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<div style="text-align:center;"><br /><big>'''Welcome to the {{SITENAME}}'''</big><br />The wiki about Irish comics and comics creators that [[Help:Editing|anyone can edit]]
 
   
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'''Francis Kaye is an Irish cartoonist/illustrator. He drew 'The West Side' for The Galway Independent for 3 years. He drew the 'Vintage Vinny' strip for 'Vintage Motoring Scene' and 'P.J. the D.J.' for the Galway Observer.'''
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[[File:GOTS C1 PANELS MAC C.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''[[Get Off That Ship]]'' by [[Alan Dunne]]]]
 
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The first chapter of ''[[Get Off That Ship]]'', [[Alan Dunne]]'s forthcoming Titanic graphic novel, is available to read online.
 
   
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National Tragedy's anthology ''[[Romantic Mayhem]]'' launches at Anseo, Lower Camden Street, Dublin, on 14 April 2012.
 
   
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[[Terry Willers]], cartoonist and organiser of the [[Guinness International Cartoon Festival]] in the 90s, has died at his home in Rathdrum, County Wicklow, aged 76.
 
   
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The inaugural [[Irish Comic News]] awards are announced, and there's a few surprises...
 
 
[[The Comic Cast]] won Best Independent Podcast at the [http://webawards.ie/ 2011 Irish Web Awards]. Congratulations to Craig and Liam!
 
 
Derry's [[Uproar Comics]] get some coverage in the ''[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/comic-relief-as-artists-cause-uproar-with-zombie-stories-16055675.html Belfast Telegraph]'' and the ''[http://www.derryjournal.com/lifestyle/the_zombies_are_invading_derry_hi_1_3113296 Derry Journal]''.
 
 
[[Brian Moore]], aka Cormac, cartoonist for the republican paper ''An Phoblacht'', passed away on [[12 March]] this year.
 
 
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''[[The Invisible Artist]]'' |
 
''[[Hold the Phones, it's Alex Jones!]]'' |
 
''[[Zilch]]'' |
 
''[[Better Angels]]'' |
 
[[Tony McVeigh]] |
 
''[[The Whole World]]'' |
 
''[[Plight of the Wild Geese]]'' |
 
''[[Trevor the Cat]]'' |
 
''[[An Gael Óg]]'' |
 
[[Seán Slattery]] |
 
[[Michael Nugent]] |
 
[[Arthur Matthews]] |
 
''[[Gakbag]]'' |
 
''[[Fitz]]'' |
 
[[Heather Mills]] |
 
''[[ThisGrace]]'' |
 
''[[Flip's Sake!]]'' |
 
''[[Six Million Ways to Die]]'' |
 
[[The O'Brien Press]] |
 
[[Lightning Strike]]
 
 
[[Events 2007]] | [[Events 2008]] | [[Events 2009]] | [[Events 2010]] | '''[[Events 2011]]'''
 
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[[File:414px-Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe - Project Gutenberg eText 15305.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Alfred Harmsworth]], the man ultimately responsible for everything from ''Tiny Tots'' to ''2000AD'', was born in Dublin]]
 
[[Alfred Harmsworth]], born in Chapelizod, Dublin, in 1865, founded the Amalgamated Press, later Fleetway and IPC, one of the "big two" British comics publishers. He also founded the ''Daily Mail'', but nobody's perfect.
 
 
[[James O'Callaghan]] from Cork and [[Glenn Matchett]] from Bangor are editors at US small press publisher Grayhaven comics.
 
 
[[Declan Shalvey]] drew the last arc of DC/Vertigo's ''Northlanders''.
 
 
County Kerry's [[Tim Booth]] has been drawing all-new adventures of the original Dan Dare in ''Spaceship Away'' since 2006.
 
 
Artist [[P. J. Holden]] and writer Si Spurrier give us afterlife comedy ''[[Numbercruncher]]'' in the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'', starting in January 2011.
 
 
Irish writer [[Stephen Walsh]] has a new graphic novel from Time Bomb Comics in the UK, ''[[London Calling]]'', a retro science-fiction tale set in an alternative 1950s London, starring mysterious French secret agent Charlotte Corday, and drawn by Keith Page.
 
 
Irish artist [[Alan Halpin]] is illustrating a graphic novel adaptation of fantasy novelist P. C. Cast's ''Goddess of the Rose'', to be published next year by Sea Lion Books in America.
 
