Shiznit 4 is back from the haunted carpet shop where it’s printed and it looks great. Absolutely packed with goodness. I’ll be putting up a pdf of it soon but for youze in Dublin you can start hunting it now

To get a copy of issue 4 AND the other 3 issues, go to the namless and bestest comic shop on Crow St in Temple Bar. That’s the only place that has back issues. Rumour has it that the shop is called ‘Story’ but after 5 years of visiting it I still don’t know. Here’s a map.

And for fuck’s sake, buy something in his shop! He’s good enough to let us keep all our comics there but loads of people just come grab Shizzes and leave.

UPDATE: just found this pic from the day Issue 2 was delivered. This was when I had a day job in the piss-prune factory. You had to wear an energy dome on your head or you’d be chased around by the boss like Benny Hill.

So here’s a taster of the first Twisted Tales. I’ll let you know when it’s out. Once it’s published I won’t be able to post it here so don’t miss it. Technically I shouldn’t even be showing this but since it’ll pull in a bunch of new readers I’m sure its cool.

I didn’t explain in the last post that the stories are self contained silent stories like Amperduke. I have 8 great stories worked out. My biggest concern is that I’ll paint myself into a corner like M.Night Shamalan, that dude was the biz straight out of the trap but steadily fucked it up for himself and now he’s a joke.

I’ve been working on the two new ones constantly for the past couple of weeks and they’re looking swell. One of them is in colour. Hopefully the fans will like them, Future Shocks were always my favourite because you got a full story into you and weren’t left hanging. They have the contents up the top of the cover now so you can see which stories are running which is a great idea.I always said they should have a symbol on the cover to say there’s a self contained story in the Prog because when I stopped buying it in the mid 90’s, I wouldn’t buy it if I saw it because I knew it was full of serials and hard to jump in to a story that’s 6 instalments old.

Check out the previous post, my first submission to Galaxy’s Greatest back in 2000(AD).

A friend asked me how the Twisted Tales thing come about. I told him that I never really submitted anything to them but then I remembered Graylin.

This was a half arsed attempt of a comic I started back in 1999 and sent in March 2000. It was a mess, I didn’t have a computer or a digital camera of my own and had to do it in dribs and drabs in my Da’s house. It stars a young Poncho and yes that is his real hair. I was new to Photoshop and didn’t really know what I was doing. I’m still fond of it and might give it another go, always loved photo comics like Doomlord and with my modern digital bag of tricks I reckon I could do it right.

Most of it is painfully bad but I still love the little gun that transforms into a cricket.
Poncho played Graylin, that dude in the lizard mask and that baby is also him too. The mutant bat was my dog Bozo, the lad shot in the face was Diamond D and Quinner was the villain. We shot the Museum scene on the sly and for most of it the security guards were shouting at us to stop but we didn’t which was funny. “Here! No photo’s!” “Yeah, in a minute, just one more”. What’s the problem? The animals are dead!

Hey Hey! So here’s the big announcement. This makes the Amperduke trailer look like shit; I’m getting a slot in 2000AD called:

The first story should be appearing either this month or next month and it’s a doozey. After that I have 2 more and then we’ll see what happens. I’m absolutely delighted with it. I was a huge 2000AD fan, even had a Judge Dredd T shirt at one stage. One of my first attempts at a comic was a Sam Slade story when I was 11 or 12. I loved it and was obsessed with it for ages.

It’s mad, I was over in the local net cafe and when I read the mail I let out a little squeal of joy like a ponce. Then when I was floating out, all dizzy and excited I saw my nemesis from school. She was always telling me how immature I was and used to tut everyday because I never had a pen . She used to rule her page like her life depended on it with a red pen, a double margin. Everyone said she’s go far, even the teachers.

And here she was all fucked up with kids and miserable looking and I wanted to say to her “Who’s immature now bitch? Fuck you and your double margins”

So give me the love and kudos I deserve. I’ll post a tiny preview of the impending story. It’s a story that I’ve had in me for around 10 years and it’s not bad at all.

Hey pigs! Here’s the trailer for the impending Mister Amperduke. So spread it like Hep C.

And here are the first 53 pages from it as a .pdf

Still netless, unemployed and trying to remove the daggers from my back. But I’m working on comics 10-14 hours a day and getting tons done. Man, I missed out on the Irish blog awards, wasn’t nominated for anything. I used to blog every weekday and this site gets more hits than a red headed stepchild so it’s a pisser. Definitely next year.

I’m still struggling on the cover design for Amperduke. I’ve done 20+ designs and it’s a head wrecker. I’ll put up a dozen soon to get your thoughts.