Fionn MacCumhaill
Some images I made for the supplement to today’s Irish Daily Mail to illustrate the legend Fionn MacCumhaill. It is a great subject for illustration, plenty of heroes, magic and bravery. Very enjoyable.
news
I went to Life Drawing last night. Something of a cross between a packed Dublin pub on a Friday night, and drawing class in art college – I found a little spot on the floor and drew in my sketchbook and was perfectly happy. It’s nice sometimes to do something so familiar. I was also …
2014
HAPPY NEW YEAR, visitors. May it be good to you. Working freelance on a long-term project does have its challenges, as you may know. There are times when you can’t see your way through what seems like a never-ending tunnel of slog. As a comic-making friend summed up: “Making graphic novels is just so grueling.” …
The Laydeez who do Comics
I was asked to be guest blogger at the fantastic most recent LAYDEEZ DO COMICS meeting here in Dublin at the Odessa Club, last weekend. VINI, VIDI, DOCUMENTI ..or something. It was really fun to be the cartoonist du jour. Thank you, laydeez! Here is my “document”.
madrid
I flew to Madrid last week to give the good boat Phizz the Whizz a push out onto the oft-choppy waves of the internet, with my colleague and friend, the redoubtable Maria, whom I have known for actual decades. (We met in ’95 when working in Corel, shared an apartment in Rathmines.) We enjoyed recording the localised …
comic in a box
Today the stars are aligned like this: The excellent MART are opening their newly refurbed and amazing fire station this evening with this show. My piece is a sort of convergence between the comic format and fine art convention: yes, I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Rather than trying to straddle the gap between comic …
Graphic Short
I am very much enjoying making my graphic short for the Observer Cape Comica Graphic Short competition this year. HAPPY DAYS, folks. Contrary to what might seem common sense, the constraints are helpful rather than restricting. Funny, that. Leonardo was right. It is autobiographical in content. In my own name! Eek. I feel slightly exposed …
What We Learn From TV: two comics
Take Care Part II
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 …
MART market
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.