 
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[[Rory McConville]] |
 
''[[Extracurricular Activities]]'' |
 
''[[The Mundane Overrated Misadventures of Spudman]]'' |
 
[[George Gordon Fraser]] |
 
[[J. Louis Smyth]] |
 
''[[Fizog]]'' |
 
[[Mike Hubbard]] |
 
''[[Dorothea]]'' |
 
''[[Digitek]]'' |
 
[[Peter Hoye]] |
 
''[[Presidential Material: John McCain]]'' |
 
[[Patrick Hickey]] |
 
''[[Carnival of Cabbage]]'' |
 
''[[Waiting for the Mothership]]'' |
 
''[[Monstrum Horrendum]]'' |
 
''[[Tag Team]]'' |
 
''[[The Iron Moon]]'' |
 
[[Harry McAvinchey]] |
 
''[[Dead Soldier]]'' |
 
[[John Moore]]
 
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[[File:Menagerie.satire.engl.jpg|thumb|400px|right|"The anti-royal menagerie", cartoon by [[William Henry Brooke]] from ''The Satirist'', 1812]]
 
Dublin-born painter [[William Henry Brooke]] drew political cartoons in London in the 1810s...
 
 
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[[William Beckett]] ("Maskee") |
 
[[William Brunton]] |
 
[[Don Conroy]] |
 
[[John Byrne]] |
 
''[[Illuminations: 101 Drawings from Early Irish History]]'' |
 
[[Sean Mac Murchadha]] |
 
''[[Images of Erin in the Age of Parnell]]'' |
 
[[Jon Berkeley]] |
 
''[[Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature]]'' |
 
''[[The Book of Friers]]'' |
 
''[[Riotous Living]]'' |
 
[[James O'Donnell]] |
 
[[Bernard Dowd]] |
 
[[Oisín]] |
 
[[Q.E.D.]] |
 
[[Phelim Connolly]] |
 
''[[The Unkindest Cut]]'' |
 
''[[Drawing Conclusions]]'' |
 
[[James T. Campbell]] |
 
''[[Dog Collars]]''
 
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[[File:Blackwood Cautionary Tales.jpg|thumb|left|300px|From ''Cautionary Tales for Children'' (1907)]]
 
[[Basil Temple Blackwood]], illustrator of Hilaire Belloc's books of children's verse, was from Clandeboye, County Down.
 
 
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[[George Altendorf]] |
 
[[Jon Berkeley]] |
 
[[Philip Blythe]] |
 
[[René Bull]] |
 
[[Claude Byrne]] |
 
[[Harry Clarke]] |
 
[[Henry Edward Doyle]] |
 
[[Beatrice Elvery]] |
 
[[Jim Fitzpatrick]] |
 
[[Richard King]] |
 
[[P. J. Lynch]] |
 
[[Norah McGuinness]] |
 
[[W. C. Mills]] |
 
[[George Monks]] |
 
[[Seán Slattery]] |
 
[[J. Louis Smyth]] |
 
[[Hugh Thompson]]
 
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[[File:HubbardKSM.jpg|thumb|right|280px|From "King Solomon's Mines", ''The Ranger'', 1965-66]]
 
'''[[Mike Hubbard]]''', born in Dublin in 1904, attended art school in London before joining Dean's Studios as an illustrator. By the 1930s he was working on story papers ''The Thriller'', ''Detective Weekly'', ''Modern Wonder'' and ''The Passing Show'', drawing black and white interior illustrations and two-colour covers.
 
 
After the Second World War, he moved into comics, drawing adventure strips, mostly film adaptations and classic serials, for ''Knockout''. In 1946 he became assistant to Norman Pett on the ''Daily Mirror''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s daily cheesecake strip ''Jane'', drawing backgrounds and supporting characters. He took over from Pett as the strip's artist in 1948, and drew it until it finished in 1959.
 
 
In the 1960s he worked on Fleetway's girls' titles, drawing "Nurse Angela" in ''Princess'', and various stories in ''Schoolgirl's Picture Library''. Perhaps his best-remembered strip from the girl's comics was "Jane Bond, Secret Agent", in ''Tina'' and ''Princess Tina'', in 1967-70.
 
