Alex also talks to French journalist, motorsport commentator and bande dessinée creator, L.F. Bollée about writing the graphic novel Terre Australis, which depicts the conquering of Australia, published in English as Terra Australis last year by SelfMadeHero. . The interview was recorded in front of a live audience at the Australia / New Zealand Literature Festival 2014.
Ed Hillyer
Ed – also known as ILYA – is a British writer and artist whose books include the award-winning graphic novel series The End of the Century Club, an entry in noir anthology It’s Dark in London, a daring adaptation of King Lear (Manga Shakespeare series) and, most recently, the graphic novel Room, for SelfMade Hero. Illustration clients include the BBC, the Royal Academy of Arts, and The Times and Guardian newspapers.
Hillyer has edited three volumes of The Mammoth Book of BEST NEW MANGA, curating a host of international talent. He also designs and tutors workshops and courses on the art of comics and manga for colleges, galleries, libraries, schools and prisons, across the UK as well as abroad.
The Clay Dreaming, his debut prose novel, was selected as one of Waterstones’s New Voices for 2010 (see Hillyer’s interview in the Waterstones Books Quarterly). Ed has also visited Indonesia with the British Council and been a guest of the Sharjah International Book Fair.
• A (fumetti) comic strip Alex Fitch commissioned from Woodrow Phoenix has just gone up on Electric Sheep’s website:
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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