Over the last ten years the gloriously-named Rondo Hatton awards have established themselves as the most prestigious in the world of Horror. So we’re delighted that Jovanka Vuckovic’s splendid ZOMBIES! An Illustrated History of the Undead has been nominated for Book of the Year! [...]
Can you keep Alan Moore (or as we know him round this parts, Alan Moore-Storyteller) out of the news? Quite hard to, these days, but, Ozymandias-style, we’ve been watching multiple screens so you don’t have to. To the Guardian, Moore here opines on [...]
Quick follow-up to Roly’s Alan Moore: Storyteller reviews round-up: I’ve just spotted a post by Mark Millar – comics writer, creative powerhouse and the man behind Kick-Ass, Wanted and Marvel’s Civil War – on his Millarworld message board, in which Mark hails Gary Spencer [...]
A few months have passed since the initial flurry of rave reviews that greeted the publication of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Alan Moore: Storyteller. And in that time there have been a few more: time to share… Glass Magazine (if you’re not familiar with it [...]
From the maker of Microbot, 2008, comes Microbot’s new arm, 2011. Josh Buczynski, co-author of Build Your Own Paper Robots, has been busy developing new paper technology which he’s used to give Microbot an upgrade in the form of new, improved arm joints. You [...]
Ahhh, the glamour of the silver screen… irresistible. Which is why these oversize mood boards have been creating quite a stir in the office. Rough and ready they may be, but they are a little bit of Hollywood magic – for they are where [...]
Seems like it’s been a long time coming, but smash hit zombie telly series The Walking Dead finally shambles back onto our screens this month. Season 2 of the show starts in the US on Sunday 16 October and in the UK on Friday [...]
The Guardian on Saturday 24 September 2011 announced its Books Power 100 list of the “most influential people working in the vibrant and ever-evolving British books industry”. Listed at number 96 is Alan Moore: “The godfather of the British graphic novel emerged from the 1970s [...]
By and large, Ilex’s authors are an agreeable, accommodating bunch, always willing to speak to the press or make themselves available for oversubscribed signing sessions. But there is one Ilex author who shuns the spotlight; who exists in a shadowy world of half-truths and [...]
The French have long been ahead of us in the Anglosphere in how seriously they take their comics (or, as they say, bandes desinées, or BD – pronounced “bay-day”, roughly speaking). All bookshops have large sections devoted to comics for adults, and BD authors [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
