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Andi Watson’s The Book Tour is the first book for adults that the prolific cartoonist has both written and drawn himself in almost 20 years, and during its creation Watson’s ever-evolving art-style was in a particularly interesting place. 

The trend line in his cartooning over the last few decades has been for his character designs to grow increasingly simplified and abstracted—perhaps because so much of his recent work has been directed toward young readers, perhaps not—to the point where his characters were approaching a hieroglyphic level of simplicity. Here one can quite clearly see his supreme skills as a cartoonist, his characters all rendered with as few dots and curving lines as possible, resulting in a wide plethora of different looking people. The world they live in and move through, by contrast, is one of far greater complexity. In fact, when it comes to his backgrounds and environments, Watson’s Book Tour can look crowded, even cluttered with detail. It is quite in contrast to his most recent book, Kerry and The Knight of The Forest , in which one of the title characters is depicted as a one-eyed shape in an environment similarly built out of one of the most simple of organic shapes, all rocks and trees.

The cover of Book Tour , which finds protagonist G.H. Fretwell in an over-stocked book shop, is one prime example of The Book Tour’s highly detailed settings; the opening pages, show the twists and turns of quaint urban environments as the reader’s eye wanders through the city, seemingly seeking out Fretwell, is another, perhaps better one.

The charmingly named Fretwell is a minor British author embarking on a tour to support his latest work, the novel "Without K",inspired by his wife Rebecca, who spells her name without a K. Nothing seems to be going right for Fretwell, however, starting with his having his suitcase full of copies of the book stolen at the train station. From there Fretwell visits a series of bookshops to conduct signings, none of which seem to attract a single interested reader or generate the sale of a single book—although he does come awfully close at one point. Meanwhile, Fretwell’s accommodations grow worse and worse each night, as his hotels gradually get seedier and seedier, and he never seems to be able to catch his young son on the phone when he manages to call home. 

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Our author—whose blank, guileless expression Watson creates with a pair of dot eyes, another dot for a mouth and a distinctly-shaped u for a nose, all set within a round-chinned head shape that includes a head of hair in the outline—is at first completely unaware of the killings. In fact, when the policeman he consults regarding the theft of his suitcase refers to everything that’s going on these days, it is originally presented to the reader as a joke, given the quiet, empty police station. The only part of the newspaper Fretwell reads is the arts coverage, to see if his latest book has received a review yet or not. 

News of the killings won’t stop coming to him, however, as he’s increasingly expected of being the killer, based on a few coincidences—the loss of his suitcase, the fact that he was the last person to see one of the victims alive—and, most amusingly, the fact that the doesn’t seem at all like a killer. It’s never the ones you suspect, right? And what could be more suspicious than someone who doesn’t seem much like a killer at all? 

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Despite the grisly crimes that provide an important plot element, Watson stays with Fretwell throughout, so we don’t ever see the killer’s handiwork, nor is there much meditation upon it, except of the sort that might make it into conversations. There’s a classy, classic look to Watson’s style here, as each panel often looks a little like an early 20th century illustration. Hopefully Watson’s adult fans won’t have to wait quite so long before he makes another graphic novel with them in mind.

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Spend some time around a novelist or two and you’re bound to hear horror stories about book tours. Though many readings are well attended and rewarding for both the author and the audience, when those events are held in remote cities where the writer doesn’t know anybody, after going through all the inconvenience of traveling alone, too often, attendance turns out to be negligible. In “The Book Tour,” a graphic novel by Andi Watson, G. H. Fretwell takes his new novel, “Without K,” on the road. Arriving in the big city, presumably London, he endures one miserably attended reading after another, while progressively suffering an increasingly lower-class grade of hotel as his publisher, who also seems to be ghosting him from an expected meeting, keeps extending the tour without explanation. Fretwell’s not particularly introspective it seems, mostly fretting about getting his updated itinerary, finding his next hotel, and where he’ll get dinner, preferably alone, usually steak. The story has all the makings to be as tedious as his existence is in this particular moment, but when one of the bookstore clerks goes missing and the police want to talk to Fretwell since he was the last person to see her, his Kafkaesque life (“Without K,” get it?) gets much more so, and the 272-page graphic novel comes to life as a bona fide page-turner.

Watson sets the book in some kind of timeless past version of a city, in black-and-white, where Fretwell always wears a sort of Edwardian suit, and analog telephones have rotary dials. The shops are the epic bookstores of the imagination, with shelves to the ceiling in infinite deserted aisles, echoing the streets of the city and its vintage edifices and equally empty streets. At times I imagined this was Jack the Ripper’s London, a notion reinforced by Watson’s vintage drawing style. 

