April 2nd, 2007
Freak Show One-Shot Special
The Freak Show comic I done sort of fell through the cracks between changing over the blog to Wordpress and oh I don’t know, my whole life being ruined by Jabba the Slut.
So here it is, my first full colour ‘proper comic’. Set in 1950’s America, a detective agency headed by disgraced ex-cop Jack Dixon goes to DizzyLand to solve a mystery. It’s all very Scooby Doo. It’s different from the other Freak Show stories as it’s a stand alone episode/one shot special and is drawn badly. It was a personal triumph doing a comic completely digitally and one that featured humans. I should have pushed Rob (the writer) to do it with Lego people.
Freak Show is Ireland’s biggest selling and longest running comic. It launched the international careers of Stephen Mooney and Stephen Thompson who now work for the big companies. The current artist is my bum chum and recent Shiznit contributor Dec Shalvey and I’m sure he’ll be snapped up like the other two.
We’re all doing a signing for the launch of the third collection edition at Sugar Club, Thursday April 26th, Doors open at 8.
with live music from The Sensors and Miriam Ingram. I’m sure they’ll be doing Freak Show sketches too, I’ll leave that to the lads but if you want me to draw you a crap looking monster by all means I will.
So pick up a copy if you’re in town, Sub City is the place to go. It’ll also be available to buy through here soonish too.
An in depth showing off of how I made the comic here
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
HAHAHAHA Jabba the slut! Nice to see you’ve moved past denial into the bitter and twisted stage!
April 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I’m fairly sure I said this last time round as well, but that was some damn fine work you turned in on that issue. Which reminds me, I need to pick up the collected books of Freakshow, other than your issue I haven’t seen anything since issue 5 of the revamped series.
When’s your first Twisted Tales out, by the way?
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Fair play Kyle. The next volume Freak Show by Dec ‘Piss clamps’ Shalverak looks amazing.
As far as I know the first one is going in this month. I just sent off my 2 new ones. One of them is in colour. Full jaysis colour.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Class. That art is way better than the stuff coming out in the new Freak show book. Man that Shalverak guy sucks with his rubbery faces.
He does have a fabulous red tie though
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
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