Rob Hackney
Writer · IllustratorSoftware · ProductMelbourne, Australia
Rob Hackney
Comics, books and screenplays on one screen. Products, pipelines and infrastructure on the other.
Currently
On the desk
What is actually on the desk right now — some of it shipped, some of it mid-build.
Software · Live Gumshoe Supplier verification across 20+ government registers, in production at gumshoe.au.
Comics · In development First Ninja Japan, 1281. History remembers the ninja; it forgot the man who inspired them.
Systems · Running weekly World Motorsport Roundup A motorsport show that researches, narrates and publishes itself on a schedule.
Tools · In development The Disclosure Reader A panel-aware web reader built from the same layered art the print edition uses.Products · Tools · Systems
Software
Things that run in production rather than in a slide deck — a verification platform, the CMS behind this site, and a weekly show that publishes itself.
Product · Powers this website
Pholio
A portfolio CMS with no database and nothing much to hack.
Read the case → System · Shipped and running
World Motorsport Roundup
A weekly show that researches, writes, narrates and publishes itself.
Read the case → Tool · In development
The Disclosure Reader
Reading a comic on a phone should not mean pinching at a PDF.
Read the case →First contact isn't an invasion. It's a disclosure.
Day After Disclosure · Solar Storm Press
Painted from light. Written from shadow.
The Solar Storm universe
Journal
Writing
Notes from the build — what broke, what the fix actually was, and the occasional strong opinion.
The Ultimate Guide to Remote Knowledge Work and Data Entry From Australia A practical map of remote data-entry and knowledge-work platforms for Australians — the in-demand skills, the tax traps,…The Suppression of Human Psychic Abilities Examining Theories Evidence and Recent Research Ingo Swann’s suppression theories meet genetics, electromagnetic field research and documented telepathy cases — where the fringe and…The Hidden Truths: Reexamining Zecharia Sitchin’s Ancient Astronaut Theory Through Modern Discoveries Fifty years after The 12th Planet, revisiting Zecharia Sitchin’s Anunnaki and Nibiru claims against newer archaeological discoveries mainstream…
Available for selected work
Product strategy and full-stack build, media and automation pipelines, or the infrastructure underneath them. I take on a small amount of consulting and contract work alongside the studio.
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