Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Page 169: Shem the Penman
We’re back! And diving straight into chapter seven! This chapter, which is a grotesque self-portrait of Joyce himself, is my personal favourite, and I couldn’t wait any longer. As usual, I expect to feel confident in this style just before I don’t need it anymore.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
New Domain Name
I’ve finally got around to registering this site as www.wakeinprogress.com. Let me know if anything stops working, because it’s all rather mysterious to me.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly
The three separate pages of The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly have finally achieved their ULTIMATE DESTINY! Including faithfully-transcribed SHEET MUSIC! If you play this and upload it to Youtube, you’re almost guaranteed to become the next Rebecca Black.
If you think you need a fancy art print of it, then you can find it here! Word to the wise: the smallest size is basically illegible, but it didn’t give me the option not to offer it.
If you think you need a fancy art print of it, then you can find it here! Word to the wise: the smallest size is basically illegible, but it didn’t give me the option not to offer it.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Page 36: a nice how-do-you-do, re-do
More fresh inking. I’ve adorned this one with text from the James Joyce Literary Supplement, to commemorate it being printed on their cover last year. I hope they don’t mind...
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Page 45, version 2
Doing the comic has put me in an inking mood, so I finally got around to redrawing the Ballad of Persse O'Reilly. Humpty Dumpty is the only big change.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Page 154: the gripes
For the anniversary of Joyce’s death, two in one day! I know, I’m really spoiling him.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Page 152: ere wohned a mookse
Work stopped out of respect to my Wacom pen, which passed away over the Christmas break. By which I mean, the new one arrived this morning.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Page 103: by the waters of babalong
This is the last page of chapter four. And although I know I’ve left a lot of gaps that will need filling at some point, it still feels pretty momentous to me. I posted the first page of chapter four in July 2011, and it’s the last of three connected chapters that I started in October 2010. So I’m pretty happy to be moving on. You can expect a lot more skipping as I race towards chapters seven and eight, which are my favourite parts of the whole book.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Page 100: the canonicity of his existence as a tesseract
It will be a long while before we see this guy again.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Page 101: so tellas tellas allabouter
I’ve been working on five or six pages at once for the past few weeks. There are some more that come before this. But look, it’s just an eye. Easy.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
The Book Notes page: a wilderness of ashes and bones
Another one of the things that I’ve been putting off for more than a year (a list that grows significantly more than it shrinks) is sorting out the resources page on this site, which I’ve been meaning to fill with delicious Finnegans Wake links and book recommendations ever since I first put it up. However, it’s perfectly clear by now that I’ll never do it by myself. So I’m calling on YOU, my kind, charming, strikingly attractive visitors (is that a new haircut?), to suggest some links and titles for me to post there.
What are the best Finnegans Wake resources both available and comprehensible to the general reader? For example, my own personal favourite is A Word in your Ear by Eric Rosenbloom. I have a generalised prejudice against the Skeleton Key-style readers, so any inventive alternatives to those would be much appreciated. (Anything that asserts or implies that the dreamer gets up and walks around will be approached with extreme caution, even if it was written by Anthony Burgess.)
Thanks for your help!
What are the best Finnegans Wake resources both available and comprehensible to the general reader? For example, my own personal favourite is A Word in your Ear by Eric Rosenbloom. I have a generalised prejudice against the Skeleton Key-style readers, so any inventive alternatives to those would be much appreciated. (Anything that asserts or implies that the dreamer gets up and walks around will be approached with extreme caution, even if it was written by Anthony Burgess.)
Thanks for your help!
Friday, October 26, 2012
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Page 93: and so it all ended
Note that while it may claim that the story has ”ended,” the chapter goes on for another 10 pages. The struggle continues!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Page 92: the maidies of the bar
Technically, there should be 28 girls here, but where the hell would I fit them all?
Monday, September 17, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
A lot of late business
There’s a whole heap of things that I’ve been putting off posting for ages – what can I say, I’m a disaster – so now you’re going to get them all at once in a giant messy blast of updates.
FIRST OF ALL, I was really happy to take part in the first Haecceity exhibition with six talented artists! It was a lot of fun, and I’m enormously grateful to Cara Tobe and the other organisers, who all did an amazing job.
And here’s the ex libris-style flyer that I designed to advertise the show.
The artwork displayed at the show is still available to buy. Contact the organisers if you’re interested.
SECONDLY, I’ve been sitting on this for months, but I was delighted to be featured on the front page of the James Joyce Literary Supplement. I love that they picked a newspaper-y one, too.
THIRDLY, the lovely people at the Library as Incubator Project were kind enough to run a feature on my work on their website. If you’re not familiar with the project, you should really take a look. It’s a fascinating idea to encourage libraries to develop into spaces to help artists work, study and collaborate. They’re brilliant, inspiring people, so please please check them out.
Did I forget anything? The answer is almost certainly yes.
FIRST OF ALL, I was really happy to take part in the first Haecceity exhibition with six talented artists! It was a lot of fun, and I’m enormously grateful to Cara Tobe and the other organisers, who all did an amazing job.
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| Photo: Marie Leskimo |
And here’s the ex libris-style flyer that I designed to advertise the show.
The artwork displayed at the show is still available to buy. Contact the organisers if you’re interested.
SECONDLY, I’ve been sitting on this for months, but I was delighted to be featured on the front page of the James Joyce Literary Supplement. I love that they picked a newspaper-y one, too.
THIRDLY, the lovely people at the Library as Incubator Project were kind enough to run a feature on my work on their website. If you’re not familiar with the project, you should really take a look. It’s a fascinating idea to encourage libraries to develop into spaces to help artists work, study and collaborate. They’re brilliant, inspiring people, so please please check them out.
Did I forget anything? The answer is almost certainly yes.
