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Irish Comic Collective Limit Break Comics Expands Its Team to Mark its 6th Birthday

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Irish comic collective Limit Break Comics is celebrating its sixth birthday by inviting new creators to join the team.

Founded in 2018 by Paul Carroll, Gareth Luby and Gary Moloney, the collective first introduced a new member of the team in 2022 with the publication of Seamus Kavanagh’s Old Game Plus #1. Since joining the collective, Seamus runs panels at conventions under the Limit Break banner. In 2023, Limit Break published Mr & Mrs Van Helsing by Aaron Fever and Hugh Madden.

Since its inception, Limit Break Comics has sought to support small press comics in Ireland and abroad. The group has worked with over 130 creators, and is currently in the process of publishing its fourth myth anthology, Wish Upon a Star (returning to Kickstarter in September 2024.) 

In 2024, Limit Break Comics has announced new arrivals to the team from the long list of contributors to the collective’s books since 2021: James Killian, Mari Rolin, Alice Coleman, and Colin O’Mahoney.

The new team will be part of the upcoming second issue of Limit Break Presents, to be released later this year.

James Killian is an artist from Westmeath, Ireland. His art can be found in anthologies such as Turning Roads, Down Below and Fractured Realms. When he is not drawing, he spends time playing with his best friend Boots.

Mari Rolin is a Brazilian comic book artist residing in Kerry, Ireland. She’s one half of the team behind the webcomic Chaotic Neutral (2020) and part of both the editorial and artistic team of OPArt, nominated for the Angoulême Alternative Comics Award in 2024. Mari enjoys making zines and featured in several comic book anthologies/magazines like Café Espacial #20 (2022), HOME (2022), and Failure to Launch (2023, Iron Comics); she is also the artist in the indie graphic novel When Language Fails (2023). A collaborator with Limit Break Comics since 2021, Mari is joining the group in 2024. When she’s not drawing or painting, she can be found reading, writing, teaching or playing with her cats.

Alice Claire Coleman (@OneCuriousChip) is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Cork, with a speciality in book cover design and typesetting. Clients include Watkins, Angry Robot, Nourish, Datura Books, various independent publishers, and more. 

Colin O’Mahoney (he/him) is a writer and editor who has had comic and prose work published in Ireland, England, America, South America, and the internet. He is currently working on several graphic novel pitches, and is the lead writer on a yet-to-be-announced children’s TV show. He just loves writing, and if you ever try to stop him you will be sorry. Because he will cry, and it will be really embarrassing for everyone.

Colin also teaches creative writing and comic-making, and is passionate about the benefits of creativity, and self expression, particularly for young people.

He lives in Cork, Ireland, with his wife Aileen, and two cats. They are currently building a bunker designed for the myriad types of apocalypse the modern world threatens (climate, nuclear, A.I, idiocy, unicorn, etc.) The cats have not been particularly helpful in this project.

Crowdfunding Corner: Limit Break Comics launches Wish Upon a Star

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Irish comic collective and publisher, Limit Break Comics has launched the Kickstarter campaign for its fourth myth anthology, Wish Upon a Star. The campaign seeks to raise €16,500 in the month of March to publish a comic anthology of far-future adaptations of fairy tales.

Wish Upon a Star is the start of a new trilogy of myth anthologies, with Limit Break writers and editors Paul Carroll and Gary Moloney directing their attention to modern mythology.

The line-up of creators for Wish Upon a Star includes:

Brendan Albetski, Christian Angeles, Akira B., Adam Bagley, David Baillie, Paul Carroll, Peter Clinton, Alice Coleman, Pablo Moreno Collar, Shay Commander, Dave Cook, Colin Craker, Matias De Vincenzo, Sachi Ediriweera, Chandra Free, Matt Garbutt, Alex Garrick-Wright, Oliver Gerlach, Reed Hinckley-Barnes, Megan Huang, Joonatan Itkonen, Seamus Kavanagh, James Killian, John Kissee, Gareth Luby, Andriy Lukin, Marin, Robby Melendez, Dan Membiela, Michiums, Gary Moloney, Alex Moore, Micah Myers, James Nadiger, Carlos Pedro, Mari Rolin, Narjes Ruyan, Andrea Schiavone, Diana Sousa, Noah Stephens, Dan Tappan, and Johanna Taylor.

Overall, Wish Upon a Star received more than 200 pitches from creators around the world. Fewer than 10% were accepted into the book, accompanying stories by the Limit Break core creators: Paul Carroll, Gary Moloney, Gareth Luby, and Seamus Kavanagh.

If funded, the book is due for release in the second half of 2024. Accompanying the anthology on Kickstarter are a range of pins, stickers and prints, including work from Reckless Hero artist Chris Imber, and Irish illustrator Isabella von Metzradt (Helixel).

Limit Break Comics to Launch Fractured Realms at Thought Bubble 2023

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Fractured Realms

Dublin based comic collective Limit Break Comics will launch Fractured Realms, an anthology of Norse Horror comics, at Thought Bubble 2023. The book is the third myth-anthology to be published by Limit Break Comics, following the success of Turning Roads and Down Below.

Thought Bubble 2023 takes place November 11 and 12 at the Harrogate Convention Centre in North Yorkshire.

Valhalla Awaits.

In a new anthology from Limit Break Comics, explore the fall of man at the end of times, the horrors of beasts straight out of myth, the dreadful actions of men who know no bounds, and the chilling truth of nature when the wheel of violence turns for too long.

The old gods might have their deaths foretold, but that doesn’t mean they can’t suffer a little bit first.

Fractured Realms is edited by Paul Carroll and Gary Moloney, and received support from the Arts Council’s Literature Project Award. The anthology contains 24 short comics from Irish and international creators, including work from: Sarah Amundson, Kaydee Artistry, Sierra Barnes, Daniel Beals, Nick Bryan, Patrick Buermeyer, Vinicius Carreiro, Paul Carroll, Alice Coleman, Colin Craker, Aaron Cruz, Robert Cullen, Ryan Estrada, Anna Everts, Triona Farrell, Aaron Fever, Benjamin Filby, KG Gaynier, Oliver Gerlach, Adam Gilbert, Travis B Hill, Sean Hogan, DC Hopkins, Ben Humeniuk, Liam Johnson, Rob Jones, Seamus Kavanagh, Dearbhla Kelly, James Killian, Rapha Lobosco, Andriy Lukin, Michiums, Marin, Hugh Madden, Aline Martins Dos Santos, Adlai McCook, John McGuinness, Alyssa Meier, Mariana Meira, Gavin Mitchell, Chris Mole, Gary Moloney, Oscar Osorio, Chris Panda, Benjamin Paulus, Christian Abel Peña, Lan Pitts, Nikki Powers, Jack Reikel, Andrea Schiavone, Rae Stevenson, and Gustaffo Vargas. It fearures cover art by Nick Roche and JP Jordan.

Fractured Realms is the thirteenth book to be published by Limit Break Comics. Earlier this year, the collective-publisher celebrated its fifth birthday and a nomination in the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame Awards for Best Publisher.