Meet the Japanese artist with a daily routine of making Father Ted doodles

Just how did a Japanese artist begin drawing characters from Father Ted and publishing them every day? Noel Baker finds out from Dublin-based sketcher Shota Kotake

What’s that? A Japanese artist with a pronounced, almost devotional appreciation of Father Ted? Well - that would be an ecumenical matter.

To Dublin-based Shota Kotake this cultural reference is part of everyday language. Born in Niigata, Shota may as well have been born on Craggy Island. How else to explain his recent artistic endeavours, specifically his ‘a Ted a day’ schedule, in which he publishes a Father Ted-related drawing every day “until I get fed up”?