Hewwo fwends! I finally got my PC reformatted and can now use my scanner and printer. 6 months after I bought the thing. So last Saturday I scanned in loads of crap, 563 pages to be precise and now you’re going to be regularly subjected to the archives.
One of my early attempts of computer rendered and lettered comics. This crappy printout is the only copy of it. 1998
1997
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I’ll expand on the above soon. A nutty story how I was stopped and searched by the Garda and I had 2 dead mice in my pocket. The pricks broke my glasses.
I’m sick of it. It’s over. Enough with wasting of zillions each year on a lame duck. I’m sure by now you have received your ‘Preparing for National Emergencies’ handbook in the post. I got mine and read it on the jacks,fancy graphics and great print job. It got me thinking about how much of a waste of tax payer’s money it is that the government don’t own a largescale dedicated printing house and bang out all these things themself and not put it out to public tender. Then I get to halfway through the booklet and it turns into Irish and it was good thing that I was sitting down. On a toilet. So I could crap with hate and puke in the sink.
I would love to be able to speak my native language. I wish everyone spoke it. But nobody speaks it. I don’t know why, we study it for what? 15 years in school? Jesus Christ. My secondary school, Saint Aidan’s in Tallaght was so fucked up that certain students were deprived of certain subjects. There were three tiers, The Brainy, The Okay and The Gicknoids. Only the top tier were taught French and Science, the others got makey-up ones like Technology. They were deprived of key subjects but of course they got to do Irish. We all did. Waste of time and resources. Especially for kids who could really do with a bettter education.
The government pushed for Irish to be to recognised as an EU language? It cost the EU 30 million Euros in 2007. All government literature and street signs have to be translated into Irish. For who? I couldn’t find it online but I remember hearing a lad on Marion Finnucan pushing for the removing of Irish from schools and he said that there are more deaf or blind people in Ireland than Irish speakers. That’s a killer. Nobody speaks or understands the stuff. Yeah I know there are thousands of people who speak it, but does it warrant spending all that money? There’s a county hall in Tallaght and it says
‘County Hall Block 6′ in massive raised letters on one side then it has the same in Irish on the other side. I know how much that shit costs. It’s criminal.
I understood a few words but have no idea what this ad is about. How much does all this crap cost the State?
I have friends who pursued learning Irish after leaving school, really embraced it and they will pay the cash to send their kid’s to an Irish school. Fair play to them. They’re footing the bill. So let’s remove Irish from normal national schools. If you want to learn it you can choose to. But it shouldn’t be compulsory. It has no practical worth. A fair percentage of school children are non nationals now so it’s pointless teaching them a useless language.
There’s a few good points about it all boards.ie. A recurring point is that in the 13-14 years of compulsory learning, very few become proficient but in 5 years of French or German you can nail the language.
So fuck Irish in the ear. It all comes down to pride I suppose but I have no major pride about being Irish. There I said it. The Potato Famine nearly wiped an island surrounded by fish. We have no culture, drinking doesn’t count as a national culture. Our world embassador Bono is a fucking gaylord. Irish children’s televison was woeful. People die in hospital waiting rooms but there’s enough cash to translate Power Rangers into Irish for TG4. So many things.
Hey piggy wiggy winkles! Just getting over the most agonizing viral infection of my life. The doctor I go to (Dame Street in Dublin) is a clown. Usually when a doctor tells me I’m sick because I’m run down I believe them but I’ve never been fitter, getting regular exercise and eating tons of fruit, so I tell him it can’t be that and there must be a reason why I’m getting the same infection over and over again. He mumbles something and just gives me pills. I think I need my tonsils removed.
So I got through to the short list for the Eagles! Thank you so much to everyone who voted and please do the same again. And of course, spread the word to all your friends and let’s see if we can get a semi-illiterate hack artist nominated as the Best Artist/Writer.
Have no new stuff to show so here are some pages from the Freak Show comic I drew a few years ago.
I really like some of these pages but find alot of it cringemaking. It was my first time drawing humans and my first big Corel Painter project. Theres some behind the scenes stuff here
Cliodhna lost her Dad tragically last year while a mission with GOAL and all proceeds from the book will go to the organisation. So take a read of the brief and get submitting. I’m planning a 4 pager for it.
I’m in the FAVOURITE COMIC ARTIST/WRITER category right beside Alan Moore…that guy. This is only the longlist so the shortlist voting will be next month I presume.
It’s a British awards thing so let’s zing it by voting Irish. My good Fwend and bumchum Dec Shalvey is up for Favourite Newcomer despite winning one last year and my main nigguz Al and Ian who do SANCHO are in The Favourite European comic category.
