Ed Hillyer is an artist from the British independent comic scene. He has been working in comics since 1987, the year he started self-publishing BIC. This comic was later reprinted by Tundra as 'Skidmarks'. He cooperated with Eddie Campbell as an inker on the 'Deadface/Baccus' opus, and as a penciller on 'The Eyeball Kid' series in Cheval Noir. He has worked for publishers in Europe, America and Japan, but he is mostly associated with the indie publisher Slab'o'Concrete. Also using the signature Ilya or iLYA, he is best known as the creator of 'The End of the Century Club'. Hillyer also works on an animated comic strip for BBC Online, called 'Jean Genii', and he publishes the weekly 'Dick' strip in the gay paper Boyz. Together with Woodrow (Sugar Buzz) Phoenix, he is a founder member of the Detonator studios.