Category: Mam Tor™.
The latest installment of Four Feet From A Rat — the comic supplement to Time Out Magazine by Ad agency Mother and us peeps at Mam Tor has been released and got some attention from The Guardian and Creative Review!
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!
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 Mam Tor 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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