Vote. Tell your pals to vote. Make new pals and tell them to vote. Make new pals by voting.
They used to call me the Gee Master but now its The Ski Master.
Went Skiing in Austria, not as gay as I thought it would be. I had what only can be described as my first panic attack on the first day though. I was completely freaked out by the size of the mountains and felt trapped. Just the enormity of it all. It reminded me of story I read where the first space tourists make it to the moon but as soon as they get there they all just slit their throats because they’re freaked out. Wave after wave of them landing on the moon and just slitting their fat throats. That was me.
But by day three I was deadly at it so fuck you. Frank wrecked his leg a couple of weeks ago skiing and his Obi-Wan like ghost kept appearing and telling me to slow down so I did.
My inboxes are crammed with mails so bear with me. One that jumped out was Rich Smith’s tribute art to Amperduke!
I fuckin’ love it!!!! LOVE IT! Check out the wrinkly prune tits on that fine Snodule skank.Come on kids, send in your Amperduke art and I’ll post it here. Dec drew his rendition for me at the Tequila Launch which I must dig out. Plus Domen from Slovenia drew me this. Send them in, the sillier and shitter the better!
So according to Matt Vinyl, the Shiznit made an appearance in RTE’s new sit com The Roaring Twenties last week. Haven’t seen it and am reserving judgement. I’d be excited if not for two things, 1) I don’t make anything from it as sales don’t increase on a free comic thats out of print and 2) I’ve been here before.
A few years ago I was approached by an art director from RTE asking for clearance to use MBLEH in their new contempory and relevant drama series. I of course was flattered, agreed and talked it up in my circles. This programme turned out to be the Big Bow Wow and it was a steaming pile of gick. So bad in fact that RTE actually rescheduled it to run twice weekly so they could wash their hands of it. It was awful. It cost 2 fokkin million to produce too.
So why is everything Irish just shit? Naked Camera can be funny, Podge and Rodge are okay and The Blizzard of Odd was outstanding but nearly every RTE production sucks a camel’s dick. I know the writers have the best intentions but how can they miss the mark repeatedly? I thought that comedy series STEW was spot on though. That girl is deadly and genuinely funny in all the sketches.
Well there was another good show called Custers Last Stand Up which was really good where the kids actually used real accents. Sweet suffering fuck I can’t stand or comprehend what goes on in these people’s heads.
The fake Dublin accents in The Commitments and The Family, etc are insulting. It’s a hard one to peg though, one side you have the affected Dublin 4 accent with all the soft ’s’ nonsense, in the middle you have real people and then there’s Damien Dempsey. What part of Dublin is that clown from?
Wham!! Had to temporarily remove the Thinkhouse post till they print the cards. Yep so Brendan Behan double whammy, got a mention on the Forbidden Planet Blog about being like Behan and my good friend Sean Lennon just opened a Behan exhibiton.
Sean is my brother in law’s wife’s brother in law so we’re nearly family. I was trying to relate to Yvonne how exciting it is to meet another artist, how there is an affinity, sort of like a survivor’s group or something. We just know each other’s pain. Trying to handle a 9-5, a family and your dream is a killer.
This one is my favourite. He looks like a big sickly pint of Guinness.
I think it’s running for another 6 weeks or so, it’s in the Dublin Writers Museum and apparently if you tell them at the door that you’re just there for the exhibition you dont have to pay in to the museum. Great work, combining portraiture, cartooning and story telling all at once. Big pieces too, around 5′x5′ each. Drop Sean a line if you want more info SEANJLENNON at GMAIL dot COM.
So is being compared to big fat alco good? Don’t know. I’m not that big of a drinker anymore. Although I have to go get blood tests on Monday because my big fat liver is weird. I’ll be gutted if its from drinking because I’d expect to get in at least around 10 years of continuos boozing before it clapped up. Has to be cholesterol, I ate breakfast rolls everyday for 4 years and if there were pints the night before sometimes I’d have two breakfast rolls. So it’s looking like 2008 is the year of steamed broccoli.
STILL scannerless so I cant post my 24hr comic day thing. I’m putting the two of them and a few other yolks into a book and publishing it through lulu.com for the buzz. Ordered a Graphic Novel from lulu and the quality really is deadly.
Here’s one page from it taken with the digicam.
I have an animal new pc but I need to put a new operating system on it or something, going to get back into the screen recording.
Here’s a youtube gem:
Here, what the fuck was up with John Waters getting 3 seperate articles and the cover of the Sunday Independant? 2 x 3 page articles and then one in the main paper. Hate that shitty paper anyway, I have nothing against Waters but enough with the dick sucking! Journalists writing about journalists who will reciprocate by plugging each other’s books on my dime. I hate it.
