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| - In 2001 MacRory completed his BA dissertation on comic art titled Beyond Pop: Narrative, Censorship and Self-Expression in Contemporary American Comic Art. A critical analysis of comic art as a narrative form, it questions the role of censorship in comic art's creation and the freedom for self expression available to artists within the confines of the medium. A copy of the manuscript is held in the library of Trinity College Dublin. In 2002 he wrote a crime story, "Duplicitous", drawn by Stephen Thompson, for the anthology Naked Lunch. For a short period in 2003/04 he worked with a number of guest artists on a web comic of his own creation, Magical Monkey Boy. This was put on hold after artists failed to meet their deadlines, and MacRory decided to explore a different format for the presentation of the story. This period saw him work with long-term collaborators Fco and Ivan Plascencia. MacRory is also responsible for co-creating two creator owned projects with the Plascencia cousins which are still in various stages of development. At the 2006 24 Hour Comics Day event in Dublin, he created 2 short stories, Magical MonkeyBoy and Zero Men. At present, he is writing and drawing the webcomic Oscar Nebula and painting on a commission only basis.
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