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The story as well as the characters that populate Alison feel so real and ring so true that it's hard to believe it's a work of fiction.  And, of course, in some ways, it's not, as the portrait it provides of a woman artist coming of age in Britain during the 1980s and then continuing her career over the next several decades – which is also the story of a woman in a man's world (or, if you prefer, of women living under patriarchy), and the transformations that occured during these years – is, at its core a true story.

Alison is unquestionably Lizzy Stewart's most accomplished work yet – by a long stretch.  She has both developed and refined her storytelling techniques here, blending standard comics pages with collages of drawn notes, letters and intermittent, sometimes illustrated, textual narration in a manner that is at least related to if not informed by that of Posy Simmonds, and then managed to build a sophisticated narrative structure to house it all in.

To learn more, please take a moment to read Rachel Cooke's reveiw in The Guardian.

Hardcover | 192 pages | monochrome with inkwash tones | PREVIEW

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