Coming soon! The story behind the story. This’ll be included in the new Amperduke micro-site coming vewwy soon

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Amperduke is now available in every comic shop in Uk and USA so go order it before its too late. You have around 3 weeks, the code is nov090705 under Clamnut Comix.

I’ll be hanging out in Dino’s Bar and Grill, driving all the old men crazy.

I was all set to come back to Dublin for the Dublin Comic Con and bought my rather expensive cheap flights last month and blocked off time etc. Then I hear that it’s cancelled but no official word from the organisers for ages while I’m sure other people in other countries arranged to travel. Bad form lads, bad form. Stop spiking your hair and send an email for christs sake. I feel a revenge caricature coming up…

Ah well, I’m not bothered any more as the Micks lads have organised a signing/launch and piss up to try corral all the hyped up comic fans.

“The ECLECTIC MICKS launch their new sketchbook (a collection of the best work created in the first 6 months of their group blog at www.eclecticmicks.com) at Forbidden Planet Dublin (5 – 6 Crampton Quay) on Saturday the 14th of November

After the signing (from 3-5) there’ll be a panel In the Twisted Pepper (54 Middle Abbey St) followed by some drinks ’til we’re kicked out. Do join us.”

Come along and I’ll draw you a crappy looking robot. Everybodys invited. EXCEPT two people who know who they are, last time I said not to turn up you turned up, with all spits coming out of your mouth and your female moustaches. Don’t come near me you tramps. Take the hint.

Look at this

A fantastic piece of artwork from Salvo. And he was good enough to send me the orginal art which is amazingly detailed and crisply executed as is all his work. See his blog and more of his work here. He works in a classic meticulous rendering style that puts my scrawlings to shame.

He is best known for the fantastic Windell Comics Superhero Showcase, by far the best Irish made comic.

Trailer here:

And a more recent short here

There’s still a few days left to send in your Amperduke pics for the new site thing.

http://www.windellcomics.com/

A glimpse of the distant future; a new Amperduke book. There will be previews from the book on the new Amperduke site next month. I reckon it’ll be out in October 2010 depending on uncontrollable factors such as will the marijuana plant be harvested in Feb and will I get a PS3 for Christmas.

Real or not, ‘The worlds’s greatest freak out video’ is funny, funny stuff. Some whiz kid isolated a portion that was lost on me the first time around and made a ten minute loop of it.

I think it’s real, nobody could conceive this sort of lunacy.

I was listening to some thing on BBC radio about exploding ipods and how Apple might be facing a bunch of lawsuits and product recalls. I’ve worked my way through to my third ipod now, the others just dying on me and I’m happy to buy the new ones, I just got a new ipod touch last week If it exploded in hand I’d be annoyed but understanding.

It’s 50,000 songs and videos crammed into an electrical box the size of an…ipod, of course a few are going to explode now and then. I’m amazed that laptops and cars don’t just combust more often to be honest. Sometimes I think my laptop will just erupt in my face when I make another click, I have the following programmes open right now

-This, Mozilla with 3 tabs
-Internet Explore to listen to Howard Stern
-Excel
-Manga Studio
-Painter
-3 Adobe Bridge windows
-uTorrent for downloading Columbo
-Adobe Illustrator
-Adope Photoshop
-Corel Painter
-Windows Media Player

And calculator and notepad too for some reason. And it’s grand, I’m copy and pasting, exporting, batch processing, around 6 things at once and if just exploded in my face I wouldn’t sue, I’d ask for a new laptop and a few quid for the lost files. I’m grateful for all this technology and we shouldn’t be surprised if the odd one goes nutty.

I remember when they used to sell the lighters in Mary Street there was a time there was oversized, jumbo ones, twice the length of a normal one. We’re in my mates shed burning into a joint and of them big lighters just explodes in his hand.

He shrugged and said ‘In fairness I was holding a plastic tube full of petrol with a flame hanging out of it’

Everyone’s a pussy these days with the suing. Be grateful to have ipods, when I was kid I had some plastic thing on my wrist with two rolls of paper that you had wind along as if you were watching a cartoon. Really.

The fucking thing exploded on me though in the lane.

Booya! Finished my 24 hour comic this morning, clocking in at 25 pages in 13 hours. It was a struggle though, we came back from Portugal by air and train on Friday and I was wrecked starting the comic. I started at 1pm and between dinner and dicking around I finished it this morning after a decent sleep.

I’m happy with it though. I picked ‘The Dangerous Voyagers’ from the random title generator and wrote it as I went along.

I put a bit of work into this as I there is no Uncle Spunk Nugget this week ( new comic on still up on Spazzmoid today though still)

It’s a ‘pin up’ of my fellow comic artists and it made me laugh drawing it. Get it here

I’m writing this listening to my mate Colm reading his stuff on some local radio station, that boy has talent. The only writer and poet who gets me, his thick knackery voice (often confused with me by his girlfriend whenever I answered the phone when we worked together) just sounds right reading that shit. He’s deadly.

To quote some of his crappy early rap work from the podcast:
‘Me and Gus get on a bus with the sus, threw a nappy at the driver’

Genius.

This is a Zuda page that I sent to a colourist to work their magic on. What think ye? There are a few things I’d tweak but I think it’s really good. I don’t mind colouring my own stuff but I usually get lost and spend too much time messing with it so I’m trawling the net looking for fresh meat.

My little bro Ponchorella goes to all these festivals for youngster music such as Download. I presume it’s in the Uk. For me the idea of camping in the cold with thousands of giddy idiots traipsing around looking for the illusive party that doesn’t exist appals me.

He caught one of these specimens on video and put music to it. Look at him gently,lovingly stroke his porcine tum tum as them legal pills pickle his spinal column.

God knows where he got the camera. Get this, I gave him a loan of a new mini DV camera a few years ago, I had it for about 2 months and never really used it, he breaks it. Then I buy a digital still camera, brand new, never even transferred photos from it and it disappears in the vortex after he takes it for a weekend.

All in good in Spain, the sun is back after 2 crusty weeks. I wore trousers for the first time in 5 months last week. And socks, I sort of miss putting on my socks and getting all snuggy and all.