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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.

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

Irish creators abroad[]

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HPD Issue1 Cover Sml — *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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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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Irish illustrators[]

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Joeedelstein — *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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Calendar[]

On this day: 19 April

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Upcoming Events

December 2013[]

All month: Will Sliney exhibition at Winterval Festival, Waterford
Thur 5: Belfast Comics Pub Meet, The Cloth Ear, Waring Street, Belfast, 9pm

January 2014[]

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-[[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.
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-[[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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-''[[The Mundane Overrated Misadventures of Spudman]]'' |
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-[[Peter Hoye]] |
-''[[Presidential Material: John McCain]]'' |
-[[Patrick Hickey]] |
-''[[Carnival of Cabbage]]'' |
-''[[Waiting for the Mothership]]'' |
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-[[Harry McAvinchey]] |
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-[[Sean Mac Murchadha]] |
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-[[Jon Berkeley]] |
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-[[File:Blackwood Cautionary Tales.jpg|thumb|left|300px|From ''Cautionary Tales for Children'' (1907)]]
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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]] |
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