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 …
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 …
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 – …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, with more volunteer support and involvement at every level, and an anthology coming out before the end of the year …
Stray Lines (Alan Dunne, Elida Maiques and me) went to Helsinki Comics Festival 2016 last weekend; a blur of comics action under the vast, bright Helsinki sky. What a beautiful, orderly place – isn’t travel just so good for the mind? It’s essential to look at new things and consider different ways of doing things; to review your …
Thanks to funding from Culture Ireland, and support from the Irish embassy of Finland, three Stray Lines artists, Alan Dunne, Elida Maiques and me are off to the wonderful Helsinki Comics Festival at the beginning of September. It’s been a long plan in the making with a lot of scheming and dreaming, and writing of …