Welcome back to THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM! If you are a long-time fan of my blog (which I highly doubt) or somebody who’s just randomly seen every post I’ve ever made, you’ll probably know Fandom Favourites. Well, if you don’t, Fandom Favourites is just me saying “Hey! This is some guy that I think makes some pretty cool stuff!” and then writing a post about them. I have one about Joe Bongiorno, creator of The Star Wars Expanded Universe Timeline website, and one on Darth Angelus, creator of The Chronicles of Humanity and the guy who’s making that really cool Heir to the Empire adaptation. Well, this episode of Fandom Favourites is not actually a person who’s worked on Star Wars, but he has done some of my favourite stuff. This guy is Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker. For those of you who don’t know him, D’Israeli is a British comic book artist and sometimes writer, and is known (at least by me) for artwork on Scarlet Traces, Leviathan and Stickleback. If you don’t already know, Scarlet Traces plays a pretty reasonable part in my upcoming Tintin story Tintin and the Secrets of the Multiverse, as it is what I call “Earth-4 in the Tintin Multiverse,” due to Tintin’s appearance on Page 42 of the Scarlet Traces graphic novel. Anyway, he’s been doing comics since the 1980’s, and some of his earlier works include Ultraman and D’Adventures of I.S.R.A.E.L.I. In 1989-1990, he worked on Timulo for Deadline Magazine with writer Molly Eyre (a.k.a. just another name of Matt Brooker), as well as Fatal Charm with Shane Oakley (who is a real writer) also in the Deadline Magazine. Timularo, which is the collection of all of the Timulo comics, the D’Adventures of I.S.R.A.E.L.I. comics A Fistful of Fingers, Who Me? and Consequences (and a lot more) can be found on Lulu here. In 1991 he worked with Warren Ellis and Blast! Magazine on Lazarus Churchyard, and inked and coloured a lot of stuff after that. He had Consequences, the one-shot sequel to Timulo, published by the short-lived Autocratik Press in 1998, soon after he had worked with Ian Edginton on the four-part plus prologue mini-series Kingdom of the Wicked for Caliber Comics. 2002 came with the creation of Scarlet Traces with Ian Edginton, a sequel to HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds, which is still continuing today (I am hoping to write about in a blog post sometime soon). The next year he worked with Edginton yet again on the horror story Leviathan and with Paul Cornell on XTNCT. He began Stickleback with Ian Edginton in 2006, which is a basically-tie-in to Edginton and Steve Yeowell’s The Red Seas (just to put it out there, Stickleback’s real identity is READ THIS SPOILER IF YOU DARE: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes in disguise), and has done a lot of work since then, including Scarlet Traces sequels (The Great Game, Cold War, Cold War: Book 2 and Home Front, Storm Front coming soon) and prequel (HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds), Stickleback sequels (England’s Glory, London’s Burning, Number of the Beast and The Thru’Penny Opera) and an awesome series called Helium in 2015. His work is really amazing and I recommend that you try and find it. Also, he puts in a lot of Easter Eggs and references in his drawings, most of which can be found on Eamonn Clarke’s website Scarlet Traces Annotations. Well, that’s a wrap on THE SITH ARCHIVES OF DARTH FANDOM!
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