I became a diehard Phil Elliott follower after finding him (and collaborators Robert Wells and Mike Powell) on twitter in 2020 and discovering his very unusual kickstarter campaign with Mike Powell. This was a sort of gothic science fiction text story with every other page a single b/w Phil Elliott illustration.
Also in 2020 was a kickstarter campaign for the two-man anthology MALTY HEAVE with the brilliant Robert Wells joining Elliott for two issues. (MALTY HEAVE = HEAVY METAL tribute)
cover: Robert Wells/Phil Elliott
Elliott's robots
Elliott cover painting
"The Game" by Elliott
2021 brought the first in a series of archival volume of Elliott's unpublished, commercial, out of print, or uncollected works. I've always loved this issue of STUFF and the two subsequent wonderfully obscure volumes kickstarted in 2022 (a rumored 4th volume never appeared or I just missed it!).
strip submitted to PUNCH
Glenn Dakin inking Elliott pencils
Unused Dakin/Elliott MR. NIGHT
The stars (figuratively) aligned in 2023 bringing us two volumes of the landscape format !GAG!, collections of obscure "gag strip" format comics from Phil Elliott, Glenn Dakin, and Eddie Campbell. Similar to STUFF in that all three artists scrounged up their favorite unpublished and uncollected work.
I'm partial to "The Tribe of Ush"
unknown but loved!
Currently running is an 84-page collected edition of THE MAN FROM ZODIAC by Glenn Dakin and Elliott, the campaign is fully funded and ends June 6th. Don't miss it! (Also available for preorder from the Shift Store.)
Phil Elliott has also contributed to other people's kickstarter campaigns, following are some I've backed in the past:
Story: Mike Powell
Story: Anna Everts
Last two pages from this
downthetubes interview with Elliott
Covers from the77comic wordpress site
(I've gone by the dates I downloaded the PDFs of the individual books as their release dates, although the kickstarter campaigns may have been earlier.)
I never stop marveling at the comic art out there I've never heard of.
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