Blackshapes

The Old Dears

2010-03-08T10:40:00.000Z

Off Note

2010-02-22T12:00:00.003Z

Note-o-riot-e

2010-02-18T17:12:00.000Z

Evening Stroll Late September

2010-02-14T12:00:00.001Z

Stay Off the Drink

2010-02-10T21:37:00.000Z

Note on your Nelly

2010-01-31T13:00:00.002Z

Cavalcade of Notes

2010-01-27T21:21:00.000Z

What's Up November 2008

2010-01-22T12:00:00.001Z

Hack

2010-01-19T17:25:00.003Z

Don't go in the Forest

2010-01-13T12:00:00.005Z

My First Festival

2010-01-08T11:43:00.002Z

The mini-comic version of My First Festival is now available over in the shop.

Toucher

2010-01-05T12:00:00.001Z

Note that I wrote

2010-01-02T22:15:00.001Z

The frankly awesome James Lloyd has been kind enough to scan up a note o' mine over on his excellent blog (blackshapes endorsed perusal pleasure guaranteed)as well as including a scan of the Gazebo cover original with all the whiteout intact. Eye-feast on this guy's artwork - pure class.

Also worth a look is the Moronoid Blog - an anthology which I have contributed to (and will do again) - you can purchase a copy there and all.

Just What...

2009-12-11T12:04:00.002Z

Don't forget the culmination of the 'Just What I've Always Wanted' comic art exhibition in the Twisted Pepper this Saturday - Bands, DJ's, Artwork, Fun. All proceeds for charidee with pieces not sold by Saturday to be put up on ebay.

Christmas 2008

2009-12-09T16:36:00.002Z

Working on this years Christmas card at the moment. Here is last years front:

Inside:

And rear:

Click on the label below for previous years cards.

Just What I Always Wanted

2009-12-03T16:25:00.001Z

'Just What I Always Wanted' is an exhibition of Irish comic-book art exhibition on display in Twisted Pepper, Abbey Street, Dublin from Dec 1st - Dec 12th.

Organised by them ComicCast lads, all the pieces are for sale and all the proceeds go towards Temple Street and Crumlin Children's hospitals. If they ain't sold by the 12th they'll be going up on ebay until they blooming well are.

Have a gawk on the photos part of the facebook page to see some of the class artwork in there.

As well as contributing a piece I got to do the poster above. It took me a few attempts though. Here was the decided upon thumbnail:

I made a bit of a bags of the legs and had to lengthen them in photoshop. Even so it just didn't look quite right:

When in doubt stick in a cute girl. But maybe not one with an elongated bigfoot style arm:

Ah sure it all came together in the end. Thank goodness for colour.

That was then

2009-11-25T19:05:00.001Z

Last year, for Free Comic Day Liam Geraghty and myself did this free mini-comic for the day - read it all here.

Rejiggage

2009-11-12T21:20:00.001Z

Currently rejigging some artwork for the exhibition at the upcoming Independents Day fair on the 22nd November.

This effort for the Irish 24 hour comic day anthology got a bit of hand colouring:

While this oldie got touched up and relettered:

The original version.

That She Wrote

2009-10-28T15:09:00.001Z

More semi-sequiturial filler/warm-up gubbins.

Buy the original artwork.

Note-a-lot

2009-10-21T11:53:00.001+01:00

Paul Francis got there first on his own blog but this terrific note-to-me is well worth a second post - a veritable lesson in picture making:

Check out Paul's 'Down and Out in the London Borough of D___'

Some other notes of note of late:
- Glorious Chris Judge and myself's note jam
- Note to Mindpuss on the incomparable Mindpuss blog
- Saintly Salvo's note to Salvo
- Deirdre the topper's note to Deirdre

24 Hr Comics Day

2009-09-27T17:00:00.001+01:00

As well as the eponymous endurance test of enthusiasm that is the 24Hr Comic draw-athon itself, this years 24 hr comics day on the 17th and 18th October in the Central Hotel Dublin has a host of other fantastic events.

In a super team-up with the Children's Book Festival there'll be workshops galore including:

a free for all mega-huge page comic jam
a pop-up book workshop with the multi-talented Maeve Clancey
a make your own mini-comic workshop from Bridgeen Gillespie and yours truly
a manga drawing workshop from real bona fide Japanese mangaka Tsuyoshi Ogawa
a hideous beast drawing workshop from illustrator Sarah McIntyre

Those good ol' boys from the Comiccast are doing a round table on getting started and self-publishing in comics.

There'll even be a 24 themed anthology available on the day as well as the usual reading corner featuring the very best in international mini-comics!

Click here for the Facebook group and email cliodhna@ztoical.com to sign up - quick!

My First Festival

2009-09-21T13:52:00.001+01:00

Old mucker Waltzer (initiator and kind host of the Wage Slave archive) put together an excellent zine on the subject of festivals in time for the Electric Picnic earlier this month to which I contributed a 6 page reminiscence. Check out Waltzer's blog for a link to an Issuu version of the zine and behind the scenes photos of its creation. I may make a mini-comic out of my story at some point for the print junkies who fail to get their hands on a copy.

Pet the Mindpuss

2009-09-11T12:00:00.002+01:00

Good old oneiric master Mindpuss has put up one of my notes over on his triffic blog.

Note On

2009-09-05T11:48:00.001+01:00

The talented Luke F did me this brillo note last week. I also got to pore over some of his original artwork too - beautiful stuff - this lad is a pro in waiting. Check out Luke's new comic Waiting Room available now from the usual spots in Dublin.

Deirdre kindly put up my Note to Deirdre on her blog and all.

Pangea

2009-08-06T09:59:00.001+01:00

If you're in Dublin this evening, Blackshapes recommends you head along to Chris Judge's exhibition in the South Studios, New Row South - round there by St.Patricks Cathedral - sure to be some cracking artwork on view and plenty of those lovely watercolour and ink pictures Chris has had up on his blog lately.