You – seen from here – are a deeply flawed person; you know this, and so do your friends; in fact, they frequently discuss your flaws behind your back. When you die, they will not discuss these flaws, which will have been transmuted into virtues (“Vlad, you know, was so passionate, so … resourceful”). Your enemy knew you best; were he allowed to deliver your eulogy, he’d speak without the stutters of the newly bereaved; he’d speak you well, float you along in your coffin on a fast stream of articulate bile. Your coffin would wear away. Your body would topple out. Your suit would rip on jagged rocks.

Artist’s note: I returned to Dublin in early 2006 and got a job with a large engineering firm. At first, I wasn’t supplied with a computer and I hadn’t been assigned to a project – so I sat at an empty desk for about two months. I had been contributing weekly cartoons to The Scotsman, part-time, for two years previous to this; but they finished with my services. So I started this series of cartoons; there are seventeen in all. They are purposefully crude, quick and sparse ink drawings, on pages of printed text.

Sancheoneo Ice Fishing (Spot/Reservation) Fishing by breaking thick ice on Hwacheoneon (stream) • Open hours: 9 a.m. ~ 6 p.m. ※ Providing PE bag to guest (carrying ice box prohibited) [Order of Ice Fishing] 1. Reach to festival site and go to application place for ice fishing. 2. Tell the number of person and receive the ticket. 3. Go to fishing class or fishing shop for checking the day situation and move to fishing place. 4. Decide an ice hole and spread fishing rod. 5. Put a bait and then allure Sancheoneo flamboyant. 6. Catch Sancheoneo! 7. Go to baking place or sashimi center. 8. Eat fresh Sancheoneo [Preparation for ice fishing] • Ice chisel to punch ice hole (rent available) • Ice net to take off ice pieces in ice hole • Small chair or mattress for sitting and waiting in fishing • Bamboo fishing frame and reel to adjust fishing string in accordance with water depth • Fishing string, hook, and bait are essential! • Cold resistant articles such as winter cloths and winter shoes How about Sancheoneo flavor? When visiting Sancheoneo festival, you should catch and eat Sancheoneo. It is not good just looking at Sancheoneo that you caught with hard work. It is a pleasure to taste fresh Sancheoneo right now. You can eat Sancheoneo easily at the baking places in festival place or sashimi restaurant. Sancheoneo sashimi, showing pale pink and yellow, gives mild sweet flavor with chewing sense. Baked Sancheoneo shows steam gives simple but deep flavor. The flavor of Sancheoneo, eating at festival place, is good also but the very baking Sancheoneo gives quite different taste. ※ Available to buy on the spot -Mick Halloran

In the early hours of June 28, 2009, the Irish writer Julian Gough wrote on his blog: “I was crossing Torstrasse about an hour ago, round midnight, and I thought I saw Johnny Massacre coming across the road towards me.” It would have been a miraculous sighting. Gough lived in Galway, as Johnny Massacre did during the last days of his life, in the summer of 2003. It was a decent summer by Irish standards, dryer than most. I lived there as well then, though I knew neither of them. Most people would spend six months in Galway and learn the star sign of everyone in town, but I clung to a shyness then that I hoped was aura. The closest I came to meeting Johnny Massacre was passing him at the top of Eyre Square one overcast weekday afternoon, lugging a giant suitcase. He looked world-weary.