Sarah and I are thrilled to announce we’ve launched a Graphic Short Prize with The Irish Times. The winning story (a 4 pager) will be printed in The Irish Times Ticket, and will win a cash prize, and the shortlist of ten will be printed in an anthology. (*Does Jig of Excitement*)More details and to …
Thank you, 2018: Apparently I still have a lot to say about comics. I went yakkedy yak on four Podcasts/radio shows (Altering, Who Does That? (for Dublin City FM), FANGS for BramStoker, and Phoenix FM) 4 x Comic Labs @DCAF happened in 2018. The drawing table and comic swop tables are a fun and free …
Really looking forward to this one! Stray Lines have been booked to do some live readings for Bram Stoker on the 27th October at 1pm, in the rather salubrious and well-appointed Belvedere House, 6 Great Denmark St, Dublin 1. The marvellous Elida Maiques, Philip Barrett, Paddy Lynch, Katherine Foyle and I will be performing our creepy …
Stray Lines made a special OFFSET edition foldout. Is it not lovely? Thank you, Alan Dunne, for the magnificent design.
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 …
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 …
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:
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!)
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 …
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 …