About

Developing the ideas for a Kula Shaker graphic novel has been a long and winding process, leading across many months before writing finally started. The initial idea for the book was to explore the way that dreams act as a doorway into the unconscious. For centuries mankind has observed how dreams can help us in our efforts towards self-understanding and even foster a process of self-healing of the many things that trouble us in our daily lives. Modern psychoanalysis has made great discoveries by studying dreams, shedding light on that elusive ‘grey area’ in between who we think we are, who we really are, and who we can become…
Inspired by some of the themes and lyrics of Kula Shaker, The Magic Theatre begins to take shape. A hidden place, somewhere ‘in-between’, a bridge between what is known and what is unknown, a pathway from the shadow world of the unconscious to the light of day where anything is possible.

Welcome to the journey.
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Andrew Wildman is a designer /illustrator of some 25 years industry experience. His work as an illustrator has been used in advertising and publishing but it is for his work in the field of comics that he is best known. Illustrating for books such as TRANSFORMERS, THE X-MEN and SPIDER-MAN has gained him a devoted fan base. Further work includes character design and animated movie production for the video games industry. Andrew also designed the characters for the animated TV show
‘Legend of the Dragon’.

Jason Cobley has chronicled the adventures of Captain Winston Bulldog for over a decade in the Eagle-nominated ‘Bulldog Adventure Magazine’ and the critically acclaimed ‘Bulldog: Empire’i-series, which is collected this autumn in the international Mammoth Book of Best New Manga. His writing is a regular feature of UK independent comics, strips having appeared in anthologies Monsters, Twelve (based on the twelve labours of Hercules) and Zarjaz. He lives among the misty fens of East Anglia with his wife, daughter and an irascible dog named Bob.