairn (23:37):
A again, I cannot stress enough. I’m not a writer. Was it to invite me?

Neale Blanden (23:45):
He’s not a writer. He’s a fighter.

Chris Pitcairn (23:48):
<laugh>. Oh, oh God.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (23:51):
<laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (23:53):
All right.

Neale Blanden (23:55):
Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Edmund Kearsley (24:01):
So ask Brett, and how long have you been making comic books for? doing cartooning?

Brenton (24:09):
Probably just sort of been doing I mean drawing for as long as I can remember, you know? definitely much more than I’ve been writing for, but like a fish, I guess. first one, first book came 2011. second one was 2013. the last IES was 2019. and yeah Harry Holes, we just came out this year. yeah. and the old Champ I started during, during Covid, you know I got, got that gig during middle of towards the end of 2020. and just been trying to get as much illustration work as I can, you know? there’s, yeah, broom and the Kimberley’s. There’s, there’s not much, you know been doing like, you know, some tattoo work, some promotional health stuff. I was working for like a medical school at one point where they just got me to do some of the promotional material and just what I, and different illustration stuff for other, other books as well, which has been nice. But yeah my own stuff, yeah, probably the last decade. It’s beneficial. Yeah. Nice. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:26):
Well Chris Tom says, don’t worry. Artists all have a bit of writer in them at some point, so keep it up.

Chris Pitcairn (25:36):
Thank you. Hopefully I will progress enough to have written something good by the end of the screen. <laugh> <laugh>, I just have to study really, really quickly.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (25:48):
Yeah. And just for everyone watching, I should throw in there now, even though it’s the middle of the show, hit that like button because we’re doing an awesome job. So we need that like button or that love. If you’re in a place that lets you love it, do that as well. What the hell. and if you’re in YouTube subscribe, that would be awesome. that really helps us out. So thanks.

Edmund Kearsley (26:12):
And if you’re not on YouTube, go to YouTube and subscribe.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:16):
Yeah, yeah. Even better. Thank you, ed.

Edmund Kearsley (26:24):
So how’s Neil going?

Neale Blanden (26:27):
Alright

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (26:29):
Here we go. Let’s have a look. <laugh>,

Neale Blanden (26:32):
I’m getting there. I put the alien guy who was in the egg.

Edmund Kearsley (26:36):
Oh yeah.

Neale Blanden (26:37):
Around which I can’t hold my, not working properly around the, the robot and sorry. Blank. And our little eyeballs. <laugh>. Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (26:51):
He looks very happy.

Neale Blanden (26:54):
I’ll make him sweaty too. <laugh> because his robot. I hope that helps. Now,

Edmund Kearsley (27:03):
Is that enough for you to go Britain?

Neale Blanden (27:06):
Yeah. yeah, sure. awesome. I’m gonna roll with it. I’ll roll with it. <laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (27:16):
Get all three artists going.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:18):
<laugh>. Yeah. Nice. So this is a cool one. I like this. I like that the egg got thrown in in the last one. It’s made it like something different to coming in on this page.

Edmund Kearsley (27:36):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:38):
Pull the eyeballs dead though. No. Well,

Edmund Kearsley (27:42):
It did stab him in the

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (27:43):
Face. Yeah, it did stab him in the face. Yeah, that’s a good point. So not so poor.

Edmund Kearsley (27:58):
Cool.

Chris Pitcairn (28:02):
Hmm. Sorry. Around a lot.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:08):
I say you, you’re hearing things. Are you?

Chris Pitcairn (28:11):
Oh, it sounded like it just started raining.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:13):
Oh, okay.

Chris Pitcairn (28:20):
I had a moment of, did I leave any washing out?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:23):
<laugh>. Oh,

Neale Blanden (28:26):
What practical problems. While we’re drawing

Chris Pitcairn (28:30):
<laugh>. Yeah. Then I remember. That’s right. I don’t do washing. I just live in the same clothes for weeks on end.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:39):
<laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (28:41):
I don’t, nothing wrong with that house. Oh Lord.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:50):
I’m in my pyjamas as we speak.

Chris Pitcairn (28:52):
It’s nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:54):
Not for tonight, from this morning. Is that why

Neale Blanden (28:56):
You’re not on screen with us,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (28:58):
<laugh>? No, I am. I am. I haven’t thought of a good expression yet. I came up one before and it was, it was pathetic. Okay. I don’t even know how to pronounce this word. So I’m gonna put it on the screen

Edmund Kearsley (29:15):
Direction. <laugh> the, the direction the story’s going in.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:22):
Ah, yes, of course. Ancient <laugh>

Neale Blanden (29:25):
Fly on words. He’s a skill play. I think <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (29:28):
<laugh>, he was the, so yeah, he was the one that introduced

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:35):
The getting in there, taking credit

Edmund Kearsley (29:46):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (29:49):
See, when I saw the egg from Tom, I saw all those little squiggly things as individual things. So I love that Neil’s made it one creature.

Neale Blanden (29:59):
Yeah, because that’s what I meant, <laugh>. I knew, I knew it was all different things and I thought I’m gonna make

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:06):
It just, well, I don’t, it wasn’t necessarily it’s, it’s whatever you make it so you’ve made it so It is.

Edmund Kearsley (30:12):
I thought it was one guy.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:14):
Really? Oh, there you go. So other people. I was the only one. I’m the odd one out.

