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On August 1, 2025

Hello everyone. I know, you want more comics from me. Well then. It is time for Sons of Comtec.

Sons of Comtec: A very serious work of sequential graphic narrative, about the most important people in the world.

Sons of Comtec is an extremely silly graphic novel¹ about businessmen — even some female businessmen, for you ladies with modern ideas. If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you’ll have already learned about it from the video below, which features voice-acted excerpts, an introduction to the main characters, and the front cover illustration being painted from start to finish!

My co-author and fellow genius, Ben Hutchings, is a legend of Australian comics, whom you might know from… well, anything from his long-running comedy zine You Stink and I Don’t, to his celebrated children’s comic Mini Mel and Timid Tom, to his award-winning educational works like The Invisible War and Follow Your Gut.

He and I have been collaborating on the slab of comedy nonsense called Sons of Comtec for over ten years, and at last it is time to trap its soul in book form and sell it to YOU.

…And that’s where you come in.

An excerpt from Sons of Comtec. Reynaldo is not yet ready to embrace Mlervin's outside-the-box vision concepts.

Ya see, to make this book happen, we’re crowdfunding it! On Kickstarter! This will begin in mere days, and what you can do right now is check out the pre-launch page and click the big button that says, “Notify me on launch”. That way, on launch, you’ll be notified!

Be ye notified

And should you desire to be actually in the book — you, yourself, immortalised in its very pages — such opportunities will be available but limited, as soon as the crowdfund kicks off. Hence, the handy notification.

The staff of Comtec. Shall you be among them?

I’ll be real with you though, because I hate FOMO marketing: you probably won’t miss out. You are part of a dedicated but small audience. But, you never know, right? Maybe Sons of Comtec will be favoured by the algorithm and attract thousands of cashed-up new fans three minutes after it launches. It can happen.

Actually, that’s the other reason you might like to click that “Notify me on launch” button: it makes us look popular and helps the project to succeed. So if you do that, thank you!

An excerpt from Sons of Comtec. He wan', it would seem, baneenee.

Apparently mid-week is the best time to launch a crowdfunding campaign, so expect something to happen around Tuesday, August 5th, depending on your time zone, how tired I am after work that day, and so on.

The campaign will run for 30 days and 30 nights, which as you may recall is how long it took Almighty God to pout mightily and destroy the Earth by flood. In my mercy, I intend to merely ‘flood’ your RSS feed with non-stop reminders to back the campaign! Ho ho!

Indeed, now that Sons of Comtec is your new favourite book, you probably want to learn more about it. Well, there’ll be more to come in that regard, to keep us all ‘big energy’ and slavering during the crowdfund! Say it with me: I am FOCUSED, I am LOCKED IN, I am a WINNER with HOT WINNER STINK. Now say it to your wife! Now say it to your young children! Say it to them daily! Schedule a time and stick to it!

Congratulations, you are now on the road to business success! A road that leads where? That’s right: to Comtec.

A graphic novel is a comic that you have to take seriously if you want to be taken seriously. ↩︎

Oh and hey I’m on Mastodon and Bluesky these days, if that interests you. I’m not using them a lot, but it’s another way to stay up-to-date and/or get in touch. And my email newsletter is still a thing — sign up on this website’s Contact page!

Pink Chickens, readable again

On February 17, 2025

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to make for several years, ever since my comics websites stopped working. It’s a PDF version of Pink Chickens, my incomplete kids’ comic that ran in Mania magazine from 2001 to 2002. Many of you have, patiently and persistently, asked for it — so here it is, in my Ko-fi shop!

Oh, PDFs aren’t convenient for you? You’d prefer hi-res JPEGs of each page? Those are included too.

HOT DIGGETY DOG,
LET ME AT IT AND THOSE

You can download it for free, or pay any amount for it. There’s no obligation at all, but of course if it gets a lot of support, I can prioritise similar projects like a Tobias and Jube (Mania years) PDF, a collection of Pink Chickens illustrations and archival material — that sort of thing.

