Neh, only 6 panels left of Amperduke then all the prepress and the cover. Have 3 new Twisted Tales coming up soon too. Not in the typing mood so here’s a ridiculous picture I made 4 years ago when I had just started Amperduke. It’s mad, it was originally just an excuse to draw crap like this, lego men fighting insects but over the past year or so I see that there is a point to the whole thing with a few underlying messages. Plus it’s full of Lego gore.

Oh yeah, that’s their names. Nechradon and Panzer Meister.

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Last picture of the kittens I promise. But it’s a goodie…..

Next: pictures of my wang

Just back from me hols to hear the good news that MashFace are wrapping up the new album after getting signed. MashFace are my favourite band and time permitting I hope to cameo on the next album. You like my work then you’ll love this shit. The hotlinks to the tracks from the first album are below. I’m going to make the video to ‘MashfAce Loves Piracy’. Brilliant song.

Here’s the good word:

yo yo yo scrud buckets.

Download, distribute, destroy n all that jazz

MashfAce loves piracy

Marty Whelan (Can suck my cock)

Geriatric MashrApe

5000 dollahZ

Partyhard Jihad

Fresh Bacon (for the BBC)

MashfAce HATES Christmas

skippin’
n’ drippn’

precious playahz

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.

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.

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

Was talking to Brian last week, bitching and moaning about the hassle of making the Shiznit and that it’s always a surprise to see which stories are hits. ‘Any Bread’ in issue 4 was been a runaway success even though it’s just an old joke retold. Without dumping on the readers I think it’s true that the most straight forward gags go down the best.

We both agree that this one is our favourite yet the least commented on or understood by the kids. It’s a good comic but I think most people have never even heard of the original Count Curly Wee. It’s a SHITE old Black and White 2 panel comic thats been running in the Independent for years. For years I’d glance at it and say ‘Ah…a comic’ and then be left confused and angry with it.

I drew this the first week of discovering the scratchboard tool in Painter 9. Phwoar, nice swooshy ink. Brian squeezed a ton of digs into it too, GAMA, The Slate, Irish Ferries and all. I love this comic. Still haven’t pdf-ed issue 3 so it hasnt been posted online before.

PS. Fuck The Slate. Stop talking about it.

Yesterday during my illicit gazing sessions when I should be working, I saw a group of lads strutting their stuff and it hit me with same future shock I get now and then when I see flat screen tellies. What the fuck is up with young men’s hairstyles?

Besides the fact they were decked out in pastel blues and baby pink,their hair just confused me and made me feel old and annoyed. If I saw them in town or in Rathgar or whatever I wouldn’t give them a second thought, but these were in Jobstown and constituted the average mindlessly roving gang that every estate has. Somebody please tell me what these hairstyles are called or give me a link to a website, I believe some of them are called ‘faux-hawks’ but I want a record of all the other shit ones.

Their hairstyles are ridiculous. This shaggy and erratic crap interrupted with highlights and tints goes beyond angering me in the sense of measuring their vanity but that these kids have been suckered. The pushing of cosmetics on to men is getting out of hand, a friend who has a 14 year old told me that the kid ‘needs’ a special shampoo, a special conditioner and 3 different waxes and gels to compose his crown. That is beyond gay! What next? Manpons? Oh yeah, and whatever happened to Clinic shampoo?
Jesus Christ, this world drives me fucking nuts.

These hair-do’s seem to be designed to just act a substrate for styling products. Nothing more. An apparatus made to consume as many products as possible and in need in of constant attention. It’s amazing how pics of men from the 1990’s look hilarious yet at the time we looked good, but these crazy hairstyles look ridiculous NOW and that says a lot.

I still don’t know how to use a search engine properly, can’t find out what this new wave of shitness is called. I think the ‘out of bed’ look era has passed and this style isn’t exactly designed to look spontaneous or casual, anybody know what it’s called? How about Faggerachi or something.

Moral: Pride in your appearance if you are a man means you like kissing willies.