I am a Melbourne based architect, writer and illustrator who produces diverse comic books including the ongoing series Bendigo Pub Project of Oscar Lago

The Bendigo Pub Project of Oscar Lago

In 2013 A Short Lifetime on Rooftops was released, the first instalment of a sprawling comic narrative currently under production, called The Bendigo Pub Project of Oscar Lago.

A Short Lifetime on Rooftops centres around a teenager Russ who ponders life and all its mysteries from the rooftops of Bendigo.

The Bendigo depicted in A Short Lifetime on Rooftops brings out some subtleties of experience that many casual observers may not have noted.  Pub guidebooks are an indispensable artefact of the local intelligentsia, every Bendigo pub serves a custom brew named after an R.E.M. song and the Whipstick sound is the most important movement in the history of popular music.

Following on from A Short Lifetime on Rooftops are The True History of the Whipstick Sound (2016), When Bendigo Blackbirds Sing (2017), The Chant of the Big Black Birds of Bendigo (2019), The Watcher in the Front Bar (2020), The Forgetting of Wisdom (2022), Oscar and Linda (2023) and Bird Music (2024).

Work is underway on The Under Dressed Explorer, aiming for an early 2026 release.

Other comics works

Recent projects include:

A Kangaroo’s Tale (2021)

Seagulls of Post-Punk Volume 1 (2024)

Seagulls of Post-Punk Volume 2 (2025)