Bye, bye Indian summer; hello flu-season. My, don’t you look nice! New hair? Looking at Luke Jerram’s stunning glass sculpture of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus, you might be forgiven by colleagues this season for passing on a common cold. Jerram’s sculpture is an [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if you could condense a century of iconic design into a small, pocket-friendly sourcebook, a travel guide through the designs of the decades per se? Whhat?! That’s a big yes, obviously. You probably know where I’m going with this . [...]
Exciting news folks – if you like anime and manga, or the performing arts. Huh? Yep, the performing arts, specifically, contemporary dance. The life of Osamu Tezuka, aka ‘The God of Manga’, or sometimes ‘The Walt Disney of Japan’, is to be animated via [...]
The latest volume in Ilex’s frankly gorgeous series of lavish Art Now tomes hit shops and online retailers recently – and as the first review of the title notes, this one has rather more bite to it… I’ll return to that review in a [...]
Last weekend saw the Ilex team decamp from leafy Lewes to that there London to witness author, artist, designer and all-round Renaissance man Gary Spencer Millidge signing copies of his newly-published, utterly splendid – and much blogged-about – tome, Alan Moore: Storyteller, at Gosh! [...]
As part of our mission to enlighten, entertain and inform we’re always on the lookout for interesting little gems for the comics community. First up, aspiring graphic novelists should definitely look into this First Graphic Novel Competition. A high-quality jury of judges [Ian Rankin, [...]
Last week, you might recall, I posted the first in what will become a series of missives on some of our backlist books, on Gina McKinnon’s 500 Essential Cult Books and Donald “Richard Stark” Westlake’s terse crime novel The Hunter, which features in Gina’s [...]
As I mentioned in this post yesterday, on Richard Stark’s The Hunter, as featured in 500 Essential Cult Books, all this week on my non-Ilex books blog Existential Ennui I’ve been blogging about the ’60s science fiction short stories written by Donald E. Westlake [...]
Thus far on this brand spanking new blog we’ve been telling you about some of the exciting new books we’ve published recently. But as well as continuing to keep you updated on new releases, we’ll also be looking back at some of our older [...]
What follows is an excerpt from Michael Moorcock’s foreword to the upcoming Alan Moore: Storyteller by Ilex Press. You can pre-order your copy of this sumptuous, 320 page, full-colour book now to avoid disappointment. “I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether [...]
