It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

Just try to build a tidy little theory and watch as some talented cartoonist comes along and blows your bullshit straight to hell. Autobio comics are way too weird for that to be true. And the complex interplay between visual and verbal helps reveal the elusive nature of the cartoonist’s “true” self. On another level, you have verbal representation as expressed through narrative text boxes. On one level, you have the visual representation of the artist via their cartoon avatar. It is relatively simple to schematize the presentation of the self in autobiographical comics.

It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth will also be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.Content Warning: This review includes a discussion of suicide and self-harm. It can be pre-ordered at your local comic book shop or independent bookstore or via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo. It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth (ISBN: 978-1534323865) will be available on Wednesday, November 9 and in bookstores on Tuesday, November 15. This is excellent work by one of comics' best new voices!'

which as it turns out, will be the project after this one! But one of the great things about exciting new talent is that the creative process often takes on a life of its own and It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth was a project that had to happen, very much to everyone's delight. 'This book has served as a creative sanctuary for me from the day it was conceived-an experimental playground that I hope will inspire, disturb, and comfort in equal measure,' said Thorogood.Įric Stephenson, Publisher at Image Comics, added: 'Zoe's debut graphic novel, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, was one of the highlights of 2020, and we were thrilled when she approached us about publishing her next project. This fresh and thought provoking auto-bio-graphic is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.

In It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth, an original graphic novel by up-and-comer Zoe Thorogood ( The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, Joe Hill’s Rain), will hit shelves from Image Comics this November.

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood