Seán Hogan

@seanohogain.bsky.social

🇮🇪 Storyboard Artist & Cartoonist, He/Him ✍️ Brotherhood Part 1, an Irish Time Graphic Novel of the Year 2024 👨‍🎨 @ Gigglebug Ent. in Helsinki, Finland, prev. Lighthouse Studios, Cartoon Saloon

Absolutely adore how @jpjordan.bsky.social's colours elevated my inks on The Completionist! Seamus Kavanagh's new comic anthology, New Game Plus #2, is just on the edge of being fully funded on Kickstarter! Head on over and check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/886...

Old Game Plus #2

A love letter to the gameplay of early 2000s video games, celebrating their memorable features that keep them in our hearts.

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Paul Carroll@paulcarroll.bsky.social · 3w ago

THE COMPLETIONIST sees @seanohogain.bsky.social and @jpjordan.bsky.social teaming up once again in a comic inspired by 100% completion rates on games.

Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul

Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios.

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This was commissioned by a trad institution for their anniversary (very cool client tbh) but didn't get used in the end. I especially enjoy the uileann piping eagle, who's pose I had to get the experts to weigh in on

Three twisty Celtic animals playing the fiddle, squeezybox and uileann pipes respectively

The UN commission of inquiry has published a report on how Israel targets & kills Palestinian children "There can be no doubt in anyone who reads todays report that every intl legal norm has been violated by the actions of the Israeli authorities towards Palestinian children"

The extremely remote, deserted pre-famine village of Coimín na Gaorthaidh, meaning "commonage of the wooded river valley". Almost no trees now remain. The clues to the ecological catastrophe that has befallen the Irish landscape are so often in the place names.

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Data centre electricity demand is projected to exceed the entire power consumption of the state. Already, data centres are adding an estimated €1.6 billion to Irish households’ electricity bills, while paying around half the rate charged to ordinary consumers. This model is unsustainable.

Yesterday, I spent the morning in Uragh, a fragment of ancient Beara rainforest. It's part of less than 1/1,000th of Ireland with pre-1600 woodland. I've been highlighting the plight of this uniquely special ecosystem for years now, leading to government promises of action. So, how is it doing?

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