The Dublin Zine Fair takes place at the Scooby-Doo SupaFast building this weekend in Great Strand Street (just off Capel Street)
It’s a weird looking place going by the exterior photo. I imagine it as being in an alcho alley, painted with wet smoked tobacco. Inside though, bright open spaces, the essential scenesters, an accumulation of entrepreneurial energies in their crossings, trailing in distantly observed alien cultures to create a patchwork planet. With complimentary olives.This week I’m talking to those comic creators attending the Fair, and today I sat down with London visual artist, Colm Wood.
Andy:
Hi Colm, You’re an English comixer crossing the Irish Sea to Dublin for The 2012 Zine Fair. That sounds like a big deal. How would you introduce yourself and your work to someone at next weekend’s event in the Smithfield area, who has never heard of you before?
Colm:
Im not sure, actually. My comics dont tend to be long stories, just short, often rude bursts of nothing, which often make no sense to others, so I try to make them look nice. I find I enjoy illustrating, and comics is one way of doing that, so I try and vary what I draw on or what I make. I would tell people to expect a mess that they will hopefully like.
Andy:
What sort of relationship do you have with your punters and fans?
Colm:
Not really anything to be honest! Im very bad at keeping up with people, I tend to involve myself alot with work, most of which never sees the light of day. Im hoping to improve on that.
Andy:
What are you looking forward to most about the event?
Colm:
Well, I’ve been working on other projects not relating to comic work, so I’m just looking forward to being at an event again! Also its meant I’ve forced myself to spend more time working on illustrations, and that’s always nice.
Andy:
Anything you’re dreading?
Colm:
Honestly, it’s hard to dread an event filled with great artists and attended by great people!
Andy:
And finally – any message for the people out there, reading this, wishing that they too were a smooth, relevant and attractive comics creator?
Colm:
Kind of you to say, I’m probably not the one to ask! But most people I know that illustrate or produce work tend to illustrate or produce work for its own sake. There’s a chance they don’t realise that they too are smooth, relevant and attractive.
Colm Wood – The Scientist
You can view more of Colm’s shapes at http://kidgorgeous.com/ and check out his comics and illustrations at http://www.colmwood.com/
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The questions in this interview were built from models
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