March 10th, 2008
Evil machine
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
March 10th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
thats all hand lettered??? I didn’t think I could hate you more but I do.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Holy crap, Bob Byrne is gay for trees. (Rather than for Dec like we all thought…)
March 11th, 2008 at 4:15 am
hah!a knacker on a horse.classy
March 11th, 2008 at 8:58 am
I used to teach in a secondary school in west dublin and one of the kids decided to ride his horse through the school one day. the thing is, the whole school was tiled. It was like seeing a horse ice-skate for the first time. the highlight of my teaching career.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Bob is gay for me, but i’m gay for trees, so it’s all the same really.
I’ve seen more than enough knackers on horses haven grown up in Clare and lived in Limerick, but deadly pic all the same.
Great strip Bob. The ‘deaf bitch’ bit is my favourite. Un-nescessary remark, but very funny. You should totally do another strip by hand, there’s a great organic look to them as a result. Only gays would use Painter.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Yeah plus it was 4 or 5 years ago that I drew it so I should be a little better peehaps. Hand lettering is a massive pain in the arse. I reckon most artists can do it but just havent got the time. It’s like why would you spend 3 hours making soup from original ingredients when you can buy the shit pre-made.
I love the deaf bitch bit too.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I was going into town one day and I saw this tourist fascinated by a nackers horse so he kept taking pictures of it but then the owner saw him and the rest writes its self
March 13th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Did the knacker give the tourist a ride on his horsie?
March 15th, 2008 at 8:23 am
They rode off into the sunset and the tourist was found 6 days later, disorientated and with no clothes on