On the last stretch now lads, here’s an inserted sequence from the start to show the scale and atmosphere of Amperville. Still taking ages though with the new job and I don’t know, having a fucking life for the first time in 6 years. Just 10 pages left and thats it.

Hey spunk lumps! Just started work on an animated short of Uncle Spunk Nugget. It’ll take a while as I have no idea what I’m doing but it’s looking promising. Spunk Nugget was the bomb for about a month then I forgot all about him, he even got the cover of issue 1 of the Shiznit. Here are a few gammy looking doodles from a few years ago done while inventing him and Billy.

I hate the way people think you are an animator just because you draw comics, that they are one and the same thing. Completely different shit. I should really be working on Amperduke but I get distracted easily. Well I am working on it but my new day job involves using Flash everyday so at lunch I’m spunking it up with the cartoon. Flash is deadly, allows you make games, cartoons and silly interactive crap. Eventually I plan to wrestle control of clamnuts.com off Frank and turn this into a Flash fest. Have a few things in the works. Here’s a link to my first attempt of a silly game, the speed is all wrong but I’m working on it, fuck it lads, it was my first go early this year. Should have a 20 second snippet up soon

Here’s a sketch done all wrote and all by a Clamnutian, Simon O’ Neill. Funny stuff, he didn’t believe me that I have told girls that I was going to crank one out to their image. Just being honest and I presume its a compliment. Fuck it, they all love it.

Ps Simon, enable the embedding thing on Youtube you twit

Was talking to Brian last week, bitching and moaning about the hassle of making the Shiznit and that it’s always a surprise to see which stories are hits. ‘Any Bread’ in issue 4 was been a runaway success even though it’s just an old joke retold. Without dumping on the readers I think it’s true that the most straight forward gags go down the best.

We both agree that this one is our favourite yet the least commented on or understood by the kids. It’s a good comic but I think most people have never even heard of the original Count Curly Wee. It’s a SHITE old Black and White 2 panel comic thats been running in the Independent for years. For years I’d glance at it and say ‘Ah…a comic’ and then be left confused and angry with it.

I drew this the first week of discovering the scratchboard tool in Painter 9. Phwoar, nice swooshy ink. Brian squeezed a ton of digs into it too, GAMA, The Slate, Irish Ferries and all. I love this comic. Still haven’t pdf-ed issue 3 so it hasnt been posted online before.

PS. Fuck The Slate. Stop talking about it.

Yesterday during my illicit gazing sessions when I should be working, I saw a group of lads strutting their stuff and it hit me with same future shock I get now and then when I see flat screen tellies. What the fuck is up with young men’s hairstyles?

Besides the fact they were decked out in pastel blues and baby pink,their hair just confused me and made me feel old and annoyed. If I saw them in town or in Rathgar or whatever I wouldn’t give them a second thought, but these were in Jobstown and constituted the average mindlessly roving gang that every estate has. Somebody please tell me what these hairstyles are called or give me a link to a website, I believe some of them are called ‘faux-hawks’ but I want a record of all the other shit ones.

Their hairstyles are ridiculous. This shaggy and erratic crap interrupted with highlights and tints goes beyond angering me in the sense of measuring their vanity but that these kids have been suckered. The pushing of cosmetics on to men is getting out of hand, a friend who has a 14 year old told me that the kid ‘needs’ a special shampoo, a special conditioner and 3 different waxes and gels to compose his crown. That is beyond gay! What next? Manpons? Oh yeah, and whatever happened to Clinic shampoo?
Jesus Christ, this world drives me fucking nuts.

These hair-do’s seem to be designed to just act a substrate for styling products. Nothing more. An apparatus made to consume as many products as possible and in need in of constant attention. It’s amazing how pics of men from the 1990’s look hilarious yet at the time we looked good, but these crazy hairstyles look ridiculous NOW and that says a lot.

I still don’t know how to use a search engine properly, can’t find out what this new wave of shitness is called. I think the ‘out of bed’ look era has passed and this style isn’t exactly designed to look spontaneous or casual, anybody know what it’s called? How about Faggerachi or something.

Moral: Pride in your appearance if you are a man means you like kissing willies.

Hey chumpy pals! Here’s some old stuff from the previous version of clamnuts.com. Seperated at births have been a lifelong hobby of mine and everyone loves them, have to give Cian credit for the Larry Gogan, Tony Fenton, Bush and prolly a few more here. On with the messin……

-Celebrity accountant Eddie Hobbs and the Count from Sesame Street. One’s a Count, the other’s a cunt.
-Dead politician Brian Lenehan and the dead Boris Karloff.
-Tony Fenton and Dracula. Uncanny
-My favourite one, Lyle Lovett and Sonia O’ Sullivan

-Cant remember his name
-Odo and Shane McGowan, both sharing the ability to melt into a pool of pissy liquid. Oh yeah, I stole that pic from Bonham
-Larry Gogan and Grampa Munster.
-Billy Piper and Bingo from the Banana Splits. Yawn

-Serial Killer George Bush and mass murderer Ted Bundy.
-Nuff said
-That crazy looking twit from Anthony and the Johnsons and a Gorg from Fraggle Rock
-Heh, Metallica’s James Hetfield and the Cowardly Lion. Two fags.

That’s all. Stick it up your bollicks.

Ah….back once again with tha renegade master. Moved house and got a job. No net in the new place for the moment but it’ll be sorted soon and I’ll get back into posting and doing some good old jaysus fashioned rants.

Yeah so since the last post my run in 2000AD came to a close and I went over to Aberdeen for the launch of TEQUILA which was deadly. Me and Dec drew from 10-6pm in Mike’s shop and then another few hours in the pub where the main story is set. Felt weird to be using real pens and real paper after being a Wacom Nazi all year. Dec has an account and pics of the whole night here and I’ve loads of pics of antics and the sketches up on Flickr, just click on any of the images here

Me and a fag with a fag

Big shout out to Mike and Marie for cooking me a big fat steak and real chips. And another shout out to their sausage dog Captain who I tried to bring back home with me. I’m gay for sausage dogs.

These are from late in the day, somebody asked us for a zombie care bear so we had a draw-off. Who’s is better? Mine of course.

A rather nice pic I done in the shop and gave to Mike.

Mr. Amperduke. Dec done a rendition of him which I gotsta post. And laugh at.

Ah fuck it I’m not posting all the pics, look at them on flickr and read Dec’s blog. You get the idea. So last Saturday I done a wickle
baby signing in SUB CITY Dublin and met some decent clam fans, Darragh and Luke especially, the next generation of depressed and miserable comic artists.

Doing a Freak Show signing in Galway this weekend with Dec and Rob and then thats it, I’m not leaving the house till October.
So I’m back in biz; house, job, woman and all the good stuff. Now, let the HATE return. I’ll be posting old home movies of lads getting pranked and set on fire next month so watch out for that.

Hey Nig-nogs, just a quickie, will be back posting this week.