There’s an interview with me and the lads from The Comic Cast Here.

It’s sort of entertaining but by far the funniest part is right at the end after my song selection. I amuse and disgust myself with fastidious regularity. I don’t like talking about comics and would much prefer just waffling about other things. Heh, I seem to love saying 98%. I say it around 5 times.

The gimps didn’t link to any of the things I mentioned so here’s Frank in the river and Sof’Boy

So pop in the earphones and listen to my knackery drunk voice boast and brag and diss everybody involved in Irish comics.

A comic from issue 3 of MBLEH, inspired by a friend who has a bad shake when he draws so I suggested he tie a vibrator to his forearm to counterbalance the tremor.

Speaking of gammy hands, I’ve been struck down with a regal dose of Carpal Tunnel strain in my left hand. I’m typing this spa-style by mashing my mouth held typing wand against the keyboard. So apologies for the one sentence emails I’m sending everyone. Jesus I hate emails now. Remember when they were fun?

Just as the thought of creating a comic on screen was baffling to me 3 years ago, people ask me all the time how do I start a comic without using paper.

A lot of people are now using Wacoms to create their comics digitally so the days of penciling and erasing are long gone. I hated penciling. And I really I don’t understand how most artists pencil so precisely and tight only to ink over it and erase the pencil lines. With my tablet I don’t really pencil anymore, just go straight to inks.

The picture below is a new story that I’m working on. This is how I write them. Amperduke was written the same way. I’ll post some layouts vs the finished Amperduke soon.

So here are some pics to show the process of a Twisted Tale. The top layer is what I draw while roughing out the whole story, It’s only for me so the simplest of lines will do. The next layer is what I submit to the editor. These are the pencils I suppose. And the last one is final artwork.

Okay I admit it, nobody asks me about how I make comics. But there we go anyway. Spare 20 seconds from your day and watch this video, it’ll do you good. It is of course disgusting and not for pansies. It has a surprise ending!

Yup another TT in the Galaxy’s Greatest this week and I really like this one. This one is 3×3 panels, a new format I’ve adopted for certain stories.More previews here. I recorded a drunken and sloppy podcast interview with these choads last week and it should be up soon.

I found this great site where you can create online books easily. I uploaded the old Bono Files thing from a few years back to test it out

Get your own - Open publication

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I’ve been looking for a way to best display the new web comic project I’m working on and this could be it. Anybody know of a better one?

I spent way too long making the Bono Files, it was originally meant to be published in issue 2 of The Shiznit but it was too big. And to be honest, now I don’t really care about Bono anymore. It was probably after seeing the classic Gavin Friday video that I realised that at least Bono made something of his life.

I just checked the video and it has been removed! Ah man. It was footage of Gavin Friday talking to a Canadian film crew claiming that he and Bono grew up in Ballymun and it made them ‘though’. I have to find it again.

Drew that for a free gay magazine around 50 years ago. I drew a series of them and this one is the only really funny one. I got a bit of kudos in the gay community for them but not enough to secure that much coveted reacharound from Gay Donal and his Fantastic Bum Patrol. Ah well.

Here’s another character design from a year ago. I’ll post some NASTY new 2000AD art next week and few new caricatures but check this out, my dear friend Robbie Bonham’s beard video. Who’da thunk it? He’s a good looking bloke without it.

Me and him were going to get a studio together in town but it never happened. Here’s a classic Bonzo image. Check out his site for his stand up ‘comedy’ and loads of other gick

I’m getting my illustration portfolio together and I’m finding some wacky crap from back in the day. Here is a character designed for Smurfits those money hungry corrugated board swines. There was a whole series of this cardboard lad doing things like working in a lab and a kitchen, I’ll post them if you want to see them. I drew this with one pen, scanned it then coloured it in Corel Photopaint. Up until 2 years ago I used Corel for everything which was ridiculous. It really stunted my day job career not knowing how to rock Adobe.

Here’s a nutty one, a CNN piece about Stephen Thompson’s McCain comic. Thompson is the best Irish artist out of all us, it was on his recommendation that I bought the Cinitiq. Horribly talented bloke

I got my heart broken last week.

On my walk into town from the bus stop I would pass a real estate agents and most of the time there was this lad around the same age as me with an enormous, bulky head sitting in the window. He looked like a fired up young go-getter, with that big bastard cranium bursting with sales leads and anecdotes from the time he met the Kaiser Chiefs. He disappeared for a week and I thought he must be gone on holidays but no, he’s gone and is now replaced by a fat girl

Just to see him prattling along each morning made me laugh out loud. I’ve known many people like that over the years, mostly through working with them. Happily vacuous and square. He probably listened to Spin FM and owned 5 different after shaves. I’ll miss you, you crazy looking cunt. With your big noggin teetering along as you waffled on about how you closed the deal on the apartment on Brunswick Street and your little legs flailing about when you heard something wacky and outrageous on Gerry Ryan.

It’s amazing how much of a rut you get into going to work. I invent names and back stories for all the people I see on the bus each day. And I’m sure they have a few for me. Greasey mac Slime, Bed head McNulty etc. I aways draw little pictures of them in my diary and it’s funny shit,