Alex Hallatt is an environmental cartoonist and writer. Her comic strip, Arctic Circle, is syndicated by King Features and appears in newspapers worldwide. She also created science comics for CSIRO’s Scientriffic and Double Helix magazines. You can see more about her books at her author page on Amazon. Alex grew up in the West Country, UK and spent many years living in New Zealand and Australia before returning to Europe with her American boyfriend. They spent a couple of years in England and then a couple more in the Basque Country to learn Spanish. After eight years back in New Zealand, Alex returned to Dorset, England
Amazon is doing little to stop wholesale AI-assisted piracy of books. But now cartoonists get free tech support. So that’s even, right? Cartooning wasn’t an easy way to make a living before generative AI came along.Now we’re going to have to get smarter.And more human. Jason Chatfield and I had a great chat this week about AI […]
I loved living in New Zealand, but I missed the understated beauty of the West Country countryside. A lot of that landscape is man-made. Centuries-old agricultural practices created a patchwork of fields, hedges, heathland and forest, to which native wildlife adapted. Unlike countries such as the United States, where agricultural fields can stretch uninterrupted for […]
There was no serious tradition of cider-making in New Zealand [where the author lived for several years before returning to Dorset]. I pretty much gave up drinking cider there, as it was usually too sweet. Though I love to drink cider, West Country cider-making is something I knew little about. I probably know more about […]