In any case, thank you for still caring about Pink Chickens, nearly 25 years after the fact! I still occasionally get out-of-the-blue fan emails about it, which is extraordinary.

Another thing I’ve been meaning to get around to — for literally decades now, I guess — is selling original Pink Chickens comic pages/artwork. So if you’re keen for that too, do please let me know! (It’s time-consuming to set up, is all, but worth the bother if I know people are interested.)

In the meantime, enjoy the comic again. Or… god help us… for the first time?? Dolly, Mustard, Basil, Frupert, Pidgie and Mucus are waiting for you.

Squishbook

On November 20, 2023

While you’re in a spending mood, it’s time to tell you about Squishbook, the best thing you can buy for a primary-school-aged child at this exact moment. (Or ‘elementary-school-aged’ for our toothy alien friends.)

Squishbook is half comics and half about making comics, with a whole extra half on top, of silly nonsense and thoughtful advice — occasionally a challenge to distinguish — all one hundred and fifty percent of it for CHILDS. Perhaps your childs, or any curious and creative childs you might be aware of in your vicinity. You can learn much more about it at the crowdfunding page beneath this link.

Also this link! Squishbook!

It has been exhaustingly compiled by the excellent David Blumenstein, who assembled a crack team of sensitive and whimsical inner-child-havers including Ben Hutchings, Scarlette Baccini, Ive Sorocuk, your hero Patrick Alexander, and the ever-popular Many Others.

Contributor portraits by David Blumenstein

My bits in Squishbook include:

Erntnence Rotisserie-Ha’pennyworth’s Catalogue of Hats, which is two pages of very much what it sounds like
A drawing of a truly appalling unicorn, perhaps the worst yet, suitable for colouring in if you can choke back your vomit for long enough
Answers to children’s questions, for which the publisher (not me) is legally responsible
Blip Blop Chronicles, starring Li’l Atishoos — a four-page comic about the naughtiest child in the world furiously succeeding at it

Here’s a tiny bit of Blip Blop Chronicles for you, in both roughly pencilled and expertly inked forms:

Squishbook is partly funded by the City of Melbourne but partly funded by YOU, right now, as you head to the crowdfunding page and order some copies for all the children you can think of and also any Grown-Ups with a Sense of Wonder that you haven’t been able to rid yourself of socially.

The crowdfund ends in one week-ish (November 28th) and is already near its goal, but you know what? The print run actually costs twice as much as the goal! So if you can help to push the final total way past that goal, that would help to soothe David’s stress-related brain rash, I bet.

Will you still be able to order copies from the Pozible page after the crowdfund ends? I… I think so? I’m pretty sure yes you will. But if you are reading this in time, go and place an order now and get a cool thing for someone’s Christmas. “Ooh mama, it’s gonna be a zing-daddy boobly-o!” as the beloved carol goes.

2022 catch-up

On November 29, 2022

Lately I’ve had barely any time to do stuff, let alone update this website to let you know that I’ve done it. Let’s get you caught up!

Voting comic part 2
Scrampbonk dot com
Getting serious with Ko-fi
- Memberships
- The Ko-fi Shop
Mr Frisky’s Unbelievable Planet
Anything else?

Voting comic part 2

Ever since Dennis and Ken slappo’d their way into Australian voters’ hearts back in 2013, those same besotted voters have been requesting a follow-up comic explaining the electoral system for the federal Senate, with its tentacle-long, bone-white ballots of terror. I’m happy to report that I managed to complete that comic in plenty of time for the election back in May, and you can read, download, and share it right beneath this link.

It was a huge amount of work to produce, and I did so with no sponsorship or outside support, because I like democracy and I wanted to help people. If that makes you want to click a Like button, try the Donate button instead, on my Ko-fi page! Yes, retroactively: even perhaps years after the fact, if that’s when you’re reading this. It’s like royalties! Go and donate! Yes, even if you’re not Australian! You think I don’t see you? I see you.

