ILYA

ILYA
Born	Ed Hillyer
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer, artist
Pseudonym(s)	ILYA
Notable works	Bic

Ed Hillyer, better known as ILYA, is a British comics writer/artist.

His work has appeared in publications from all the major US and UK comics companies, from Fleetway Editions' Crisis, Dark Horse's Manga Mania, Deadline magazine to work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Biography

He is best known for his character Bic who appeared in a self-published series of comics (now collected as Skidmarks) and then as part of the larger cast of The End of The Century Club.

ILYA collaborated with Eddie Campbell on The Eyeball Kid, a spin-off title from Campbell's Bacchus series.

He has recently edited The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga, an anthology presenting the work of an international roster of contributors whose comics show the influence or inspiration of Japanese manga and anime, including: Michiru Morikawa, winner of the International Manga and Anime Festival's grand prize in 2005, previous category winners Asia Alfasi and Joanna Zhou, as well as established UK cartoonists Andi Watson and Craig Conlan.

Ten episodes of his animated online comic strip Jean Genii (originally commissioned by the BBC) are viewable online.^[1]

Ed Hillyer's first novel, The Clay Dreaming, was published in March 2010 by Myriad Editions.

Bibliography

• The End of the Century Club: Countdown (Slab-O-Concrete, 1999, ISBN 0-9527386-0-0)
• Time Warp: The End of the Century Club (Slab-O-Concrete, 1999, ISBN 1-899866-20-5)
• Skidmarks (Active Images, 2004, ISBN 0-9740567-4-X)
• Ballast (with writer Joe Kelly, Active Images, 2005, ISBN 0-9766761-2-5)^[2]
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga Vol.1 (Carroll & Graf, 2006, ISBN 0-7867-1838-2)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga Vol.2 (Constable & Robinson, 2007, ISBN 978-1-845296-42-1)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga Vol.3 (Robinson Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-845298-27-2)
• The Clay Dreaming (Myriad Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9562515-0-3)

Notes

1. ^ Jean Genii
2. ^ An Active Images Three-Fer: Bal,last, Solstice, & Gunpowder Girl , Newsarama, September 7, 2005

References

• Ed Hillyer at the Grand Comics Database
• Ed Hillyer at the Comic Book DB
• Ilya at Lambiek

External links

• Mammoth Book of Best New Manga

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Name	ILYA
Alternative names	Hillyer, Ed (real name)
Short description	British comics writer and artist
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