Following on from the comments in the previous post, here is an 8 page story that I drew of the Morbid Milton character, I agreed to do it for free and it was fun. The colouring job is amazing but the lettering is shit.

This story ran in a mag called Cryptic and I’ve never seen it, wasn’t even sent a copy. Beware of internet collaborations kids. Beware of collaborations in general, people can’t be trusted. I hate working with people on things. My favourite saying is ‘A camel is a horse designed by committee’. I say it all the time.

After this I agreed to draw a 3 part series for a nominal fee, just to get some stuff published in the US. Then the mention of money disappeared and I was held ransom to draw the other 2 issues so I decided to walk and keep the character I designed. The artwork is a little ropey as it was banged out around 2 and a half years ago

Nuff sed.

Here’s a pic I took on Friday, a young knacker came into Spar on his horse, It was nutty.

Found this comic buried in one of my many folders. I like this comic. I drew it on A3 paper and hand lettered it but I gave away the originals for some charity auction.

Yep, The Evil Machine. Although I’ve given up on recycling and am sick to death of hearing about global warming, seeing trees getting chopped down depresses the shit out of me. Where I grew up there was always young scrawny trees planted almost as a taunt to the young knackers who would snap them into pieces. But what got me is that these young trees were supported by a wooden pole around 5 times thicker than the plant. So we kill an older tree to support a series of new trees that will be killed. Sob.

Neh

I’ve just realised over the past few weeks that there a stack of secret fans of my work, people who dig what I do but have never commented on the website or dropped me a mail. The Shiznit so far has totalled around 70,000 copies in circulation so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that a percentage of readers are intrigued by the rest of my nonsense.

So it struck me that alot of you missed out on Tequila. I have a 6 page story in it called Say a Prayer for me which I wrote around this time last year while depressed silly because my life was completely fucked. It’s a real story and it packs a punch, one of the first serious auto-bio stories that I’ve drawn.

Dec who published it hasnt put it through Diamond Comic Distributors yet and a handful appear now and then in the shops over here. You can order copies directly from him for a nominal fee. DshalveyATgmailDOTcom or through here

I’ve posted the first two pages here, little text heavy and not really representational of the story (I reveal myself as a vampire at the end. No. This is a GOOD comic). View them on the Flickr page if you want to read the text

This wonderfully designed site has been nominated for a Irish Blog award and voting is closed so I missed out on that one. Design? What about the all jaysis comics and silly crap I put up every week. Fuck’s sake. I know Frank did a great job on the design but where’s the Best Art Blog nomination? Ah who cares. Eagles all the way.

So if you want to get a glimpse into my incredibly sensitive soul buy Tequila. A copy of Amperduke wouldn’t hurt either.

I want to be remembered for alot of things but it’ll probably be Bad Dublin Hash and Any Bread that does it. Hey, fuck it, it’s all good!

I love this comic too. It appeared in the last Shiznit and it was the runaway smash of that issue. What a little cutie. I’m using him again in forthcoming issues. Can’t resuse the gag so he’ll be starring in:

-Judge Bwed
-Hunt for Bwed October
-Bwed Poets Society
-Night of the living Bwed

If you can think of anymore gags send em on. I’ve also thought that it’d make a funny comic of me just trying to figure out how to reuse that little scamp. The title ‘Bwed Poets Society’ is probably as funny any comic I’d do of it.Y’knizzle?

Amperduke news this week.

Have to re-do this now that I’m better at drawing. Made this when I was 19ish and it was a struggle. A struggle. Jaysis they were dark days. Didn’t even own a computer so I’d visit my Da and use his in dribs and drabs, then it was coloured arseways in Corel PhotoPaint.

Ah well, it’s the only way to learn innit.

Drew this when I was 13. Such talent.

I drew a fair few comics in school and once even in detention, how rock and roll is that? Only got detained about 12 times during my school career and usually it involved copying numbers out of a phone book as punishment! Some teachers let you do you your homework and some didn’t care just once you were writing and not talking. My mate Bill used to write these hilarious stream of conscious things where he’d just write shit like the lyrics to Kriss Kross’ Jump. ‘Because I’m the miggedy miggedy miggedy miggedy mack yall, yes I am the miggedy miggedy miggedy miggedy mack’.

I’m beginning to soften when I think of school but then I remember that I hated the kip. Had some classic moments though. The day one of the students punched the head off the Vice Principal being one. The place going on fire was another.

Fuck Dublin Bus in the ear. Pack of wankers going on strike. Yes, it discommodes me that I can’t get into work on time but what about all the poor grannies who have to get to the Hospital to have their cyst drained or whatever? It just dumps on any good will we have towards Dublin Bus.

Completely stupid. If they want to strike AND get the public behind them, just operate as usual and don’t take fares. It’s simple as that.

Geebags. Inbred geebags who spit when they talk and watch Fair City while eating a crappy Gateaux cake from the 80’s.

Made this when Corel Painter was new and exciting. Ah it still is really. Havent got the new version which has a Divine Ratio tool and some great new bits. I’m so ignorant that I never heard of that theory until I saw it in Painter.

This Kick the Cat was for a collection of the comics that appeared in the rose tinited, wasn’t everything better during the Blitz, piece of over-rated gick free sheet aka The Slate.

I think the textured paper is akin to using lens flare now in terms of entry level dicking around with a new programme

Mew.

My delicate constitution is just recovering from the trip to Birmingham. I’ll post about it this week and show some pics. Meanwhile
here’s some nonsense from 5 years ago. It was for a sketchbook of Irish artists. I stand by alot of these pieces but a few of them are atrocious!!