As for the international perma-meme that is Voting comic part 1, this year you might have seen it distributed in full-colour print alongside the campaign materials of Queensland Greens MP Michael Berkman and the teal candidate for Cowper, Carolyn ‘Caz’ Heise, as well as posted on the Facebook page of, uh, the Hunters and Shooters Society Australia. Can any doubt Dennis and Ken’s appeal across the entire spectrum of politics/sanity?

And… what’s this? You Can’t ‘Waste’ Your Vote… in Cantonese?? Yeah, that happened too. Phew! Big year for the boys.

Scrampbonk dot com

What this is is, I got really fed up with web two-point-oh, and sick of bloated-corpse wordpress too, and made a new, simple, easy blog (using publii) that I can post things on, when I make them! Comics, writing, illustrations, videos, whatever. Really tired of trying to keep up with social media websites as they rise and fall. Who has the time! Anyway add scrampbonk dot com to your bookmarks, or RSS feed if you’re on the cutting edge. Old Internet is still there, if we want it. Add me to your webring.

Getting serious with Ko-fi

I’m trying to gradually transition back to doing more creative work and personal projects, and the support of my… fans? Followers? Fellow weirdoes? — will be invaluable in making that possible, so I’ve been putting some time and effort into making my Ko-fi a worthwhile place to be.

Memberships

You can now become a monthly member to enjoy my new work earlier than ordinary internet plebes, see works in progress and other weird scraps, and even receive the exciting Envelope of Wonder in your actual, touchable mailbox throughout the year, if you so desire.

*Contents (sans letter) of the first Envelope of Wonder. What will be in the next one? Fun and surprises, that’s what!*

Monthly membership is a really, really effective way to help me create more of the stuff that you love, now and into the future. The financial support is straightforwardly helpful, but also encourages and motivates me on a mental and emotional level too. It’s like… tangible proof that people believe in my work. Thank you!

The Ko-fi Shop

You may notice that my Ko-fi page now also features a shop! Yes! Right now you can buy a retro-sparkly Tobias and Jube “We’re DOOMED!” sticker; a vinyl Dennis and Ken “SLAPPO!!!” sticker; a charming, never-appeared-on-the-internet, all-ages comic called Mr Frisky’s Unbelievable Planet; and a members-only zine of terrible, terrible, terrible actually brilliant crosswords, which is apparently yet another thing I do. More goodies will be added little by little, both physical and digital.

*What’s that? You need a hundred of these? Contact me re: bulk discounts.*

But wait! Before you click that “SPEND ALL OF MY MONEY” button… what day is it today? Because if it isn’t yet January 8th 2023, there is a sale on right now. You can get twenty whole percent off everything in the shop, simply by visiting it via this link:

SPEND MERELY 80% OF ALL OF MY MONEY

And if that doesn’t work for some reason, just enter the code “YOWZA20” at checkout.

Oh, and! And! If you become a monthly member, you get automatic shop discounts anyway! Do the discounts stack? Sure, why not! (I’m actually not sure but I think so.)

Mr Frisky’s Unbelievable Planet

Hang on, Patrick, what was that about… a new comic?

Ah, yes! Sort of!

*Clockwise from left: Mr Frisky, tiny Mr Frisky, Milkshake*

As it says on the shop page:

A short comic I made in 2007, now shared with the world 15 years later!

Take a dubiously educational journey of discovery with Mr Frisky and his susceptible pal Milkshake, as they venture into the wildest, weirdest places on Earth and look at fish.

SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES. A perfect no-reason-in-particular gift for friends, students or teachers, niblings, or any marine biologists you happen to know.

That’s right, I had a completed 20-page comic sitting around for 15 years that I just never found the right opportunity to publish in any way. But now you can buy it in a slim, attractively designed, beautifully printed volume, at, as I may have mentioned, my Ko-fi shop.

It’s a little slab of delightful giggles and you will enjoy it, as will everyone you know or will ever meet. Buy ten thousand!

