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 Luke (My brother, of www.lukefcomics.blogspot.com) is  a bit more  ‘with it’ than me in Dublin these days, in all truth.  Considering he’s not old enough to sit a basic driving lesson, never mind buy a pint, makes me wonder if this is more a reflection on me than him. I suppose when money is divided into category A (The Hop House) and category B (The bus to The Hop House/ the bus back home from The Hop House) then category C (Buying nice things) goes out the window.  Anyway, yesterday he came home with some nice odds and ends he picked up from the stuio of an Irish artist in town.

I fell in love with this shirt when I seen it. Chris Judge, if you don’t know- is a contributing artist to www.scamp.ie, the artist behind quite a lot of the Vodafone advertisements that may have stood out for you in the last while, and (to prove what a small world Dublin is) also did the sign over the door of Twisted Pepper on Middle Abbey Street. I noticed on his own blog at the time  of  the bars launch he mentioned the sign would be changed every few months, but it seems they’ve stuck with his effort- which I love.

Anyway, my interest in comics/illustration is low and only recently developing at all due to Lukes influence no doubt, but so close to Christmas it’s worth looking around Dublin for unique, and homegrown, presents.

So, in the spirit of that:

Christmas Flea Market, Dublin

December 20th up at the Co-Op. While obviously these things always bring out the bric-a-brac stalls, there is no shortage of creative hands in this city. For something a bit more unique, it’s worth a look. To think if I was buying Luke a shirt I wouldn’t look beyond Topman….

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