Lie there inert if you can hear me or do yourself a favour and have a sniff at edilya.substack.com I'm sorry that Bluesky doesn't really seem to be working, but there's a healthy comic book community growing there. Come on down!

London's ARC Festival this weekend, where I'll be signing + sketching for on the SelfMadeHero table. Loads else on. Come on down! #GraphicNovels, #Manga, #ComicArtist, #ComicCreator, #sequentialnarrative, #RomoWolfBoy, #NationalYearofReading, #GoAllIn, #ReadingAgency, #ReadingIsFundamental

00…Come and see. Look. LOOK!

Exhibitions come, and exhibitions go… the artwork abides

Thanks @dannija-yes.bsky.social @claireplmartin.bsky.social @drannehanley.bsky.social for the collaboration and support. Hey, fellow artists: @jordancollver.bsky.social @streakofpith.bsky.social @zaraslattery.bsky.social @mereida.bsky.social @daniellocke.bsky.social @karriefransman.bsky.social

The relentless slog for attention continues. IS there any extant life on Bluesky? X seems dead but so does this too - it's a shame. Most of the time I forget it is here. edilya.substack.com/p/romo-2-wee...

This week: a lengthy interview in which I go behind the scenes on my concept and creative process for my graphic novel series ROMO the WolfBoy… open.substack.com/pub/edilya/p...

In this week's exciting Process episode, we use our X-ray vision to reveal the building blocks of a single page, layer by layer. edilya.substack.com

This coming weekend in Portsmouth UK. In a very small cosmos I am a star. Gotta star(t) somewhere...

it's all a numbers game, innit. A real feast of behind-the-scenes PROCESS to be had this week as I show how a book's cover can be totally redesigned from the (back)ground up. More cheese than to be found on a pizza! edilya.substack.com

Named and shamed: BOSH! This has to be one of the worst (food) rip-offs I've ever experienced. RRP of £4.55 for... this. Pathetic. AVOID! If there's 16grams of protein here it can't be in the cheese.

There’s an absolute bloody lorry load of stuff that appeared in Deadline that has disappeared into the ether, too, and pretty much all of that was brilliant. I’d love for @ilyagraphic.bsky.social’s End of the Century Club to be in a big chunky hardback omnibus in every bookshop in the land.

More behind-the-scenes Process than you can shake a stick at! edilya.substack.com

Hot on the heels of his greta @ldcomics.bsky.social talk last night (and how great was it o hear from their new enlarged team!?!) we've got the video of @ilyagraphic.bsky.social chatting to @panelborders.bsky.social at our February meet-up online from this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

This be what's up. World Book Day. With added extra Will Eisner during Will Eisner Week! www.edilya.substack.com

The funny little "Bye Bye" I included at the end got cut off the audio here, and the cloth-minded tech spelled it out as "bye" all the way through anyway, so now it seems like just aggressive shilling and no longer works so well - but it's what I have. So here you go! I tried! <sigh> X

Launch event for ROMO the WolfBoy, 19/02/2026. Order from all good bookshops now - ISBN: 978-1-914224-44-7 SelfMadeHero/Abrams bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/.../romo-the... Splendid long interview piece here: tripwiremagazine.co.uk/.../ed-hilly... And another, here: comicon.com/2026/02/05/a...

Follow a pair of unconventional sleuths in a Victorian carnival in Ilya's Romo the Wolf Boy. Out now from @selfmadehero.bsky.social theslingsandarrows.com/romo-the-wol...

Retail sales begin February 19. PLEASE pre-order your copy from your local (low cool) bookshop. I sink or swim at this juncture, and all my hopes with me. Thank you. Co-published with SelfMadeHero / distributed by Gardners. ISBN 978-1-914224-44-7

ROMO's Cuban cousin Romero the WolfBoy make his debut! Adverteasing 2 launch events: #NationalYearofReading, #GoAllIn, #comics, #GraphicNovels, #Manga, #RomoWolfBoy

Over on Facebook, our pal Paul Gravett alersts us to this exhibition in London (ends Jan 31st) www.cassiusandco.com/robert-crumb...

