New monthly Marco Delvaux comics from 1 JANUARY 2027. CREATED BY E.F. SAM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
A St. Emerly Story World
Marco Delvaux
Welcome to St. Emerly — the sort of village where the tea is strong, the opinions are stronger, and Marco Delvaux’s latest idea has a curious habit of becoming everyone’s business before the kettle has even boiled.
Coastal Chaos. Business ideas. Village scandals. Surprisingly good tailoring.
New monthly Marco Delvaux comics from 1 November 2026
Welcome to St. Emerly
A perfectly respectable Yorkshire coastal village with absolutely no control over Marco Delvaux.
Stone terraces, a working harbour, and a High Street where everyone knows everyone — and everyone has a slightly different version of events. Have a look around.
Meet The MAIN CHARACTERS
Some are helpful. Some are opinionated. Some have already formed an opinion about Marco’s latest idea.
Let’s start with Marco, Daphne and Oliver — the unlikely trio responsible for a surprising amount of St. Emerly’s activity, confusion and occasional paperwork.
The first issue arrives 1 November 2026. A beautifully illustrated monthly digital comic to download, enjoy and treasure — with a new St. Emerly adventure every month.
Marco Delvaux™: A St. Emerly Comic Series™
Coming Soon To St. Emerly
MEET MARCO
Entrepreneur. Optimist. Reinventionist.
Marco has never met an ordinary opportunity he couldn't turn into an elaborate career change. Every business scheme is really one question: who is he, if he stops performing?
He works behind the bar at The Jolly Taxpayer, waiting on an inheritance that never quite arrives — and he is, against considerable odds, rather easy to love.
The Man Behind the Mayhem
Entrepreneur. Optimist. Repeat Offender.
Marco never sets out to ruin the annual parish tea dance; it simply happens whenever spreadsheet ambition meets coastal breeze.
MEET THE BOOKS
Marco seizes a get-rich-quick shampoo scheme as his destiny — until it causes hair loss in humans, fur loss in animals, and a public humiliation St. Emerly will be discussing for years. In the wreckage, he has an honest conversation for the first time in a long while. Something, quietly, shifts.
Twelve books. One village. A worrying number of careers.
BOOK ONE AVAILABLE NOW
Marco Delvaux: The Signature Formula
A rebranded shampoo, a village fair, and a man who mistakes a sellout for a legacy.
Before the comics, there were the books.
FOLLOW THE WORLD
New dispatches from Marco, Daphne, Davina, Muriel and whoever else has unfortunately become involved — published through Farah Sam's Substack alongside stories from her other creative worlds.
Follow the latest incidents from St. Emerly.
THE CREATOR
Who started all this?
Marco Delvaux and the village of St. Emerly were created by writer and illustrator E.F. Sam — largely as a place for questionable business ideas, complicated families, suspicious animals and beautifully dressed misunderstandings to occur.
E.F. Sam creates illustrated story worlds filled with humour, heart, imagination and characters who refuse to stay on the page.
Marco Delvaux™
Business ideas. Village scandals. Questionable judgement.
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© 2026 E.F. Sam. All Rights Reserved. Published by Celestial Quill Publishing.
Marco Delvaux™ and St. Emerly™ are original fictional creations by E.F. Sam.
St. Emerly is a fictional world created by E.F. Sam. Its residents, places, businesses, and events exist purely for storytelling, imagination, and a little village amusement.