How Many Campaign Posters Can One Electorate Take?

Velentina Boulter (writer), Vincent Escobal (graphics)

Historically, posters have long been used as an art form to persuade readers on a whole range of positions. Think Uncle Read Article

How Micro-Trends Are Ruining Our Consumption Habits

Maggie Stoner (writer), Maggie Ung (graphics)

Let me set the scene: you are deep in the last of Melbourne’s 2021 lockdowns, sitting on the couch scrolling through TikRead Article

The War on Misinformation: TikTok Edition

Laura Quintero (writer), Maggie Ung (graphics)

Since TikTok exploded, its effects on music (look at the GRAMMYs nominations), clothes (search up OOTD) and trends, in gRead Article

How Australia’s Welfare State Fails Students

Joel Duggan (writer), Maggie Ung (graphics)

Bon Appétit and Me: A Breakup Story

Emma Xerri (writer), Maggie Ung (graphics)

We spend days on end scavenging for books, reading Letterboxd reviews, and creating shopping carts that are never purchaRead Article

Capitalism and the Crisis

Emma Barrett (writer), Vincent Escobal (graphics)

Capitalism—the economic system that manifests in the free market, structural wealth inequalities and the pursuit of econRead Article

An Obituary To My White Canvas Sneakers

Velentina Boulter (writer), Ella Cao (graphics)

There comes a time in everyone’s life when you are forced to throw out your favourite pair of shoes. No amount of duct tRead Article

Baby Botox, Social Media and Our Fear of Ageing

Nicole Bernadette Jalandoni (writer), Ella Cao (graphics)

The pervasive desire for “preventive” cosmetic procedures within the younger generations was brought to my attention durRead Article

Offaly Delicious: a more holistic diet

Nicholas Speed (writer), Alexi O'Keefe (graphics)

In Australia, we live plentifully and can choose whatever cuts of meat we desire most. Our socio-economic conditions do Read Article

The Pram Factory: A Retrospective

Joel Duggan (writer), Joanne Guo (graphics)

It’s been 42 years since the demise of the Pram Factory. Still, the legacy of that shambolic factory-turned-warehouse-tuRead Article

Hey—did I see you at Collingwood Yards last week?

Emma Barrett (writer), Maggie Ung (graphics)

Collingwood Yards: 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood, embedded in Melbourne’s inner-northern suburbs. A series of vast briRead Article

Filling Up the Static: Rocket, magic and Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

S. Theocharides (writer), Monica Yu (illustrator)

In the song “Time Escaping”, the opening bars of percussion clatter reluctantly into view, as if someone’s dropped a paiRead Article

Driving Stick

Leah Macdonald (writer), Claire Hoang (illustrator)

My brother is trying to teach me to drive a manual car; we go around and around the empty lot down at the local high schRead Article

Review: Mothering Sunday (2021)

Victoria Winata (writer)

‘Mothering Sunday’ (dir. Eva Husson) is a period drama in the most unconventional sense – both the viewer and the characRead Article

Column: Futility and the beauty of devastation in Hollow Knight

Aries (writer), Amber Liang (graphics)

Hollow Knight is a behemoth in the indie games’ scene, lauded worldwide as “the Metroidvania to end Metroidvanias”. CreaRead Article

Column: Aesthetic Representations of Neurodivergence and Mental Illness

Ishan Morris-Gray (writer), Samantha Shing (graphics)

Representations of neurodivergence in fiction rarely invite the viewer into the perspective of characters who experienceRead Article

A WIP Around the Workshop: Modern Mythology—Creating Our Own Lore

Breana Galea (writer), Casey Boswell (illustrator)

What about the tales now whispered in apartment buildings around a bowl of popcorn at 2am? Will they too become myths?Read Article

Why the Left Sucks: An Inquiry into Campus’s Most Hated Political Group

Maggie Slater (writer), Pamela Piechowicz (graphics)

It is no exaggeration to say that The University of Melbourne is one of the largest breeding grounds for leftist thoughtRead Article

Material Girls—a source of liberation or an excuse for overconsumption?

Maggie Stoner (writer), Ella Cao (graphics)

The so-called “Material Girl” lifestyle is a phenomenon that has circled TikTok ForYou pages since November 2021. The haRead Article

No, You’re Not in Your Fleabag Era

Emma Xerri (writer), Pamela Piechowicz (graphics)

In a world overwhelmed by praise and adoration for characters such as Phoebe Waller Bridge’s Fleabag and those in the SaRead Article

Rating the Past: How Classification Shaped Us All

Daniel Snowden (writer), Vincent Escobal (graphics)

As a generation of media consumers, we have, in one way or another, encountered the Australian Classification and RatingRead Article