The Ulster Cycle is a webcomic serial by Patrick Brown, istorical adventure story set in Iron Age Ireland and based on the eponymous cycle of Irish mythology. Mary Jones, creator of the Celtic Literature Collective website, describes it as "really wonderful". The Ulster Cycle is drawn in black and white (and now red and white) in a spontaneous, improvisational style, and serialised on Brown's blog. The Journal of the Mythic Arts calls it "a terrific blend of the Iron Age and the modern", and blogger Woodpigeon says "It’s a fascinating story, very well tol

Ness

The first 72-page storyline, Ness, was serialised between 15 May 2007 and 9 July 2008. When the king of Ulster finds himself powerless to stop a murderous outlaw, his daughter Ness turns outlaw herself to hunt him down. But with war looming between the kingdoms of Ireland, will her father's house still be there to come back to when the job's done? A collected edition is in preparation.

The Cattle Raid of Cooley

The second storyline, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, adapts the ancient Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, and began weekly serialisation on 6 August 2008. Two generations after the events of Ness, Medb, queen of Connacht, raises an army to invade Ulster and steal its prize bull, and only Ness's teenage grandson Cú Chulainn stands in her way. The latest installment, page 3, was posted on 20 August.

External links

• The Ulster Cycle is serialised at paddybrown.co.uk
• Characters of The Ulster Cycle
• How it's done - a blog post in which Brown describes how he creates The Ulster Cycle

Image © Patrick Brown 2008, used by permission