Saturday was deadly, lashed through the comic and it turned out well. The weather stayed decent for most of the day too. Drew up the panels on Friday and sketched out the idea for the story in the car on the way into town. Here’s the size of the board in relation to a Shiznit.

Here’s some of my pics for the inside of the train. If anybody has a shot of the train before it was graphitized please send it on to me.

And ta da! 5 hours and 10 markers later.

I have tons of pics of the event itself which I’ll add to my Flickr account when I get back from Sweden. Going to a wedding over there for a week. Oh yeah, met with a Slovenian lad last week from Stripburger and will post big style about how amazing the comics are. A breath of fresh air and a kick up the arse creatively.

A little late doing this but it was just an experiment with Flash and video.

Dramatic Chipmunk Dropping Loads - The most amazing bloopers are here

Neh, went to see Transformers last night and didn’t really like it. Enough with the fucking humans! I see humans everyday and then when they actually transformed they looked gay. That scene where they’re all hiding in the garden was painful. Up there with the custard pie scene in the original Dawn of the Dead.

I wondered if the Transfomers would talk in it when it was announced to be made. And they do. Prime sounds good but his third or fourth sentence is ‘Oops! My bad’ when he stands ons something. WHAT THE FUCK? Optimus Prime is a father figure to my generation, strong and silent, not some faggy uncle who brings you Walnut Whirls instead of Curly Wurlys.

The design of the mechs is gay too. Loads of lame talking and although the lead dude is entertaining and the script is tight I was confused at some of the pacing. I think I’ll have to watch the whole thing again in slow motion, underwater on smack to take in the intricate effects. Yeah so, in a complete contradictary move the scraps were good. How could they be bad? I thought the scale and the scope of the battles was all wrong though, just didn’t flow right. They seemed intent on keeping the robots completely in shot and it looks stiff.

Ah I’m a grumpy bastard. Been waitng 20 years to see Megatron and Prime in real life so I cant complain.

But the voices and characterisation is gay, too many humans and not enough transformeridge. I bought the Top Trumps 2 weeks ago and was disgusted to see out of the 40 or so cards, around 15 of them robots and the rest were all the supporting human cast. Threw them out.

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

Here it is, the finished cartoon. Was a struggle but it looks okay. I have no animation skills whatsoever. It’s for my day job textual.tv, a new web text service that is just deadly altogether. Be a sport and link it up so I look good to my employers. Prelim art here

Jesus the weather has been shit now for months. I have never been a big fan of the sun but after a horrendous Winter, I’m dying to feel it again. We had around 3 weeks of decent weather in April and it was deadly,

Next Saturday is Kings of Concrete 2007 and please God I hope it’s decent out. I’m doing a giant sized comic on huge big boards on the day so rain isnt conducive to comix. Last year was a great event, at some stages there was just too much to look at, boarders,bmx, dancers and graf artists all rockin at once. It was deadly. It’s organised by my good friend and dwinking buddy Dave Smith at Micromedia who distribute The Shiznit. I know he has provisional plans to postpone it if the weather is gay but it’d fuck things up.

So if it is decent out, come down and don’t make eye contact with me. Should be fun and it really is an all ages, family event.

Booya! This years 24 hour comic day is 20th to 21st in the Central Hotel, Exchequer St Dublin. It’s an annual event where you have to churn out a 24 page comic in 24 hours. I did it last year and it was a great experience, you always work better under pressure. Anybody interested in getting into comics or who want to brush up on their skills should give it a go. I’m opting to do a
12 hour one this year instead of the full 24 hours because I’m cranky enough as it is without staying up all night. Somebody GIVE ME A FUCKING RUSK.

Here’s the official site
Here’s the boards.ie thread

And here’s my one from last year.

Again fair play to Cliodhna for organising it.

Hey Hey Fucknuts! Nearly finished my first, ahem, ‘animated cartoon’ for my new employers. They think I know what I’m doing! Jokes on them. Here’s some bits from it. Basically a rip off, like most of my stuff, of Sergio Aragones. Should be finished by next week. By that I mean fired.

Couldnt resist it

Been working on doing the illo’s and cover for a new book from O’Briens called The Supermarket Ghost. I didnt write it, its by a lad called Gordon Snell. I done mock ups of each pic to make sure I got it right and here’s one before and after. More soon.Check out the stack of baskets to obscure the baddie’s feet.

Oh yeah, any of you lucky pups that have my phone number, please email me for my new one. Bitch.