Here’s an exclusive look at the Alan Moore: Storyteller panel from Bristol Comic Expo 2011 where I interviewed author Gary Spencer Millidge. This is the first in a series of short videos we’ll be posting up in the lead up to the book being [...]
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500 Essential Cult Movies: The Night of the Hunter
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 [...]
Alan Moore and Stewart Lee
Alan Moore—the subject of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Alan Moore: Storyteller —guest starred on Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle TV show on BBC2 last night. You can view it again here. Moore appears at around 19:30 in and is part of a 3 minute mockumentry about [...]
Alan Moore: Storyteller – internet buzz…
The first press copies of Alan Moore: Storyteller have been sent out and it’s really nice to see that other people share our love for this title. Over at Down the Tubes Comics, their review kicks off with “simply stunning” and then, erm, gets [...]
Sci-Fi Art: A Pocket History – a little piece of SF art heaven
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 [...]
500 Essential Cult Books: The Hunter by Richard Stark
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 [...]
Gary Spencer Millidge LIVE at Bristol – talking about Alan Moore: Storyteller
Gary will be appearing at the Bristol Comic & Small Press Expo tomorrow – Saturday – speaking about his upcoming biography of the authentic comic genius: Alan Moore: Storyteller. He’ll be in conversation with Ilex’s own Tim Pilcher and they kick off at 4PM [...]
Win copies of ZOMBIES!
The good people at terror4fun.com have released another issue of their frankly awesome e-zine The Zombie Times – and they have a competition to win copies of Jovanka Vuckovic’s ZOMBIES! Check it out for that and a host of other undeathly news and comment…. [...]
Millidge on Moore
We love Gary Spencer Millidge. Not only did he write the unique, and beautiful, Comic Book Design for us, he spent most of 2010 hard at work on Alan Moore: Storyteller – the definitive illustrated biography of the creator of From Hell, Swamp Thing, [...]
‘Braaaaaiiiins!’
It’s nice to see Jovanka Vuckovic’s fine volume ZOMBIES! getting some attention. Here’s a thoughtful review that’s been posted by Kurt Halfyard at twitchfilm.com. They seem to know their zombies over there, and he calls it ‘a real page-turner’.
The many faces of Jovanka Vuckovic
The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today’s cinema, popular literature and comics. With one simple premise – that the dead rise again, to feast on [...]
