Category: Mam Tor™.
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!
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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.
The April 2008 issue of Creative Review has a nice full page article about
the For Feet From A Rat comic in Time Out we did with Mother.
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).
Yes, after a long hiatus I present you with another “Anatomy of..” post. This time I’ll talk about a new book Liz & I designed for Mam Tor™ Publishing: St. Cyborg’s by Nick Wray.
St. Cyborg’s is a collection of short SF stories, all centering around the titular institution. The title, to me at least, implied something of a catholic boys school and I started thinking along the lines of using an iconic image based on religious symbolism but with a contemporary/Sci-Fi slant.
St Cyborgs cover WIP, originally uploaded by helloMuller.
Cover design-in-progress for St. Cyborgs, an upcoming SF novel for Mam Tor™ Publishing
The previous “Anatomy of…” got a lot of feedback (i.e. people seem to find it interesting how I design), so here’s another one. I’ll try to make this a regular feature on the blog as long as I find stuff that’s interesting enough.
Anyway. Worry Doll was the first graphic novel published by Mam Tor™ Publishing. Written and Illustrated by Australian artist Matt Coyle. Matt, shopping around for a publisher got in touch with Liam (the Mam Tor Editor-In-Chief), Liam fell in love with it, and subsequently I got the task of designing the book. Since my book designing skills are practically non-existent (i.e. I haven’t opened Quark in 4 years, and up until then an InDesign virgin), I asked my fiancée Liz - art director at Tank Magazine - to help me out with the book…
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I’m cross-posting this from Liam’s MySpace blog:
Dear all,
As you may or may not know, Mam Tor™ are putting together their first feature.
We just had a great weekend shoot for a fictitious EPK, which Brian Luff (who works at the BBC developing comedy and internet cross-over stuff, as well as producing one of itunes top 3 comedy podcasts - comedy365) directed, and which features Ian Shaw. It debuted at the Bristol Comic Expo, where it went down a storm. This whole thing is gathering a fair bit of attention and interest - but we still need your help! One of the most important aspects of this is demonstrating that the project has a potential audience, and I believe it has. It’s 30 years since Elvis died, and there’s never been anybody quite like him. It’s time he returned…The project is being produced by Mam Tor™ under a loose alliance with Renga Media, Little Circle and Comedy 365. Our feature is a “schlock mock rock doc”, called “VZE” (Viking Zombie Elvis) - just think “Sean of the Dead” meets “Spinal Tap”, and you’ll be getting close…
The attached director is Doug Smith, who’s a veteran promo director - he did the first ever Roxy Music promo amongst others, pioneering the concept, and shot many classic covers for “Melody Maker”, before moving into documentaries and corporate film making.
Talent attached are web-based comedy duo Sowerby and Luff and Ian Shaw.
On the production design side we have Richard Dolan, who worked on Peter Jackson’s “The Frighteners” - an AMAZING artist; and Simon Bisley & Glenn Fabry - neither of which I need say more about…
Here are some links to various related sites, galleries, etc.
Zombie Elvis & The Vikings
Liam SharpThere’s obviously a lot more to everything than I’ll go into here, but it should give you an idea.
PLEASE help spread the word by posting this VZE promo teaser and help us raise awareness.
Also check out the Ian Shaw “Zombie Hunter” podcast, which is also now available on iTunes.If you like deadpan UK humour you’ll love his turn here!
Many thanks, and keep an eye out for more related stuff in the future!
Very best,
Liam and Mam Tor™!