Amusing Broken English! Devastating news from the Chronicle. Is this the most unconvinving Batman ever? I bought the sequel to Ong Bak on the weekend. Look at the blurb, and the credits on the back of the DVD cover. Remember her off E-Street? She did a CD. I will post songs one day. I found this New Zealand travel book at my parents house. Here is a very old stereo chimpanzee I modelled! Needs 3d glasses. That stupid cartoon. It's probably true. 70s beauty. Is this DVD copy of Capote a bootleg or legitimate? You decide! Mr Darcy contemplates a pair of fine eyes. I like animating faces off banner ads. Satan. Newsreader. Idol contestant. My chum Rob. George Bush being intimidating. Mister Britches! The Silver Surfer. Unintentional headline hilarity. foxtel.
26 Mar 2008:
LOOK!
Sanchez: The Space Marine Conversation Generator Me and my friend David Beswick made this amusing little application.
23 Feb 2008:
NEW COMIC OUT!
Lesson Master
Lesson Master: Master of Lessons!
This mighty tome collects the adventures of the Lesson Master together into a nice, shiny comic book!!!
Watch in awe as he teaches unsuspecting citizens the correct attitudes towards everything from how to serve a drink in a bar, talking in cinemas and using the correct toilet.
He is also joined by a couple of other teachers, each with their own inimitable style!
25 Feb 2008:NEW TOOTLEG BOY CLIP!

4 Feb 2008:
Because the public demanded it!

Comic with
BEN HUTCHINGS AND DAVID BLUMENSTEIN

Episode #1: Have A Big Wank!
 Ben and David inaugurate their possibly ongoing podcast. Featuring an exclusive interview with Stan Lee, talk about getting your comics out to an audience, news about how comics are invading the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a number of naughty excerpts from Lord Of The Rings.

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I'm Ben Hutchings from Canberra, Australia. I've been self publishing these comics now for thirteen years, which have inspired and delighted both Aussies and nasty foreigners alike! Now with this webpage I can expose all my kick-ass comix to even more foreign scum and hopefully inspire them to grow and evolve culturally and sensually.
There is a lot to see here so start with the stuff on the left, then the crap underneath!

How to Buy Ben's Comics!
 You can buy the comics from the comics page using paypal. However if you'd rather a more personal approach, or you don't have paypal, please email me at and we can do it that way.

People of Down Under: If you live in Canberra, you can get my comics at...
impactand House

Brisbanites can get them at
Rocking
Melbournians, please visit Sticky or Cumbersome Records or
Polyester
Or 696! (696 Sydney Road, Brunswick)

From Adelaide? That's nice! Go to Pulp Fiction!
Perth dwellers should get my comics from...Fatcheeks Distro
as well as that other shop that I forgot the name of. Not the one on that main street, but the newer one.
Aukland, NZ? Gotham Comics!
Christchurch, NZ? Comics Compulsion!
Wellington, NZ? Go to Graphic. 106 Cuba Mall!

Past News
  • 23 Jan 2008 Lesson Master is taking a couple of weeks off as I catch up on Picture work.
    I missed my first Tales From the Pub deadline yesterday and they had to do reprint an old episode!
    I hope nobody notices. Actually I hope loads of people notice, and complain like the last time we didn't include an episode.
    I also have to get a new reprint of the You Stink collected book, and get prints made of my new Pumpkin Bros pages. Not to mention compiling and printing the just-about-finished Lesson Master anthology!
    So I figure since nobody reads Lesson Master, let alone pays me for it, I should leave it for a bit.

  • 29 Dec 2007: A new episode of Fact or Fiction is up on youtube! Click here to see it.
  • 19 Nov 2007: Wanna see where I do all my work? Click here for a Quicktime VR panorama of my flat! Click and drag in the window to look around. Note the ostentatious drawing table and the cupboards with boxes of unsold comics lurking inside.
  • 18 Oct 2007: Supanova was a bit disappointing sales-wise! It seems to attract less comic readers every year! I hear Armageddon wasn't much better in the small press stakes. Either way, I had a great time catching up with comic pals. Happy for me?
  • 17 August 2007: I dun some fan pixel art of my new favourite show "Densha Otoko"!
  • 19.5.2007New comic page! All my comic work to date compiled on one page, including Tales From the Pub!
  • 28.4.2007YOU STINK & I DON'T #9 AVAILABLE NOW! Official launch on the 12.5.2007 at Impact Comics! More details below.
  • 28.4.2007: YOU STINK & I DON'T #9 is AVAILABLE NOW! 40 pages of zany misadventures and kooky, wily, nutty irreverence for an absolutely shit $5! The launch will be on the 12th of May at Impact Comics!
    Armageddon in NZ gave me a lot of time to spend drawing. The sketches I did can be seen in the sketches section
  • 14.3.2007 UPCOMING APPEARANCES! ARMAGEDDON - Christchurch, NZ - Apr 14-15, ARMAGEDDON - Wellington, NZ - Apr 21-22
  • 9.2.2007: NEW ANIMATION ADDED TO ANIMATION SECTION! Not so much an animation as a silly voiceover to a He-Man cartoon. No details below because it's pretty self explanatory!
  • 5.2.2007: I was a winner of The Facial Expressions Competition! Artists were invited to draw their 'interpretations' of a selection of photos of teenagers' facial expressions. My entry (which you can see here), was one of many which were selected to be included in the upcoming book which is a resource for artists.
    Also, I moved house. Interesting eh? I am in Red Hill with no internet or milk.
  • 7.1.07: I added the Canberra Times article to the What Others Say section. I have also added a new pixel painting in the sketches bit.
  • 16.12.2006: RED HOT NEWS! Today's Canberra Times has an article on Geeen Comix!
     Apparently I have more than a passing resemblance to Comic Shop Guy from the Simpsons.
  • Supanova was a fun weekend. It was held out at Olympic Park in Sydney. It was a bit of a remote location, but good because it was right near a bar which was at the foot of our hotel. So we pretty much just spent the whole two days there without having to travel at all. Comic of Smallness sold like hotcakes which was nice, but again the comic crowd was quite thin. Anyway, the weekend was great. David Blumenstein, the Phatsville boys and my chum Simon had a great time. You can see a few photos here.
  • Louise Graber paid me a visit down in Canberra the other day, and presented to me this awesome gift! A Dr Phwooooar lunchbox! What she's done is grab a Superman lunchbox and gone 'n' painted over the top of it. Here's the underside!. The sides are linked with little roads, and you even get to see the ambulance he drives in from You Stink #2. Here is a pic of the sides of the lunchbox, all unwrapped with digital magic. Pretty much the coolest gift ever, eh?
    I turned 31 on the 12th of October. And three of my other pals turned 30 within a few days of it! Whats with all the February sex?
  • New comic out! Comics of Smallness is very small comic, measuring a small 40 mm x 47 mm which I drew while at Doujicon. The comic follows the idiotic adventures of Barry Cat. Shoot me an email if you'd like one! It will cost you a dollar, plus postage it will.
  • You Stink and I Don't #9 is in the works and I have done about twenty pages. There is to be a lot of content, and should run to around fifty pages unless I get impatient and print it early! What about Dragon Hurtor #5? I haven't worked on that in months, and it is still sitting there with about fifty pages pencilled in.
  • Don't forget to check out the Bomberman clone I am doin graphics for which is named....Bombahman! The game's website is here.
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