 
In the late 1960s and early 70s, he painted full-colour classic serials for ''The Ranger'', ''Look and Learn'' and ''Pixie'', including adaptations of ''King Solomon's Mines'', ''The Coral Island'' and ''The Secret Garden''. His last published work was a set of new illustrations for reprinted stories in ''The Bumper Story Book for Boys'' and ''The Bumper Book for Girls'' in 1974-5. He was an excellent draughtsman and excelled at the figure, particularly the female figure, and his colour work was both vivid and sensitive. He died in 1976.
 
 
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Francis Kaye is an Irish cartoonist/illustrator. He drew 'The West Side' for The Galway Independent for 3 years. He drew the 'Vintage Vinny' strip for 'Vintage Motoring Scene' and 'P.J. the D.J.' for the Galway Observer.

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Comics Published in Ireland[]

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Will Sliney's Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cú Chulainn, made the Irish Times bestseller list and is Ireland's fastest-selling graphic novel.

Jim Fitzpatrick drew Nuada of the Silver Arm for the Sunday Independent in 1974-75.

Gerry Hunt's At War with the Empire was nominated for Best Irish-published book in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book awards.

Results are now in on the 2012 Irish Comic News awards!

Barbara Nolan (right), cartoonist and illustrator, died at home in Allihies, West Cork, on 13 August 2012.

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Sadhbh Lawlor | Splitting Borders | The Craigs | Space 1990 | Tom Carson | The Golden Walnut | Cat Tales for the Kiddies | Fonn | The Doings of Dudly | Darrin O'Toole | The Earthbound God | Desolate Ceremony | Noe: The Savage Boy | The Helix | Brendan McCarthy | Nigel Flood | Ryan O'Connor | Martin Greene | Frank J. Right | Naomi Bolger

Events 2008 | Events 2009 | Events 2010 | Events 2011 | Events 2012

Irish creators abroad[]

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Half Past Danger by Stephen Mooney, 2013

Stephen Mooney's pulp adventure serial Half Past Danger launched from IDW in the USA in May 2013.

J. R. Monsell, from Cahirciveen, County Kerry, drew for British nursery comics in the 1900s.

Bryan Coyle has been nominated for the 2013 Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his graphic novel Babble.

Irish artist S. W. Cavenagh drew for the British comic The Funny Wonder in the 1890s.

Irish-born cartoonist Joe Doyle drew strips for newspapers in Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1910s.

Corkman W. Howard Baker was the editor who launched Air Ace Picture Library in 1960, and wrote scripts for many of Fleetway's picture library titles.

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Little Reggie and the Heavenly Twins | The Wrangle Sisters | Rory McConville | Extracurricular Activities | The Mundane Overrated Misadventures of Spudman | J. Louis Smyth | Fizog | Mike Hubbard | Dorothea | Digitek | Peter Hoye | Presidential Material: John McCain | Patrick Hickey | Carnival of Cabbage | Waiting for the Mothership | Monstrum Horrendum | Tag Team | The Iron Moon | Harry McAvinchey

Irish cartooning[]

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Alf S. Moore wasn't a cartoonist, but his Belfast-based satirical magazines The Magpie (1898-1902) and Nomad's Weekly (?-1914) provided a venue for cartoonists like Matt Sandford and David Wilson.

Belfast's Brian Spencer draws political cartoons for Slugger O'Toole and the Huffington Post...

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Austin Molloy | The Celebrity Zoo | William Beckett ("Maskee") | William Brunton | Don Conroy | John Byrne | Illuminations: 101 Drawings from Early Irish History | Sean Mac Murchadha | Images of Erin in the Age of Parnell | Jon Berkeley | Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature | The Book of Friers | Riotous Living | James O'Donnell | Bernard Dowd | Oisín | Q.E.D. | Phelim Connolly | The Unkindest Cut

Irish illustrators[]

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The Moneylender by Joseph Edelstein, illustrated by Phil Blake, 1908

We've been finding out more about Phil Blake, who, as well as drawing political cartoons for the Weekly Freeman around the turn of the 20th century, illustrated the "controversial and scurrilous" 1908 novel The Moneylender by Joseph Edelstein, depicting Jewish moneylenders in Dublin.

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Basil Temple Blackwood | George Altendorf | Jon Berkeley | Philip Blythe | René Bull | Claude Byrne | Harry Clarke | Henry Edward Doyle | Beatrice Elvery | Jim Fitzpatrick | Richard King | P. J. Lynch | Norah McGuinness | W. C. Mills | George Monks | Seán Slattery | J. Louis Smyth | Hugh Thompson

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