Rob Marland

Comics, podcasts, audiobooks, &c

About
I make things in Switzerland. I made the first ever graphic novel about Oscar Wilde, make a movie review podcast with my mum, and record audiobooks. I am currently working on more comics about Oscar Wilde and a graphic memoir about my relationship with my sister.

Email: r.p.marland [a~t] gmail [0] com
Twitter: @BaubleRob
Shop [Closed until March 2020, while I move house]
  1. News
    1. News archive
  2. Comics & Zines
    1. My Mum Has ZINE a Movie
      2. A collection of my mum’s best movie reviews from the 2017-2019 episodes of our weekly podcast, My Mum Has Seen a Movie.
    2. Little Fluffy Clouds
      3. A one-page comic for Tim Bird’s Various Artists project, about how my childhood friend Jim and I bonded over The Orb’s Live ’93 album. Read it here
    3. Basler Freitag
      4. A spruced up version of the diary comics I drew on 1st February 2019 for #HourlyComicsDay. My rainy day off in Switzerland includes a cross-border stroll, a soggy Japanese lesson, and too much vegetarian Indian food for one man to handle. Buy it here
    4. Welcome to Deadwood
      5. I celebrated the return of Deadwood by making this zine, which features portraits of 30 of your favourite hoopleheads and hustlers, including Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickock, Al Swearengen, and Seth Bullock. Buy it here
    5. Oscar Wilde: The Season of Sorrow
      6. The full story of Oscar Wilde’s two year imprisonment for “gross indecency”, from conviction to release. This is the first ever graphic novel about Oscar Wilde! Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson, has praised the “quality as well as the sensitivity” of The Season of Sorrow. Buy a paper copy | Buy an ebook
    6. Eazy Is His Name…
      7. A two page comic about N.W.A frontman, Eazy-E. It is featured in Good Comics’ Dead Singers Society Vol. 4. Buy it in the Good Comics shop
    7. The Longest Day
      8. A follow up to my My Sister’s Birthday. I visit my sister and dad on summer solstice. Andy Oliver (Broken Frontier) has said that this “bleak farce on family and relationships has a quiet poignancy at its heart”. Buy it here
    8. C.3.3 and the Fly
      9. A four page comic about Oscar Wilde and his best friend in prison: a fly. Read it here
    9. Deadbeat and Absent Dads
      10. A four page comic about bad father figures. Read it here
    10. Nosferatu
      11. A re-editing of the 1920s classic film in comics form. I’ve sold out of this but you can read it for free
    11. Anecdotes from the Life of Pushkin
      12. I adapted Daniil Kharms’ weird microstories about Pushkin in this odd minicomic. Buy it here
    12. My Sister’s Birthday
      13. An autobio comic about a trip to Wales to visit my sister and dad. Buy it here
  3. Buy
    1. Etsy shop [Closed until March 2020, while I move house]
    2. Amazon
    3. Brick and mortar
      4. Note: these shops have stocked my comics, but not all will have copies now.
      1. Brighton - Dave’s Comics
      2. Edinburgh - Deadhead Comics
      3. Glasgow - Category Is Books
      4. Hastings - Printed Matter
      5. Leeds - Travelling Man
      6. Liverpool - News From Nowhere
      7. London - Gay’s The Word
      8. London - Gosh! Comics
      9. London - Orbital Comics
      10. Manchester - Travelling Man
      11. Newcastle - Travelling Man
      12. York - Travelling Man
      13. Australia, Brisbane - Junky Comics
      14. Germany, Hamburg - Strips & Stories
      15. Ireland, Dublin - Forbidden Planet
      16. Ireland, Dublin - Sub City Comics
      17. Switzerland, Basel - Comix Shop
      18. USA, Lawrence KS - Brits
      19. USA, New York - Bluestockings
      20. USA, San Francisco - Comix Experience
    4. Comic & zine fairs
      1. Catford Comic & Zine Fair, 08.12.2019
      2. Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, 08.09.2019
      3. Northwest Zinefest, 28.07.2019
      4. Catford Comic & Zine Fair (communal table), 09.12.2018
      5. South London Comic & Zine Fair (communal table), 14.07.2018
      6. DIY Cultures (communal table), 29.05.2016
  4. Press
    1. Review of The Longest Day. Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier, 05.09.2019
  5. Podcasts
    1. My Mum Has Seen a Movie | RSS
    2. Still Any Good? Harry and the Hendersons, 15.01.2020
    3. The Arniethology: Days of Thunder, 26.07.2017
    4. The Arniethology: Top 10 Schwarzenegger movies, 28.12.2016
  6. Audiobooks
    1. Poems by Oscar Wilde
      1. Ave Maria Gratia Plena ♫ | Etext
