We welcome Chris Shepherd to Walthamstow's Exale Brewery for an evning of discussion, music and more.
Writer, artist, and filmmaker Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel depicts a beautiful coming of age story centered around growing up in the working-class dynamics of Merseyside in the late eighties.
For fans of emotional stories about family and ambition and set in the rich history of Liverpool.
As Conor Sterling is about to turn 18, he wrestles with a tough choice: to go to art college or look after his sick, dominating grandmother? While life seems to move faster, he falls for a West-Indian girl who his grandmother disapproves of. Conor is torn between doing the right thing for him or submitting to the will of his crazy grandmother.
What follows is a funny and poignant coming of age story set in Liverpool in 1989. The land of The La’s, the Hillsborough disaster and Findus Crispy Pancakes.
Chris will discuss aspects of the book with Steven Appleby
Steven Appleby is an absurdist cartoonist, illustrator and artist. Her publisher describes her humour as "observational or absurd, with a keen sense of the turmoil of fear and obsession that teems beneath the respectable exterior of most of us.
Her work first appeared in the NME in 1984 with the Rockets Passing Overhead comic strip about the character Captain Star which also appeared in The Observer. Other comic strips followed in many publications including The Times and Guardian. Appleby’s work has also appeared on album covers, most notably Trompe Le Monde by Pixies.
An Anfield Road soundtrack courtesy of Steve Proctor
Q&A/Book Signing
https://www.stevenappleby.com/
