The Fleas Knees Bar & Grill

Introducing, on the back of a dog somewhere, The Fleas Knees Bar & Grill. Favourite watering hole of many a parasitic insect in the Gone Bush universe!

Gone Bush (No. 2.1) Introducing Ted Wombat, our resident poet and philosopher

Gone Bush Series 1 - Publication announcement

Announcing the publication of Gone Bush: Series 1. Printed in Australia. Do yourself a favour, and buy some for Christmas presents!

Follow the link below to view the book. Available in hard cover and soft cover.

https://au.blurb.com/b/10192273-gone-bush-series-1

Where does it go?

This is some of my very early work from back in 1996. I think it took me about three or four days to complete.

The Aussie Outback Baked Bean Beaky Bonanza

This cartoon was an entry to the "They Draw & Cook" bean recipe competition. It was a lot of fun to draw and I was able to use a little bit of a recent trip to the Northern Territory in the picture. Some of my "Gone Bush" and "Kevin Koala" characters make cameo appearances as the main characters.

A Koala Map of Cobram & Barooga

I drew this cool map featuring many of the koala territories my family and I have discovered since moving to Barooga.

This is special because when I was growing up in Corowa (upstream), there were no koalas. It's terrific to see them in the wild again.

Gone Bush - Series 1, No# 11 to 20

 

Amazing to think that I drew these back in 1998.

Gone Bush No# 2.8

The names for the two football clubs featured here come from the local Yorta Yorta language. "dhukandira" means wombat, while "gurburr" means koala. I added the "a" onto the end of the name to make it "Gurburra" so that it sounds more like a possible name for a local town.

Many of the towns  of Victoria's North East / Southern NSW have Aboriginal names that end with "a", such as Wangaratta, Echuca, Corowa, Wahgunyah, Wodonga, Yackandandah, Moama, Barooga and (my favourite) Tangambalanga.

Gone Bush No# 2.7

What would you have is fish were stuck in traffic? Would they feel the same as us?  I made sure to add a few Murray River species in this comic (no carp allowed!)

Gone Bush - Series 2, Strips 1 to 6

Fred the Dog CD Cover page

Back in 2003 I recorded some of my children's songs with the aim of creating a CD. I also designed a CD cover. The idea was that the CD would be like a fridge. The title was on the door, held in place by fridge magnets. The door could then be "opened" revealing the contents inside. The back of the CD was the back of the fridge, with all of the song titles listed.

Koala Committe ideas drafts

This was drawn during a meeting. The idea is having a group of koalas sorting out (or not) various problems. It would be a good tangent for Gone Bush to travel in from time to time.

Koala Commttee Notice Board

I've been working on a few ideas for a second series of Gone Bush.  This is one idea I explored on the classroom white board before school started.  The children (who are becoming used to my humour) all liked the joke.

Charlie the Sheep Dog

Some of my early work. A light-hearted look at a familiar theme.