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

Ah yes, how sweet it is. My life has taken a series of well deserved major good turns over the past while and then to top it all off I find out that DEVO are playing this summer. This is unreal. They are in my top 5 favourite bands and I had sort of resigned myself to the fact that I’d never see them. The three bands that I’d give my left nut to see would be Dead Kennedys, The Clash and Devo and although I saw the awful new Dead Kennedys it doesn’t count.

They’ve been a big influence on me and several references to DEVO pop up in my comics. That SHRIVEL UP comic in MBLEH gets it’s name from one of their songs and then there’s this:

The cwazy thing about them though is that I HATE alot of their stuff. Sweet sufferin jaysus, some of their later material is woeful. But I suppose you can only be pioneers for so long before you end up second guessing yourself. And that recent DEV0 2.0 nonsense is just callous. But I still love them dearly despite all this and can’t wait to see them live and hopefully buy a proper energy dome so I can get rid of my homemade one.

The Freak Show launch was deadly, thank you one and all to all the strangers who bought me pints. Dec’s new Freak Show bumper edition came out on the day, just delivered straight from Ivan’s which was another highlight. Looks deadly. And here, look at the cover to the Your Round comic that I contributed to, really is amazing and it will definitely stand out and do the biz.

Seeya later spuds

Another wacom video. God I wish I knew about the screen capture thing earlier because I do a warm up doodle everyday. Don’t always end up good or finished though. Done this one on Saturday, ‘Two little Hitlers’ by Elvis Costello was playing on the pc so there we go.

Hewwo pals! Got a free screen capture thing and here’s my first recording. It’s a warm up sketch of my all time favourites. It’s a lifelong dream of mine to do a Turtles comic, that and to take over Spy Vs Spy when Pete Kuper dies. Hey, it was lifelong dream to get into 2000AD and be able to rip a phone book in half and I bagged them so who knows? Listen to me boasting! I have to smear vaseline on my monitor to squeeze my inflated ego in these days.

So blaze up a number and put the sound up:

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.

Moving out today and for the next month I’ll have no net access. I’ll be wangling net time here and there but nothing solid so emails will be lost or unanswerable.

Feel weird moving out after having pinned so many hopes on this place. I really thought that I’d be here for years, think I lasted around 6 months. I’m renting a place on my own for a month then moving in with two mates.

Check this clown out ‘freestyling’. Hilarious. Listen how he mentions putting on his hat and his scarf. Gold.

Drinking and spliffing, slurping and burping with my niggas on Saturday and we got to talking about Mossad abducting nazi war criminals from their adopted countries. I suggested we do the same to Bush. He’s one of the biggest living war criminals who seems to show no signs of stopping anytime soon.

The one chap there who doesn’t play video games said ‘Ah a sniper rifle’d do the trick’ The rest of us scoffed. I’m up on these things and forget JFK, if you want to see a truly audacious assassination, check out the story of Anwar Sadat. They captured it on video.Military parade and the killers bunked in and smuggled live clips. One throws a smoke bomb to mark him and the snipers let it rock.

The lads put forward many approaches to bump off Bush, most of them pure shit, some involving complex diagrams. Soon bored with the converstion I asked for a sheet of paper and banged this out in around 8 seconds.

This clip is priceless. Gavan Friday poncing around Ballymun with a Canadian film crew, claiming that he and Bono are from there. Yes, they both grew up in Ballymun but not in the Towers as he implies. What a wanker, both he and Guggi have exhausted whatever careers they had, real or imagined, and now trade solely on their friendship with Bono.

Click on the clip and read the YouTube comments. All very true. I reckon he never thought anybody in Ireland would see it.

Check out the two women who shout ‘Here, are you Bono?’ ‘No I’m Gavan Friday, ever heard of me?’ and in unison ‘No’.

That says it all.

But he still gets a large amount of press. Last time I heard him he was explaining what an influence the Virgin Prunes are on contemporary bands! The Virgin Prunes, they had at least one goodish track but they were hardly a big band, well maybe in the Ballymun flats they were or in the fucking deluded mess which is his mind.

So both him and Guggi are getting a dissing in Shiznit 4. Here’s a preview:

Thing over at TCAL about the best fights ever. These things never bother me except this time. Gross Point Blank is included. I HATE that film and the lame little slapping match which made it into TCAL’s list. Irony of irony, the dude who he fights in GPB is Benny The Jet Urquidez who happens to be the baddie in my choice for the best ever fight in film. The clip below is from Wheels on Meals and fuck me that’s a scrap.

Nuff said. Case closed.

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What a film. Finally got my hands on a decent version of it over the weekend. In the days of seedy tape trading and pre-internet, this film eluded me for years.

I had this 3 hour tape of flarn that had some really wacky shit on it, stuff I couldn’t stomach today but the tape was the perfect party mix. By party I mean 6 stoned lads sitting on couches. I’d put that tape on and show these lads the craziest flarn ever,when the last scene ended the tape would go all white and fuzzy and as with all worn out old videos, the next piece of footage was barely visible through the mess until the tape straightened itself. The porn had ended and The Story of Ricky had begun.

Through the jumps and grainyness of the tape you could only barely make out some parts, the sound was more or less gone too but it would have moments of shocking lucidity. The part where Ricky is put in a vice then has razor blades forced into his mouth would play perfectly then it’d go wonky for 20 minutes. It still left the audience speechless. I didn’t know the name of the film so hunting it down was a chore but I got another copy of it. That one was missing 25 minutes from the start and still had terrible quality. I’ve said before how I like bad quality video, and it certainly applied in this case but I still wanted to see it clearly.

I’m calling this the best film ever not because of the gore but because of it’s attitude. It has the strange quality of every good comic, game and dopey power fantasy you’ve ever had.

Based on a popular manga, the story features our hero Ricky being sent to a privatised prison in the terrifying future of 2001. There are 4 daddies for each wing, North, East and the other two. When he works his way through them, he fights the end of game boss, The Warden in the craziest scrap ever. Forget all this CGI shit, latex and pig guts all the way. The clip below is just a snifter of the goodness.

Whuaahhh! I love it.

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