Illustrator Nate Williams has written an informative article on how he got started as a professional illustrator, including advice on how to market your work and manage your clients.

This exhibition by the American Society of Illustrators runs from Jan 3rd-26th in New York but many of the works are viewable online. Artists include Guy Billout, Brian Cronin, Marshall Arisman and many more.

3×3 have announced their fifth annual illustration competition:
It’s time to get your entries ready for the fifth annual international illustration competition. And this year you can enter and pay online. No more multiple forms to fill out, no more multiple formats to submit, no more burning discs. We’ve made the entry process easier, but the judging will be just as tough as always.

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The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, is running a Manga Anime Weekend starting Friday 1st February.

Of particular interest is the talk by Paul Gravett on the Saturday. Paul was founder of Escape Magazine, playing an integral role in giving a focus to the burgeoning British Comics scene in the 80′s as well as being a forerunner in translating many European comics into English. He is a contributor to The Guardian and The Comics Journal and an author of many books on comics. Not to be missed.

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Well it’s a new year! So while we are still bristling with confidence and open-minded about the possibilites the year holds, let’s take a wonder into the wonderful world of Alan Clarke with an all too brief Q&A….Over to you Maestro! (more…)

Mario, SCAMP’s roving reporter, is out and about again. Taking in the latest exhibitions, A Light in the Darkness & Silhouettes and Miniatures, in the National Gallery, Dublin.
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Illustrators Ireland member Joven Kerekes kicks off 2008 on Scamp by informing us that after 70 years of obscurity there is finally a book reprinting the work of forgotten American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks. For three feverish years at the very beginning of superhero comics, Hanks pumped out the strangest, most retarded, bizarre, most unintentionally hilarious comics ever seen then or now. Today he would be considered an outsider artist and could still achieve fame that way…

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