Another shop and Please Help Save Foinse

We are now in:

An Siopa Leabhar, 6 Sráid Fhearchair, Baile Átha Cliath 2
Website: https://cnag.ie/index.php?page=shop
Phone: +353 (0) 1 475 7401

And will be there at the end of the week. By the way Foinse the Irish language newspaper is in trouble it seems and if you could go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveFoinse09/index.html

They gave us a massive review there about two weeks ago (bowled me over when I read it). I used to pick it up every now and again just to see what's what (and how my Irish was). It is our only weekly Irish language newspaper, the countries flagship Irish language print media outlet it would be a disaster if it was to go.

This paper has been very good to us, gave us an excellent and totally unexpected good review in Foinse 14 Meitheamh 2009 (just last weeks edition of the paper). Please sign before the 26th of June.

More shelves

So we are now in two more shops from next week on:


Teach Thomáis, Ard na gCeapairí, Doirí Beaga, Leitir Ceanainn, Contae Dún na nGall Phone: 074-953 1054

Cúpla Focal, 15/16 Cosán Ailbhe, Bré, Co Chill Mhantáin/Co Wicklow
Website: http://www.cuplafocal.ie/
Phone: 01-2765120

Also Cork County Library, Kildare County Library and Kerry County Library will be featuring the magazine in some of their magazine stands in some of their libraries around their respective counties.

Where we are on the shelf so far

We are making a small presence on the shelf so far (am trying to get us on more) here:

Ennis Bookshop, 13 Abbey St., Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland Phone: +353 (0)65 6829000 http://www.ennisbookshop.ie/

Scéal Eile, 16 Lower Market St., Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)65 6848648
http://www.scealeilebooks.ie/

Custys Traditional Music Shop, Cookes Lane, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0) 65 6821727
http://www.custysmusic.com/

Abbey Newsagency, Abbey St, Ennis, Co. Clare

An Spailpín Fánach, Ceardlann an Spidéil, An Spidéal, Co. na Gaillimhe, Éire
Fón: +353 (0) 91 553343
http://www.spailpin.com/

Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, 216 Bóthar na bhFál, Béal Feirste, BT12 6AH
Fón: +44 (0)28 9096 4180
http://www.culturlann.com/


So a start has been made. The online shop has to be sorted yet on http://www.coimicigael.ie/ but we are getting there and hopefully we will have more copies in a bookshop or some establishment near you or maybe you can recommend to me some place to show them to. We are in Belfast and Galway now which is nice. So far all have been really friendly and open to this which is good especially the people from Irish language areas. An Spailpín Fánach and the bookshop in the Cultúrlann in Belfast were really friendly (so was everyone else but they deal in Irish almost exclusively so wasn't sure what they would think). Thanks to Stephen Downey for suggesting I ask the Cultúrlann.

We got reviewed yay!!!

Here is the review: http://comicrelated.com/news/1628/rira-review

Again if you want to contact me about getting it or whatever let me know at coimicigael@yahoo.ie or eolas@coimicigael.ie

I got the comic

Rírá is done and printed. I got 3000 copies of the mag there Tuesday evening. It's now a matter of getting it all out there for everyone to see and buy really.

Easier said than done as my internet has decided to die on me Tuesday night. Oh the irony. Always happens when you really need something to work like when a character says I have never been happier than I have been with you and then watches as their loved one gets hit by a meteorite smack between the eyes in a British soap. Anyway...

We have been featured on a nós* magazine's (like Hot Press but in Irish) website and in the April edition of the magazine itself. If you want to read the article click on this link: http://www.nosmag.com/clo/gael-ghreannan-chugainn/

We are also going to be featured on www.comicrelated.com in the next few days and we have a start made on the website which we are hoping to get going properly now in the next few days www.coimicigael.ie

Was going around my hometown of Ennis today and yesterday sold about 40 copies to the local gaelscoil here and the Ennis Bookshop took on 20 copies to have on their shelves. In total over two days we have managed to sell about 100 copies so so far so good. I would love if the response in every county is as good.

All important though is getting that internet sorted. Grr. I have never before felt so helpless in all my life, like the poor sods on the other end of the line in the I.T. Crowd (which I love).

Yes I switched it off and on. Yes I have checked to see if it was plugged in. I have...

Working for Art in the Classroom in the Times

Yes in between stuff I have been up to work for the Irish Times again through Muireann Lalor and have been handing in comic strips for the Art in the Classroom section. I was asked to do three sample strips for the supplement for kids to use as an example. I was given three art related jokes to do. Now kids are handing in their very own comic strips based on characters in the strips here. I know all very basic but apparently after seeing these they received loads of comic strips that's what I like to hear more comic artists giving it a go:

And I also did a colouring picture based on Gullivers Travels.

All fun.

French rugby comic strip

I know I know, I have been guilty of neglecting this blog but the comic is going to print in the next week so I am excited. Very excited as we have a cool rugby strip from France called Leo Passion Rugby for the magazine. Here is the cover for the second volume. We also have two other strips from France in the comic but this is a bit of a coup for us. This is created by Loic Nicoloff and Phillipe Fenech and published by Soliel Productions in France.