      2. By The Arno ♫ | Etext
      3. Graffiti d’Italia ♫ | Etext
      4. Impression De Voyage ♫ | Etext
      5. Italia ♫ | Etext
      6. Rome Unvisited ♫ | Etext
      7. San Miniato ♫ | Etext
      8. At Verona ♫ | Etext
    2. Other works by Oscar Wilde
      1. Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life ♫ | Etext
      2. The Disciple ♫ | Etext
      3. The House of Judgment ♫ | Etext
      4. An Ideal Husband
      5. Impressions of America ♫ | Etext
      6. The Oscar Wilde Calendar - ed. Stuart Mason
      7. Coming soon: The Remarkable Rocket (dramatic reading) | Etext
      8. Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf - Rennell Rodd
      9. The Sphinx Without a Secret ♫ | Etext
      10. The Tomb of Keats ♫ | Etext
    3. Works related to Oscar Wilde
      1. The Life of Oscar Wilde - Robert Sherard
      2. Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement - Stuart Mason ♫ | Etext
      3. Oscar Wilde: An Idler’s Impression - Edgar Saltus ♫ | Etext
      4. Oscar Wilde Bunco Articles ♫
      5. Coming soon: Oscar Wilde Discovers America [1882] - Lloyd Lewis & Henry Justin Smith
      6. Coming soon: Oscar Wilde: North American Interviews, 1882-1883
      7. Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship - Robert Sherard
      8. Oscar Wilde Twice Defended - Robert Sherard
      9. The Real Oscar Wilde - Robert Sherard
      10. A Ride Across the Peloponnese - George Macmillan
      11. Some Reflections on the Beauty of Unpunctuality - Lord Alfred Douglas ♫ | Etext
      12. “A Talk With Mr. Oscar Wilde,” The Sketch, 09.01.1895. ♫ | Etext
      13. The Trial of Oscar Wilde
    4. Jacobean city comedy plays
      1. Amends for Ladies - Nathan Field
      2. Cupid’s Whirligig - Edward Sharpham
      3. The Family of Love - Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, & Lording Barry
      4. The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
      5. Ram Alley - Lording Barry
      6. The Shoemakers’ Holiday - Thomas Dekker
      7. A Woman is a Weathercock - Nathan Field
    5. Other solo projects
      1. Aristotle’s Masterpiece
      2. A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
      3. Prisoner for Blasphemy - George William Foote
      4. Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
    6. Other collaborative projects
      1. Basho’s Haiku
      2. Coming soon: The Dial No 1 - eds. Charles Shannon & Charles Ricketts
      3. The Doves’ Nest and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
      4. Magna Carta - Amice MacDonell
      5. Our American Cousin - Tom Taylor
      6. Coming soon: Something Childish and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
    7. All LibriVox projects I have contributed to
  7. Oscar Wilde
    1. Oscar Wilde Comics blog
    2. @WildeanQuotes Twitter bot | Check my progress
    3. Font based on Wilde’s handwriting
    4. Wilde’s Final Farewell Lecture in New York (The Wildean, 01.2013)
    5. Was Oscar Wilde the First Ever Stand-up? (Chortle, 05.09.2013)
    6. See Comics & Zines and Audiobooks for more
  8. Miscellaneous
    1. Comic script template for Word
    2. YouTube channel
    3. Seen / Read 2014-20XX
    4. Fonts
    5. Volfsball MVP 2016
  9. Notes
    1. Best things
      1. The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
      2. Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Nabokov
      3. Letter 2 My Unborn - Tupac Shakur
      4. A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson
      5. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
      6. Perseus with the Head of Medusa - Benvenuto Cellini
      7. Police Story 2, playground fight scene - Jackie Chan
      8. The Taj Mahal - Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
      9. Thin He Was and Filthy Haired - Robert Llewellyn
      10. Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu
      11. Wake in Fright - Ted Kotcheff
    2. Comics someone should make
      1. The toxic houseshare of Dante Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, Fanny Cornforth, and George Meredith at 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Eggs flung in faces, naked prancing, and a toucan riding a llama.
      2. The exploits of Charles Howard, aka Mad Jack, an earl who led a WWII bomb disposal squad known as “The Holy Trinity”.
      3. The Madde Pranckes of the original Jacobean “Roaring Girl”, Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse. Thief, mastiff breeder, actor, and wearer of men’s clothes.