Whoops! In all the madness and bragging I forgot to mention Summer Edition. A fantastic event happening on Saturday that I wish I could be there for
“Come along to Filmbase in the heart of Temple Bar, Dublin on the 4th July and partake in Summer Edition 2009, an artists’ book, comic and zine fair. Taking in everything from mini comic artists and burgeoning cartoonists to established book art practitioners, poets to printmakers, lowbrow artists to zine makers it’s a day long celebration of self expression through the medium of DIY publishing. With over 30 exhibitors showcasing work and prices ranging from €1 to €100, there’ll be something for everyone.”
You HAVE to go if you’re in Dublin. The site is here
Boo-ya! Finally got online at home. It only got sorted after she rang her brother in law who knows a bigwig in Telefonica. Other wise we were looking at ANOTHER months wait.
Well here I am, fully installed in Spain. Have been working constantly since getting here and haven’t really relaxed yet. We live in a village called San Jose de la Montana and its beautiful. A few people got the impression that I moved to a holiday town and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Nobody speaks English here. Nobody. Even my bird sometimes.
On with the boasting….
My studio is up these stairs. The terrace is connected to it
Bought a deadly chair and desk in Ikea. Already downloading Howard Stern.
Bedroom view
Terrace view
The whole region is full of lemon and orange trees. I picked my own oranges last week and juiced the fuck out of them. Her family own about 10 acres of orchard.
Word up fruits, no time to respond to comments in the last two posts becasue im a dick, Uncle spubk nugget is back over the ‘moid and a Micks sketch.
Here’s my first fully spanish comic. A lame old joke but hopefully they never heard it over here
Man you thought Eircom where a shower of dopes, well multiply their ineptitude by the power of Spanish and you get Telefonica. One month to get online. We ordered the line weeks ago, the line is installed after hounding them and now I have to wait another ten days for some donkey fucker to flick a switch.
Besides that all is good. My stuff arrived from Dublin alright except my PC got a wallop and the fan fell out and it wont start. Thankfully I bought this nasty laptop before leaving. I put a comic up over on SPAZZMOID, it’s part of my submission to El Jueves.
So hopefully next week I’ll be online and I can email everybody and start the new wave of daily posts. I have a lot to say! Spain is weird. Deadly but wierd.
Till then, don’t forget about Bobby. Oh yeah, apparently Luke says I have a Twisted Tale this week so check it out.
I spent way too much time thinking of a title for this. So I’m leaving the country tomorrow suckers! Deal with it.
Yep I’m moving out today and tomorrow I leave for Spain forever. Nice. Its been on the cards for a few months now and everything has been flying along, man I’ve done so many things over the past few weeks and I’m so organised it’s disgusting.
So I’m finally giving up the day job. I’m 30 now and I’ve always wanted to retire at this age. I’ll now have the time to work on my own stuff and some great things are going to happen. I’m moving to Murcia, check out the site for the comics community in the region. Gulp! I’m not the mack daddy anymore.
Slammed these out in record time on Saturday. They’re for my girlfriends project, yes she is 8. Nah she’s setting Little Red Riding Hood to jazz music as part of her thesis and needed some pics. I love the wacky and tenuously linked esoteric subjects picked for thesis’s. Theres a lad in the states doing his on Amperduke…
I write to request written permission to reproduce images from Mister Amperduke in my dissertation, ‘We Are Disghosted’: Changing Conceptions of Modern Ireland in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction. I would like to include a textual analysis of your work alongside two of Sebastian Barry’s novels [The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998) and The Secret Scripture (2008)] in a chapter entitled “Éire! Éire! Éire!: Colonial Consciousness and the Specters of Empire in the Work of Sebastian Barry, and Bob Byrne.” As is customary, I would reproduce no more than ten percent of the entire work, and in fact would need to reproduce only about five percent as a way to provide evidence for my arguments. All references and reproductions would be attributed to you using documentation that adheres to the Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines.
My analysis centers on the importance of Mister Amperduke to developments in Irish literary historiography, mainly in the ways in which it provides a post-colonial perspective of policies surrounding ‘The Emergency,’ and particularly how you does so in an emerging, non-canonical medium.
Gerald Mannix Flynn is running for the European elections and I’m voting for him. Yeah yeah yeah I know I dissed him and his antics a few years ago but now I don’t really care about it.
Yes, he was a member of the Arts Council who received a grant from the Arts Council when I was lying starving by the roadside clutching at peoples legs to try fund the development of an Irish comics industry but after reading his work and learning more about the generally universal crooked funding I calmed down. The whole affair is sickening still even though they have appeared to have reformed a fair bit.
He’s a chancer. So am I, so is my Da, so are most of my mates. If I can get a stroke I’ll take it. I don’t regret attacking him though, he was the perfect example and the exact opposite of a soft target. Imagine if I called out some chode who writes for The Dubliner or something? It’d have no clout.
We all appear to be dissatisfied with the current government so what have we got to lose by electing somebody who rules with the heart instead of the head. His manifesto is good, including a re-evaluation of arts in the community. Which basically means stop paying NCAD drop outs to smoke rollies in between teaching smack head how to model their feelings in clay.
So vote Mannix or that creepy black lad who has tiny posters. Nice fokkin’ campaign colours Mannix! Blue and green should never be seen without a colour in between.
Ah who am I joshin? I’m not voting for anybody. But maybe you should.
