It is fair that companies who have invested millions in developing GMOs should reap the benefits, but I wish they would be more sensitive about it. Suing small-holding farmers for having GMO canola plants from seeds that have blown onto their land and forcing them to destroy all the seed they have been saving (as generations of farmers used to do) is criminal and threatens our food security (diversity of seed stock is key).

A previous comic strip series on genetic engineering is here.

doodle from a wheeler comic panel

It was cool to talk to Andrew Weldon (and his wife), who cartoons for the Sunday Age

A Weldon clipping I have on my wall

and Dylan Horrocks, who is a well-known Kiwi graphic novelist (I’m really getting into Hicksville).

Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks

The tunnel from Flinders Street Station, Platform 1 has always enthralled me. First of all, it pops out by the waffle stand in Degraves Street, like some glorious secret passageway. Second, it has just sprouted a new coffee shop, which I will try, when I have my keepcup with me, as I didn’t want to take a disposable cup.

the underground coffee shop

Third, it has eclectic exhibitions put on by the platform artists group. The last was on the station itself, but the current is on zines – hurrah!!

Part of the exhibition on zine production

The exhibition helped me find the work of Pat Grant. Is this guy in the ACA? I hope so....

NB.There is a fab little zine store in the subterranean arcade and leafing through its contents is like being in a real life version of the internet, with crazy juxtapositions, useful info and a lot of random stuff.