Glengarriff Lodge, Luxury Self Catering in Cork, is running a competition for bloggers for a weekend break in the Lodge. Full details can be found on the Glengarriff Lodge Blog.
I’m linking to Niall as I think he may be interested!
Of course it would be remiss of me to plug a book without giving Ireland’s top nikkid-in-hotel-corridor caricaturist Niall O’Loughlin a mention for his Characters of the Turf. It features caricatures of some of the biggest names in Irish horseracing, and Niall’s watercolours are as beautifully rendered as they are funny. Each is accompanied by an interview by Peter A. Mason.
It’s available in most bookshops and from Niall’s website.
Got my signed copy of Mister Amperduke by Bob Byrne in the post today. Thanks Bob. I’ve just read the first chapter, although I don’t think read is quite the right word. There is no narrative text in the whole book. Bob has diligently stuck to using a graphic lexicon, which means it’ll travel well! I think digesting might be a better description of how you experience this book, and from the outset its level of detail is arresting. This is a graphic novel that appears to have been shot on paper, rather than drawn, and the trailer above really underscores its cinematic quality.
You can order Mister Amperduke directly from Bob’s website, and you’ll also receive an original panel from the book.
I have tears running down my face since I saw this. Via Graham Linehan’s blog.