Watson’s a British comics writer who’s pursued an eclectic range of work, including some work for Marvel and DC, but most recently making work for the young-adult audience. This, apparently, is his first book for grownups in some time. I look forward to another. 

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Although of course you end up becoming yourself – horror in the book tour.

Tom Shapira is back at SOLRAD with a review of Andi Watson's Kafkaesque graphic novel THE BOOK TOUR, published last month by Top Shelf.

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I’ve always considered Andi Watson to be a pleasant artist. Exceedingly so even. When I look at his pencil work on Love Fights or Glister , I find myself filled with the desire to boil water in a kettle and make myself tea and biscuits. Just looking at these simple (yet precise) lines gives me the sort of emotional comfort one needs in this day and age — a rest, a dream. Watson’s new release, The Book Tour , on the other hand, is not restful; it’s almost the opposite in fact, closer to being a nightmare. It’s still identifiably a Watson book, though, he has not shifted his style considerably since I last saw his work, only now he utilizes the same skills to make the reader uncomfortable. 

In The Book Tour , minor writer G.H. Fretwell ventures on a tour to promote his new book. Things seem to fall apart from the get-go: Fretwell’s luggage is stolen from him, no one shows up at the signing events, his publisher keeps extending the tour while trouble brews at home, the food is lousy. Also, there is a killer on the loose and wherever Fretwell goes everyone seems convinced he’s got something to do with it. The word Kafkaesque seemingly wrings itself into being. Indeed, the very name and description of the novel Fretwell wrote, Without K , evokes Kafka’s ghost.

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Conjuring Kafka brings with it certain expectations. We have been told, repeatedly, that in the world of Kafka people are persecuted for no reason. Josef K, in The Trial , is generally seen as an innocent man, hounded by an authority he does not understand. It’s such an accepted piece of literary interpretation that I knew it before I even opened page 1 of The Trial . Just like one doesn’t need to crack the covers of Animal Farm to know what Orwell thought about Stalin.

However, just because something is accepted doesn’t make it true. In his memoir, The Discomfort Zone , Jonathan Franzen writes about studying in Germany and having his teacher force him to re-examine The Trial : “What was actually on the page, as opposed to what I’d expected to find there, was so unsettling that I’d shut my mind down and simply made believe that I was reading. I’d been so convinced of the hero’s innocence that I’d missed what the author was saying, clearly and unmistakably, in every sentence.” Josef K is abusive towards his neighbor Fräulein Bürstner, but the book is so persuasively written from his point of view that we simply fail to note these abuses unless they are pointed out. 

It’s unclear whether Josef is ‘guilty’ of whatever mysterious crime he is charged with, but it is obvious that even if he was, he would fail to acknowledge it. In his own mind, he is forever the victim. Watch Orson Wells adaptation of The Trial (1962), in which Anthony Perkins plays Josef K just two years after he shot to stardom as Norman Bates, look at the constant nervousness and coiled anger within Josef. It is not just a simple story of a man being bullied, there is something sinister beneath that man’s surface. 

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Does Watson imply that Fretwell is a killer? No. That is never in doubt throughout The Book Tour . Yet we must not mistake his suffering for decency. Halfway through the book people are astounded to learn that he is completely unaware that there’s a killer on the loose, especially considering how often we see him bury his nose in a newspaper. Even the reader clocks the fact before he does. When asked about his ignorance of what appears to be national news, Fretwell can only answer that he only reads the literary supplement. Except he does not really read it, he’s simply searching for a review of his new book. 

In short, this is an individual who is predisposed to assume that if things go bad, it is because the whole world is against him. Fretwell is an author with no interest in the world around him (a bad author, in short). His book, about a travelling salesman who suspects his wife ran away, is thus an echo of his self-centeredness and general distrust towards others. No wonder he has problems at home. To see yourself in him, in his persecution and pain, is also to reflect on your relation to the world around you.  

Watson still has the same straightforward esthetic developed throughout his previous output. The characters’ features are narrowed down to the minimal number of lines which renders them almost like caricatures. Faces are simple but extremely expressive. With a single line shift, Watson is able to change the whole mood of conversation: a fake smile (worn by a professional businessman) easily becomes a blank expression which then becomes boredom. Watson has iron-grip control of his figures and character acting; you can always tell what everyone is feeling (and how their words contradict their emotions). This is important because The Book Tour features a lot of talking heads, one long conversation piece after another. It’s a story about people constantly lying to one another, framed in the language of professional manners.

