It’s a great example to show that when Irish comic creators work together, good things happen.Ĭlare: The weekly Zoom calls began around the time I was really struggling creatively, I was just floundering without any sense of “comics community” that I’d usually get from events, conventions, meeting up with friends… It left me very unmotivated to create anything. I won’t lie and pretend that I also didn’t mention Eclectic Micks as an inspiration. I feel like Twitter etc has removed a bit of that culture due to picking and choosing who you follow but I think there’s a demand for it now that folks have become wary of social media. You’d go to check out one thing but stick around to read something else. I remember talking about my early days of writing articles for websites and how they were a great source of pot-luck entertainment. A big theme in all of that was just how important supporting each other is and how difficult things can be when we’re trying to hussle individually. As part of those conversations we also talked about what we hoped the future of the Irish comics community would be coming out of the pandemic. Where did the idea come from? What excited you about it when it first came up in conversation?Īaron: Well like you said, we had a year of weekly zoom calls between us talking about how we were all trying to make independent comics and how much of a struggle that can be.
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