Edmund Kearsley (30:19):
Put Chris’s thing on. ’cause he’s got the Oh yeah. Paper in the background too.

Chris Pitcairn (30:24):
Yeah. I also did it as one guy, so no one panic.

Edmund Kearsley (30:31):
Oh, there you go.

Neale Blanden (30:32):
Oh, okay.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:33):
Oh, that’s awesome.

Neale Blanden (30:34):
I’m gonna put little round those little round lines there now.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:41):
Oh, this is happening to

Chris Pitcairn (30:42):
Me again. What’s that? What’s that? How am I going? Not doing too badly.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (30:51):
Doing very well. You are doing much better than I could put it that way. Oh, I’m sure. <crosstalk>. I’m neither a writer nor an artist and Ed’s still trying to convince me that I have to do a panel. So

Edmund Kearsley (31:09):
I was just gonna say, that’s not gonna stop you from when you do your panel

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:13):
<laugh>. Wow. As long as I don’t have to do the last one. <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (31:22):
Well, you’ve done it now,

Edmund Kearsley (31:24):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:26):
Oh crap. That,

Edmund Kearsley (31:27):
That means you have to get in quicker. Have to make sure do before the last time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:35):
Yeah. I’ll have to make sure I was somewhere in the middle so I don’t ruin the story too much. Oh dear. oh, should I, now that on here, I’ve actually got a writer to agree, two writers, to agree to do art for this.

Chris Pitcairn (31:53):
Oh wow.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (31:55):
I just need to fit them in somewhere. I just, I, I don’t know where I should put them. I’m a bit, I’m a bit confused. Yes. I’m gonna, should I name and shame them or not really shame them.

Neale Blanden (32:08):
Edgar Ellen Poe and <laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (32:13):
Steven King.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:16):
Well, you’re right with the Steven part, so yeah, SK is one of ’em. Yes. Oh nice. Yeah. And the other one who’s agreed to come on the show at some point and do a panel is Morgan Quaid.

Edmund Kearsley (32:32):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:34):
Yeah. Alright, so we’re gonna surprise you with which show that is because at the moment even, I don’t know,

Neale Blanden (32:41):
<laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (32:45):
Maybe I should do a show with me, Morgan and Sk, then I won’t feel so bad that all of us can’t draw <laugh>.

Neale Blanden (32:54):
And remember he said that <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:01):
Oh, but they can write. So I’m still at a disadvantage.

Neale Blanden (33:07):
Nah, <laugh>, you are doing good.

Edmund Kearsley (33:16):
I’ve seen your drawings. You’re good at drawing. Anyway.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:20):
I’m good at drawing people standing straight on. That’s about it. <laugh>. Well, there you go. Blank. Can just stand straight on <laugh>,

Neale Blanden (33:30):
Just looking out to the distance.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:32):
<laugh>. And then I’ll draw whatever was happening in the scene before and behind him. <laugh> looking into the distance. No, I can’t do that either. Just looking straight ahead. <laugh>. I pretty much just trace the turnaround. There you go.

Edmund Kearsley (33:51):
So I had him just standing there in my panel.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (33:55):
<laugh>. Well he is introducing himself just before he got in trouble with the the eyeball thing. Who at first flirted with him and then stabbed him.

Edmund Kearsley (34:13):
I wonder what the, the name of the animal is for the eyeball.

Neale Blanden (34:20):
Nick <laugh> type it in, type in the name. Was it Nick? Who, who Oh no. Eyeball guy. Was someone that different. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:31):
Dunno. Eyeball is the dead guy here right in front of us.

Neale Blanden (34:34):
Yeah, I know who, who did a eyeball first?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:38):
the very first panel Duchenne. Although, well, ed has one flying in the background. Actually, that’s where Duchenne got the, the idea from.

Edmund Kearsley (34:47):
Ah, I’ve got one there, ed.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (34:51):
He had arms pop out of him.

Edmund Kearsley (34:54):
Let’s have someone in the chat. Do, do all my work for me. All the yos on you. I looked at the comments,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:08):
The yo’s on your, oh, sorry. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (35:10):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:12):
Actually we could like put Chris on the spot here ’cause I love doing that.

Neale Blanden (35:17):
Oh God. <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:19):
And he could be screaming No. And the, the eyeball’s name.

Edmund Kearsley (35:25):
Oh yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:26):
And as the writer you have to give him a name.

Neale Blanden (35:29):
That’s so mean.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:31):
<laugh>. Yeah. I’m a bit of a prick. Sorry about that.

Chris Pitcairn (35:38):
Gonna have to go Google a good name. Some sort of eye related pun.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (35:53):
Did you already read that? Hang on, we’ve got Nick May trying to help you out with, come on Eileen.

Chris Pitcairn (35:59):
That’s a good one.

Edmund Kearsley (36:00):
There you go. <laugh>. What’s wrong with that,

Chris Pitcairn (36:05):
Iris? No, I think, well, no, it’s been said. I think it has to be Eileen spelled EYE.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:15):
Yes. That’s how he spelt it. I’ll bring it up. There you go.

Chris Pitcairn (36:20):
Yes.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:22):
<laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (36:27):
All right. There we go. Its name is Eileen.

