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Four Feet From A Rat #2 cover by Chris Weston

Four Feet From A Rat is a quarterly free comic supplement to Time Out London, and a collaboration between ad agency Mother London and Mam Tor Publishing. Issue 2 has come and gone – so now it is available to download for free from the Mam Tor site!

I’ve been blogging for a while now about Liz and my involvement in the upcoming Tori Amos anthology Comic Book Tattoo (slated for release later this month). Now Comic Book Resources, arguably one of the biggest comic-centric news sites around has started a Comic Book Tattoo-centric blog where various creators involved with the book will be writing about the creative proccess of adapting Tori’s lyrics to comics.

I’ll be making an appearance there this month to discuss the design of the book and everything that came with it.
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CBT Hardcover Edition, originally uploaded by rantzh.

First look at the hardcover edition of Comic Book Tattoo – the Tori Amos comic anthology, designed by Mr & Mrs Muller.

Ltd edition book and Case view 2, originally uploaded by rantzh.

CBT editor Rantz has the first photos of the Comic Book Tattoo Ltd. Edition slipcase and cover printer dummies – one month to go until it hits the shops!

Yes, it’s that time of year again – this weekend we’ll be at the annual Bristol Comic Expo flogging our wares and depleting the hotel bar of all liquids.
I’ll be most likely parting with my hard earned cash and returning home with too many comics.

Comic Book Tattoo cover. Art by Jason Levesque.

Lately Liz and I have been burning the midnight oil on a pretty big print project: Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo - a nearly 500-page deluxe-packaged anthology featuring some of comics’ brightest talents including David Mack, Mike Dringenberg, Jonathan Hickman, Carla Speed McNeil, Laurenn McCubbin, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ivan Brandon, Calum Watt, Neil Kleid, Christopher Mitten, Elzabeth Genco, Chris Arrant, and Daniel Heard - all of whom turn in new work inspired by the music of Tori Amos. And we’re designing the mother!

The book will be released in 3 editions: regular trade paperback, hardcover, and a deluxe signed (by Tori) hardcover in slipcase. All available from the 23rd of July and launched at this years San Diego Comic Con.

Of course, more news will follow over the coming months, but in the meantime here’s the cover and the CBT logo by yours truly.

Comic Book Tattoo Logo. Line art by Jason Levesque.

24SEVEN, Vol2 cover

Congrats to Ivan Brandon who just scooped a Best Anthology nomination at the Eisner Awards for 24SEVEN, Vol2!

Pretty cool to hear that a book I was involved with getting that kind of recognition!

Four Feet From A Rat cover. Art by Liam Sharp

Last month Ad agency Mother and the crew at Mam Tor Publishing™ collaborated on Four Feet From A Rat - an exclusive 16 page comic that appeared in the pages of Time Out London - the first edition of what will be a quarterly supplement to the magazine with a print run of approximately 100.000 copies!

For the stories I cobbled together some logos and had some fun with the themes… all of them relate in a way to London.

You can read an interview with our own Liam Sharp over at Newsarama, and the Guardian newspaper has it covered as well (although I don’t really agree with some of the comments of their comics “expert” Will Hodgkinson).

Back in my college days I was (and actually still am) really into my comics. So much so that I was planning since I was a teenager to become a *real* comic book artist. Back then I didn’t have a computer yet (that would only happen in 1998) so I was hunched over my drawing table drawing comics if I wasn’t reading them.

In 1996 I was in my 2nd year of graphic design at college when my old high school teacher (and fellow comic lover) got in touch with a bunch of us to put together a one-off indie comic featuring all his students past & present who were involved in one shape or another with the indie comic scene in Antwerp at the time. Too cool to decline of course. So I set about to cram as much of the things I loved into the 3 pages you see below: cyborgs, silly tech, aliens,.. anything with textures. Old school fans will probably recognize that I wore my influences on my sleeve - and I spend a couple of sleepless nights rendering the hell out of my drawings (remember, these were the 90s).

Of course, by the time I graduated graphic design had completely taken over. And although I still read comics as much as I did back then, I’m not drawing them… but have been lucky enough to design a couple of them.

A big thanks to my old high school teach Peter Coen to send me scans of my pages!

comcore-tom-96-01, originally uploaded by helloMuller.
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Comics collection A, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

Every couple of years I get in the mood to sort through all of my comics.
When I was a teenager I’d be doing it constantly and had every series I collected in its own dedicated box, bagged and boarded.

Then as I got older reading them became more important than bagging and I started dumping them in longboxes to keep them safe. Of course this meant that rather quickly complete chaos would ensue and I’d never find a complete run of something.

So now I’m doing it all over again - hoping to do it properly this time (at least for the next 4-5 years or so), and along the way rediscovering old favourites, that 1 issue I thought I dreamt up having, and lots of crap (U.S War Machine, Elektra?!) and too much X-Men comics.

I love it. Really.

What you’re seeing on the photo is roughly spanning the last 8-10 years of hoarding.