Malachy Coney
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Malachy Coney, a Belfast-based comic writer and artist, has been producing work since the mid nineteen-eighties. Best known for his comic writing, he has for the last few years, been drawing his own books as well.
His first major work was a co-writing stint on the Pat Mills story Third World War that ran in Fleetway's Crisis anthology. Mills, needing some geopolitically specific sections for the story, called upon Coney and others to co-write with him. Coney's section dealt with the Northern Ireland 'Troubles'. He then went on to pen a three issue story set in North Belfast called Holy Cross for Fantagraphics Books.
Coney followed this with the "Spear of Destiny" story arc in The Darkness that introduced the Magdalena character, a character which has since spun off into books of its own. He also ghost-wrote several series. In addition to this he plotted the "Hell on Earth" story arc for the Harris Comics run of Vampirella. Next he co-created the gay-themed super-hero Dandy Lion with 2000 AD artist Paul J Holden, as well as co-creating Major Power and Spunky (another homoerotic super-hero team) with Sean Doran. Both of these were published by Fantagraphics' Eros Comix imprint.
Malachy Coney's independent works are often of a colloquial nature, dealing with individuals in an urban setting trying to gain a sense of self amidst an irrational, hostile and often psychologically violent environment. His self-illustrated works recall some of the works of the American underground comic artists.
The latest project that Coney has worked on is an ongoing mystery-adventure series set in Belfast called Mycroft Moriarty, self-published under his own Good Craic publishing imprint.
