We’re very proud to announce our first original comic series, scheduled for launch at Thought Bubble in November.
In 2015, A Wolfgang Crowe was the target of a violent homophobic attack while working in his father’s shop. Fractures, a graphic memoir in four parts, tells the story of the legal, physical and psychological struggles that followed.
Following in the graphic medicine tradition of Lighter Than My Shadow (Katie Green) and Stitches (David Small), Fractures uses the inventive power of comics to draw on past trauma and highlight the vulnerability and strength within us all. It’s brave, unflinching and incisive work that we’re thrilled to be involved with.
A Wolfgang Crowe has an MA in Illustration from the University of Plymouth. He was joint runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021 for his comic Andrew. An earlier project, Danger Man, was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2021 in the New Talent Alternative Publishing Category. He lives in the south-west of the UK, and his work reflects graphic medicine, memoir and reportage journalism. You can see his work in progress on Fractures on his Twitter feed.
Wolf will be taking part in the Pride Comic Art Festival in Bristol on Saturday 3rd September 2022, where he’ll be discussing the use of comics and art therapy as aids to improve your work, as well as his journey in creating and publishing Fractures, his first comic series. At the same event in 2021 he gave a talk on entitled ‘Graphic Activism: The Power of Comics’, discussing the history and use of images and sequential narrative as a force forof positive change.
We were incredibly honoured – albeit utterly terrified – when the wonderful 