Rob Marland
About
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 a graphic novel about Wilde’s visit to Greece, called Really Greek.

Email: r.p.marland [a~t] gmail [0] com
Twitter: @BaubleRob
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  1. News
    1. News archive
  2. Comics & Zines
    1. Short comics: read for free!
      1. Diary comics (2018-)
      2. Grey (2020)
      3. Little Fluffy Clouds (2019)
      4. Eazy Is His Name… (2018)
      5. C.3.3 and the Fly (2016)
      6. Deadbeat and Absent Dads (2016)
    2. Coming soon: Really Greek: A Ride Across the Peloponnese with Oscar Wilde
      3. I’m working on a long comic about Oscar Wilde’s travels across Greece. In the spring of 2019 I followed his footsteps, so the book will also be a memoir/travelogue.
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    3. My Mum Has ZINE a Movie
      4. A collection of my mum’s best movie reviews from the 2017-2019 episodes of our weekly podcast, My Mum Has Seen a Movie. (2019)
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      Buy it here
    4. Basler Freitag
      5. 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. (2019)
      Read it here | Buy it here
    5. Welcome to Deadwood
      6. 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. (2019)
      Buy it here
    6. Oscar Wilde: The Season of Sorrow
      7. 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. (2018)
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    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”. (2018)
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      Buy it here
    8. Nosferatu
      9. A re-editing of the 1920s classic film in comics form. (2016)
      Read it here | Buy it here
    9. Anecdotes from the Life of Pushkin
      10. I adapted Daniil Kharms’ weird microstories about Pushkin in this odd minicomic. (2016)
      Buy it here
    10. My Sister’s Birthday
      11. An autobio comic about a trip to Wales to visit my sister and dad. Coffee wine, awful TV, and not talking about the things we should be talking about. (2016)
      Buy it here
  3. Buy
    1. Etsy shop
    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. Stroll Sounds | RSS
    3. Guest appearances
      1. The SeaBin Podcast: Inside the Introvert’s Studio, 01.06.2020
      2. Still Any Good? Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, 12.05.2020
      3. Still Any Good? Harry and the Hendersons, 15.01.2020
      4. The Arniethology: Days of Thunder, 26.07.2017
      5. 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. To My Friend Luther Munday ♫ | Etext
      9. Untitled Poem from The Soil, July 1917 ♫ | Etext
      10. At Verona ♫ | Etext
    2. Stories & plays by Oscar Wilde
      1. The Actress ♫ | Etext
      2. The Disciple ♫ | Etext
      3. The House of Judgment ♫ | Etext
      4. An Ideal Husband
      5. Jezabel ♫ | Etext
      6. The Poet ♫ | Etext
      7. The Remarkable Rocket (full cast) ♫ | Etext
      8. Simon of Cyrene ♫ | Etext
      9. The Sphinx Without a Secret ♫ | Etext
    3. Non-fiction by Oscar Wilde
      1. Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life ♫ | Etext
      2. Impressions of America ♫ | Etext
      3. Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)
      4. Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895)
      5. Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897)
      6. Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898)
      7. Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)
      8. The Oscar Wilde Calendar - ed. Stuart Mason
      9. The Tomb of Keats ♫ | Etext
    4. Works about Oscar Wilde
      1. The Life of Oscar Wilde - Robert Sherard
      2. Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetic Apostle’s First Appearance in New York Society ♫ | Etext
      3. Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement - Stuart Mason ♫ | Etext
      4. Oscar Wilde: An Idler’s Impression - Edgar Saltus ♫ | Etext
      5. Oscar Wilde Bunco Articles ♫
      6. Oscar Wilde Discovers America [1882] - Lloyd Lewis & Henry Justin Smith
      7. Oscar Wilde and Myself - Lord Alfred Douglas
      8. Oscar Wilde From Purgatory - Hester Travers Smith
      9. Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship - Robert Sherard
      10. Oscar Wilde Twice Defended - Robert Sherard
      11. The Real Oscar Wilde - Robert Sherard
      12. “A Talk With Mr. Oscar Wilde,” The Sketch, 09.01.1895. ♫ | Etext
      13. The Trial of Oscar Wilde (full cast)
      14. Wilde in America ♫ | Etext
    5. Oscar Wilde’s circle
      1. The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
      2. The Dial #1 - eds. C. H. Shannon & C. Ricketts
      3. In Excelsis by Lord Alfred Douglas
      4. Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf - Rennell Rodd
      5. A Ride Across the Peloponnese - George Macmillan
      6. Silverpoints - John Gray
      7. Some Reflections on the Beauty of Unpunctuality - Lord Alfred Douglas ♫ | Etext
    6. 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
    7. Other solo projects
      1. Aristotle’s Masterpiece
      2. A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
      3. Prisoner for Blasphemy - George William Foote
      4. The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture
      5. Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
    8. Other collaborative projects
      1. Basho’s Haiku
      2. The Doves’ Nest and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
      3. Magna Carta - Amice MacDonell
      4. Our American Cousin - Tom Taylor
      5. Something Childish and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
    9. All LibriVox projects I have contributed to
  7. Oscar Wilde
    1. Oscar Wilde blog
    2. Articles and blog highlights
      1. Uncollected letters of Oscar Wilde
      2. Oscar Wilde’s review of the Grosvenor Gallery, 1877 (illustrated)
      3. Oscar Wilde’s review of the Grosvenor Gallery, 1879 (illustrated)
      4. Font based on Wilde’s handwriting
      5. Was Oscar Wilde the First Ever Stand-up? (Chortle, 05.09.2013)
      6. Wilde’s Final Farewell Lecture in New York (The Wildean, 01.2013)
    3. @WildeanQuotes Twitter bot | Check my progress
    4. Oscar Wilde themed crossword (OWS newsletter 66, 05.2020)
    5. 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. Mysterious Girl - Chiemi Manabe
      8. Police Story 2, playground fight scene - Jackie Chan
      9. The Taj Mahal - Ustad Ahmad Lahauri
      10. Thin He Was and Filthy Haired - Robert Llewellyn
      11. Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu
      12. Tsuki-Hime - Mioko Yamaguchi
      13. Wake in Fright - Ted Kotcheff
    2. Comics someone should make
      1. A biography of oil heiress and powerboat racer, Marion ‘Joe’ Carstairs. Slept with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Oscar Wilde’s niece, Dolly Wilde. Lifelong companion was a doll she named Lord Tod Wadley.
      2. 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.
      3. The exploits of Charles Howard, aka Mad Jack, an earl who led a WWII bomb disposal squad known as “The Holy Trinity”.
      4. The Madde Pranckes of the original Jacobean “Roaring Girl”, Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse. Thief, mastiff breeder, actor, and wearer of men’s clothes.