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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).