I began working as a creator at and organiser of events and conventions in 2016. I’ve tabled at some of Ireland’s biggest events, at Thought Bubble and MCM London, at WorldCon in Dublin, and at smaller conventions all over the country of Ireland. I ran a market in Dublin for two and a half years,…
Before 2015, my only engagement in the Irish comic community was a fan of a few select small press comics – notably, The Wren from Buttonpress Comics, and just about anything Anthea West published; I’ve known her since 2007, and she was the only person I knew who made comics. As someone who’s constantly trying…
On my newsletter, I had the notion to do a full round-up of every story and event from 2023 that I’d published or been part of. It turns it, it makes for a long list. These are the sorts of things that it’s easy to forget about when December rolls around, when you’re tired and…
After a wee hiatus, Project Dark House is back in action with another freebie posted on IrishComics.ie. I finally got to work with a bucket-list artist, Lane Lloyd, on a creepy, genre-diving story called The Faces of the Many. You can read it on IrishComics.ie for free!
Following on from the publication of The Fiend in the Forest earlier this year, I worked with Gavin Fullerton to produce the second story from Project Dark House. Dead Ringer is an 8-page story about identity and faceless violence. With a monster, for good measure. The comic can be read for free on IrishComics.ie. Reader…
Project Dark House just keeps on giving. After seeing her work in Turning Roads, I reached out to Mari Rolin to see if she’d be up for a creepy little nightmare called Child’s Play. The comic can be read for free on IrishComics.ie.
To celebrate the launch of IrishComics.ie, I teamed up with Clare Foley on a new short horror. The Fiend in the Forest is the first completed work in what I’ve taken to calling Project Dark House, a weird little universe of original cryptids. You can read the whole thing for free over on IrishComics.ie, or…
The other big news I have this week is about Dublin Comic Con. I’ve already said I’ll be there, but now I can reveal that Limit Break Comics has two panels lined up for it! I need a proper map, but in the meantime… there I am: Now, onto the panels! The Octocon crowd (who…
If you hang around Twitter enough, you’ll see calls for pitches to comic anthologies quite a bit. One such anthology is Amongst the Stars, a sci-fi romance anthology. The selection for 2022 was announced a few days after the last newsletter. Check it out! Did you see it? I got in! Myself and James Killian are…
The ICN Awards nominations were recently announced. In a first for me, I’ve got nominations across the board, and I’d really appreciate public votes to help a little bit! https://irishcomicnews.dreamhosters.com/2022/01/17/icn-awards-2021/ (ICN has since shut down, so I have removed this link.) The ICN Awards are a staple of the Irish comic community which we all…