‘Dame Lane’
By Alé Mercado. a Spanish illustrator living and working in Kilkenny.
He sez:
I lived in Dublin for 3 1/2 years when I first moved to Ireland. What I loved the most about the city is how you could find hidden secrets (for me it was mostly record shops… They are all gone now) by moving away from the main streets. Sometimes by leading yourself into alleys that would do nicely for a Chamber of Horrors film scene, Hammer style . These alleys are for me so much the soul of Dublin that everything in the light becomes almost ghostly… It’s like finding amazing life in the deepest abyss and then trying to cope with routine back at the boring daylight surface.
And his method?
My work is fully digital. But is has evolved over the years to be more and more like printmaking, to the point that I hardly differentiate between both of them. The digital part is fully integrated in my print work and vice versa. But it was comics that got me into illustration. For a while it has been something that I’ve tried to hide. Not anymore…
This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue
