By Darren Shill
Those of you who have been exploring The Luna Sol Tarot have hopefully delved into our little booklet and come across the spread we created to accompany the deck. For those who haven’t gotten the deck yet, we wanted to give you a chance to try our custom spread with another deck that resonates with you.
It’s been an amazing month for Liminal 11! Our first products were launched; we’ve got distribution in the UK, Europe and North America; we went to Thought Bubble, Mind Body Soul Experience and the UK Tarot Conference (with more to come!); we’ve published three full chapters of the amazing Tales of the Tarot webcomic; and we’ve been getting a lot of really wonderful feedback on our publications! The Luna Sol Tarot has been especially popular, so we thought we’d thank the amazing reviewers and influencers who have shown us love by rounding up all of their kind words and coverage here!
Liminal 11 co-founders Darren Shill and Mike Medaglia at our launch party
by Sarah Wray
Well, it’s official… we’re official! Last week, we held our proper launch party, plus we have some REALLY EXCITING NEWS . . .
In the media? Read our official press release.
Tales of the Tarot is a weekly webcomic by Kaylee Pinecone, following the narrative of each card in the major arcana, from The Fool to The World. (Click here to see the full series!)
Fumio Obata (born in Toyko, 1975) came to the UK when he was 16 years old and completed his BA Illustration degree at Glasgow School of Art and a Master degree in Communication Design from Royal College of Art in London. He then pursued his comic book career here in the UK after realizing there were more challenges in Europe than his home country, Japan. He is now an author whose work and inspiration come from cultural differences and social issues in his surroundings. His style and work are influenced by both Japanese and European aesthetics.
He is latest graphic novel Just So Happens, published by Jonathan Cape, Random House, has won many high acclaims and now been translated and published in 8 different countries.
Fumio also has a career as an animator. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked with Duran Duran, Channel4, and joined Redkite Animations in Edinburgh in 2006. In Edinburgh, he worked on numbers of joint projects with DC Thompson.
Between 2008-9 he completed a comic artist residency at La Maison Des Auteurs (The House of Authors), Angoulême, France – a renowned programme organised by La Cité Internationale de la Bande Desinée et de l’image. In 2013 he was offered a senior lecturer post for the BA Illustration course at the University of Gloucestershire in UK and currently supporting young talents to develop their own/unique artistic voices in various sequential contexts such as animation, graphic novel and children’s book.
He is a regular contributor to Italian News Magazine Internazionale for his graphic reportage on a series of natural disasters in Japan.
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Head over to Fumio’s website
Stay in touch via Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr.
Order Just So Happens in the UK
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Fumio’s publications for Liminal 11:
Watch this space!
Sean Michael Wilson is a graphic novel writer living in Scotland and Japan. His books are often on themes of history, biography and social issues. He has had more than twenty books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, including: a comic book version of A Christmas Carol (‘Best of 2008’, Sunday Times), AX:alternative manga ( ‘Best ten books of 2010’, Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, his first contribution to a book in graphic form) and several manga versions of Japanese classics, such as The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure and The 47 Ronin. In 2016 his book The Faceless Ghost was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Book Awards. In 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese government – he is the first British person to receive this award. He has worked with a variety of organisations in the process, such as British universities and museums, Norwegian’s People’s Aid, the British and American Humanist Associations, Corporate Watch, War on Want and the Arts Council. He often gives lectures and talks about comics in schools and colleges, and has written articles for such places as The Japan Times, The London Economic and The Herald Scotland.
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Buy Sean’s books!
Stay in touch with him via his blog, and on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
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Sean’s publications for Liminal 11:
Watch this space!
Enoki is an award-winning comic artist who illustrates and animates for corporations around the globe. Guided by intuition and curiosity, Enoki creates with empathy, love, and courage with the hope to reach out and connect with others through her stories and art. Philosophy and loneliness, 1910s theatre, and sci-fi, are often themes inspired within her mysterious and elegant paintings. Enoki lives with many plants and practices Historical Fencing in Bristol, UK. Her favourite flower is the Peace Lily.
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Follow Enoki on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook!
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Enoki’s publications for Liminal 11:
Mini Meditations on Friendship
If you don’t know her by now, we’re not sure where you’ve been! Tillie Walden – creator of one of the inaugural titles in our Mini Meditations series, Mini Meditations on Creativity – is the breakout star of the comics world, now with an Eisner Award under her belt for her graphic memoir Spinning.
By Darren Shill
With the Sun in Virgo and The Luna Sol Tarot being delivered from the printers, what finer time to reflect on that busy Minor Arcana, the Eight of Disks.
Tales of the Tarot is a weekly webcomic by Kaylee Pinecone, following the narrative of each card in the major arcana, from The Fool to The World. (Click here to see the full series!)
By Darren Shill
It’s strange how one of the most interesting Major Arcana cards (from a numerological perspective) arguably doesn’t have a number at all. Here is a Zero that could represent nothing but is the source of everything. It is the beginning and it is also the end.
Constance Armitage lives between the worlds of art and technology. She began personifying hardware components and visualising concepts whilst studying Computer Science because it was the most effective (and fun) way for her to learn. Finding later that many others also learn in this way, her interest in using storytelling and art to explain abstract ideas grew. In a time where technological advancements are fuelled by greed, where ethics and social impact are afterthoughts, and change is increasingly fast-paced and complex, anxiety and stress are commonplace in many daily lives. Constance tries to promote a kinder, slower, calmer way of working and living through her art.
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View more of her art on tumblr
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Constance’s publications for Liminal 11:
Watch this space!
By Darren Shill
There is something weird that happens between the Aces and the Twos in the tarot. Aces always feel special. All that potential and pure essence of the suit gives them a presence that stands apart from the other cards.
Tales of the Tarot is a weekly webcomic by Kaylee Pinecone, following the narrative of each card in the major arcana, from The Fool to The World. (Click here to see the full series!)
We’re having a party to celebrate the publication of Liminal 11’s first titles and our official launch as a new publisher! And you’re invited!
Please join us on Thursday, 11 October 2018, at Gosh! Comics in London. (more about the event)
Mike Medaglia and Sarina Mantle will there signing copies of The Luna Sol Tarot and Women + Patterns + Plants, and we’ll also have copies of Mini Meditations on Creativity and Mini Meditations on Joy.
It’s been such an exciting journey from the initial seeds that led to Liminal 11’s founding to actually being able to hold our first titles in our hands. We absolutely can’t wait to celebrate, and we hope you’ll come and be a part of it!
To help give us an idea of how many to expect, please RSVP on Facebook.
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new menu item at the top of our website… the Liminal 11 webshop is now open for pre-orders!
You can now reserve your copy of The Luna Sol Tarot by Mike Medaglia, Mini Meditations on Joy by Adam & Lisa Murphy, Mini Meditations on Creativity by Tillie Walden, Women + Patterns + Plants by Sarina Mantle, plus exclusive prints and The Luna Sol Tarot 2019 Calendar! You lucky thing, you.
Our publications list is really growing, and we’re overjoyed to be able to share yet another with you! Sara Botero’s The Essential Vegan Toolkit is an illustrated guide about how (and why!) to go vegan FOR GOOD! We love Sara’s style, and we encourage you to head over to Instagram where you can follow her @qitiji.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to see more from Sara and The Essential Vegan Toolkit. And sign up to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss out on pre-orders and offers for this title.
978-1-912634-06-4 * £11.99 * published 11th September 2018
For fans of artist Mike Medaglia and his new Luna Sol Tarot deck, The Luna Sol Tarot 2019 Calendar lets you enjoy Mike’s gorgeous tarot artwork throughout every month of the year. Includes lovely hand-drawn calendar grids!
Want the tarot deck too? Click here!
Mike Medaglia is the co-founder of Liminal 11. He is also author of the best-selling One Year Wiser series (SelfMadeHero), including a book of truly beautiful illustrated meditations, a colouring book, a gratitude journal and an illustrated guide to mindfulness. Mike has drawn and written for the Huffington Post on topics like gratitude, mindfulness, Zen and modern life. He was previously art editor at Jessica Kingsley Publishers working on a range of comics and graphic novels about topics like chronic pain, dementia, Asperger Syndrome, PTSD and anxiety.
By Sara Botero
978-1-912634-07-1 * £12.99 * published 2nd October 2019
An illustrated guidebook filled with everything you need to know to go vegan – for good!
The Essential Vegan Toolkit is the perfect guide for anyone interested in becoming vegan.
Activist and illustrator Sara Botero details the many reasons to make the change – animal welfare, our health, the environment – and offers tons of practical advice on nutrition and diet, including sections on alternatives, baking and drinking. Also covered are tips for vegan living, from clothing and make-up to cleaning and travelling. Finally, the Toolkit offers advice on vegan etiquette, activism and living in a ‘non-vegan’ world.
Writing with passion and expertise, and bringing a wealth of information to life through her charming illustrations, Sara Botero inspires us to extend our compassion to every living being.
It’s easier than ever to go vegan, so why not give it a go? The Essential Vegan Toolkit will guide you on your way.
Sara Botero was born in Colombia, and for as long as she can remember she has drawn and painted. Having grown up surrounded by nature, she is passionate about creating positive change and protecting our environment, which led her to study Environmental Science at University of Reading. After graduating, art once again became a big part of her life, but now she uses it to spread important messages such veganism, zero waste and intersectional feminism. Follow Sara on Instagram.