Edmund Kearsley (36:30):
Excellent. When wanna keep yelling at like story ideas and stuff, but I, I don’t think I should. ’cause it’ll give people ideas and don’t want to influence them.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (36:49):
Yeah, I thought about the same thing and I’m like, Ooh. Except for picking on Chris then. I’ve, I’ve shut my mouth most of the time. <laugh>

Chris Pitcairn (36:58):
So mean.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:11):
Here’s another one.

Edmund Kearsley (37:13):
Cornelia.

Chris Pitcairn (37:15):
Oh no, that’s terrible. This is all in black and white. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:31):
Yeah,

Chris Pitcairn (37:32):
Yeah, yeah.

Neale Blanden (37:35):
All right.

Edmund Kearsley (37:37):
Let’s have a look at see catch up with Britain.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (37:41):
Oh, yeah.

Brenton (37:42):

Edmund Kearsley (37:43):
See how he’s going with his panel.

Brenton (37:46):
I guess,

Edmund Kearsley (37:49):
Oh, there’s a lot going on.

Neale Blanden (37:51):
Whoa.

Brenton (37:53):
So I, sorry, just going on with is it sorry. The I don’t know, it, it wasn’t supposed to be so hostile. Like it was, it was supposed to gravitated to where the, the alien thing, humanoids, you know, started attacking them and the big reveal of the boss coming out sort of thing. So it was like a innocent ploy to sort of lower their guard. And now that I’ll try and, I don’t know, hopefully set that up for the next page where we get a big reveal for, I don’t know.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:25):
Yeah. That’s awesome. Yeah.

Brenton (38:28):
See how we go <laugh>? Yeah. But

Edmund Kearsley (38:36):
Looking good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:38):
You created the page turn.

Neale Blanden (38:40):
Page turn. That’s what I’m,

Edmund Kearsley (38:44):
Is it page five?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:48):
Oh yeah, good point. it’ll be

Edmund Kearsley (38:52):
One.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:52):
Oh yeah, it’ll,

Edmund Kearsley (38:53):
No, page five. Yeah, it’s,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (38:56):
Yeah, it’s on the right. Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (38:57):
Because e even numbers the reveal page.

Neale Blanden (39:01):
Yeah. Excellent.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:06):
I can’t believe you planned that all out.

Neale Blanden (39:08):
Sorry mate.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:10):
I can’t believe you planned that all odd page. Page. Turn the reveal on the even page. Magic. Magic. No

Neale Blanden (39:18):
Plan. There’s never a plan. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (39:22):
He rigged the draw. So we’d go last

Neale Blanden (39:25):
<laugh>. Oh no, no.

Edmund Kearsley (39:30):
We’re a quarter of a way through the, the planned 20 page book as well. Once his page is done. Oh yeah. Which is pretty exciting.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:43):
Wow. Time flies when you’re having fun.

Neale Blanden (39:47):
Definitely. It’s

Edmund Kearsley (39:48):
Good getting someone else to do all the work.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:52):
<laugh>

Neale Blanden (39:53):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:54):
You did Page one, full page spread.

Edmund Kearsley (39:56):
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (39:58):
Oh. while we are here, anyone who wants to be on the show give us a bell. I will put up my email. That might be the easiest way to get in contact with me. At least it’s in here somewhere. There we go. Shane, at comex net au give us a buzz. Say you wanna be on the show, and we’ll go through all the process of getting you on. Yes. And yeah, so don’t be shy.

Edmund Kearsley (40:30):
You can join

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (40:31):
Experiment me, because I’m, I’m very shy, so shy at doing part of the book, but yeah, let us know. Save me time chasing people. It’s all about me being lazy, so just get in there, give us your names.

Neale Blanden (40:54):
Yes.

Edmund Kearsley (41:02):
What else is good?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:04):
Yeah, I would say this season’s going very well. Oh, sorry Chris.

Neale Blanden (41:09):
I was just thinking to myself, I should do more comics like this. This is so much faster <laugh> what I normally do.

Neale Blanden (41:18):
And are you gonna have a Kickstarter for the hard cover gold foil cover creation of this when you have your 20 pages together?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:28):
Yeah, of course. <laugh>, we’ll

Edmund Kearsley (41:29):
Get a, the hollow foil embossed cover. Oh wow, okay. Yeah. Mm. That’d be great.

Neale Blanden (41:37):
Hologram, hologram, cover slip,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:40):
Hologram cover. Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (41:41):
Yes. Slip case would be good.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:45):
<laugh>

Edmund Kearsley (41:47):
It could come automatically in a, like a CGS thing, so you can’t even read it.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (41:53):
<laugh>

Neale Blanden (41:55):
We’ll make a big NFTI think there’s Nft, an NFT comic. There you go. Like a whole comic. Yeah. Book as an NFT. So you won’t do that. One person can read. I don’t even know what that is, but you know, <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:12):
I don’t fully understand what they are, but all I know is I read an article the other day that a lot of them are worth nothing now. So people spent a lot of money on things that are now worth nothing.

Edmund Kearsley (42:22):
All of them are worth nothing. I think just about

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:24):
Oh, all of them are, okay, there you go.

Chris Pitcairn (42:27):
Yeah, no, it NFTs are essentially like digital receipts

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:34):
<laugh>.

Neale Blanden (42:35):
Oh, like,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:36):
Sorry, I was just reading a comment. Sorry. Apparently Ed’s gonna get the comic tattooed on his back.

