The cover to Timularo Edtion 45 for Page 45 comic shop, Nottingham

Following the ripping success of last month's signed and sketched Page 45 Special Edition of Timularo, those fine folk at the Page 45 comic shop in Nottingham have come back for more with  Timularo Edition 45, a limited run of 45 copies, each signed and sketched-in with a special cover (above) and additional interior plate (left) to frame the sketch.

This edition is strictly limited and available on from Page 45 in Nottingham, and also available through their website at page45.com. Don't hang about, though -  the first edition sold out within one minute of going on sale!

Word's Getting About!

Thanks to everyone for retweeting and generally passing on the word about the Timulo collection.

From Jim Campbell, there's a kind piece of (in his own words) "bloggery-pluggery" at Jim Campbell: Man of Letters.

Thanks also to Joe Gordon at the Forbidden Planet blog for his extensive post with page samples.

Cheers guys!

Timulo is Go!

Cover to Timularo: The Collected Timulo Strips from Deadline Magazine
Copyright © 1984-2010 Me.

As of this morning, Timularo (The Collected Timulo) is available to buy on Lulu.com. For more info, check out "D'Books of 'Israeli," which gives info on all the stuff I'm putting out myself (up there on the right, below the header, see?).
Also, preview pages from Timularo in this post (scroll down a bit).

(These reprints have led a number of people to ask the old question, "Does Molly Eyre really exist?" Well, I'd not seen her for a while, so I rang her up today, asked the question straight out, and sure enough, she confirmed that she doesn't exist. Hope that clears it up.)

Blasts from the Past

Left: Timularo (The Collected Timulo)
Right: Odds and Sods (For Comics Bods)

To celebrate my 21st anniversary as a professional comic artist, I'm releasing two collections of material from my archives for sale from Lulu.com:

Odds and Sods (For Comics Bods) is a sixty-four page collection of little-seen and out-of the way pieces - private commissions, convention pieces, illustrations, test pieces, and 17.5 pages of comics including two experimental colour strips never before published in the English-speaking world!

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Timularo (The collected Timulo) not only brings together all 49 pages* of the original Deadline strip for the first time, it includes the 32-page sequel Consequences, concept sketches and character designs for both strips, Who Me? the 10-page first draught of Consequences, first-ever Mark E.D'Sade strip A Fistful of Fingers, samples of Timulo-precursor strips Az!muth and The City Hall Job, a three-page taster of the long-delayed Consequences sequel City of Night, and more, in a tasty 168-page volume, all in glowing black & white.
Normally I'd announce all-new cover artwork or some such, but such was the volume of additional material I produced for Timulo,  I've been able provide covers and additional illustrations using unpublished material from the early 1990's.

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I'll be releasing both books into the wild† at Thought Bubble in Leeds this weekend -  they'll be selling at a special convention price with bonus postcards.

Once the hurly-burly of preparations for Thought Bubble is out of the way, I'll be making these books available via print-on-demand; watch this space for details.

*The final four-page episode of Timulo, originally presented in colour, is collected in black & white in this edition.
†Copies of Odds and Sods were sold in a test run at the 2-D Festival in Derry in 2009, the last UK convention I attended.

Pages from the original Timulo strip (1989-90) first published in Deadline magazine.
Timulo © 2010 Me.

Consequences, the sequel to Timulo, also collected in this new edition.
Consequences & Timulo © 2010 Me.

Additonal material includes the first ever Mark E D'Sade story from 1985 and Who Me? the first draft of Consequences. All this stuff © 2010 Me.