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[Nad Shot, a blog of comic groin punches, via BoingBoing] The Telegraph profile Marjane Satrapi: Making Persepolis – which is hand-drawn by a team of 90 animators – took three years. Satrapi acted out all the roles for them, down to the family dog. “As a cartoonist, I am very solitary,” she says. “For the […]

Off-Piste Reading: An Interview With Matthew De Abaitua

1952018256_5768298a08_t.jpgThere’s a lot in The Red Men about living in a way that is completely unbounded by the laws of reality — and yet still coping with the fact that you’ll never be able to fly. Because as a kid it’s quite upsetting to realise that at no point in your life are you going to sprout wings.

Sam Jordison interviews Matthew De Abaitua about The Red Men, his debut novel.