From 1992 when I was 13. Ninja and Pooba were my favourite characters, I drew lots of these but only have a couple as I usually gave them to friends in school where they were drawn
From when I was 17. My first comic ‘coloured’ digitally.
My first lettered and coloured one page comic
A weird experimental one page comic from 1997 or 1998
MOTUKA. An overly ambitious opus I tried when I was 18. It’s a good story but just way too advanced for me to do back then.
A truncated page from MOTUKA. I was really proud of this and all the fancy effects I could I pull off with my new found digital toolbox. This scene is silent but the rest of the comic was worded.
A page from Chapter two of MOTUKA.
From 2000. I have a bunch of these weird diary comics.
Yes I know the text is illegible but trust me, you’re not missing anything. This is from 1999-2000. Graylin was played by my little brother who had bought an old work shirt with the name ‘Graylin’ stitched on it so the whole comic is based on the fact that we had a shirt with the name ‘Graylin’ on it.
The baby in panel one is also my little bro, second panel is my dog, third is a friend and fourth is the bro again. The baddy is played by Quinner. It was a nightmare to make. I had no pc or digital camera so had to borrow time on both.
These photos were taken with a real camera in the Natural History Museum in Dublin. In the third panel the security guard was screaming ‘No Photos!!’ from the floor above and we just had to keep going. My bro was shouting back at him ‘Relax! Jimmy said it’s okay’
This is a good page. The whole thing was a good idea but just awfully executed.
The little gun that transforms into a walking insect is good. So that was Graylin. Cutting edge and ground breaking 10 years ago but just too strained to continue.
I started making these elaborate colour pages in 2000 and would send them by post to every magazine possible but nobody ever bit.