Edmund Kearsley (42:43):
Oh, that’s very cool.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:45):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (42:51):
And then that can be the nft.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (42:54):
Yeah. Yes. You get the cover TA on your chest. Great.

Neale Blanden (43:02):
I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:05):
Haven’t really discussed a cover, have we?

Edmund Kearsley (43:07):
No,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:09):
I didn’t even think of that until just right now. Comic has to have a cover. I’m be think

Neale Blanden (43:13):
About it.

Edmund Kearsley (43:16):
I’ve got some reduces.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (43:19):
Well, you don’t want the worst artist to do it because I can’t do covers, so. Mm-Hmm.

Edmund Kearsley (43:25):
They say that, but we haven’t seen. So Neil, what’s your favourite comic book?

Neale Blanden (43:39):
<laugh>. What a question. That’s a great question. What am I look, well, I’ve just got a bunch of stuff from I went to Paper Cuts in Oh, sweet. In Adelaide. Yeah. Went to that festival and I got a bunch of stuff there. And also at the Prince Pat on the Prince Patrick Hotel on last Saturday. And I got a bunch of stuff as well from a, from, from local people. Dave Hodgson’s new book, which I’m not gonna remember the name of. And Dave Hodson was an old Fox cartoonist. And I’ve got his new book which is, I think it’s old stuff that he’s done and compiled it into a book. I think that’s right. I dunno where it is for sale. We’ll have to get, if David Bird, if you are listening, you are the publisher. figure that, figure that out.

(44:32)
yeah, but favourite comic book? Geez Louise. I don’t know the, all the books are over here. <laugh>, I dunno. <laugh>, I got no idea. I brought one of those big crumb, Robert Crumb sketchbooks, those al one one of them. That’s pretty cool. what am I reading? Oh, I’m reading Old Wonder Woman at the moment, like a nominee bus omnibus are so much, they’re so and mean so much to read. And it’s like an old it’s like the second volume of it. So it’s like forties I guess. Or fifties maybe. No, it’d be forties and one Wow. Spends most of the time being tied up because the writer was really into s and m and <laugh>. There’s a whole documentary on it, what could I say? And every comic story someone’s getting tied up and it’s usually Wonder Woman. There you go. <laugh>. And they’re hilarious. They’re just great. They’re great. They’re not, you know, it’s not serious. It’s not serious. superhero fair. She’s getting tied up a lot, basically. They’re great. I’m really enjoying them.

Neale Blanden (45:45):
Good stuff.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (45:47):
So I’ll bring this one up rather than read all of it out. Neil, you seem to have forgotten LPL comics from Box Hill tafe.

Neale Blanden (45:55):
I wonder who that is. <laugh>, that’s Nick May

Neale Blanden (45:58):
<laugh>.

Neale Blanden (46:00):
Yeah. That was a long time ago. <laugh>, when I used to teach, well, I used to teach and we did a, a mini comic and it was called L Play Comics. oh, cool. And yeah that’s, it was a short course comics course that I did for 14 years. I can’t believe I did it for 14 years. Wow. But yeah. Wow. And yeah. Oh look, on and off. It wasn’t every year. And also it was just good pocket money kind of thing. But then I started teaching at TAFE kind of during the day, not quite full time, but during the day and yeah, around 2004, I thought, I’m gonna let that go now. But yeah, we used to do a mini comic, so, and it was usually people’s exercises in the class, like the best of their exercises, you know, whether we do a one page comic or something like that. Yeah, yeah. So that was fun. And it was just, it was a good way to show people how to, you know, do mini comics. So yeah. Abuse the photocopier.

Neale Blanden (47:04):
<laugh>.

Neale Blanden (47:04):
There you go. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:07):
I bring Chris back up. Oh, sorry. You can, you can keep talking. Ignore me.

Neale Blanden (47:13):
No, it’s fine. You can bring Chris back up. I don’t mind at all. <laugh>. There’s nothing much more to say. I’m just looking at it and just going, yeah, everyone’s got their composition down. It’s clear. Mine’s as muddy as day. <laugh> as muddy as night. It’ll be the Blobby pla panel.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (47:34):
Spunk Bubble Comics at Holmes Glen tafe. What’s that one?

Neale Blanden (47:40):
Oh, I don’t know. What’s that nickname? I can’t remember that far back. I’ve been doing comics for 35 years, so I don’t know. You know. And when was Nick May, when Nick May was a student that’s like the mid two thousands. I have no idea. No idea.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (48:15):
<laugh>, next thing you were the teacher <laugh>.

Neale Blanden (48:19):
Yeah, I am. But that was a long time ago. I don’t remember <laugh> very long time ago. It was just a little boy in shorts.

Edmund Kearsley (48:33):
<laugh>, are you using Photoshop, Chris?

Chris Pitcairn (48:44):
Yep.

Edmund Kearsley (48:47):
My,

Chris Pitcairn (48:48):
Sorry, go on. Do you know my Photoshop? Yeah, I do. I do occasionally do traditional when like doing comics that something has to have that feel of having a traditional look. So like, the best example is when I did hell courses in, I did quite a few pages of that traditionally. And I also did a lot of like, ink wases and stuff that I then imported to give like the right texture to the comic. but yeah, most of the time I do dig digital just because it’s faster if I make a mistake to just be able to hit Control Z and undo it. but the other reason is size. Like I’m used to drawing quite small and comics, you know, obviously are usually done a, a bit of a bigger scale and it always throws me off. so like if I’m on a deadline, I’m just like, I’m just gonna jump in, do it all digital. I can’t, I can’t be bothered with trying to figure, figure out how to draw a bigger size. But yeah pretty much always do Photoshop now. I very rarely do anything traditional anymore which is kind of sad, but it is what it is. oh, that was not what I wanted to do.

