Ellice Weaver’s beautiful book Big Ugly comes out on the 20th June! You can pre-order a copy here. Below she’s interviewed about the book by Clio Isadora, creator of the wonderful Sour Pickles. If you’re London-based, there’s going to be a launch party and exhibition for Big Ugly at the fantastic Jam Bookshop on the… Read More »
In this episode we talk to Nicole Goux, the creator of Pet Peeves. We talk storytelling, manga, the struggle to make things… and writing embarrassing songs in college!
We can now announce three new books for autumn 2023! The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery Curses by George Wylesol The Wilderness Collection by Claire Scully The Hard Switch will be hardback, 100 pages. An engrossing science fiction graphic novel about a spaceship’s crew tackling the changes in their lives and work at the… Read More »
Our third book of 2023 is now available to pre-order in the shop – Macbeth by K. Briggs! The first 75 orders will come with a gorgeous foil embossed bookmark. Pre-order here! Hardcover, 180 pages, full Colour A vivid graphic novel adaptation of Macbeth, with Shakespeare’s full, unabridged text. When three witches prophecy to Macbeth… Read More »
Our second book of 2023 is now available to pre-order in the shop – Big Ugly by Ellice Weaver! The first 75 orders will come with a gorgeous foil embossed bookmark. Pre-order here! Hardcover, 128 pages, full Colour Work, health, family — Mel feels like her life is just circling endlessly as she begins to… Read More »
We now have our first book of 2023 available to pre-order in the shop – Pet Peeves by Nicole Goux! The first 75 orders will come with a gorgeous foil embossed bookmark. Pre-order here! Softcover, 104 pages, Full Colour, 159 x 239mm In this horror graphic novel, the new dog that aspiring musician Bobbie has… Read More »
Big Ugly is your second long-form comic with Avery Hill, after Something City in 2017. Did you approach this book differently to the first? Something city was a book of short comics. It felt easier to go into it without too much of a plan. If the comics worked by themselves they were probably going… Read More »
Your journey to this completed Macbeth started quite a while ago, with Act 1, Scene 1 winning the Elsinore Award for Graphic Shakespeare in 2016, did that prize have an influence on your decision to keep going and create this book? Or was that the plan all along? It was the hope, rather than the… Read More »
Pet Peeves comes after you’ve been Eisner Award nominated, you’ve worked on huge titles including those with DC, what was it that made you want to create this story now?Pet Peeves was meant to be a break from big projects at big companies. It was a chance to stretch my writing muscles and to tell… Read More »