About Monolith Comics
Who are these guys anyway?
Excellent question! We’re Monolith Comics - a creative partnership between writer Tom Wilkins and illustrator Louis Williams, based somewhere between Oxford and Swindon. We create comic books with a dash of mythology mixed in.
The idea behind Monolith spun out of our first collaboration in 2021, with a graphic novel titled The Crossing. Since then, we’ve collaborated with JVC Parry to produce tie-in comics for his D&D adventures, published our own tie-in for The Crossing, and begun work on an exciting webcomic project.
We love telling stories that mix fantasy, history, and mythology, into comics that look like a weird amalgamation of each.
Well yeah… but specifically?
I’m the writer here at Monolith Comics, and I’ve loved storytelling for as long as I can remember. Ever since I was a kid, I've found myself drawn to books - I even wrote a few back then that will never see the light of day! As I got older, my love for stories mixed, quite aptly, with my love of mythology - they were, after all, some of the first stories we told around the campfire at night.
It was almost inevitable that I would write The Crossing - a comic book about a storyteller teaching another member of his tribe the history of their gods and people. It was the culmination of the kind of stories I had been writing for the last few years - the number of short stories I have written about an old person teaching a younger person about something or other is staggering.
I cannot wait to show you everything else we’ve been working on, so stick around, and you might read something good.
Hi, I’m Louis, the illustrator, letterer, and creative backbone of Monolith (he wouldn't ever actually admit this but I’m the one writing the website, so he doesnt get a choice - Tom)
Surprisingly enough, although I believe storytelling is the greatest human form of expression, the story of how I got to where I am today isn't particularly interesting.
I was a kid who loved to draw. Not because I thought I was good at it, but because the endless expanse of fantastical worlds and far-off kingdoms had so much more to offer than the real world.
As for how I "trained" my artistic skill - I didn't really. Everything I learned, I learned from seeing something that inspired me and just sitting down and drawing. There are endless stories to be told and I would love nothing better than to depict them through my inks and pencils for the rest of my life
Contact
Want to hire us? Collaborate? Invite us on a podcast? Or even just ask us a burning question about one of our comics? You can do that right here!
Reach out directly by emailing monolithcomicsuk@gmail.com, or use the contact form.
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