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  There’s a growing sense of dread and paranoia throughout the proceedings. Whenever we turn, the world seems to slide from “uncaring” to “downright sinister”. It reminds me, oddly enough, of Eddie Campbell’s work in From Hell , not so much in the visual likeness (Campbell is far more detail oriented and naturalistic in his characters) but in the mood it builds. From Hell was about a world that was utterly indifferent to the fate of the protagonists, harsh and cold on both physical and emotional levels. The Book Tour also depicts such a world. 

With a few carefully framed shots of book stores, buildings, and small rooms Watson is able to suggest a sense of place and the mood it brings with it. The repetitive nature of the page layout and design (we are constantly witnessing events from the same angle) becomes an intentional tool of the artist. It’s a cramped and tight comic about a person who is constantly feeling strangled. After a while it appears as if Fretwell is in prison, and we are looking at him through the bars.

But if life is a prison, it is one Fretwell built around himself. Whatever happens to him, wherever events take him, he responds to them with the same blank stare and quiet indignity – never wanting to make a fuss, never shouting, never challenging. When he actually ends up in physical jail, it doesn’t feel like much has changed: his behavior, his routine, his thinking. Look at him on the cover, a man alone surrounded by a pile of books, looking straight at the readers without showing a hint of emotion. His strange and terrible journey didn’t change him in the slightest, it simply helped him to understand what he always was.

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The proud author raises his glass of prosecco to the applause of the nation’s literary elite.

“Speech, speech,” they chant, eager to witness the author’s legendary ability to win over a crowd with his wit and easy charm.

The author blushes and tries to modestly wave off their demands. The chants grow louder. It’s clear the cream of the book world won’t be denied the pleasure of hearing the great orator. The author, showing startling agility, bounds up onto a chair, clears his throat and addresses his adoring readers…

That is what would have happened if I wasn’t launching a new book in November 2020. As it is I am back in lockdown in England for another book launch. Kerry and the Knight of the Forest came out in July (and is still available, perfect Christmas gift etc etc) and now The Book Tour .

And yet it is a source of great excitement for me as it has been a long time coming and it’s a book I am immensely proud of. I am extremely bad at tooting my own horn (not a euphemisim) and often hide behind self-deprecation but I honestly believe it’s one of the best things I’ve done.

I will celebrate from the kitchen, pour myself a glass of cava from the already opened bottle from Phil’s birthday , raise a glass to my literary heroes of Maupassant, Beckett, Pinter and Pam Ayres and address the giddy, bustling and entirely imaginary crowd of my book launch.

The advantages of an imaginary crowd are legion. Firstly they turn up in numbers, you don’t have to provide them with oceans of free booze, they only say flattering things, there’s no need for awkward small talk, they arrive in my own kitchen and are polite enough not to mention the grimy corners of the skirting board and they aren’t breathing on each other in a potential super-spreader event.

It has all the upsides and none of the downsides.

Of course, if this is the future of book promotion then the events of The Book Tour would never happen. Mid-list writer, G.H. Fretwell’s small humiliations and embarrassments that spiral nightmarishly out of his control wouldn’t occur. I would not have been inspired to describe his misadventures and the world would have never appreciated that, "Watson’s adeptness at capturing body language and facial expressions combines with nuanced dialog and a keen sense of irony to create a hugely entertaining page-turner." —  Library Journal  (starred review)

Swings and roundabouts.

Not to belabour the point or crudely make plain my pretext for starting a newsletter in the first place but: buy my book!

UK readers can support their local independent comic shop or bookstore if they have a mail-order service.  Bookshop.org  and  Hive are useful. OK Comics  and  Gosh  are two UK comic shops who support a wide range of titles. Order from the fine folks at Page 45 and your copy will come with a signed bookplate. Although UK comic shops might not receive their shipments until next week.

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Naturally it’s widely available online. There is also Kindle and comixology .

I also have a  A3 giclee poster  for sale at my store and it looks amazing.

I hope you enjoy the book,

A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.

