24 HOUR COMICS DAY ANTHOLOGY

Here`s one of the pages I drew up for the 24 Hour Comics Day anthology book yoke that`ll be out for the event in the Central Hotel in October.
I`ll only show the first page so this post isn`t too spoilerific.

Drawn with the wacom in GIMP.

NOTE TO PHIL

Head on over to cartoonist(and scanner!)extraordinare Phil Barrett`s blog to gawk at the note wot I drew.

And then gawk at the notes drawn for/by Phil by people with talent.

WAITING ROOM PREVIEW!

Here`s a little snippet from Waiting Room,scanned in by Phil Barrett.

€1 in SubCity and the Crow St Shop.Still not in Forbidden Planet because I`ve been too busy schoolin` for the past week.

But I`m seriously thinking about whether I should even bother,since much more of my comics sell at conventions rather than shops and even then I sell much more to women(God only knows why,must be because I`m so devilishly handsome)which,not meaning to be sexist here,isn`t really the target audience of Forbidden Planet.

Even Irish comic readers aren`t really the target audience of FP.I`ve never gone into FP with the intention of buying Irish comics(which isn`t FP`s fault at all,of course).I go in to buy American stuff because they have the best selection of comics from the U.S of A,which is fair enough.That`s how they make their money.

So,really,is it worth my while?If a sizeable number of FP`s customers are anything like me then they`ll go in to buy American comics and maybe an Irish comic with the same sensibilities as US comics("DubCity Comics"for instance.Great read,by the way)and will pass by a tiny Luke F book because it wouldn`t interest them.Which is fair enough as well.If they want to read little fecky yokes like mine they`ll go to SubCity or the shop on Crow St.

If anyone wants to add anything,leave a comment or email me or whatever.I`m interested in hearing other people`s views on this.Also,I should add this isn`t an anti-Forbidden Planet thing.I go there all the time to buy US comics and the like.I`m just debating whether it would be the best place for me to get comics sold in or not.

WAITING ROOM OUT NOW!

..Well,tommorrow.It`s B+W,12 pages of art with a heavy enough card cover.All for the measley price of 1 lonesone squid.
It`ll be available in Sub City and the shop on Crow St and the ComicCast lads will be reviewing it soon,hopefully.

Also,I`m on Facebook now!Add the fuck out of me,if you so wish.

CHILLAXIN

Knocked this out on the Wacom yesterday.I like the colours but I honestly don`t know why I felt the urge to draw a giant monster-bird in a city(?),but ah well.
And I only have three pages left to go in my new "Waiting Room" comic so it should be finished in the next week or so.
Also,I have a new follower:Will Sliney!Chances are if you`re reading my blog you know a bit about Irish comics already so you probably know who Will is.If you don`t check out the links and check out his supersmooth art.Cheers,Will!

anyhoo,laffs a plenty in this weird kid`s video

COMICCAST PAR-TAY

S`true.The ComicCast birthday thing is on tonight.
It promises to be deadly but I can`t make it,one reason being that the yoke starts at 9 and the Twisted Pepper probably wouldn`t let me in because I`m still a manboy and not a manman.
Then again,they ARE letting Dec in,and he`s a ladyboy....

But I`m not going to be sitting in a pool of my salty tears tonight because Liam Geraghty is sending me one of the free comics that he and Phil Barret cooked up for the night.

Anyhoo,its free in before 11.

RUSH HARRIS!

Here`s a little headshot of character I was thinking of using in a kind of picture book with a twisted slant.

I`ve kinda dumped that idea because:
a)it`s harder than I thought.
b)Ronan Kennedy already beat me to it,in a way.His new picture book,"What Is It?"is feckin class and my wee "Rush Harris Adventure Book" would look depressingly crap beside it.
But,who knows,I might well find myself doing it as a comic instead of a picture book in the future.

In other news,that Summer Edition yoke this year was class.It`s where I picked up "What Is It?"(I don`t know if Ronan`s gonna sell a few copies through the comic shops or whether it was just an Edition special)as well as a few other goodies.
Although,I did get a larf a few days back when I clicked on my name in the "link" section of the Edition Arts site,and it led to the blog of another bloke called Luke F talking about his guitar!I don`t mind,though,since I put this blog address on all of my books and stuff so anyone who`s interested should find me easily enough.

Also,I`m three pages in with my new comic,Waiting Room,which should be out before the end of Summer.I know I used the name in a story in LFC#1 but that one was shite and this one has a different story.It`s what the original Waiting Room should have been.Waiting Room 2.0,if you will.