The Comics Lab
we got a mention in the Irish Times! My ma will be so proud. (Thanks to Phil Barrett, our friend and a stalwart of Irish Comics. I cannot wait to get me mitts on Savage Town! Roll on the mainstream, boys!)
workshops and collaborative drawing
If you were ever feeling creatively jaded and uninspired, I’d have the cure for you: drawing with kids and teens – they have so much to teach us groan-ups. I was down to Waterford to run a workshop with my fab partner-in-comics Sarah Bowie as part of SprOg festival there, facilitated by Aoibhie in the …
Garter Lane
Last Saturday, we, the band of live comic readers, and I went down to Waterford to read (? perform? Enact? Channel? Who knows) our comics live. Garter Lane is a brilliant jewel of art centre with its magnificent staircase and plush cinema; Aoibhie and the others were warm and welcoming; it was a genuine pleasure …
War Chest
Here it is! *Feels proud.* This is our comic anthology War Chest that celebrates some of the stories of the less well known stories and characters from the Easter Rising 1916. It includes the work of Luke Healy, Philip Barrett, John Corrigan, Charlot Kristensen, Paddy Lynch and Elida Maiques and me. Thanks to Dublin City Council for funding for …
Live readings for Alliance Francaise
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, so how many words is a video worth? A million? Does it depend how many frames a second? And is a word the unit of measure? My brain is getting overheated. Here is the lovely video by Orla McNelis that documents the evening in the Alliance. It …
BIG NOOS for the Comics Lab
I am very excited to be able to say that The Comics Lab is joining forces with fellow Stray Lines artist Matt Melis‘ new venture DECAF, (Dublin Eight Comic Arts Fest) on April 23rd, 11-4 at the Fumbally Stables! This’ll be the first of an ongoing series of small press comic art festivals in Dublin – …
Specimen and new plans for the Comics Lab
The launch of Specimen at last month’s Comics Lab was so much fun. The labbers are great people, I tell you, great. So collaborative, generous and creative. The online version will be – erm, you know – online soon; in the meantime, we are posting out the last few printed copies. If you want one, …
Live readings in November
I took part in two more live readings in November: One for the lustrous Dublin Art Book Fair 2016, run by Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, the second at Fighting Words, as part of UNESCO Dublin City Of Literature. THANK YOU TO BOTH – you were kind and generous hosts. I apologise in advance for gushing …
Launch of Duality
Last Tuesday we put on a bit of a special Comics Lab for Halloe’en, to mark the launch of Issue 2 of the Stray Lines anthology, Duality. The fantastic Elida Maiques performed her story War Inside and the wonderful Katherine Foyle did a brilliant comic review/performance – a story inside a story – such a clever …
Comics Lab Anniversary Comic
Earlier in the year I made a comic to celebrate the first anniversary of the Comics Lab, the comics meet-up founded by Sarah Bowie, Paddy Lynch and me, in May 2015. It’s steaming along now, almost with a life of its own. with more volunteer support and involvement at every level, and an anthology coming …