ROMO the WolfBoy
by ILYA
Paperback / 256pp / Colour / ISBN: 978-1-914224-53-9
Price: US $19.99 / CAN $28.99/ UK £16.99
US pub date: September 1, 2026; UK pub date: November 26 ,2026
At Blimey O’Riley’s Travelling Circus, a stagehand and a strange, wild boy find themselves investigating a paranormal mystery.
Romo, rumoured a wolf boy taken from the wild, and a young stagehand named Francis are the two newest members of Blimey O’Riley’s Travelling Circus. Together they will become Criminologists Extraordinaire, Specialists in the Paranormal – but this is only their first adventure…
When the circus comes to town in Victorian England, repeated acts of sabotage by a mysterious, giggling culprit turn Romo and Francis from rivals to friends. Can they work together to solve this baffling case, and even become a top act in the meantime?
Author Biography
ILYA (Ed Hillyer) is a comic book writer and artist whose work has been published by Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image in the US, Kodansha in Japan and numerous independent companies worldwide. His graphic novels include: Manga Shakespeare: King Lear, Skidmarks, Room for Love, Kid Savage, and the award-winning End of the Century Club series. His illustration clients have included the BBC, the Royal Academy of Arts, The Times and Guardian newspapers and East End Life. ILYA was also the editor of the Mammoth Book of Best New Manga series, and his first prose novel, The Clay Dreaming, was published by Myriad Editions.
Notes to editors:
- US TOUR: to coincide with the US publication of the paperback edition, ILYA will be in the US from August to September, with various events lined up including a talk at Comicazi, Somerville, MA on 5thSept and a workshop at Small Press Expo, Bethesda Maryland on 12th Sept.
- Romo the WolfBoyhardback edition (limited run) was published in Spring 2026 in the UK only.
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