His relationship with his father Bedlam, his need to join what he perceives as his peers, his betrayal, Bedlams reaction "with tooth and claw!"
Zarjaz stuff
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Rumpus, The Ape with the Drape
A portrait of one of the coolest one- off characters in one of the greatest vignettes in the ABC Warriors story from 2000AD.
His relationship with his father Bedlam, his need to join what he perceives as his peers, his betrayal, Bedlams reaction "with tooth and claw!"
Zarjaz stuff
His relationship with his father Bedlam, his need to join what he perceives as his peers, his betrayal, Bedlams reaction "with tooth and claw!"
Zarjaz stuff
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Gav Beattie/Tiny Little Horse
Great to see my friend and ex-band mate Gav getting the media attention he deserves in the blog The Small Print.
Gav has produced hundreds of distinctive gig posters for DIY and punk bands here in Ireland and abroad.
Read the interview here
Gav and I played in the punk band Backhanders , and the Oi covers band The Bootleg Bootboys some years ago.
Look... there we are..
Backhanders
Monday, April 6, 2009
Frankensteins Monster
An alternate ending to the scene with the little girl
This has been sitting on my hard-drive for a couple of years as a photo-shop sketch but i finally got around to finishing it this morning
This has been sitting on my hard-drive for a couple of years as a photo-shop sketch but i finally got around to finishing it this morning
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
According to Luke by Gerry Stembridge
Some time ago i had the pleasure of illustrating the serialised novel According to Luke by Gerry Stembridge. This appeared monthly in The Dubliner magazine and was later published by Penguin Ireland . I thought it's be nice to post them all up together.
At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. He is a child of the leafy suburbs, attractive - in an understated way, tolerant and erudite, socially assured, professionally successful, romantically settled. In short, a textbook example of upper middle class contentment. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion - shame - when his father, Frank, a leading barrister, is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, and unlike his younger sister, made helpless by the thought that her Daddy could do wrong, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on. He becomes a self-appointed campaigner for restorative justice, trying to make good the damage his father has done. His actions are unpredictable, shocking and life-altering - not just for himself, but for all those close to him. According to Luke is a scintillating novel that gets under the skin of contemporary Ireland, a darkly comic moral tale, sizzling with ironic implications, about the abuse of privilege and the folly of human nature.
At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. He is a child of the leafy suburbs, attractive - in an understated way, tolerant and erudite, socially assured, professionally successful, romantically settled. In short, a textbook example of upper middle class contentment. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion - shame - when his father, Frank, a leading barrister, is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, and unlike his younger sister, made helpless by the thought that her Daddy could do wrong, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on. He becomes a self-appointed campaigner for restorative justice, trying to make good the damage his father has done. His actions are unpredictable, shocking and life-altering - not just for himself, but for all those close to him. According to Luke is a scintillating novel that gets under the skin of contemporary Ireland, a darkly comic moral tale, sizzling with ironic implications, about the abuse of privilege and the folly of human nature.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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