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U R AT HQ.
Publishing
Independent
ART.DESIGN.WRITING
Founded Naarm, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Sydney, Australia
AUTHORS
Tom Bonin
Winner Chunk Volume 1
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'I love to use sci-fi and fantasy as a metaphor of real life issues. I've come up with a story which reflects some of the situations going on in the world today. Though I'd like to see a more peaceful solution to the real world problems than the one I illustrated.' - Tom Bonin Interview 2024.
Bonin studied at The Canberra School of Art, BA in printmaking, graduating in 2000 and then a Diploma of Illustration in 2015.
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Jon Kay
"Greetings! I am a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and motion graphics artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. I do all manner of interesting things for my clients - everything from character design to logos and typography - and devote my cartooning time to two key (and frequently squabbling) personal projects: Cosmos and the Fight Squad. When I'm not doing that, I can be found writing, researching and assembling collections of design inspiration imagery; and I possess far too much knowledge of prehistoric wildlife and shape-shifting toy robots - two subjects that, incredibly, intersect far more often than you would imagine!"
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Niko Satria
Winner The Pearl Prize 2025
Niko, an emerging writer and data professional, lives on Wangal Country, Western Sydney. Originally from Indonesia, Niko is passionate about experiencing the world through travel and history. His short story, Return to Surabaya, was published in The Pearl Prize 2024 collection.
GRUMPY TOES
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Naarm, based street/comic artist
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Technical editor and contributor to Chunk Volume 1: coming soon.
Lives as an anonymous street artist and comic/street indie art connoisseur life, on the cobbles of Melbs.
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Spencer MF Rodrick
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Winner The Pearl Prize 2024
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​Spencer M.F Rodrick is a genderqueer (and generally queer) autistic creator based in
Naarm who uses any pronouns. With a declining fluency in French, two cats, and a lot of
close friends in far places, most of their time is spent figuring out how to turn physics into
poetry and what kind of deep sea fish she’d most like to be (current highest contender is
the narrownose chimaera). They ‘self-published’ their first novel at 9 years old, proudly
presenting a 20-something page fantasy as a gift to their parents — and thus began the
accumulation of hundreds of unfilled notebooks, abandoned word documents, and
unfinished stories as they developed their style. After all this, they’ve found their love in
writing stories about being extremely normal in space but very weird on earth, and are in
the process of teaching themselves video game coding and
animation. Spencer was part of the Toolkits: Graphic Narratives class of 2023 organised by
Express Media.