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My First Festival
January 2010 - Out of print
Minicomic version of story that originally appeared in 'Festival' magazine.
- Sample Pages
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Blackshapes
March 2009 - Out of print
Rejigged to A5 from the original version with some additional panels.
- Sample spread
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Matter #7: Weird Face
November 2008 - Out of print
- sample page
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Stray Lines
October 2012
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The anthology from Cardboard press featuring new work from Philip Barrett, Barry Hughes, Gus Hughes, Chris Judge & Andrew Judge, and Paddy Lynch.
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- More details on Cardboard press website.
- Posts on Blackshapes Blog relating to Stray Lines here.
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Matter Issue 3/free
October 2006 - out of print
Featuring previously appeared website comics, including:
- Typical
- Sketchbook
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Lint
Issue 1
March 2006 - out of print
Featuring:
The Record - Full story!
See You Later Then
Little Boyfriend - Full story!
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Matter Issue 2
May 2003 - out of print
Featuring:
The Divils
The Record
Girl on Chair
Touched
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Blackshapes is proud to present a limited selection from Downright Bockedy - click here for more details.
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Curtains
April 2013 - Out of print
Close the curtains before you turn on your light - my mother had a look for this, a kind of Don't let me down, it's not much I ask expression in her eyes, which was not a lot different to her Don't be late look, or even for that matter the dreaded Did you get Mass look. I often think of her now, and how we were, each time I close the curtains.
Two comics and a short story. |
- sample page
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Something Occurred; Bennie On The Loose
October 2011 - out of print
A darkly comic and disquieting short story told in colouful Dublinese, wherein young Johnner probably should have legged it when the pigeons abandoned their chip-flinging contest and the aul-fella with the tapping foot plonked down on the bench beside him.
A short story.
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The Well Below
August 2011 - Out of print
| A symbiotic collection - comics and a short story - concerned with memories, the passing of time and the struggle to reconcile our grown-up selves with the children we were. In the title story, life can be spacetime-consuming for an out-of-sync kidult caught in the orbit of a romanticised past. When his trajectory shifts, shit happens. |
- sample page
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Mortal Tedium
January 2011 - Out of print
| Seven pithy tales of precarious footholds in life which, with oddly purposeful frankness, reveal home truths and fragile pretences. For instance: in The Receiver, a young woman goes from sovereign individual to sorry individual as both her PC and her life are remotely tweaked by computer support. |
- sample page
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Enter Out
July 2010 - out of print
| In an Ireland sombrely soggy from economic meltdown, where mutually overlapping dreams linger into lapsed lives and where cryptic communications are channelled from elsewhere, six discontented Dubliners count down from infinity. |
- sample page
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The Monkey-Head Complaint
June 2009 - out of print
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In this good-humoured Hitchcockian tale of psychological horror, Frank is convinced he knows who deposited the decapitated cat on his doorstep – an oddly troubled shoplifter with a strange mother, and an even stranger complaint.
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- sample page 01
- sample page 02
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Inside Outsiders
January 2009 - Out of print
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Psychosexual subtext pervades this League Of Extraordinary Toy Story as action figures undertake the perilous search for a fellow room-dweller who has fled an emotionally complicated relationship with a promiscuous Bratz doll. |
- sample page 01
- sample page 02
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Sad Chemistry
August 2007 - Out of print
My thang just ain't to hang, to bang, to screw; and I's a chicken-shit mother, too – spend my time indoors chillin', mother-fuckin' illin' to some bitchless life I just ain't up to fillin'. Kaz, I's spaz! Ain't never gots me no pussy-play – you look at me you knows I ain't no Dre!
A collection of short comics and texts
- The Mine-Sweeper
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Negotiating The Beast
March 2006 - out of print
Robert's preoccupation with trees had taken him to some isolated regions. One tree in particular became the focus of this tree spotting – a rotting spruce, in the mangled branches of which Robert once glimpsed the expression of a hanged girl.
A collection of short comics
- Fat Chance
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Vacancy for Satan
April 2006 - Out of print
My father placed a small ad in the local paper. Due to some strange typing error the Tuesday edition of his ad read Vacancy For Satan. (He had only wanted to sell the lawnmower.) Lucifer Iblis arrived Wednesday. We were to call him Lou.
A collection of eight short stories.
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