I've just completed another illustration for the Irish-based music blog drop-d . Looks like this is going to be a monthly gig. I'm having fun with them - doing each one quite quickly in my notebooks and experimenting with hand or computer colouring techniques.
Oh, there's also a good interview in the archives with Tommie Kelly of the Road Crew Webcomic fame. Worth a read.
Large version of the illustration under the cut.
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I'll be making an appearance at the next Dublin Flea Market in the CoOp, Newmarket, Dublin 8 this coming Sunday alongside my Cardboard Press and Edition Book Arts compatriots Katie Blackwood, and Phil Barret. We'll be selling various mini comics, and artists' books etc from ourselves and other Irish comic artists. I think Archie Templar intends to make an appearance at the table as well.
It's something we're going to be trying out here and there: attempting to push the self published works of any comic, zine and artist book artists that we like onto the unsuspecting public.
Oh yeah, I did the poster for this months Flea Market. Mucho thanks to them for the gig. Apparently they sell signed prints of all the previous posters at the market and hopefully mine holds its' own against some great work from Gav Beattie, Steve McCarthy and the likes. It looks to be a great buzz, starts at 11am. Come on down.
The full poster artwork is below the cut.
Here's a short 3 page story that I did for the 2D anthology last June. The theme was 'fear'. Make of it what you will, there's an actual connection in there, but maybe it's too cryptic.
Comic production has been slow lately, my day job has been taking up larger amounts of my time than normal, positively stopping my comics work in its tracks. I have been doing some small illustration gigs here, there and a couple of other places which I'll put up when they go to print.
Anyway "Leap", under the cut:
Several months ago I took my first tentative steps towards teaching myself the art of screenprinting. Ever since seeing Jay Ryans screen printed gig posters , and having bought a load of mini comics with their lovingly hand printed covers over the last year I've been wanting to try doing it myself.
So I bought a simple kit, got my hands on a load of cheap inks being sold off from Kavanaghs as they were closing down and prepared to get my inky hands stuck in. First results were hardly the slickest I've ever seen, but I really enjoyed every moment of the process – even the initial under exposures and screen coating mess ups. I've improved with each print and recently completed a run of covers for the second edition of my "Stop Gap" minicomic.
I'm dead proud of the design, colours and print job. I did a run of thirty and sold the first 21 copies at Summer Edition (which went amazingly well, by the way - see the blog here).
I've 9 copies left. They look and feel amazing. Consisting of 7 short stories, three have seen the light of day before in anthologies and the rest are completely brand new, the actual contents of the comic is pretty good as well. You can get them in my online shop, €4 postpaid worldwide.
Oh yeah, the Comic Cast boys are celebrating their first birthday this Friday in the Twisted Pepper, Dublin. Bands, comedian, DJs, free comics all night. Do come.