Award winning IGI Member, Scalder, has launched his new web site, scalderville.com. Packed with tons of new work, really love the wolves.

This looks like fun, Anna Goodson Management hold an annual pumpkin carving contest. You can checkout and vote for your favourite here

24 hour comics day is an international celebration of comics creation. Cartoonists all over take the challenge of trying to create a 24 page comic story in 24 straight hours. This years event is the 18th/19th of October. There are two events taking place on the island of Ireland. The ROI event will take place as always in the Central Hotel in Dublin starting at noon on Saturday 18th and running for 24 hours until noon on Sunday 19th. It is free to take part, though artists must bring their own materials with them to create their comic. There will be a reading section featuring Irish mini comics and zines as well as a selection of international mini comics and a table selling mini comics. More information can be found at irish24hourcomics.com
Catalyst Arts will be hosting a 24 hour comics event in Belfast starting at 10am on Saturday 18th and running until 10pm Sunday 19th.  Again its free to take part but artists must bring their own materials.  More information can be found at catalystarts.org.uk

Pentagram have designed Beat IV: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; a fully illustrated edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem, published by the Heart Agency to showcase the work of their roster of illustrators. See images here.

The National Ploughing Championships took place this year at Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny. Illustrator Roger O’Reilly took along his wellies and sketchbook to capture some of the spectacle of the event.

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Moleskine supremo Enrique Flores was in Ireland recently, adding to his fantastic travel sketchbooks collection. You can see more at his youtube channel.

Bob Staake illustrates the October 13, 2008 politics cover of The New Yorker. Read more about the cover, and the rejected concepts here.

Just to kick start the week and jolt the brain into gear here are some interesting thing to look at on the interweb… (more…)

Once a month we showcase the latest work created by members of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland. Each member has submitted one of their best illustrations from the previous month, either commissioned or personal. Follow the link below to see all this month’s entries.
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Fergal Brennan’s ‘Non-Flattering Portraits’ that were drawn along with Illustrator Chris Judge and Mark Wickham as part of electric picnic this year. And Chris has just posted them to Flickr… Some great ones in there.