Remember the Alamo: watercolour, 30″x 40″
This is the cover artwork for my book, Crossing Borders. The image is accompanied by a poem Recreational Rioting and is about the macho nature of street riots in the early 1970s in Derry, N.Ireland. The riots would sometimes be suspended so that rioters could go home to watch something good on TV. In this case The Alamo, the movie starring John Wayne…
These are the first few opening pages of a graphic novel I’ve been working on for quite some time. I was thinking of bringing this out as a series of 24 page episodes. The story is set in the Northern Irish Troubles of the early 1970s. The main character, Colm O Neill, brutalised by the conflict, joins the IRA. During an attempt to ambush The British Army he comes across an old gold cross in a graveyard…what happens next is out of this world…Enjoy the first four pages…
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