Neale Blanden (50:16):

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (50:18):
I just realised what I forgot to do.

Chris Pitcairn (50:33):
Plus I’m kind of at the point now where I’m making a lot of my own brushes and I’m kind of getting the how more of sort of really getting the, the settings in a way that actually work for me instead of me having to, oh, that’s why that’s not doing what it’s supposed to do. instead of me kind of having to figure out how to use other people’s brushes or the preset brushes and instead I can make stuff that just works the way I usually work with pen and paper, which is nice. so like the triangle brush I’m using now, I watched a I watched an interview with one of the Batman artists, I can’t remember which one, but when he was painting, he was like, oh, I use this triangle brush because I, it just gives this really nice texture with very few modifications. And I tried it out and I was like, oh yeah, this brush is incredible. It does all the things. So yeah, like, I like how I can be, I guess a bit more versatile, a bit faster on pro shop, so I tend to stick to digital.

(52:02)
That was quite a long answer.

Neale Blanden (52:05):
<laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:06):
All good.

Neale Blanden (52:07):
Yeah.

Edmund Kearsley (52:10):
I do mostly traditional stuff. I mean digital now as well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:19):
I think I’ve drawn one thing digital and I, I even think using the word draw is a little is a little bit stronger word to be using for the thing that came out of the page, out of the, the, the iPad. I don’t think drawing is really the word I should be using more like spewing.

Chris Pitcairn (52:41):
Aw.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (52:43):
I just, I couldn’t get, I couldn’t under, I couldn’t get the pen to, it doesn’t feel like a pencil to me. So it was really hard to, so I gave up and never touched it again. And that was what, two years ago? Mask and carry here? Yeah. Two years ago. So the iPad sit there since

Edmund Kearsley (53:03):
You can get screens, like screen covers that have texture on ’em, so it, it grips the stylus.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:10):
Oh. So it gives, that

Edmund Kearsley (53:11):
Gives that friction to make it feel like a,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:15):
Or I could just get off my butt and use it more often and get used to it

Edmund Kearsley (53:18):
Practise more. That was the thing that took me the longest to get used to was the a different, the, the stylus moves across the screen than a, a pencil or a pen across paper.

Neale Blanden (53:35):

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:36):
Why is this taking me

Neale Blanden (53:37):
Here?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:40):
you said you’ve got a Kickstarter happening right now, didn’t you? Chris?

Neale Blanden (53:45):
Mm.

Chris Pitcairn (53:48):
Yeah. Let me see if I can send you the the link. That might be smart.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (53:54):
I’m looking for it now. I think I’ve almost found it. So it’s all good.

Chris Pitcairn (53:57):
Yeah, it should be on next page.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:00):
yeah.

Chris Pitcairn (54:03):
Yeah. Objects of virtue.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:06):
Yep. Found it. Thanks.

Neale Blanden (54:14):
let’s get

Edmund Kearsley (54:15):
A, get a look at but Neil’s got going on with his

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:20):
Story. Yep. Let’s do that.

Neale Blanden (54:23):
Woo.

Edmund Kearsley (54:25):
Oh, there you go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:26):
Oh, awesome. That’s wicked.

Neale Blanden (54:28):
There we go. Does that make sense? Can you tell what that is?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:32):
Yes. You see that

Neale Blanden (54:33):
A little, right? That’s what I was worried about. I’m looking at everybody else’s composition. I’m going, you know what okay. That’s enough <laugh>. And I was going, I dunno. So I just overworked it and made, made it look like I know what I’m doing.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:52):
<laugh>,

Edmund Kearsley (54:55):
Quick. Get out. Look at Brenton’s.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (54:57):
Yeah, so I was just

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:07):
Oh, wicked.

Neale Blanden (55:10):
It’s working. It’s gonna work.

Brenton (55:12):
It can,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:15):
This page is gonna be wicked. I’m really

Neale Blanden (55:17):
Happy that all three pedals work together. <laugh>.

Brenton (55:26):
Yeah. Sorry, I was kind of going off Neils and I was like, yeah, I think can see, see what’s happening. But yeah, like I was saying before, it was supposed to be a bit more of a friendly greeting. But

Neale Blanden (55:37):
<laugh> send them to

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:39):
Something else. Well, the next person who knows what they’ll do. We had, yeah, we had Alex have them flirting almost. And then the next panel there was a knife involved. So <laugh>

Chris Pitcairn (55:50):
Aggressive,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (55:51):
Anything could happen. Next page.

Neale Blanden (55:54):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:09):
Well I’m just going to share <affirmative> that Kickstarter at least. ’cause it’s a nice long link. So it’s a little harder to to just say, so I’ll just share that in the comments. Don’t go there yet. Don’t go there yet. <laugh>. Wait till the show’s over, which we’re almost at, we’re almost at the end. So

Neale Blanden (56:36):
I’d say that,

Edmund Kearsley (56:38):
Sorry, you don’t have to finish.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:39):
You don’t have to finish by the end of the show.

