Ladies and gentlemen, the lovely and talented Cal Lane
The also not so bad Maggie Taylor
DivineCaroline’s post on Steampunk fashion
The comicbook stylings of Hilary Lawler of collective Longstone Comics and her cohort Deirdre de Barra
Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Orphans
…And be sure to check out the Irish comic art auction from The Comic Cast’s [...]

That Vodafone ad with the snow has not got to me at all I swear
If true this proves once and for all that David Bowie is a legend
And Mick Jagger had his moments too
If this was the last Terminator movie I would have gone
Ross Bollinger’s excellent Pencilmation cartoons

More good news from Cliodhna Lyons about a comix event on 17 October. This time it’s the return of the 24 Hour Comics Day wherein a bunch of artists will work through the night to put together something resembling a coherent short piece. I went down to see what all the fuss was about last [...]

One of the funnier things about one of my favourite (alas now defunct) podcasts, 2IGTV, was its treatment of Michael Bay’s 2005 sci-fi actioner The Island. Derided in no uncertain terms on its cinema release the combination of Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, a bunch of exploding stuff and…Scarlett Johansson it seems the years have been [...]

This is a topic I will probably end up covering for REDEYE at some stage. Release as follows:
The Blackbird Gallery Kilkenny would like to invite all Irish and Irish based Comic Book Artists to submit work for consideration for POW, a show of Contemporary Irish sequential Art in November 2009. All interested artists should send [...]

Just a quick shout out for the release of REDEYE magazine no. 2.1 avaiable now for download from Engine Comics. This issue has been in the works for two years now and has some great features coverng indie comics from the UK, US and here.
It’s available as a PDF for less than €2. Considering it’s [...]

So here’s the story:
About six years ago I submitted a short script to a new comix publishers, Wolfman Productions. At the time they were gathering material for an anthology series, Havok 21, initially conceived as a competitor to 2000AD for the Irish market. They were happy enough with my first, eight-page, submission and asked me [...]

Something has been troubling me as of late. You know the kind of thing, you get a kind of free floating malaise, you fee like your molecules aren’t in sync with the rest of the world, you’re lacking something, you just feel…off. It’s not sugar loss, protein deficiency or the emotional hinterland that is [...]

WALLETS FULL OF BLOOD: ZOMBIE BANKER BLUES from aaronrip on Vimeo.
Back during my Lenten escapade I posted a video juxtaposing images of barren construction sites with a survival horror narrative (the post is here).
A sequel of sorts is now online and posted below. Personally I think these two pieces would work well as installations rather [...]

So yes this is the last day of the Lenten season and I’ve made it through largely unscathed. Granted some corners were cut but I had fun with the challenge and it has spurred me on to update more often so it’s a habit I’m going to continue with. In particular I’ll be putting more [...]

Nearly there…

Almost forgot to post today. Phew.

There is a nice touch to Patrick Lynch’s first issue of Last Bus. On the inside cover, bottom right, there is a handwritten, individual numbering – mine was 124 of a total run of 600. Straight away Lynch has turned the constraints of a self-published minicomic into a virtue. It’s not likely to turn your [...]

Yeti shaving
Cube FPS
Images from old books
Poultry philosophy for beginners
More yeti, this time in comic form

So here’s the deal. Originally I had intended to do a post a day for 40 days, that being the time our Lord and Saviour spent alone in the desert being tempted by the divil to prove his power. So I did that much. Now with a week to go to the end of Lent [...]

Rob Curley is the owner and proprietor of Sub City comics and writer/publisher of Freakshow and Atomic Rocket Group 66. His first foray into publishing was with the anthology Naked Lunch and has since gone on to foster the careers of artists Will Sliney, Declan Shalvey, Stephen Mooney and more. Here he talks about his [...]

I’m working on a feature tonight so no substantial posting around these parts. So have a watch of this instead. Normal service back from tomorrow with another local comic review.

I’m researching an article on movie marketing at the moment and would you believe it’s a full 10 years since the Blair Witch Project was released and showed everything there was more to this whole Internet thing than Trek forums and porn. Now we have Trek forums, porn and viral marketing.
In honour of this great [...]

For the day that’s in it here’s a great article on some classic April Fools jokes. It’s from Huffington Post don’t you know.