Grace Blakeley & Ian Goldin: Creating Global Change from Crisis The pandemic has demolished global norms more emphatically than anything we have seen since the Second World War. Open Water is one such book, the debut novel from Caleb Azumah Nelson, a writer and photographer w… Stripped Comic Fair Film 2013 Stripped mini comic fair: Scotland's finest comics creators come to Charlotte Square Gardens…Ĭaleb Azumah Nelson: Diving into Black Culture Every so often, a novel arrives that perfectly captures the feeling of a time: of summer, of political turmoil, youth, the tentativeness of falling in love. McPhail illustrates his point live on stage at the 2021 Edinburgh International Book Festival. It’s only when he learns to stop performing and speak about the things that really matter that the colourful worlds of the people he meets are revealed to him. His graphic novel tells the story of a young illustrator, Nick, who struggles to connect with people, drifting through life, and coffee shops, in a world of black and white. ‘It's my job to capture all different walks of life, the idiosyncrasies of life, and Edinburgh and Scotland has got a plethora of different classes and niches of people,’ he has said. McPhail gains much of the inspiration for his characters and conversations from the coffee shops of his home city of Edinburgh. Now the cartoonist has turned his hand to his first full-length graphic novel, IN, and it’s set to win him scores of new fans. The drawing style of Will McPhail will be instantly recognisable to readers of the New Yorker or Private Eye, where his cartoons are regularly published.

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