Special OFFSET edition
Stray Lines made a special OFFSET edition foldout. Is it not lovely? Thank you, Alan Dunne, for the magnificent design.
the comics, they are live
This live comic reading thing has taken on a life of its own. It’s cool. A live comic reading, if you didn’t know, is a live performance by a comics artist of their own work, with projected images, music and acting; it’s a magic hybrid of cinema, theatre and animation. It’s turned out to be …
Red Line Book Festival
Elida, Sarah and I performed a live reading at the Red Line Book Festival in October – highly enjoyable and so well run. A GOOD TIME! Thank you to the lovely Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin and the rest of the team for hosting us so ably. I love to find a new audience; I reckon that’s our main …
St Fin Barre’s Cathedral
I had SO MUCH fun with this rough for a job for Failte Ireland. I’d like to ink and finish it really even though the client “went another way” in the end, like this:
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 – …