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Wordplay 2021: Identity, creativity and a strong sense of place
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Taken from Breakwater by Katriona Chapman
AS an addendum to Graphic Content s choice of the best graphic novels of 2020, we asked a few comics professionals to name their favourites of the year.
Edward Ross published his graphic history of gaming, Gameish, his follow-up to Filmish, this year. His own choice of graphic novel of the year is set in an old Brighton cinema:
Breakwater, Katriona Chapman, Avery Hill, £12.99 I ve not been affected by a graphic novel like this for a while. Breakwater follows Chris, a cinema usher, who befriends Dan, a charming new member of staff. Stunningly illustrated in charcoal black and white, it s a haunting, contemplative graphic novel that brilliantly captures the strange ebbs and flows of working in a cinema, and the ennui of a life put on hold. Chapman does so much with such a pared-down setting and script. The images do much of the talking, capturing the beautiful isolation of empty streets and abandoned spaces to reflect the loneliness of p
The best of this year s graphic novels, including The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott (main image), Matthew Dooley s Flake, above right, and Derf Backderf s Kent State
Kent State, Derf Backderf, Abrams Comics, £17.99 Derf Backderf’s account of the shootings at Kent State University in 1970 is a work that balances anger and sadness, while reminding us of the cold terror of American soldiers opening fire on innocent students. At the end of a presidency that has ramped up political division and fuelled anger, it’s sobering to be reminded where this can lead to. Backderf’s potent, clear-sighted cartooning, the result of deep reading and original research, brings that home very clearly. Graphic Content’s book of the year.
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