Between The Panels

The director of Comica Festival, Paul Gravett, interviewed Jonathan Cape's graphic novelists about their work and the future of the form.

Graphic Novels are now more popular with the reading public and respected by the literary establishment than ever before. Our distinguished panel of authors discussed issues of how to write visually, what is the place of the graphic novel in today’s literary market? And, with all the latest technological advances, what’s the future of the graphic novel?

Rutu Modan’s laconic styled Exit Wounds creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties. Simone Lia’s Fluffy is a graphic novel of love, despair and happiness which will have you laughing out loud one minute and pondering the meaning of life the next. Bryan Talbot’s Alice In Sunderland takes inspiration from the city of Sunderland and the story of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell to create a new myth.

More details can be found at www.paulgravett.com