Marc Ellerby

Okay, okay, so you can now buy a bunch of my minis on-line...



Ellerbisms £3 (includes P+P)

Speed Trail £2 (includes P+P)

Marc Ellerby Button Set
£3 (includes P+P)

For international postage prices please send an email to me at marclrb (at) gmail (dot) com BEFORE purchasing.

Please head over the the store to buy a copy (and maybe some other bits and pieces?)

Scroll down for Journaly stuff!

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.

( San Diego Goodness! )

I'll be at the Oni Booth (#1834) for the duration of S.D so if you want any of these fine products, stop by and pester my face. I'll be putting these up on my site after S.D so I guess if you did want a Polar Opposite mini, a Venal Muse or a button (badge) set then you can always let me know...

I bought some proper books with y'know WORDS AND EVERYTHING to entertain me for the bastard flight (30 hours there and back...that's like a day!!!)



I did buy that Kurt Vonnegut for the cover though...shutup it sounds okay...shutup!