Ken Mahon

I’m pretending the swelling is just temporary muscle. Circe disapproves

Can’t go back to instagram now because my neglected feed appears to have completely flooded with slop

October 13 2025 Ken got official confirmation that his basic income is ending in February, even though the scheme is becoming permanent. He’s got thoughts about how they’re choosing to continue, but that’s for another time. For now, he’s got to consider how to use his remaining funds. He had to upgrade his iPad first as he’s been getting notices that support for his will be ending soon and he draws all his comics on it. He found a good 2018 model for 265 Euro. On Friday, he got his Covid and flu shots for the winter. He may have had an obscene amount of needles this year, but he still has to deal with the follow up sickness.

Purgatory 13/10/2025
Drew this comic on the new iPad. Weirdly it’s only a year younger, but it’s got more support and feels several generations ahead.

Check past generations of my comics at linker.ee/detectiveken

Never looking forward to sleeping on both sides being complete agony.

October 13 2025 Ken got official confirmation that his basic income is ending in February, even though the scheme is becoming permanent. He’s got thoughts about how they’re choosing to continue, but that’s for another time. For now, he’s got to consider how to use his remaining funds. He had to upgrade his iPad first as he’s been getting notices that support for his will be ending soon and he draws all his comics on it. He found a good 2018 model for 265 Euro. On Friday, he got his Covid and flu shots for the winter. He may have had an obscene amount of needles this year, but he still has to deal with the follow up sickness.

Purgatory 13/10/2025
Drew this comic on the new iPad. Weirdly it’s only a year younger, but it’s got more support and feels several generations ahead.

Check past generations of my comics at linker.ee/detectiveken

If you're looking for artists from or connected to the Irish art/ animation communities, here's a starter pack I made.

Not a definitive list, but it's people I know and can vouch for being good follows

go.bsky.app/FKgwzPG

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Half these games just wound up in my library somehow... some I buy for preservation's sake, but god damn. My New Year's Resolution will be to not buy any video games in 2026

Ken has two thousand five hundred and seventy seven games listed in Steam alone.

I've gone off video games

Gubbus

A two tone illustration of AEW Men’s World Champion Hangman Adam Page. In the image he is hunched over, holding up a chain in his fist, blood streaming from his head and fire blazing behind him. Apart from heavy black shadows, Adam is a dusty brown with a blazing orange behind and reflected in his blood.

Cowboy shit
@hangmanpage.bsky.social

October 6 2025. This week, Ken has a colonoscopy and he’s still getting over it. The prep took days and the sedation didn’t work but even now, a week later, he’s still adjusting back. Elsewhere DCAF happened. Ken’s been iterating on his table set up to add some verticality but it still needs a lot of work. Meanwhile, his tablemate had been getting street passes on a 3DS and Ken was struggling to keep up sales wise

Purgatory 6/10/2025

Everyone has their towering walls of prints and stickers, but I make heavy ass books and need to innovate on my presentation.

Anyway online I don’t have to build any shelves linktr.ee/detectiveken

A two tone illustration of AEW Men’s World Champion Hangman Adam Page. In the image he is hunched over, holding up a chain in his fist, blood streaming from his head and fire blazing behind him. Apart from heavy black shadows, Adam is a dusty brown with a blazing orange behind and reflected in his blood.

Cowboy shit
@hangmanpage.bsky.social

Looking through a Google doc now. It really does be favouring a type of game. I'll have to take a few chances

Eden. Has a little tree and sunset icon in the Play Store

Had to try it when the emulator went live and saw some people talking about how baffling it is PS2 emulation is still tough, but Switch can be a breeze

Anyway, probably good for phones too. The Eden emulator is in the play store. Just needs prod keys and firmware to load a game

Obvious downside is the 4:3 screen for widescreen games, but hey. Some of the least intensive games on that console cost way too much so I'll take the alternative to do a bit of night reading

Reporting in because I got my Anbernic RG406H to play Switch games. Haven't tried anything more intensive than a visual novel but even without the power boost, results are so far outstanding.

Gubbus

October 6 2025. This week, Ken has a colonoscopy and he’s still getting over it. The prep took days and the sedation didn’t work but even now, a week later, he’s still adjusting back. Elsewhere DCAF happened. Ken’s been iterating on his table set up to add some verticality but it still needs a lot of work. Meanwhile, his tablemate had been getting street passes on a 3DS and Ken was struggling to keep up sales wise

Purgatory 6/10/2025

Everyone has their towering walls of prints and stickers, but I make heavy ass books and need to innovate on my presentation.

Anyway online I don’t have to build any shelves linktr.ee/detectiveken

Shout out to the several years I had a faulty cable on my Bamboo and my lines were incapable of even tapering. This pen does that, so I have zero complaints.

It apparently doesn’t have pressure sensitivity (like the current cheapest first party Pencil) but it does kinda? Something to watch for when doing anything other than what I always do… stone cold inking. Really, I’m just the kind of artist who’ll survive without.

Upgraded my iPad (Literally moved from the 2017 iPad Pro to the 2018, and it feels several generations newer) and it supports some cheaper Pencil alternatives, so I grabbed one for €20 and here’s a Bret Hart I doodled with it.

International folk who'd like to support the Irish indie comic scene: this is a great way to do it!

You get a lovely portrait of your pet by an Irish artist and The Dublin Comic Arts Festival raises enough money to cover our deposit for our 2026 dates!

ko-fi.com/dublincomica...

The Basic Income news has sadly reignited my social media relationship. Apologies, I have to leave again. It's tax month after all.

Realised last night that I'm the only one sleeping on the same mattress as when we moved into this house 20 years ago, and waking up with a sore back every morning has become (thankfully) my only major health problem of late.
Real surprised that mattresses cost a lot less than €800 actually.

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying. (adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

This program has proven to be a net good, returns the investment and overall improves artistic output and lives. I just think this is a half measure to do less work by doing the pilot scheme 2: electric boogaloo