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- Operation Funnybone edited by Glen Shearer. Melbourne, Vic.: Operation Funnybone, 2005. ISBN 0-9758075-0-1
- The Tango Collection edited by Bernard Caleo. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2009. ISBN 978-1-742-37143-6
- Beginnings: a comics anthology edited by Emma-Jean Stewart. Canberra, A.C.T.: ACT Comic Meet, 2012. ISBN 978-0-980-85052-9
- Australia: a collection of Australian comic stories to benefit beyondblue edited by Nat Karmichael. Margate Beach, Qld.: Comicoz, 2015. ISBN 978-0-980-65354-0
- Rock 'N' Roll Fairies: the complete graphic novel by Dillon Naylor with Ian C. Thomas. Margate Beach, Qld.: Comicoz, 2023. ISBN 978-0-9806535-4-0
