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"a devastatingly funny, misanthropic and strangely beautiful carnival of delights...the finest young auteur to detonate into British comics in a decade." - 3 a.m Magazine
"O'Connell has few peers" - Dazed & Confused
"Paul O'Connell's Sound of Drowning strips are my favourite Brit finds of recent years. He has a knack for nailing a specific kind of urban unease, for detailing the fantasy lives of the impotent, and our disquiet at the gulf between our shiny expectations and the shabby reality around us. Equally alarming and amusing, creepy and poignant, they read like pop culture fever dreams, or the nightmares other comic books have after too much cheese and bad medication. Highly recommended and bloody funny too." - Mark Stafford, The London Cartoon Museum
"These comic strips disturb and amuse, mock and condemn. Part Lynch, part Coen, part Biff, part God-knows-what, there is something fantastically original going on here and it's really quite addictive. Theatre of the absurd writ large in words and images. Paul O'Connell eviscerates modern life like a surgeon with a meat cleaver in one hand and a rubber chicken in the other." - Charlie Williams, author of Deadfolk, Fags and Lager, and King of the Road.
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My Interests

People, politics, art, ethnography, literature, music, cinema, sociology, travelling, comics.

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Music:

Movies:

Television:

Twin Peaks, QED, Monkey, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Garth Morenghi's Darkplace and 1970's Saturday afternoon wrestling.

Books:

David Foster Wallace, George Orwell, J.G Ballard, Magnus Mills, Richard Brautigan, Peter Hoeg, Brett Easton Ellis, Hunter S Thompson, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Crumb, Alan Moore, Adrian Tomine, Frank Miller, David Mack, Joe Matt, Daniel Clowes, Jinju Ito, Charles Burns, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jeff Koons, Gilbert and George, Max Ernst, Huntertwasser.

Heroes:

My Blog

Out this month...

I seem to find myself appearing in a number of different magazines and publications all out this month. It's my fifteen minutes of infamy... 1. Dazed and ConfusedThis months issue of Dazed and Confuse...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:12:00 PST

Pleasant Dreams My England

Last year the prime minister wrote a response to the 28,000 people who signed an e-petition calling for the government to abandon plans for a National ID Scheme... http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page1098...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:45:00 PST

Compulsory UK Census contracted to arms company

The next UK Census (in 2011), in which participation is compulsory, might berun by an arms company with close links to the United States government, and which also focuses on intelligence and surveill...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:17:00 PST

Hello again Major Tom

So I was checking out Issuu.com as was recommended to me by Sam Chivers and I have to say it's like the missing link between reading a 'real' book and reading a book online. Try it out for yourse...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:10:00 PST

I, Axl: An American Dream

Can't urge you strongly enough to check out the genius that is Ben Myers ongoing epic 'I, Axl: An American Dream' If you ever read 'Heartbreak Hotel' by Jeremy Reed, odds are you'll get wha...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:31:00 PST

Dazed and Confused

I'm a little bit weirded out by it but thought I'd let you know anyway that the current June issue of Dazed and Confused has a feature on The Sound of Drowning in the Hung and Drawn pages at the back&...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:06:00 PST

Hispter Geeks. Dont trust them.

I've always been suspicious of webcomics nation and comicspace and the multitude of other webcomics sites owned and networked by the same companies which includes American Elf Supersite (James Kochalk...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Wed, 21 May 2008 07:04:00 PST

Shes Leaving Home 1

All the b&w mini-comics of the strip by Lawrence and myself having disappeared you can now read the whole strip in colour online: ...click here for the rest! This strip and others ...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:07:00 PST

The New Adventures of Donovan

Just finished putting together an A4 strip for a forthcoming special comic art issue of Trespass magazine. The brief was to take a 'real life' hero or villain and give them super powers, a costum...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:41:00 PST

Second Soda anthology preview...

Still accepting submissions for the second illustrated anthology of 'those lyrics that get stuck in your head all day'. Above are some of my favourites so far. Submissions can be in colour,...
Posted by The Sound of Drowning on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:02:00 PST