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volume of additional material I produced for Timulo,  I've been able provide covers and additional illustrations using unpublished material from the early 1990's.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.

CAPTION 2008

Jenni Scott (wearing CAPTION logo T-shirt) celebrates at the pre- CAPTION meet up on the Friday night at the Angel & Greyhound pub, Oxford.

I'm just back from CAPTION in Oxford but I've managed to get my photos up onto Flickr already. Next week's going to be busy so this may have to stand as my convention report, so thanks to Selina Lock for letting me include her vodcast CAPTION report (below) in this post.

During the CAPTION quiz on Saturday night, Tony Hitchman tries to explain why an ape would wish to marry Jimmy Olson.

Paul Gravett, Rian Hughes and Woodrow Phoenix at the Escape panel on Sunday

It was a terrific weekend, one of the best CAPTIONs for a while; we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Escape magazine (above), and the 2oth anniversary of Deadline (I produced my first new Timulo strip in 18 years for the CAPTION booklet, see left). There was banana-winning ape-related fun thanks to Tony Hitchman's CAPTION quiz, and the auction raised over £600 (not including funds raised towards helping Al Davison buy a new wheelchair). I also took part in the CAPTION Collective exhibition at the Oxford Jam Factory - mostly featuring work by proper small press artists like Jeremy Dennis, Deidre Ruane, Andrew Luke, Sally-Ann Hickman, Terry Wiley, Ellen Lindner, Jessica Bradley, David Baillie and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. The exhibition continues until August 30th so if you're based in Oxford you haven't missed it yet!

The new cast of Torchwood assemble for series 3. Left to right: David Baillie, Jeremy Dennis, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Deidre Ruane, Andrew Luke and me.
Not present: Sally-Ann Hickman, Ellen Lindner and Jessica Bradley.

Steve Whitaker's memorial exhibition, including the whole of his last ever comic strip.

We also took the opportunity to remember CAPTION stalwart Steve Whitaker with a special memorial exhibition in the Fusion workshop, though sadly (or possibly appropriately given Steve's relationship with deadlines) publication of the Steve memorial APAzine was delayed, so no copies were available this weekend. On a personal note, I was delighted to snap up Terry Wiley's drawing of Steve and Charon at the CAPTION auction.

On a final sad note, I'd like to extend my sympathy and condolences to B-APA and CAPTION stalwart Steve Green, whose wife passed away recently. All our thoughts go with you, Steve.