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Windell 2

Windell 2 is off the starting blocks. Like a deranged, asthmatic sloth.

The Crab Apple Caper

Comic Cast Exhibition

This cartoon was done for an upcoming exhibition organised by Craig and Liam who present Irelands foremost comics podcast, The Comic Cast.

The theme of the exhibition is "Just what I always wanted" so Gar Shanley drafted up this idea to fit the bill. The exhibition is being held in the Twisted Pepper with the artwork being auctioned off on ebay. All proceeds from the sales are going to the Crumlin and Temple St. childrens hospitals (my mum used to be a nurse in Temple St back in the late fifties so she's well chuffed about all this!).

For more information on the event go HERE.

Colour it in...

Another page for a colouring book I'm working on.

ALSO, our new Hat animation has gone LIVE!... LIVE, I SAID!

The Hat Will Return

Anyway, we're making a short flash animation based on The Hat from the Windell comic. Richard O'Shea (Ireland's foremost Grizzly - also the heaviest baby in the history of the state) is bringing my drawings to life while Garret Shanley (who also wrote the windell comic) is on script duty. It's going really well and should be finished soon, available for all to view on youtube. The guy in the pic above is one of the guest stars.

Noted

Look at this beauty. Got it yesterday, along with a bunch of equally splendiforous comics from blackshapes creator, gentleman, scholar, Phil Barrett. Thanks a million, Phil. Your work is always pure quality.

Samples From a W.I.P.

A W.I.P. of course is a Work In Progress, and that's very much what this is. I'm still writing this stuff as I'm drawing it, which is a bit bonkers, but I just can't bring myself to sit down and contrive the material into a soup-to-nuts document.

Why?

Because the drawing informs the writing as much as the writing informs the drawing. Sufficed to say, this is not a process I'd necessarily recommend to anyone, or even one I'll be using again in the future. The only reason I'm doing it on this ditty is beacsue it's an abstract narrative, and if I just attempt to plot it out, the left side of my brain will lock the door on the right side. Can't be having that.

If I was doing a straight narrative I'd almost certainly outline and write it before illustrating it. But you really don't have to be able to see the forest for trees when you're creating abstract narratives 'cos by defintion they're more holistic. As long as the individual units sustain themselves the whole should look after itself. Any joins you're making are going to be more indirect, symbolic, unconscious, or even thematically driven, rather than functioning as a set of linear progressions on the surface.

It's not to say I don't love straight narrative. I love plots. LURVE them. But I love abstract shit too. Horses for courses, and all that.