A new book review (For the full disclosure, I met Jed McGowan at Comic Camp in the ACA, in Florida, two and a half years ago and that is, indirectly, how I come to have in my possession his latest graphic novel: TAKE CARE Part 1. He, in fact, along with all my comic camp …
I have got a stall in MART’s market on the 8th December in Rathmines. Come and witness this my commercial experiment: Do People Like Cartoons? I am certainly having alorra of fun making these frames, corkboards, and cartoons.
..may not break any landspeed records, but is steady, cruiser-like. I have produced a pile of minor character drawings. I had forgotten how much I enjoy character design and it’s been entertaining to remember office personalities from the 90’s, the dawn of the information age. Like this tearful character called Elodie. Or the uber-tech Calum. …
Per my New Year’s resolution I have been drawing in my sketchbook every day. It’s an interesting exercise – warming up the eye, switching off the head. I don’t worry about making nice drawings, I make it about trying to understand the subject. Mostly these are people – strangers, friends, people on the telly, one …
And now: Remorse. It’s the modern nightmare tale of a girl, Penelope, who takes a wrong turning and gets stuck in a Tiger era call centre job for 10 years. I am having great fun exploiting my own past office jobs in – ehem – Certain Large Corporations. The environment offers such rich pickings: the …
Heh. I have to say I find there’s something ridiculous about writing a blog. I am writing a comic called FAT CAT, I might write. Here’s a character design for it. The world: *RESOUNDING SILENCE* STILL. Never one to let something trivial like utter absurdity stop me: I will blog because it helps me to …
We were in New York City last week. It was its usual 24hour self, and we stayed in midtown which feels very significant, somehow, like the centre of something. I still love it – I used to spend every possible moment there when I was working in O’Plenty Animation some years ago, but it is …
Thank you, for this great job, to my old friend Niall, whom I have known longer than time itself.
That all went well. Phew. A big thank you to Martin Leen, and Alison Pilkington, for their well-considered curation of the show, and, most of all, for their calm helpfulness. It was so good to see my erstwhile classmate Ivan and Ciara, (co-founder of the brilliant Mart) and finally meet Matthew in the flesh, as opposed to telephonically, as a …
There’s a lot of talk about the intersection between art and science these days – since Dublin is City of Science 2012 – including our own Drawing Workshops in the Botanic Gardens. [Insert roar of approval here]. It has given me to think. And I have, in my turn, written this statement for the Five Lamps show …