Borealis by Paul J. Bolger and Jerr O'Carroll
Paul J. Bolger, filmmaker, musician and cartoonist, is a graduate of WIT Ireland and has taught animation at Ballyfermot and Dun Laoghaire.
In the 1990s he owned and ran Dagda Film Ltd., an animation studio based in Dublin. He has worked on a number of animated films, including The Land Before Time (1988), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Cool World (1992), Help I'm a Fish (2000) and Carnivale (2000). He is the director of the animated feature Happily N'Ever After (2007) and the short films Comb (2010) and Hamster Heaven (2010). He ran Pillarstone Productions.
He had two comics on the currently defunct website of Pillar Stone Productions: Anatomy Class, co-created by Adrianne Ambrose, about a drug-addicted medical student visted by the corpses he has acquired for his medical school, and Borealis, co-created by Jerr O'Carroll, an adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future. He wrote with Barry Devlin and drew a graphic novel trilogy based on the legendary hero Cú Chulainn, entitled Hound. In the original publication by the Poland-based studio BreakThru Films, funded through Kickstarter, the issues were subtitled Protector (2014), Defender (2016), and Liberator (2018). They were translated into Irish by Leabhar Breac before the American publisher Dark Horse Comics published an omnibus edition in March 2022.
As a singer-songwriter, he released an album, The Moss House, and an EP, Peacemaker, in the late 1990s.
