Paddy Brown kindly lets us know that the Irish Comics Wiki which Katherine mentioned a while back has moved from Wiki to Wikia, which uses similar software but is apparently easier to use and register with, which is handy because its proved pretty successful, with more than 270 articles thus far; you can access the new version here. And while we’re on the topic of Irish comics I should point you in the direction of Paddy’s own site which, among other delights, offers up an online version of his comic the Ulster Cycle: Ness, first in a series set in Iron Age Ireland which looks both interesting and something a bit different; I like the rough, scratchy look of the art, which puts me in mind of a cross between a movie storyboard and a full comic, suiting the tough times of the period he’s writing about very well, I thought.
(cover to the Ulster Cycle: Ness, art, story and (c) Paddy Brown, whole comic now available to read via his website)
Wed, Oct 15, 2008
Comics and cartoons