If you’d like to read a little about the design process of the Mr Frisky book, I blogged about that here, and if you’d like to see some exciting unboxing photos of the real thing, take a look here. And while you’re in an ogling mood, cop a load of these:

Phwoar! Yeah, I understand, you want it! Go and get it. (And don’t forget, the checkout code “YOWZA20” gives a 20% discount until a week into 2023. Yowza!)

I want to make more books like this, so don’t hesitate to encourage me.

Anything else?

Isn’t that enough?? Oh, you want the second episode of Comedy Purgatory? You want more crazy music? You want really, really new comics, not just plenty of comics you haven’t seen before like Mr Frisky and the Dark Horse Presents ones that I’m putting up on Ko-fi (and then Scrampbonk dot com later)? You want… youtube videos? After all this time?

Well my friend, we are in hyaku pasento resonance on those matters: I want those very same things. Support me on Ko-fi and help to make it all happen.

By the way, don’t forget you can join my mailing list on this website’s Contact page. Right now I rarely use it, but it’s potentially a great way to stay up-to-date while circumventing the invented need for social media. I’ll at least use it for important announcements, so pop in your email address and you won’t miss out. I promise I am not well-organised enough to be annoying.

And hey, is there anyone reading this blog post who was alerted to it via RSS? Leave a comment! I’d love to know that people are still using that.

My comics websites are down

On May 3, 2020

I know, I know! They have been for some months. I accidentally updated the PHP version and broke them — they were running on a very old, very simple gallery script that I liked. Oops. As compensation, here is a new Pink Chickens drawing:

Ooh, it's the gang from Pink Chickens, all shiny and colourful

I’m tired of messing about with websites, so what I’m thinking of doing is compiling these old comics into some PDFs and putting them on gumroad, so you can read them that way. Sound good? Let me know! Leave a comment here, or on instagram, or talk to me on twitter — you know, the internet!

Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery — comics and music!

On September 28, 2017

In Illustration, Music

Hello everyone, did I mention my new Tobias and Jube comic? I can’t recall. Anyway, it’s called Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery and the first chapter is up on the Stela app right now! It’ll run for five weeks; one chapter per week. It’s basically 50-something print pages, in total — a little book, like an Asterix book! It is also, would you believe, suitable for all ages. And ‘all ages’ doesn’t mean ‘children’, it means ALL AGES — I’m looking at you, Granddad! You think I can’t see you curled up on the floor behind the recliner? Granddad? Oh, the old silent treatment, eh? The old silent and motionless except for sporadic twitching treatment, is that it, old man? Pathetic.

I’m exceptionally proud of Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery and excited for you all to enjoy it. It’s not free — you do have to buy it (god, I know) — but at least you can buy it without leaving your house! FRESH LAUGHTER AND NATURAL HUMAN DELIGHTS, EVERY WEEK. And phwoar, look at those gorgeous colours by Lin Visel. Pages of that good stuff. Get into it.

BUT WAIT. Did you think that was all? “Oh, he’s made the funniest comic in the history of the medium, surely that’s enough for one man” — was that you just now?

[shakes head sadly while throwing head backwards in flamboyant laughter]

“I don’t think I’ve smiled this much listening to an album… ever? Ever.”
“I would say this feels like the soundtrack to a mysterious, quirk-laden Japanese PS2 game, but it’s the soundtrack to a wonderful comic!”
“I almost choked on my own snot listening to this. Patrick you are wonderful. My new anthem here.”
“This unironically owns.”
“That record is like some evil corrupt maniac formed the second coming of the Bonzos just to corrupt the minds of children.”
“That was brilliant! … What an inventive track, nice to hear something different.”
“Holy shit! This is hilarious and great!”
“The most fun you can have without burning down a church.”

— Comments already received from authentic fellow humans

<a href="http://patrickalexander.bandcamp.com/album/tobias-and-jube-and-the-something-hat-mystery-the-euphonious-companion">Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery: The Euphonious Companion by Patch / Patrick Alexander</a>

Yes, Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery is also a 30-minute album of amazing songs, subtitled The Euphonious Companion, which makes quite a long and grandiose title altogether, but I promise it’s not prog, IT’S NOT PROG. It is a POP album but WEIRD POP and oh my goodness, remember how the comic is the #1 and sole greatest thing I’ve ever done? Well the album is also the #1 and sole greatest thing I’ve ever done! How is this possible? It’s not. It’s a miracle.

Bandcamp! iTunes and Apple Music! Spotify! Google Play! Soundcloud! And Amazon and Deezer and even Saavn, and other places too — just search for the album. And you can even Shazam all of these songs, which is really cool. If you play my songs at a party, people can go, “Siri, what is this stream of pure, rainbow-flavoured delight? I must know!”

It is a DELIGHTFUL album; that is the word I keep using. You will be delighted. It’s only a short album — go to Bandcamp and have a listen. You will feel delight, I promise. This isn’t cartoonist music, this is cartoonist AND musician music. You’ve been waiting for it, bored with everything else, and now, here it is.

“Patrick I bought the album and subscribed to the comic, I am into this Tobias and Jube thing, help me!”

Tobias and Jube prints and goods at redbubble! Tobias and Jube stamps for Line messenger! Old-school Tobias and Jube comics that I’d hoped to have rescanned and recoloured by now, oh well! You want more?? Tell me about it! No, actually tell me about it. Thanks.

Thanks for enjoying my work, and thanks in advance for telling your friends and social networks about it! It makes a big difference; you have no idea.

tl;dr: Lots of new Tobias and Jube stuff! Here and here. Hooray!

Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery — September 25th

On August 30, 2017

An all-new, all-ages, all-colour, all-nonsense Tobias and Jube caper! Five chapters over five weeks, from September 25th, only on the Stela app. By the actual Patrick Alexander, with true colours by Lin Visel.

Blobby besties Tobias and Jube find a hat one day, and naturally want answers. Whose is it? What does it do? What’s the proper term for this specific type of headwear? Their square-jawed, glinty-eyed investigation causes setbacks for no less than three local businesses. Meanwhile, a slug and a spider search for the lost wallet of a high-profile client. Also featuring magic, chickens and ice cream, but not at the same time.

I am very proud of this comic; it’s the best thing I’ve ever made! I’m excited for you all to read and enjoy it. Amazing facts about Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery:

It’s appropriate for all ages. Your beautiful and special and precocious children will love it. You, also, will.
Tobias and Jube began in Australia’s Mania magazine in 2002, making 2017 the comic’s 15th birthday.
It is very funny and silly and it also has themes, but secret themes that only the brightest intellectuals will recognise and enjoy.
It will be accompanied by a short album of songs. Whaaat! Yes, really.

I’m happy to be interviewed about this project by anyone; please get in touch (email, twitter).

The illustration above is available as a print and on assorted products at redbubble.

GET HYPE, GET HYPE, LAY THAT HYPE PIPE

SET THAT HYPE TYPE

OH MULTIPLE CRIPE! IT’S TIME TO GET HYPE

Tobias and Jube – Autumn 2017

On July 22, 2017

FIVE WEEKS. FIVE CHAPTERS. SOME JOKES.

Yes, as promised, an all-new Tobias and Jube comic will be delivered to you soon, via Stela! There’s a little more info over on my tumblr. Short version: EXCITEMENT TIME IS HERE, ALL AROUND US.

In the meantime, you can LAY SOME HYPE PIPE by putting this illustration on your wall, wearing it on your body, or your lower body, or hiding your own shameful drawings inside it, or gripping it with your gross sweaty fingers as you text that special someone. Or any number of rituals of devotion only made possible by my new redbubble shop, where wonder and delight await you. (Also, you can get prints at society6 too, in text-free and textful versions.)

Tobias and Jube’s Quality Assortment

On January 19, 2016