Neale Blanden (56:42):
Oh, thank God.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (56:45):
<laugh>. That would be very mean on Brenton who started last.

Edmund Kearsley (57:03):
So you do have to send in what you’ve drawn so far, so we can set the page up. Show everyone.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:16):
So when do we wanna do that, ed? Now or in a little bit?

Edmund Kearsley (57:21):
yeah, let’s get it going now and then we can have a look at some, what are they called? Instagram pages and stuff.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (57:36):
Yeah, I’ll do that. And I will figure out how to share my screen while someone else is sharing those. so is everyone clearly sending what you’ve got so far to Ed?

Neale Blanden (57:56):
All right. Are we doing that by, how are we doing that? Yeah,

Edmund Kearsley (58:01):
I would send

Neale Blanden (58:05):
Email.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:06):
Do you wanna send via me?

Edmund Kearsley (58:08):
Yeah, send it to C and then he can

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:11):
Yeah, just on Messenger will be fine. And then I’ll forward them so that it’s just to see what it looks like together. So it doesn’t need to be perfect. quality or anything?

Neale Blanden (58:26):

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:27):
Okay. I was presenting.

Neale Blanden (58:35):
Oh, that help? All right. I’m just getting that together, <laugh>. Okay. I know what I’m

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (58:42):
Doing. I think this will override and put my screen up. Yes, it will. There you go. So we’ll start with, we’ve got N MSS cans and Chris Pit cans objects of virtue Kickstarter. So just have a bit of a look through there. I’ll bring up my messenger. I think that will actually open up on that screen.

Neale Blanden (59:05):
Yes, it will, it will.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (59:07):
There we go. <laugh>. Hopefully it was quick enough. all there was to see anyway was pictures of the, the layouts, so that’s all good. so none of these have sent one through yet, so Yeah, so we’ve got the objects of virtue, so we’ll just have a bit of a look through this. for all those watching. the Circle, I actually own the circle. It’s a cool little comic. Oh, I own Clockwork as well. That’s also a cool little comic. but I don’t have Bonnie and Clyde. Bobby, sorry, I can’t read. who was the robot in there? Blank. What are you doing? There’s blanks older brother this I’ve seen, but I don’t know if I’ve got it in your wickedness. I, I know that cover. I just dunno why I know it.

Chris Pitcairn (01:00:09):
I think it’s one of the first ones Nick did. So she’s had it around for a really long time.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:17):
Oh yeah. And this one’s cool Sushi. That gave me a good laugh. Probably shouldn’t because it’s a bit of horrible ending, but yeah. And it’s got another story in it. What’s the other story? Monster Campaign name?

Chris Pitcairn (01:00:34):
I think Monster Cafe is the new one. I could be wrong.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:38):
Yeah. That’s the only one I don’t recognise from what we just went through. So,

Chris Pitcairn (01:00:42):
But yeah, I’m, I’m pretty sure that that’s the new one.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:00:47):
Well, there’s three in there I don’t have then, so I’ll be, I won’t do it right now, but I will back the eventually. So everyone else do the same. ’cause it is at, it is at scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. 8 96 of 3000. So come on. Woo. Let’s get it up there.

Chris Pitcairn (01:01:10):
Yep.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:11):
well, Ed’s putting these together, which to send me, he can’t do without me forwarding them because I’m too busy looking at a <laugh>.

Neale Blanden (01:01:21):
Where am I sending stuff?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:23):
just send it to my messenger.

Neale Blanden (01:01:26):
Oh, okay. Ah, alright, well let me get back on Facebook then. Keith Louise.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:35):
Oh, that’d be right. Ed’s not. Oh, there he is. so let’s start with Neil.

Neale Blanden (01:01:54):
Hang on.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:01:55):
<crosstalk>, here’s his Instagram.

Neale Blanden (01:01:57):
Oh, okay. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:00):
And his book is very popular. His, his zines. I think you call ’em, don’t you?

Neale Blanden (01:02:05):
Yes. That’s what you call them young men.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:08):
Mm. So they’re very popular. throughout the ages there’s been many of people reading

Neale Blanden (01:02:14):
Them. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. star Trek, <laugh>, Bob, Bob Camp there. Roddy McDowell dressed up as Cornelius there.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:25):
Yeah.

Neale Blanden (01:02:26):
I haven’t got the Jimmy Hendrix one up there. Oh well.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:30):
Oh yeah. So yeah, a lot of fun. Look. Oh, he is crying ’cause he hasn’t got it I think.

Neale Blanden (01:02:36):
No, he is crying because of my sensitive comics, my my daddy problems are bigger than your daddy problems, so.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:43):
Oh, that’s the ones they are. Yep. Cool.

Neale Blanden (01:02:46):
Yeah. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:02:47):
Oh, <inaudible>. And as always, remember when you’re coming to buy them, bring cash.

Neale Blanden (01:02:56):
Bring cash. You have to at the moment. Yes. I’ll get there

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:00):
One day.

Neale Blanden (01:03:02):
Yeah, one day.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:05):
So yes. This is a nice fun. Oh, there’s quite a few crying men. Yep. Cool.

Neale Blanden (01:03:10):
Yes. You missed Jack Kirby back there and Stan Lee holding onto my comics. there they are. Stop there. You right there. if you can see them, Jack Jack Kirby and Stan Lee standing there holding my comics.

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:24):
<laugh> <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:30):
Okay.

