Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #29 Winston Zeddemore

Happy New Year everyone.
Next year is going to be a great one. I'll have 14 issues out over the year, and I'll be looking to add more to that total aswell as write the follow up to Cú Chulainn

MacGyver

The news broke last night. I'm joining the creative team of Tony Lee, Ciaran Lucas and original creator Lee David Zlotoff on Image comics relaunch of MacGyver.
Becky Cloonan is on board for covers too.

This is going to be a blast to draw. MacGyver was huuuuge in Ireland, all of my buddies watched it when it was on here.

2012 is going to be a bumper year for me. As for Cú Chulainn, well the great news on that front is that I'm well ahead of schedule on that. Expect a big announcement on that in the New Year, as well as a Stephen Mooney inspired website to be set up to chronicle its development.

And then of course there is PIGS..  You maaay just hear a lot about this when issue 6 hits the stands.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #28 Gizmo

Heres a christmas story for you. Gremlins was on one Christmas day, it reveals that Santa Claus isn't real. I knew the part was coming up, so I dived infront of the TV, started screaming to drown out this little reveal so my little brother and sister wouldn't hear it. They hated me all christmas day for ruining the movie. Ahh the sacrifices an older brother must make.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #27 Hans Gruber

Happy Christmas!

Superman Batman

Superman Batman Years

My favourite christmas tradition.

Every year, Declan and I draw up a Superman/Batman piece. Weve been doing it long before we were pros and it always makes me realise how lucky I am to be doing the job that I do.
This years piece will go online tomorrow. You can check out Decs piece on the Micks blog already.

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #26 Dillon

By the time I reach 80, dont be surprised if a few more characters from Predator pop up

Eighty Awesome Eighties Action Heroes #25 MacGyver

Evvvverybody in Ireland loved MacGyver, across all ages.

Pigs #6

I can announce that I'm back as the flashback artist for PIGS #6 for Image comics, by Nate Cosby and Ben McCool and well it's... it's gonna be a challenging bunch of pages. If you think the cover is disturbing your in for a bit of a shock.

Han Solo

Heres that full Star Wars pg now that its in print. Its up online coloured over at Starwars.com too

PIGS

If you follow @NateCosBOOM 's twitter you may have seen over the weekend that it was announced that I came in to do some interiors for PIGS issue 4.
Was delighted to work with both Nate and Ben. Its a cracking issue having read the script, and its an oversized one.
One of Image comics best at the moment. I would advise picking it up

More Info Next Week

Han and Chewie

Bit of a dream gig here. I got to draw Han Solo and Chewbacca in the Millenium Falcon for the upcoming Haynes Falcon guide. Its not in print yet but it is in the digital sampler over at the Star Wars official blog.

Star Wars

New Issue of Star Wars the Clone Wars is out today, which means I will have the local kids calling around again looking for tips on how to draw clone troopers (which is really really cool)

Cú Chulainn Whiskey

The kind folks at The Cú Chulainn Irish Whiskey company sent me on a litre of their brand new whisky, "Cú Chulainn" which will be launching in New York later this month.
I think I am going to reward myself with a glass or two after completing each chapter.

Thor Sample pg

Cú Chulainn Character Concepts

Also check out some interviews I did with Cosmic Treadmill and Irish Comicbook News

http://cosmictreadmill.co.uk/?p=450

http://www.irishcomicnews.com/news-talking-cu-chulainn-sliney/

Cú Chulainn by the Micks

Last week, upon the announcement of the book. The Eclectic Micks and guests took it upon themselves to produce some amazing pin-ups for Celtic Warrior.

John Cullen

 Stephen Thompson

 Ricardo Lopez Ortiz

 Stephen Mooney

 Stacey Lee

 Len O'Grady

 PJ Holden

 Tomm Moore

 Declan Shalvey

What a great week. Couldn't wait every day to see the new piece going up. Cheers all

Wolverine, Iceman, Captain America, Bucky

Some art pieces done for friends

Celtic Warrior on RTÉ

For a month only the footage from RTÉ debuting Celtic Warrior : The Legend of Cú Chulainn will be available online, around the world, at the RTÉ player. You can watch it here. (Its the first half of the show)


http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1112645
(Search for Friday 17th Septembers Nationwide)

Huuuge thanks again to Stephen Mooney and of course Jackie for letting me use their studio

For the first time. I can put up the pages seen on the show. Note, this is not approved final art, but it will show a little snippet of how the book may open.

Cú Chulainn

My phone died last night from the (literally) hundreds of emails and texts. Ill respond to them all asap. For those of you enquiring where to get the books. Stay tuned right here for any news

Hah, Just got this in from RTE. Check out Stephen Mooneys sexy studio

Book Announcement

Finally, after such a long build up, the book is going to be announced tomorrow at 7pm on RTE. For those that have been keeping tabs since I started teasing it months ago, I hope that it was worth it all. Im very excited about it and I cant wait to start showing some of the art.
Oh and if you happened to be watching RTE yesterday, they maaaay have already shown what the book is about in a preview segment. (I havent seen it yet, I just got dozens of phonecalls)

Announcement

Gambit

Check out more over at the eclecticmicks.blogspot.com

Side Project

A little bit of art from the Comiccast teased project with Dave Hendrick

Kill Shakespeare

Did you listen to yesterdays announcements over at the Comiccast??
http://thecomiccast.com/2011/09/01/will-sliney-update-interview-part-1/

If not then head on over to hear about my first IDW project which is a story for the excellent Kill Shakespeare. This was a lot of fun specifically because I got to work on a book that is full of great Andy Belanger art. Aswell as a great short story by Jason Bone, both of whom put up with me when I lived in there city of Toronto.

The story is written by Tom Waltz who also wrote Stephen Mooney's A-Team book.

Go pick up the first trade, its a great book. Props to Conor and Anthony for setting up the whole thing themselves

Batman

Kinda on a DC buzz today with the launch. Really looking forward to reading Justice League #1

Go for Papa Palpatine

Mooney Hard at Work

RTÉ

Im up in Studio Stephen Mooney today where RTÉ are going to be filming a mini segment for the announcement of my new book

IDW

Incase you missed the slew of announcements over on my twitter yesterday. One of them is that I have started my first gig for IDW (and can finally join the IDW Micks gang).

Heres a teaser Image from the book. I cant say what it is yet only that its a book thats damn fun to draw and that I'm following in the footsteps of one of the rare comic book artists who can last beside me at a bar (Well, he kind of can)

Star Wars in North America

The latest issue of Star Wars : The Clone Wars magazine now released in the States contains my first Star Wars story (Dug Out) that was released in the UK a few months back

New Project

I can announce that my new Comic Book project will be announced on RTÉ this August. They will be filming me in the Studio documentary style aswell as following me around Ireland to historic locations where the book takes place.
Expect guest appearances from some of the other Eclectic Micks

Star Wars the Clone Wars

Started drawing a new Star Wars Issue today for Titan. A very dark one it must be said. Plus, I get to design two new characters. Happy days

The Gutters

I was asked to do a pg for The Gutters today which is online now.
Unfortunately its kinda squished down a bit on the site so you can see the original here.
You should check out the site. There are some funny pages on it