I particularly liked it because of the more obviously hand-drawn style - lots of highly-polished & computer-aided stuff out there now which I don't enjoy - and the shift into more surreal registers on some splash pages, which felt bold & reminded me of David B (perhaps inevitably, with the snakes!)

A submission from Hookland would be most welcome!

This worked for small presses but I suspect it probably won't for graphic novels

If anyone happens to have a list of names (and even better, email addresses) of UK graphic novel publishers, I would love to have it so I can update our mailing list 🙏

Ha ha, I learnt not to do activities like this pretty early in my teaching career! I hope she appreciated the pedagogy tips 😌

Similar thoughts when I saw this too (though I don't have kids). Amazing how often certain kinds of cultural feminist claims about women and nature sail so close to far-right beliefs, seemingly without awareness...though as you say, they do not like it when you point it out.

omg you are living the dream

I'm going to go to the office on the 15th to pick up all the last-minute submissions, probably in a couple of suitcases, and anything that comes in afterwards won't get read 😌

Thanks! I love your article!!

I aspire to grow the -opolis section, so would encourage all my friends to publish books with that suffix if they can