Gutter Stars comics collective includes RMIT students from Honours to PhD, and also hosts comics professionals and the comics-scholarly-curious from around the state. The group meets roughly once a month to workshop comics and discuss comics scholarship. Members include: Bruce Mutard, Bernard Caleo, Leonie Brailey, Eloise Grills, Emilie, Walsh, Reimena Yee, Aaron Billings, Martin Huang, Susan-Elin Solimani, Jenny Hedley, Caitlin McGregor, Nicola Bryant, Benedicte O'leary-Rutherford, Gideon Hutapea, Ronnie Scott and Melody Ellis.
In 2025, the collective participated in the Emerging Writers Festival with an exhibition and public program at Pink Ember Studio. We’ll be traveling to Nowra in February 2027 for an exhibition at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery.