A Quiet Disaster
English
Curses
Graphic Novel - Anthologies
A new collection of surreal, subversive, magical realist stories from one of comics’ most inventive voices.
From hospitals to hell to the wilderness, George Wylesol’s short stories take place in liminal spaces where nothing is as it seems; the surreal becomes real; and something is lying in wait around every corner. As our main characters navigate through corridors, passageways, and highways, they sink deeper and deeper into everyday strangeness that slips into peculiarity, creating an internal journey from normalcy to the supernatural.
Barking
Graphic Novel - Psychological Fiction
Loopy . . . cuckoo . . . stark raving. . . When the depression and grief Alix feels over the death of her friend overwhelm her, she's institutionalised. But inside a psychiatric ward, things don't get better for her - now she has nowhere to get away from her rapidly-spiralling thoughts. As Alix navigates disinterested attendants, group therapy, and isolation, she must build herself a new equilibrium and tame the black dog of her depression. Inspired by her own struggles with mental health, Lucy Sullivan tells a powerful, emotional story about the problems that sometimes overwhelm us all - and the failures in the mental health system we depend on.
Big Ugly
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Work, health, family -- Mel feels like her life is just circling endlessly as she begins to renew her relationship to her brother in this vibrant graphic novel. Renowned illustrator Ellice Weaver brings her crisp artwork to the graphic novel form in this powerful story of contemporary life.
A Projection
Graphic Novel - Psychological Fiction
A young woman starts a job as a family photographer and live-in nanny for a couple who have a fixation on preserving their children’s memory and legacy in print.
She stumbles on a recently broken shrine and starts to notice an apparition in the photographs she exposes…
A meditation on memories; making them, preserving them and keeping them secret.
Artificial Flowers
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Siobhan has left her hometown to try to start a career as an artist in trendy East London. She desperately needs an exhibition but no one seems particularly interested in her work.
When her little brother Chris's anti-social tendencies resurface, he’s sent by his parents to stay with her as part attempt at rehabilitation, part banishment.
Soon the two discover a way in which they can help each other; they just need to keep it a secret from their parents, Siobhan’s girlfriend and the London art scene…
Permanent Press
Graphic Novel - Non-Fiction
Luke is depressed, afflicted by a severe case of metaphoritis and deadlines that don't really exist. Afraid of being forgotten by the comics community and unable to find motivation in anything besides jealousy, he sets out to create an award-winning comic that will remedy all of his problems.
Something City
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Something City is an exploration of modern day living through representations of the lives of different groups of people in an imagined place. Segregated communities of young people, elders, fanatics, techies and the religious live side by side, interweaving and cohabiting in a city they build around themselves.
What We Don't Talk About
Graphic Novel - Psychological Fiction
Farai has finally persuaded Adam to introduce her to his parents, but the visit to the in-laws turns out to be a horrible experience for her. She starts to feel uneasy and ostracised. When confronted about this experience Adam tries to play down the situation and does not show any understanding for his partner's concerns. Then things get a whole lot worse and Farai has to question if she can be with a man whose family does not accept her and who is not willing to face the difficulties related to an interracial relationship.
2120
Graphic Novel - Psychological Fiction
You're Wade, a schlubby middle-aged computer repairman, sent to fix a computer in a vacant, nondescript office building. When you get inside the door locks behind you, and you can't get out. Now the adventure begins! You have to explore this building and try to find your way home. The building is huge on the inside with a lot of sprawling hallways and empty rooms but your only hope is to uncover clues and try to work out the mystery this whole experience hangs on.
Mike And Kate Are Having a Baby Boy
Graphic Novel - Psychological Fiction
Jacob Fuller was your average teenager until a twist of fate upended his world. Fed up with his messy lifestyle, Jacob’s parents reach their wits’ end and decide on a radical intervention. Reduced to being treated like the baby he always secretly wanted to be, Jacob feels betrayed by his family and friends, and their extreme measures. Alone and confused, he must decide whether to escape, accept his new life, or fight back.