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My Drug Period

By 'drug period', I refer to the 12 months I spent researching, writing and drawing War on Drugs and Rat Park. This blog post discusses everything I think and feel about drugs as a result of this research.

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Globalization of Addiction: the post-Rat Park research of Bruce Alexander

The 'main character' of my comic Rat Park is Professor Bruce Alexander - a real life psychologist from Vancouver. This blog post describes Bruce's post-Rat Park research, including his book The Globalization of Addiction. If you liked my comic, you will love his book.

Lab rat in cage

A bustle in the cage-row: the making of Rat Park

This is a lengthy blog post about the behind-the-scene 'making of' Rat Park. Includes historical photographs of the actual Rat Park experiment from the 1970s, and interesting tidbits which I couldn't quite fit into my comic.

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Rat Park crowdfunding rewards: printed comics have been dispatched

Some good news: the War on Drugs and Rat Park printed comics were delivered to me on 16 May. I have now posted these rewards to my crowdfunding supporters, and will soon upload the comic to my website.

The Great Disruption

The Great Disruption

I have recently moved cities from Brisbane to Canberra, which has disrupted progress on my Rat Park comic. Coincidentally, I have just finished reading a book about climate change titled The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding.

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Lessons learnt from crowdfunding a comic

Good news! My crowdfunding campaign was successful. This blog post shares all of my lessons learnt from crowdfunding. Including many tips I wish I'd known beforehand.

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Why is Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen inside a box?

Speaking from inside a box, I discuss the story of my proposed comic Rat Park, about the science of drug addiction. This is the second video from my crowdfunding campaign.

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Crowdfunding comics: Brisbane trio drawing support from fans

After I launched my Rat Park crowdfunding campaign, I discovered that two other Brisbane-based cartoonists were also using Pozible for this purpose. We decided to join forces to promote ourselves, and our diverse uses of the comics medium.

Stuart McMillen's first crowdfunding video

Rat Park crowdfunding video

This is the first video from my crowdfunding campaign. And indeed, the first time I have shown my face to my readers via this website!