Cirrus@Austlit

'In July 2016, while waiting for a flight home at LAX airport, Chris Gooch started devising Delforge — part exile colony, part subterranean garbage dump, in near-future Melbourne.' (Introduction)

'In 2012, musing what the future might look like for his children in the age of climate crisis, cartoonist Pat Grant conceived a world where harvested algae is a commodity worth more than gold, Kevin '07 campaign t-shirts are archaeological treasures, and a plague is decimating the population's migrant have-nots.'  (Introduction)

'There's a new Aboriginal superhero in the DC Universe and she's a deadly Ngarluma hunter from the Pilbara.' 

'When Mandy Ord's publisher submitted her graphic memoir to the Stella Prize — to compete with a pool of 150 fiction and non-fiction works from across the nation — the Melbourne-based cartoonist thought it was "completely wild".'

'In October 1989, Australia's premiere Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company was born around a kitchen table in the Sydney suburb of Glebe.'

'Three faceless, cloaked figures loom large on the front steps of the Ahmadzai abode. The young girl at the door — Nyneve — doesn't know it yet, but today is her father's last. The Witch Burners have come to burn him at the stake. His crime? Being born with hair deemed too long.' (Introduction)