'Cockney banana' ILYA (aka Ed Hillyer) fell sideways into comics after
helping out old mucker Eddie Campbell on art chores for his original
DEADFACE series (the material later collected as BACCHUS: The Gods Of
Business). He's gone on to work for almost every publisher come and gone:
Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Deadline, Tundra and so on. His graphic novel THE
END OF THE CENTURY CLUB was voted Best Graphic Novel at the 1997 U.K. Comic
Art Convention. There was a sequel TIME WARP, in 1999. His short story 'The
Body' in the anthology IT'S DARK IN LONDON (Serpent's Tail) is another
favorite. Something of a comics ambassador for Britain, translations of his
work have appeared as far afield as France, Spain, Japan, and soon, Italy.
Hurrah!
All ten episodes of ILYA's Flash animated JEAN GENII can be viewed at: www.surfaceimpression.co.uk/jeangenii
More of ILYA's work can be found at: www.comiccompany.co.uk
Bacchus: The Gods of Business (vol. 2)