The Kilkenny Arts Festival is on again and this year I'm exhibiting at the Blackbird Gallery in the company of some amazing printmakers and a two floors of Patrick Scott work, really worth checking out.

Alot of work happening for 24 hour comics day, details of some of the workshops are starting to come together.

* there will be a giant free for all comic jam for the younger kids. All the kids taking part will draw one big giant comic story that we'll cut up into sections so everyone can take a piece home.
* Phil Barrett will be running a mini comic workshop for 8 to 12 years olds where they will make their own 7 page mini comic.
* Very excited to announce that the international Manga Museum in Kyoto are sending one of their Artists, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, to run a manga assistant drawing workshop. This workshop hopes to give those taking part an understanding of how comics are produced in Japan and what it is like to work as a manga assistant. Participants will get to try their hand at inking with both nib and brush. We will be running two workshops, one for kids [kids under 10 need to be accompanied by an adult] and one for teens/adults. Ogawa-San and his translator will be around to answer any questions on Manga that people might have through out the day.
* Sarah McIntyre, Children's Book Illustrator and creator of Vern & Lettuce for the DFC, will be running a character design workshop and reading from her new book "Morris the Mankiest Monster".
* The Comic Cast will host a round table talk with Irish comic creators focusing on getting started and self publishing your work both in print and on the web. Full list of participants will be posted closer to the event. I would like to encourage people to either comment here or get in touch with me if they have any questions/topics they would be interested in seeing discussed during the talk.


Reminder submissions are open for '24' [link] a comics anthology for 24 hour comics day Dublin in October - you don't need to attending the event to submit.