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Artist Will McPhail trivializes peoples problems in his cartoons and says that desperation and panic are very funny.

LET’S begin with a negative. “A lot of publishers seem to be cutting back on graphic novels,” veteran cartoonist Bryan Talbot told The Herald…

Alison Bechdel on her exercise obsession and a spectacular cold war epic from Marvel veteran Barry Windsor-Smith are among this year’s finest

The New Yorker cartoonist’s debut graphic novel In follows an aimless artist who struggles to connect with others. He talks about his own experiences, and his love for drawing ‘characterful’ pigeons

By Rob Kirby | Popular New Yorker cartoonist Will McPhail, who is based in Edinburgh, branches out with his first long form graphic novel In, to be published in May by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In tells the story of an exceptionally awkward young New York illustrator named Nick, and his funny and poignant struggles to present his authentic self to others, in particular a woman named Wren with whom he becomes involved. In a series of inelegant attempts at conversation, Nick also p...