Well, you asked for it, phantom readers in my head, and now you’ve got it! This is a scene from my upcoming graphic novel for Jonathan Cape, LIVESTOCK: a socio-political satire on the relationship between politics, the media, and us. With jokes! It also casts a long, sad look at the disposability of women in the public eye, and features some awful song lyrics, written by me.
I hope you like it. Look, honestly? I’m a human being who makes things up for a living: I crave your approval.
Interestingly, when I wrote this story just over a year ago I added in lots of horrible little details to suggest a cynical dystopia: things like a new “improved” human rights act, a weakened BBC being bought out by News Corp, and so on. (+10 for prescience.)
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Haha! Everything about this – the dialogue, the drawings, the wit, the believable environment – is just brilliant. I am so looking forward to your new graphic novel.
Aw…shucks…
So contemporary, so well observed… So well-drawn. Will the story be able to provide any solution for this problem? It leads me to more questions. Is the nowadays politics capable to provide any decent resolution for any of our current problems? Are we living in a political satire?
I’ve long suspected that life has been scripted by Armando Iannucci.
It looks awesome! Very excited for this book. Wonder when it’ll be out?
Thanks! All being well and with a fair wind it should be on the shelves in early 2017…
TWO thumbs up!!
BEAUTIFUL drawings and atmosphere!
Respect!!
Only too bad that often graphic novels use such terrible, bad to read, fonts or handwritings.
That never invites me to get INTO the story…
Well…I can’t say I’ve never been guilty of that…
Crave no longer. Looks fab. Can’t wait. I’ve read the others over and over. In need of more.
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