By Sarah Wray
The Ace of Swords is a personal favourite of mine – one of those cards appeared in my earliest tarot readings, at exactly the moment I needed it to, and has appeared often since. It feels like something that’s connected to me at least for the moment. Frankly (and maybe a bit weirdly!) it feels like my card. It’s the first card I go looking for when I’m checking out a new deck. Usually identifying more with the watery emotions depicted by the cups suit (I am a Pisces, after all!), it’s necessary to come up for air from time to time and get some clarity. It certainly was for me on my 30th birthday, when I gave myself a reading while in a bit of a rut, and it has served as inspiration and reminder that, if I try, I can easily see what has to happen and, crucially, I already have all of the tools within me to set off on that path.
We’re thrilled to announce our first webcomic! Created by Kaylee Pinecone and hosted on the Liminal 11 blog, Tales of the Tarot follows the story of each card in the major arcana, from The Fool to The World. We’ve always felt that tarot readings, with their image-led narratives, are a lot like comics, so it’s wonderful to bring this idea to life with Kaylee!
Kaylee Pinecone is an illustrator/content creator currently lost in a cornfield, somewhere in the Midwest… and we love her idea for this wonderful tarot comic! More from Kaylee: Shop * Blog * Twitter * Tumblr
Keep an eye out for news on the Tales of the Tarot book! Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and sign up to our newsletter to stay in the loop.
We’re having a party to celebrate the publication of Liminal 11’s first titles and our official launch as a new publisher! And you’re invited!
By Darren Shill
This week’s Tarot Tuesday reveal was the picture you will see most frequently in Mike Medaglia’s The Luna Sol Tarot – the reverse of the card. This truly gorgeous image is largely self-explanatory; the glowing half-moon (Luna) beneath the blazing sun (Sol). But what may be less clear is the central symbol of black and white concentric lines. This it’s this element I will focus on here.
Sara Botero was born in Colombia, and for as long as she can remember she has drawn and painted. Having grown up surrounded by nature, she is passionate about creating positive change and protecting our environment, which led her to study Environmental Science at University of Reading. After graduating, art once again became a big part of her life, but now she uses it to spread important messages such veganism, zero waste and intersectional feminism.
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Check out Sara’s website
Spoil yourself with something from her Etsy shop
Stay in touch with Sara on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
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Sara’s publications for Liminal 11:
We love ending the week with one of our #MiniMeditations – every Friday afternoon, we reveal an image from Mini Meditations on Joy by Adam & Lisa Murphy or Mini Meditations on Creativity by Tillie Walden. It’s such a nice, positive way to draw a line under the work week (at least for those of us on a 9 to 5)! The amazing artistry of these illustrations speaks for itself… but what about the thinkers, writers and artists who gave us these inspiring quotes? We think the meaning goes even deeper when you know the human behind the thought. Recently, we profiled Brené Brown, and now we’re looking at Elizabeth Gilbert.
By Darren Shill
Amidst the height of summer, when we slow through necessity and often enjoy a break from toil, what finer card to reflect on than the 7 of Disks? Those fruitful Disks and gardening tools suggest that this respite did not happen by chance, some work and a little planning probably brought you to this stage of achievement. The card suggests you should take stock of this moment; be present and look around. If we constantly move from task to task where is the reward in life or, perhaps, when do we get a chance to be grateful for those rewards.
by Darren Shill
Congratulations! You’ve chosen your deck! (Was it The Wild Unknown, RWS, Starchild, Thoth or an interesting Kickstarter? Do tell!) You’ve studied the meanings. You’ve told your friends that Destiny’s map is within your hands… But how do you actually read the tarot?
We are delighted to announce a new publication for autumn 2018: Women + Patterns + Plants, a self-care colouring book by the incredible Sarina Mantle. Featuring bold, empowering line-work that’s just crying out for your coloured pencils and felt pens!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to see images as they are released. And sign up to our newsletter to hear about when the book opens for pre-orders and to receive exciting offers on Liminal 11 titles!
978-1-912634-05-7 * £8.99 * published 27th September 2018
Women + Patterns + Plants is a self-care colouring book made up of stunning black-and-white line work featuring women, patterns and plants. These bold illustrations are crying out for your coloured pencils and felt pens. Immerse in the divine feminine energy and wonderful natural imagery, and rekindle your creativity as you work your way through Sarina’s empowering drawings. This lovely little colouring book makes a perfect gift!
Sarina Mantle is a multidisciplined artist, mother, vocalist and designer who founded Wildsuga in 2008. Sarina seeks to preserve the handmade and express beauty and love through her artworks. Her many disciplines include sewing, pattern cutting, illustration, graphic design, surface design and jewellery making, all created to inspire the home, body and mind. She also teaches creative workshops.
The Hanged One in the Luna Sol Tarot
By Darren Shill
There is a myth that is often repeated when discussing The Hanged One, and that is Odin’s suffering upon Yggdrasil, a giant ash tree known as the World Tree.
