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Comics December 31, 2025

I know I don’t usually do this on my blog but being retired I am finally getting around to wishing comics collectors, creators, readers and researchers a Happy Xmas and New Year!

This is a cartoon I created back in my University years. In fact it features the university where I was employed at the time of my retirement, namely the University of Technology, Sydney, and was published in their staff and student newspaper. With it being a city university located in the heart of the city of Sydney, and Xmas occurring in the middle of summer in Australia, I took the liberty of moving the University’s famous Tower building to the beach, the famous Bondi Beach in Sydney, and having Santa smeared with suncream, wearing sunnies, and staring out to sea. Now seemed like a good opportunity to bring it back out with it being summertime in Sydney and right between Xmas and New Year. So, I hope you’ve had a very Merry Xmas and I wish you a Happy New Year!

Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics

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Co-creator and former Director of the Master of Animation, Master of Design, and Visual Communication Design courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation plus a Ph.D. in comics studies, prompting his introduction on ABC Radio as “Doctor Comics”. A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, and former member of the Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship and the Advisory Committee of the Q-Collection Comic Book Preservation Project, he has delivered public lectures on Comics, Anime and Manga and held academic directorships in Interdisciplinary Studies, Animation, Design and Visual Communication. Having retired from academia and completing the donation of his collection of research materials on Australian alternative comics to the National Library of Australia, he is now active in the artistic domain, writing, drawing and printmaking, creating art postcards and prints and his own graphic novel: Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics.

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