Ilya is also a Kurdish name meaning great and glorious.

Famous namesakes

Mythical/biblical figures

• Ilya Muromets, Russian folk hero
• Elijah, a Hebrew prophet of the ninth century BC
• Elias, another name for the prophet Elijah (St Ilya in Russian)

Real people

• Ilya Ilf, Russian author of Twelve Chairs and the Golden Calf
• Ilya Bryzgalov, ice hockey player
• Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Ilya Mechnikov, Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
• Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter
• Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer and Soviet cultural ambassador
• Ilya Kovalchuk, ice hockey player
• Ilya Ulyanov, father of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
• Ilya Tchaikovsky, father of composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Ilya Salkind, movie producer
• Ilya Kogan, Famous debt advisor

Fictional characters

• Illyasviel von Einzbern, a character in Fate/stay night
• Illya Kuryakin, a character in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Music

• Ilya (Bristol band), from Bristol

Related

• Branch, in East African languages
• "There is" (il y a), in French

His work has appeared in publications from all the major US and UK comics companies, from Fleetway Editions' Crisis (comic), Dark Horse's Manga Mania, Deadline magazine to work for DC Comics' Vertigo comics imprint.

Biography

He is best known for his character Bic who appeared in a self-published series of comics (now collected as Skidmarks) and then as part of the larger cast of The End of The Century Club.

ILYA collaborated with Eddie Campbell on The Eyeball Kid, a spin-off title from Campbell's Bacchus series.

He has recently edited The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga, an anthology presenting the work of an international roster of contributors whose comics show the influence or inspiration of Japanese manga and anime, including: Michiru Morikawa, winner of the International Manga and Anime Festival's grand prize in 2005, previous category winners Asia Alfasi and Joanna Zhou, as well as established UK cartoonists Andi Watson and Craig Conlan.

Ten episodes of his animated online comic strip Jean Genii (originally commissioned by the BBC) are viewable online.

Bibliography

• The End of the Century Club: Countdown (Slab-O-Concrete, 1999, ISBN 0-9527386-0-0)
• Time Warp: The End of the Century Club (Slab-O-Concrete, 1999, ISBN 1-899866-20-5)
• Skidmarks (Active Images, 2004, ISBN 0-9740567-4-X)
• Ballast (with writer Joe Kelly, Active Images, 2005, ISBN 0-9766761-2-5)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga (Carroll & Graf, 2006, ISBN 0-7867-1838-2)

Notes

References

• Ilya at Lambiek

External links

• Mammoth Book of Best New Manga