Marc Ellerby

Hey kids,

I've got loads of books for sale at thewebsite.

Hello pretties...



Chloe Noonan: Monster Hunter

Self Published 16 pages b/w

£2.80

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UK Postage £2.80 Everywhere else £3.80

Ellerbisms Volume 3

Collects here to here
Self Published 52 pages b/w - contains bonus pull out section - make your own mini comic!

£4

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UK Postage £4.00 Everywhere else £5.00

There's a deal on Ellerbisms at the website, which I've been fighting against Dreamweaver and Paypal to get right now for three hours. I HATE INTERNETS!

A quick thanks to everyone who came by at The Thing on Saturday. I'll do a full con report when I don't want to throw a tantrum at my computer.

My new mini comic that's not about My Face has been sent to the printers (and I hope to god I put the PDF together correctly as I've never done one before aggghhhhh!) and should hopefully be done for The Thing next weekend.

Who is this Chloe Noonan and why should I care?

Well Mr Imaginary Internet Arse Hole, Chloe Noonan is a monster hunter (duh) but it's tough being one when you don't have any powers and you have to bring your friend along with you. She's not even that bothered about saving the world really, as running around gives her a stitch.

It's a tongue in cheek look at fantasy and puts the b-list character in the foreground. It's less about hunting monsters and more about getting the bus.

You might care as it's the next book I'm working on. The mini comic is a taster, produced so I can get to grips with the character and the art. Eventually I want it to be a graphic novel series, but that's a way off yet.

There's a preview under the cut, but more information about it will be released next week along with photographs, maybe.

( THREE PAGE PREVIEW SUCKERS! )

You can now totally buy this from here

So there's the front cover for the third collection of everyone's favourite Marc Ellerby diary comic. It'll be out for The Thing at the end of the month, so if you're around London make sure you come along (or just wait till the Monday after when I put it on line.)

With this cover I had to, obviously, keep in tone with the previous ones but also show a new mature side to reflect the strips inside. I think it works better when you turn over to see the back...



As always it'll be printed on recycled card (and the colours are much jucier than on screen - the card sorta soaks things up a little) and this particular volume will come with a special pull out section where you can make your own mini comic. Exciting! More on that later.

Here are the 3 covers together...

God, I'm all about bringing out books at the moment, aren't I?



Ellerbisms vol 2
40 pages.

International Postage Options

UK Postage £3.25 Everywhere else £4.25

Love The Way You Love: Side B (Songs of Devotion) - collects volumes 4-6
190 pages

International Postage Options

UK Postage £7.50 Everywhere else £8.50

(More items for sale here)

Order any book and I'll sign and sketch in it for you. (Please let me know when ordering, what you'd like your sketch to be) You'll also get a free bookmark/postcard!

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Thanks to everyone who came to the Brum con this past weekend. It was great to see everyone. I'll post more about it when I'm not so grumpy and negative towards the world.

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Lovely podcast Comic News Insider has picked the "comics of Marc Ellerby" as one of their Top Three comic picks (it's like an hour and ten minutes in) for their new episode (#155). Thanks to Jimmy Aquino for saying some nice things about me and raving about Polar Opposites, for those who are curious, you can read the entire thing here. You can also read NEW Polar Opposites in my new mini comic...

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New mini comic for sale!



Sad Girls For Life collects a bunch of odds and ends and some new stips that I've been doing recently. Includes Polar Opposites!

£3(+25p for postage) - Each book comes signed and with a free postcard. (For international postage please email marclrb at gmail dot com before sending any money)

These won't be in any shop and only avaliable from me on line or at conventions and limited to 70 copies.

SOLD OUT! SORRY!

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New mini comic for sale!



Sad Girls For Life collects a bunch of odds and ends and some new stips that I've been doing recently. This is a stop gap to remind the UK small press that I do exist. What's in it? Well, longer Polar Opposites, a handful of Ellerbisms that didn't make the Vol 1 print edition, new (but old) strips called Murmurs and Get Over It (never seen anywhere!) my out-takes from the Guest Strip Project, a four year old zombie strip called Morning has Broken and a handful of illustrations.

£3(+25p for postage) - Each book comes signed and with a free postcard.

These won't be in any shop and only avaliable from me on line or at conventions and limited to 70 copies

SOLD OUT! SORRY!

( Some more pics... )

If you need more convincing, then I'll copy and paste what James Hunt over at The Sunday Pages said about it when he picked it up at Low Energy Day on Saturday...

Sad Girls for Life is a brilliant taster for all of Ellerby’s work, and easily the most entertaining comic purchase I made all weekend - and that includes 2 week’s worth of Marvel/DC comics. Ellerby is currently between series following the conclusion of Oni Press’ “Love the Way You Love” for which he was the artist, so now more than ever you need to get to his site and buy some quality mini-comics.

More in the link. Thanks James!

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Low Energy Day great, glad I went in the end (despite it being a billion degrees in there and sales only starting to pick up about 2pm but hey at least I made money, eh?) Thanks to the London Underground Comic guys for another fantastic day.

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Also, Anna took me to see R.E.M on Saturday. Won't go too much into details (loved it) but they played Country Feedback, so now, seriously, I can die happy.

Hey,

I've been quiet, I know, but I just moved in with my girlfriend so it's been a bit hectic the last...well...month.

I'm making this a quick one as I'm on "borrowed" wireless, but I'll be at the Bristol Expo this weekend sharing a table with Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen and John Cei Douglas. I'm bringing everything with me, including Love The Way You Love Vol 1 - the trade collection of the first three issues and a brand new postcard/bookmark thing. Exciting times!