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:32):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:33):
Yep. I believe, I believe

Neale Blanden (01:03:34):
Back from the grave.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:35):
They’re looking great.

Neale Blanden (01:03:37):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:39):
Nice. <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:42):
Oh dear.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:44):
Oh, there’s a drink and draw picture. Very nice. Okay. That’s enough of picking on Neil

Edmund Kearsley (01:03:50):
Pick. Got

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:52):
And I should probably be concentrating on the pictures. Sorry about that.

Neale Blanden (01:03:55):
Yeah. I’ve sent mine over to your Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:03:57):
Everyone has, everyone has. And I’ve sent none to, to poor old Ed.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:03):
It’s all right. Okay. That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:13):
So cool. Just look at the men crying, everyone while I do this.

Neale Blanden (01:04:18):
<laugh>. Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:24):
Oh, that’s wicked. okay, ed, I did my job finally. It took me a while, but I got there.

Edmund Kearsley (01:04:38):
Thank you

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:04:40):
<laugh>. I, I meant to do that first and then show off the Instagram. Oh, well I’ll get the order right one time. So we’ll go to Chris. Here’s his Instagram Crispy inks. Oh, I forgot to say Bland Orama is, we’ll go up the top so you can see it. It’s also in the, the thing down the bottom of the screen. You

Neale Blanden (01:05:02):
Punch in the old blandon it should come up. So

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:05):
Yeah, there it is there. I’m highlighting it. Nice and easy for everyone to see. crispy inks is Chris’s crispy inks, I should say. That’s it there.

Chris Pitcairn (01:05:19):
I always forget the dot

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:21):
<laugh>. Does it matter? I I I know some places it does and some places it doesn’t.

Chris Pitcairn (01:05:26):
I think, I mean, I think it does matter ’cause I think there was someone with crispy inks.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:34):
Oh, without, ah. But I

Chris Pitcairn (01:05:36):
Think generally I’m one of the first ones to pop up and I’m the one with the Little Mermaid icon

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:44):
Mermaid thing. Yeah. I’m just being very careful with going through yours.

Chris Pitcairn (01:05:48):
Yeah. I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:05:50):
Fair

Chris Pitcairn (01:05:50):
Warning to people. I post a lot of my life drawing stuff <laugh>. So, and I have a very lax idea of what’s not safe for work, which is <laugh>. Like, honestly nothing, nothing. There is no such thing as not safe for work <laugh>. So there are a few but

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:08):
Bit of bottom. That’s all right. That’s all right. Compared to what I know can come through.

Chris Pitcairn (01:06:12):
Yeah. Just go, oh,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:13):
There’s the Xmen. That was a good one. That was a good one.

Chris Pitcairn (01:06:17):
Yeah. The X <crosstalk>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:18):
I must say the new Fox and Hound.

Chris Pitcairn (01:06:24):
Yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:26):
You’ve taken it to a new level. Thank you. That was, that was a real surprise. <laugh>.

Chris Pitcairn (01:06:31):
Thank you. I think,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:35):
Oh, no, no, it’s good. In many, it’s, it’s, it’s referring to two things there. So Yeah. Okay. Your art and, and the

Chris Pitcairn (01:06:44):
Rawness

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:06:44):
Of it, how romantic the ladies were. Yes. So <laugh> it was a little bit, it was a little caught me back actually. ’cause I’d read the other ones and they weren’t. So yeah. So yeah.

Chris Pitcairn (01:06:55):
And yeah, well, again, my, my threshold for not so for work is quite high and so

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:04):
<crosstalk> Oh no, it’s fine. It’s totally fine. It’s just, it surprised me because I was used to the other four books.

Chris Pitcairn (01:07:10):
Yeah. And I think the first one I did with Nick, the third one, she had a few scenes where she was like, no, you need to pull back. like that’s a bit, that’s a bit too on the nose and so to speak. And yeah. And then I think we forgot to pull back

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:34):
<laugh>. Yes.

Chris Pitcairn (01:07:37):
It was just like, oh, this is, this is in the script. Alright. you’ve

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:42):
Written Excellent <laugh>. Cool. Now let’s have a look at Brenton’s Instagram, which is IM Ezra, is that how you pronounce that?

Brenton (01:07:52):
Yeah, yeah. Perfect.

Chris Pitcairn (01:07:52):
One <laugh>,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:07:54):
IM Ezra. Yeah. So I’ll just highlight that so you can see it. So we go Yeah. And there’s you’re doing, doing a lot of promo stuff for, for the new

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:14):
Book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. First Comic Art Festival. Cool.

Brenton (01:08:19):
Yeah, it was PC AF was awesome. I, I couldn’t make it to pa paper cuts this year and, and but Gina and Owen popped into I was in Adelaide for I words, first of all, and it was good to catch up with ’em and apologise to them personally, that why I couldn’t make it there ’cause of some other commitments. But no, definitely next time I’ll, I’ll try and make it down for sure.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:08:42):
But yeah, I’d love to be able to make some of the stuff down south.