★ ★ ★ Official Selection of the Angoulême International Comics Festival ★ ★ ★

"A darkly humorous read."  —  Booklist

"Watson neatly balances moody atmosphere and light comedy... [a] deadpan funny riff on artistic insecurities."  —  Publishers Weekly

"Andi Watson's retro line and daring dialogue make this graphic novel a British delight."  —  Le Monde

" Watson’s adeptness at capturing body language and facial expressions combines with nuanced dialog and a keen sense of irony to create a hugely entertaining page-turner." — Library Journal  (starred review)

"A darkly humorous read."  —  Booklist "Packed with black humor. We were carried away by the tempo of the drawing."  —  RTL "A real treat. Between Ionesco and Beckett."  —  France Inter "Black comedy, delicious and scathing."  —  Télérama "A little surrealist gem."  —  Comixtrip "Andi Watson embarks the reader on an adventure that mixes absurdity and dark humor. It almost feels like a new Raymond Carver."  —  Franceinfo "A fascinating maze in which we lose our bearings."  —  Les Inrocks "A little masterpiece of tongue-in-cheek humor."  —  dBD "Whatever the anxieties that led to the genesis of this book, they have allowed a beautiful exorcism... funny and chilling."  —  Trois Couleurs "Andi Watson gives  The Book Tour  the best of his art."  —  Livres Hebdo "Brilliant... a Kafka-like tale that immediately proves captivating."  —  aVoir aLire "A clean line that gives full measure to a Kafkaesque atmosphere."  —  Canal BD "Andi Watson delivers an offbeat graphic novel, with absurd dialogue recalling Monty Python."  —  Let's Motiv "Delicious suspense that bathes in the absurd."  —  BoDoï "A fantastic and breathtaking story."  —  RTBF

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British author G.H. Fretwell is on a tour to promote his new novel, Without K, and nothing is going right. Someone has stolen his suitcase, and no one is buying any of his books. After a night alone in his hotel room he’s questioned by two policemen about a missing bookstore clerk because he was the last person to see her. He find himself the center of a criminal investigation as his “book signings” get stranger and his accommodations seedier. What is the mystery’s relationship to the book Fretwell wrote? Why does everyone think he’s guilty? And why hasn’t a review of his book appeared in the newspaper? It is, as you may have suspected, very Kafkaesque.

Watson is one of my favorite artists, and the way he uses a 12-panel grid for layout in this book is masterful. It’s clear he had as much fun drawing the bookshops as he did the streets and alleys. This is a surreal, fun bit of bookish anxiety.

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A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.

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"Watson’s adeptness at capturing body language and facial expressions combines with nuanced dialog and a keen sense of irony to create a hugely entertaining page-turner." —  Library Journal (starred review)

"A darkly humorous read." — Booklist

"Watson neatly balances moody atmosphere and light comedy... [a] deadpan funny riff on artistic insecurities." —  Publishers Weekly

"Andi Watson's retro line and daring dialogue make this graphic novel a British delight." — Le Monde

"Packed with black humor. We were carried away by the tempo of the drawing." — RTL

"A real treat. Between Ionesco and Beckett." — France Inter

"Black comedy, delicious and scathing." — Télérama

"A little surrealist gem." — Comixtrip

"Andi Watson embarks the reader on an adventure that mixes absurdity and dark humor. It almost feels like a new Raymond Carver." — Franceinfo

"A fascinating maze in which we lose our bearings." — Les Inrocks

"A little masterpiece of tongue-in-cheek humor." — dBD

"Whatever the anxieties that led to the genesis of this book, they have allowed a beautiful exorcism... funny and chilling." — Trois Couleurs

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"Brilliant... a Kafka-like tale that immediately proves captivating." — aVoir aLire

"A clean line that gives full measure to a Kafkaesque atmosphere." — Canal BD

"Andi Watson delivers an offbeat graphic novel, with absurd dialogue recalling Monty Python." — Let's Motiv

"Delicious suspense that bathes in the absurd." — BoDoï

"A fantastic and breathtaking story." — RTBF

Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare. But now the police want to ask him some questions about a mysterious disappearance, and it seems that Fretwell's troubles are only just beginning…

In his first book for adults in many years, acclaimed cartoonist Andi Watson evokes all the anxieties felt by every writer and compresses them into a comedic gem of a book. Witty, surreal, and sharply observant, The Book Tour offers a captivating lesson in letting go. — a 272-page, B&W graphic novel with French flaps (6.3" x 8.9")

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A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart. Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare. But now the police want to ask him some questions about a mysterious disappearance, and it seems that Fretwell’s troubles are only just beginning… In his first book for adults in many years, acclaimed cartoonist Andi Watson evokes all the anxieties felt by every writer and compresses them into a comedic gem of a book. Witty, surreal, and sharply observant, The Book Tour offers a captivating lesson in letting go.

