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		<title>Matter #11: Compendium &#8211; Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quiet man of Irish comix, Phil Barrett is perhaps one of the country’s most consistent creators, releasing at least one book a year and managing a regularly-updated blog. This, the 11th issue of his anthology title Matter is an enjoyable hodge podge of styles from the slice-of-life dramas of Mike Leigh to the mythic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2011/01/13/matter-11-compendium-review/</link>
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		<title>Road Crew: For Sale #1 &#8211; Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Soundman is a man in flux. A slightly lecherous, frequently drunk everyrocker, he has little direction in life and gets his kicks trading off the fame of his absent rock star father. You get the impression it’s not a bad life Jim has constructed for himself only it turns out he hasn’t constructed it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2011/01/13/road-crew-for-sale-1-review/</link>
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		<title>Second Thoughts &#8211; Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one tragic convention of the typical urban drama it is that of interlocking characters unaware of their proximity and the impact they have on each other’s lives. Magnolia, Short Cuts, Crash, all epic stories that sprawl from a point of contact. Niklas Asker’s Second Thoughts is almost one of those stories, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2011/01/13/second-thoughts-review/</link>
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		<title>Brainfist – Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without coming across as too high-minded there are probably two factors that decide whether you think Daniel Merlin Goodbrey’s compilation of his webcomic Brainfist works: Firstly there is the argument of how well comics translate from e-formats to print; and secondly whether you believe philosophy is a consoling or irrelevant persuit. To tackle the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2011/01/13/brainfist-review/</link>
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		<title>How to Date a Girl in Ten Days &#8211; Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is exactly a story about what then? Don’t be fooled, there is more to Tom Humberstone’s tale of slacker love that meets the eye, the problem is untangling its core message to make sense of everthing that has gone before it. Confused? Don’t be. On the surface, How To Date A Girl&#8230; is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2011/01/13/how-to-date-a-girl-in-ten-days-review/</link>
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		<title>Raw text interview: Paddy Lynch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last participant in the Totally Dublin feature, Mr Paddy Lynch&#8230; Your artwork has a kind of imprecise quality, like you’re scribbling down ideas in a notebook. Are you that guy scribbling away in Starbucks or is your process much more deliberate? I guess it’s really important for me to retain a sense of spontaneity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2010/08/03/raw-text-interview-paddy-lynch/</link>
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		<title>Raw text interview: Maeve Clancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Again, from Totally Dublin&#8230; What made you decide to start working on comics? I studied Visual Communications in NCAD, which is really a graphics course with illustration. Over the last 10 years, I’ve worked in everything from production design for film to animation, illustration, storyboarding, murals, painting and set design. The comics really came from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2010/08/03/raw-text-interview-maeve-clancy/</link>
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		<title>Raw text interview: Hilary Lawler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Again, from the Totally Dublin piece&#8230; Longstone Comics is both a label and an artist collective. Do you think that brings a certain dynamic to the stories you publish? Longstone started out as a collection of stories, images and expressions. It wasn’t restricted to any particular genre as it was about what we wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2010/08/03/raw-text-interview-hilary-lawler/</link>
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		<title>Raw text interview: Alan Moloney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece for the current issue of Totally Dublin about local comic creators and, in the spirit of all things hacklike, ended up with far more text than was usable in the final piece. To redress this terrible imbalance I&#8217;m posting the full transcriptions of interviews I did with Alan Moloney, Hilary Lawler, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2010/08/03/raw-text-interview-alan-moloney/</link>
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		<title>Optimise this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did a little exercise this morning, I Googled myself. It&#8217;s been a while since I checked my SEO ranking, and there are a few reasons why. Mostly I want to make sure no one has been libeling me, but it&#8217;s also a good opportunity to see just how much power owning your own domain, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.niallkitson.ie/2010/06/19/optimise-this/</link>
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