Brenton (01:08:45):
Yeah, it’s really cool stuff. Really cool stuff. So my, my, my, oh, nice. My Instagram’s mostly managed by my daughter, who’s just way more tech savvy, a bit more onto it than I’m, I’m a bit of a flu duddy with, you know, once a week or once a fortnight post and my daughter’s going, no, no, you get post something every day, dad. You know, so <laugh>, what can I post? You know, so she’s, oh, what, what are you eating? What are you doing? What are you? So I’m kind, okay, no worries. but yeah, cool. Sticking my head around social media, <laugh>

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:19):
I’ve been forced to, so yeah, there’s some good cool art. Oh yeah,

Brenton (01:09:27):
Yeah. there’s Gary proudly there with, with some Harry Halls I think Go pages of yeah, so I think some, one of the artwork, I think if, if it’s this one, I’m looking at that semi looking guy. It’s actually this big two metre poster I did for our public library. Oh, it’s heaps. I find, ah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:09:47):
Well this one, the one here with your head just broken up.

Brenton (01:09:50):
the one Dally, I think it’s left or right but the guy holding the book, that one, I think that one, it’s part of this, this one bigger. Yeah, it was part of this bigger pick of so that’s kinda like one of the corners in the midsection, but it was just the library just said, Hey, just do whatever you want. So this was kinda That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:13):
So

Brenton (01:10:13):
Cool. Yeah. The little zombie section. and then there was like a gangster section and a space marine section and I kind of said to ’em, what, what, what what do you want me to do? And they just said anything. And so I just wrote a big list of saying, this is stuff that’s okay to have in it. And they said, yeah, yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:30):
Go

Brenton (01:10:31):
For it. <laugh> I was, I was, that’s, that was kind of like a dream job because they, they, there was no one. Yeah, that’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:37):
Really

Brenton (01:10:37):
Cool. It was all green lights, which is really nice. they had heaps of fun with that, which is good. I don’t think I’m gonna get another offer like that. I don’t know why, but it was just the, yeah. Big two metre poster and just everything. So this, this particular section’s just like the robot zombie part of the poster.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:10:57):
Yeah. Nice.

Brenton (01:10:58):
Hmm. Which was fun. That was really fun. That’s

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:00):
Awesome, Brandon.

Brenton (01:11:01):
Yeah. Cheers.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:05):
So, ed, where are we? We’re good to go. We’re good to go. Well, I’ll take my screen off. where’s my screen? Oh, there it is there. Oh, didn’t mean to do that. And we are bringing ed up, I’m guessing. There we go.

Neale Blanden (01:11:29):
Sweet.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:31):
See the page? Oops. Keep getting confused with the screens. So you can have a look at Chris’s page, the egg master.

Neale Blanden (01:11:50):
Nice.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:51):
That’s cool.

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:53):
Then we see, I

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:54):
Love that

Edmund Kearsley (01:11:56):
Blank’s having a nervous breakdown.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:11:58):
<laugh>

Neale Blanden (01:12:01):
The one paddle, he’s found his sweat glands.

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:13):
Is this a guy here? Is that the Yeah, just the back of his head. Yeah, back,

Neale Blanden (01:12:17):
Back of the head of whoever the new characters.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:21):
So next person gets to show their face. Maybe.

Neale Blanden (01:12:24):
Maybe. Yeah,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:26):
Maybe. You never know. It could be like oh, I’m having a, yeah, I, I’ll shut up now. I can’t remember people’s name.

Neale Blanden (01:12:32):
<laugh>? No, no, please, please. Yeah. Yeah. That, yeah.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:34):
I was thinking spec the gadget, whatever the bad guy was. He always saw the back his head.

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:38):
Dr. Claw.

Neale Blanden (01:12:40):
Dr. Claw.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:41):
That’s it. That’s it.

Neale Blanden (01:12:43):
Dr. Claw.

Edmund Kearsley (01:12:45):
That’s a good looking page.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:12:47):
Yeah, that looks awesome guys. Looks pretty cool. This comics awesome,

Neale Blanden (01:12:55):
Actually, it’s a change,

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:01):
But yeah, don’t worry. You don’t need to finish it today. today during the show, I mean, the show’s not all today, so everyone got everyone’s Instagrams, I hope who are watching. we had a look at the Kickstarter there, and now we have this beautiful page drawn by our three artists today.

Neale Blanden (01:13:30):
Yay. Yay. <laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:13:36):
Such a cool combo. See now, now I’m under pressure that I’ve gotta plan who I asked each episode so that their, their, their styles combo. So. Well thanks guys. Thanks for the pressure

Neale Blanden (01:13:54):
<laugh>.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:05):
Cool.

Edmund Kearsley (01:14:07):
Do you have any comment?

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:09):
No comments actually, which is strange. Just the last comments was me giving out links.

Edmund Kearsley (01:14:15):
Excellent. That’s ’cause they’re all stunned.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:17):
They’re all stunned by the awesomeness. That is that page

Edmund Kearsley (01:14:20):
Not the beauty of the artwork. But we gotta thank thank Neil and Brent and Christopher turning up and doing some excellent work. Thanks for having me. It was a pleasure. And thanks for the siz for pressing the buttons.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:40):
Yep. On the button. Presser.

Edmund Kearsley (01:14:42):
And I think that’ll do for this episode, siz, so you can plug it out through.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:47):
Cool. We’ll thanks everyone for watching. Oh, I’m sorry, <laugh>.

Edmund Kearsley (01:14:53):
There you go.

Shane ‘Sizzle’ Syddall (01:14:54):
I was just gonna say thanks everyone for watching. Thanks for the artists for coming on and thank you to Ed for hosting an awesome show. so yeah, good night everyone. See you next week. Sees cheers.