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All images, story and characters copyright by SillWill Press, 2000.

 

SillWill Press is the name of the business founded by Alison Williams when she decided to self-publish her fantasy-adventure comic The Sorcerer's Children. Trained in illustration at Sheridan College, Alison worked on a variety of freelance projects before signing on with a small, Toronto-based comic company to produce the original graphic novel Magicians' Village. Though the connection did not last, it did give Alison the experience to try her own hand at this crazy business! Thus in 1998 SillWill Press was born! Since then, Alison has received much acclaim from many of the people--professionals, fans, retailers, and others--who have seen her varied work. She also been nominated for the Best New Artist of 1999 by the Friends of Lulu organization.

 

In addition to SillWill Press is brother and business partner and editor A.Jaye Williams. A.Jaye is a successful freelance writer who has written articles for Parsec Magazine, which included interviews with executive producers Donald P. Bellisario and Robert Halmi, Sr., actors Alice Krige, Marc Singer, Monika Schnarre, Daniel Goddard, Marjean Holden, Jackson Raine and others, and comic book personalities Phil Jimenez and Marv Wolfman. For WizardWorld.com, he's interviewed Walter Simonson, J. M. Dematteis, fantasy sculptor Clayburn Moore, and others. He's also written fitness articles for MuscleMag International and American Health and Fitness.

 

You can purchase any issue of The Sorcerer's Children directly from SillWill Press by clicking on our online store or by mail. Or get your local comics retailer to order copies from Diamond Distribution, FM International Distribution, or Cold Cut Distribution (which specializes in back issues of all your favourite independant comics). If you would like to let us know what you think of our comic book or would just like to say Hi, you can contact us at: sillwill@execulink.com

 

LINKS:

Below are a number of links of interest we reccomend. Check 'em out!

www.friends-lulu.org : The Friends of Lulu website is the successful organization who's mandate is to promote female creators and readership in the industry. It's for professionals and fans; females and males! They've really helped SillWill Press!

www.orcafresh.net : Organized Readers of Comics Associated; a group dedicated to promoting the readership of comics everywhere.

www.barryblair.com : The website of Elflord illustrator and all-around cool artist Barry Blair.

www.iboxpublishing.com : The website for Mark Oakley's excellent Thieves and Kings series

www.sequentialtart.com : The web'zine is a great site to check out the latest comic news from all over!

www.worldseikido.com : Sure, it's not comics but it is Alison's martial arts club so go ahead, take a peek!

www.interlog.com/~immonen/ : This is Stuart Immonen's website, artist of such comic books as The Mighty Thor, Superman, The Fantastic Four and many others. Check it out!

www.eccentrix.com/artist/lcj: This is the website for a comic jam--a sort of get together for comic book fans, in which we all sit around a table, socialize, and draw. Check it out for further details. It's lots of fun.

www.wizardworld.com: Here you can see some of the latest developments in comics from Wizard World itself, which I contribute to from time to time.