Sharpen your pencils! Or rather, prime your digital paintbrush settings, for Ilex’s new release Digital Painting for the Complete Beginner is NOW IN STOCK. To mark the occasion, we’re lucky to have award-winning artist and author Carlyn Beccia give us insight into the tricks she’s [...]
Dr Emm Johnstone*, one of the distinguished authors of the exceedingly well-reviewed Art of Medicine, will be appearing this Saturday at the Brighton Science Festival, talking about art and medicine. She’s part of a fascinating looking line up that includes a day of full [...]
We had a feeling that the Art of Medicine, chock full as it is of fascinating images and amazing historical insight, would go down well – and it’s nice to have this hunch confirmed. There have been some excellent reviews, and interesting interview features [...]
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 . [...]
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! [...]
Alan Moore: Storyteller author, Gary Spencer Millidge, is going to be signing copies of the book at everybody’s favourite comic shop, Gosh!, in London on Saturday 30 July at midday! Gary is then followed by the main man himself, as Alan Moore and Kevin [...]
On Friday 19 August I’ll be giving a brief talk about war comics at the Imperial War Museum in London, as part of its Children’s Literature Festival. Comics and Conflicts is a one-day conference that explores the ways in which comics around the world represent and [...]
Here’s the third in our series of 10 exclusive interviews with Alan Moore: Storyteller author Gary Spencer Millidge from Bristol Comic Expo 2011. We’ll be posting more in the lead up to the book being published next month, so make sure you subscribe to [...]
Here’s the second in our series of 10 exclusive interviews with Alan Moore: Storyteller author Gary Spencer Millidge from Bristol Comic Expo 2011. We’ll be posting more in the lead up to the book being published next month, so make sure you subscribe [...]
For everybody who loves a good checklist, The Guardian has put together a literary register of the 100 greatest non-fiction books ever written. It’s always a difficult task, pooling the preferences of many a book worm and having to whittle down the selection from [...]
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 [...]
