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.
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Artist’s note: I started these pieces some years ago when I was working on a comic called Stickman. The idea was to create a simple character built from three lines (in the good old stickman tradition) and see how much personality and story could be written into these simple forms. Over time, the stickman changed and became integrated with more detailed work, although I tried to retain the simplicity with one-line drawings and no real backgrounds.
Continue reading ‘Three comics: Bird watchin; The stik man jumpeth; The guru’
Artist’s note: My work is concerned with the apparently mundane aspects of modern life, and my practice involves sculpture, illustration, writing and performance art. This work is from an ongoing series I started three years ago. I view my comic making as a part of my extended art practice; each comic is one page long. I do not obey any strict rules but I prefer the standard dimensions 17 x 26 cm.
Continue reading ‘Two comics: Fable: a dog and his dreams; Cordeyceps fungi’
Artist’s note: This piece was completed using pen and ink. I did a rough story board first to get the positions of the panels right, then I sketched out the main piece in pencil and inked over it in pen. All the text was cut and pasted at the end. I found once I got to art college I stopped drawing, so this zine became a perfect way for me to start again. I’m very influenced by the DIY ethics of the underground music scene, as well as existentialist writers like Paul Auster and Robert M Pirsig.
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