Richard at the Forbidden Planet blog has reviewed all of my mini comics here, so take a look. There's a complaint about the shortness of Ellerbisms that I never thought much about until recently. Hmmm.

Also, IRON MAN WAS AMAZING.

I can't get used to using a Swedish keyboard. This is nuts!

Hey kids, it's new mini time!



Ellerbisms £3 (UK price includes P+P)

Speed Trail £2 (UK price includes P+P)

For more photos check out the flickr set and for those not in the UK please email me (marclrb at gmail dot com) before purchasing and we'll work out P+P. I am trying to get someone in the US to sell my books over there so you might want to wait for that...

But yeah, I sold half my Ellerbisms stash at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing on Saturday and the show was a huge success for me overall, so if you want a 'Bism, get in quick! Adam sold a shit load too and we work so well together, I sorta want to do every convention with him now, the kids loved our banter and brownies! So yeah, thanks to everyone who came out and uber thanks for making it so successful for both of us. I'm actually stunned at the reception and the money I took. Amazing.

Yeah kids, the annual Thing is happening this Saturday at the Great Hall, Queen Mary University, Mile End, London, England, The World. It's open between 10am and 5pm and tickets to civilians are £4.

What the hell am I selling? I'm bringing Venal Muse, Polar Opposites, LTWYL 2-5, Badges (Buttons) and most importantly my 2 brand new minis.



The long awaited (by my girlfriend...) collection of Ellerbisms Vol 1. This includes some never seen before strips and the cover is printed on really nice recycled card. I've got such a boner for those Kurosagi Corpse Delivery comics at the moment and wanted something which was similar to them while being robust and different to the last minis I made. I'm so pleased how these came out, they're the best looking comics I've made yet.



Second is the mini version of my Hourly Comic and is limited to 150 copies. That's 150 copies EVER! So if you want one get in quick. The covers for these are printed on recycled card too, so the illustration above doesn't do it justice- the yellow gives a nice screenprinted effect on the brown card. These are A6 in size and look really cute all stacked up.

Click here to see the cover spreads in full. Fans of the 'OM!' picture will be pretty pleased ;)

Anna's been helping my staple and cut and fold these so massive thanks to her as I would be days behind schedule if it weren't for her.

I'll be selling these on line from Monday and they'll be cheaper than Venal Muse and Polar Opposites as I've Learnt My Lesson Regarding The Selling Of Mini Comics. Oh and speaking of which, I'm letting Venal Muse go out of print this year and when they all go, I'll put it online.

Americans who want some might want to hold off buying anything yet as I'm looking at getting a US distributor set up so I don't end up charging the world for postage.

So hopefully see you there?

Hey guess who's drawing again? This might be the cover for the first Ellerbisms collection. I want a design that will unite all the covers, so future volumes will have a similar look but different cover scheme.

It's been a while, so I'm rusty, any thoughts?

This is from John Cei Douglas' Fuckr page and is a shot from Gosh's self published section, What I really like is spotting not only my own Polar Opposites on the bottom shelf, but Anas Awad up the top and John himself on the second shelf down.



This has got me thinking about the small press scene in England. There's a lot of stuff that I'm really enjoying at the moment, I just wish there was more of it. Stuff like Lizz Lunney's books. They're so innocent and crudely drawn but there's something hilarious about them, Lizz has perfect comic timing mixed with a obscure and out there sense of humour, it's a bit like Harry Hill's stuff mixed with Simone Lia, but they're totally her own and I love them to bits.



Steve Larder who does Rum Lad, which isn't a comic, but does have little blasts of narrative throughout, is another little gem. Essentially a collection of single page illustrations/sketchbook stuff with hand written diary entries detailing what he did on a particular day, his Duncan Fergredo-esque style is at times, both rough yet refined. I really enjoy the parts (in #3) where he d draw band scenes and then that would drift into shots of boating towns and docks. From the extreme and heavy use of black ink to the quiet and gentle nature of empty towns, it's really effective.



Liz Greenfield really isn't English, she's from some...where...European? Dutchland? I dunno...but anyway, she lives here so whatever, I really fucking love her new auto bio stuff. She used to do Stuff Sucks, which my girlfriend loves but I never really got into, but with her new stuff is genuinely hilarious, in a 'lol' way. She put out a collection of these recently, so go to her store and order it, I think I've read it a thousand times now.



Thom Dowse's stuff is also stunning. Whereas he's pretty precious about his work, his line work is rough and spontaneous. His work mainly deals with his surroundings, though this is from a strip that he worked on dealing with some guy getting sunstroke and then going mental thinking he's a hunter. You can't buy any of his stuff and he doesn't put anything out nearly enough, but man, that's pretty, right?



I'm liking Adam Cadwell's journal comics, The Everyday, too. He puts out these really nice minis that are printed on lovely textured paper and he sells them for a fucking pound! A POUND! And there's my little penguin strip book going for £2.50...the swine's undercutting me! Anyway, yeah there's like 8 of these mini collections available and they're always worth checking out. I dunno why, as he's a totaly nob.

Anyway, I just wish there was more of us, we'd be unstoppable if we just got our arses in gear and put out more stuff on a regular basis. There's a guy from Norway who I used to go to uni with called Martin Ernstsen and he's put out like 3 or 4 minis this year. Puts me to shame, absolute shame. I hope to god the Mini comic thing in Mile End in March isn't a total shambles and we all come out the wood work and go TA-DA!!!!

Ugh, this took too long...but yeah, check out the links and spend some money, they all totally deserve it.