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The Book Tour

  • Published: 17 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9781603094795
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $59.99

The Book Tour

  • Andi Watson

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A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.

Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare. But now the police want to ask him some questions about a mysterious disappearance, and it seems that Fretwell's troubles are only just beginning...

In his first book for adults in many years, acclaimed cartoonist Andi Watson evokes all the anxieties felt by every writer and compresses them into a comedic gem of a book. Witty, surreal, and sharply observant, The Book Tour offers a captivating lesson in letting go.

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Top Shelf will be publishing The Book Tour in English. More details when I have them.

La Tournée out now in French from the fine folks at caetla . Check out the PDF extract . See the original art for the cover at my Patreon. Read Haunted for free.

Rose, Agrippina Arithmetic and The City Never Sleeps and three more mini comics for sale at my store .

My Digital library at Gumroad . Skeleton Key books 1-6, Love Fights Volume One & Two, Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day, Dumped, Princess at Midnight, Geisha, Geisha one shot and A Gallimaufry of Girls sketchbook.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Top Shelf Productions (November 18, 2020)
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Andi Watson is a British cartoonist, writer and illustrator who has been nominated for four Eisners, two Harveys and an official selection of the Angoulême International Festival. He has written and drawn graphic novels in a wide variety of genres and for different age groups for publishers as diverse as Random House, Walker books, First Second, Harper Collins, DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Image and Top Shelf. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, German, Portuguese, and Turkish. He lives in Worcester with his wife and daughter.

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  1. The Book Tour

    Top Shelf. $24.99. 272 pages. Andi Watson's The Book Tour is the first book for adults that the prolific cartoonist has both written and drawn himself in almost 20 years, and during its creation Watson's ever-evolving art-style was in a particularly interesting place. The trend line in his cartooning over the last few decades has been for ...

  2. The Book Tour by Andi Watson

    A seemingly never-ending and failing book tour becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare of miscommunication, missteps, and muder accusations in Andi Watson's charming graphic novel, aptly titled The Book Tour.We follow author G. H. Fretwell as he bumbles around from bookshop to bookshop leaving behind a trail of signed books and no interested customers as the world around him becomes increasingly ...

  3. The Dangerous Lives of Novelists on the Road: A Review of The Book Tour

    In "The Book Tour," a graphic novel by Andi Watson, G. H. Fretwell takes his new novel, "Without K," on the road. Arriving in the big city, presumably London, he endures one miserably attended reading after another, while progressively suffering an increasingly lower-class grade of hotel as his publisher, who also seems to be ghosting ...

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  6. Graphic Novel Review: The Book Tour by Andi Watson

    The Book Tour by Andi Watson. Top Shelf, 2020. 9781603094795. 270pp. British author G.H. Fretwell is on a tour to promote his new novel, Without K, and nothing is going right. Someone has stolen his suitcase, and no one is buying any of his books. After a night alone in his hotel room he's questioned by two policemen about a missing bookstore ...

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    A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare.

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    The Book Tour. Paperback - November 17, 2020. A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart. Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it.

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    10/19/2020. A baffled author tumbles through an escalating series of misunderstandings in this alternately charming and unsettling gloss on Kafka's The Trial. Watson ( Glister) uses his tightly framed etching to highlight the claustrophobic confusion faced by G.H. Fretwell as he embarks on a promotional tour for his novel Without K. Wandering ...

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    In his first book for adults in many years, acclaimed cartoonist Andi Watson evokes all the anxieties felt by every writer and compresses them into a comedic gem of a book. Witty, surreal, and sharply observant, The Book Tour offers a captivating lesson in letting go.

  17. The Book Tour

    Skeleton Key books 1-6, Love Fights Volume One & Two, Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day, Dumped, Princess at Midnight, Geisha, Geisha one shot and A Gallimaufry of Girls sketchbook. Top Shelf will be publishing The Book Tour in English. More details when I have them. La Tournée out now in French from the fine folks at caetla.

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    In his first book for adults in many years, acclaimed cartoonist Andi Watson evokes all the anxieties felt by every writer and compresses them into a comedic gem of a book. Witty, surreal, and sharply observant, The Book Tour offers a captivating lesson in letting go.

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    A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart. Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare. But now the police want to ask him some ...

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