All the details you need for my upcoming Cartoon County interview and appearance (Monday 26th Jan), and Official Retail Launch Party (Thursday 19th Feb) edilya.substack.com/p/romo-2-wee... I have you surrounded! X

Toward a new co-edition, coming this September… edilya.substack.com/p/romo-2-wee...

Our 1st meet-up of ‘26 has @ilyagraphic.bsky.social talking Romo the WolfBoy (out from @selfmadehero.bsky.social in Feb) with @panelborders.bsky.social Learn about the wonderful book and how #kickstarter meets the mass market Mon 26 Jan The Walrus Ship St Brighton from 6.30pm edilya.substack.com

Fancy a pint and some comic chat in Brighton? On Monday 26th Jan ILYA guests at Cartoon County. Interviewed by the estimable Alex Fitch, talking all things Romo the WolfBoy in The Walrus pub, Ship St, just 15 minutes walk from the station. From 6.30pm www.youtube.com/@panelborder...

It's like a glorified blog, with lots of pretty pictures. Tons more in the Archive feature there. Why not suck it and see… edilya.substack.com Honestly, is ANYBODY out there on this thing? It seems dead.

Santa's Secret: In answer to any and all mystery, link directly to my Substack page here - edilya.substack.com

May I mumble* and direct your (VALUABLE!) attention to this week's intense Process Post on my Substack (kinda like a blog), revealing obscure (comic book) Trade Secrets edilya.substack.com Just SUBSCRIBE already! It's FREE! *(yes, yes that's right, Robo, Robo the WolfBot. <A-R-OO-OO-clik>. Sigh)

Online ZOOM talk on Comic-Book Origins: Wednesday December 3rd at 5pm UK time. FREE! Register your place on EventBrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-com...

UNT while I'm here... THIS! Time is of the essence, mein freundes. Tschuss!

Meanwhile…

Sorry to be so absent. I struggle with 'social' media, tbh. If it's not jumping I don't know how else to kickstart it. I keep up with folks mostly on FB, curse be to Meta.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com Shortbox Comics Fair. Last day to order (by 8pm UK time). Trick AND treats. I spent so much money! But this really does feel like the cutting edge of truly international comics, at least on a mangariffic tip. Unmissable! Go! BUY!! 'Bye x

I just backed 1983 Towards Tomorrow: Art Book by James Harvey on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/148... Don't sleep on this one. Meisterverk by a certified comics maverick and maniac!!

UK comics creators, get yourself in before midnight on the 6th Oct. We CAN and we WILL change our fortunes for the better!

Got plans for 23rd October? You do now! Launch party for the crowdfunded first edition of ROMO the WolfBoy, by ILYA: 6.30pm - 8.30pm at the Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1A 3AE. Nearest tube: Goodge Street. (There’ll be later chances: official Retail Launch is February 2026)

It seems official enough: I've been in talks with SelfMadeHero (my once and future UK publisher), and they're coming aboard the ROMO express following my success with a crowdfunding campaign for it. So we have a book, and then some. WOOT WOOT!!

Passed the finishing post about 20 minutes AGO! Couldn't have done it without you (you know who you are!!) Thank you to EVERYONE who backed or encouraged or reposted or held my hand through this. We GOT BOOK! AROOOOO!

SO CLOSE, I CAN SMELL IT… ! 👃 158 backers / £10,129 pledged / 93% funded / 19 hours to go 🔥 £25 buys a print copy of the 256-page hardback book (UK) £15 for a Digital PDF of the whole thing / USA/Rest of World Will YOU be the one to take us over the edge? 🐺💪 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ily...

Last TWO DAYS! www.kickstarter.com/.../romo-the....

48HRS left on the Kickstarter for ROMO the WolfBoy, my all-new 256-page hardback original graphic novel. 88% funded!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ily...

I just backed Slices of Life: A Comic Montage by Qu on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul... Lovely artwork by Qu reminds me of the Summer Studio pages featured in the third volume of The Mammoth Books of BEST NEW MANGA I edited and compiled back in 2008. A real breath of fresh air!!

Last 3 days now of my crowdfunding Kickstarter for a brand new 256-page hardback original graphic novel. You KNOW what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ily...

FIVE DAYS to go? NO… FOUR!! It's The Final Countdown, do do do dooh… downthetubes.net/last-days-to...