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The Irish Comics Scene
The first chapter of Get Off That Ship, Alan Dunne's forthcoming Titanic graphic novel, is available to read online.
Gerry Hunt's latest graphic novel, Draugr in Dublin City, about an undead Viking waking in modern-day Dublin, is out, with a cover by Glenn Fabry.
National Tragedy's anthology Romantic Mayhem launches at Anseo, Lower Camden Street, Dublin, on 14 April 2012.
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.
The inaugural Irish Comic News awards are announced, and there's a few surprises...
The Comic Cast won Best Independent Podcast at the 2011 Irish Web Awards. Congratulations to Craig and Liam!
Derry's Uproar Comics get some coverage in the Belfast Telegraph and the Derry Journal.
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Una Gallagher | John Connor | Pearlmoon Productions | Faust | Passing Days | The Adventures of Me | Seán de Swann | Cupid's Last Arrows | 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
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Irish Creators Abroad
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.
Also...
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
Irish Cartooning
"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...
Also...
Brian Spencer | 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
Irish Illustrators
From Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
Basil Temple Blackwood, illustrator of Hilaire Belloc's books of children's verse, was from Clandeboye, County Down.
Also...
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
Calendar
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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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Upcoming Events
July
- 13: Arcade Con, Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin
- 26: Dublin Comic Jam, The Lord Edward, Christchurch, Dublin
August
- 2: Belfast Comics Pub Meet, The Cloth Ear, Waring Street, Belfast, 9pm
- 11: Ghost of Shandon book launch, Cork City Library, 2pm
- 11-12: Dublin Zine Fair, Supafast Building, Great Strand Street, Dublin
- 30: Dublin Comic Jam, The Black Sheep, Capel Street, 8pm
September
- 1: 2000 AD signing with Michael Carroll and PJ Holden, Forbidden Planet International, Ann Street, Belfast, 12-2pm
- 6: Belfast Comics Pub Meet, The Cloth Ear, Waring Street, 9pm
- 15: Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance conference, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
- 21-23: TitanCon SF/fantasy convention, Europa Exhibition Centre, Belfast
- 29-30: Dundrum International Comics Expo, Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum, Dublin
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