Julian Hanshaw
Julian Hanshaw won the Observer/Comica short story award in 2008 for "Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms."
His graphic novel works include the Prix-Europa-winning The Art of Pho and I'm Never Coming Back. Julian also contributed to the multi-award-winning Hoax: Psychosis Blues.
His most recent graphic novel, Tim Ginger, was shortlisted for the British Comic Award and the LA Times Book Award.
He lives on the south coast of the UK with his wife, Sarah, and spends too much time thinking about cricket.
Reviews & Interviews
Cloud Hotel
"Crisp of line and hypnotically peculiar, Hanshaw deftly suspends us between dream and reality, as good comics do. As in life, the harder we look the more we see, and the stranger things invariably become." — Shaun Tan
"[Cloud Hotel's] panel layouts and richly colored mise-en-scène are …
Free Pass
"Free Pass is an optimistic, clever and amusing look at where we are heading as a society. And Julian’s use of colour is gorgeous." — Chester Brown, author of Ed the Happy Clown, Paying for It, and Louis Riel
"Hanshaw has outdone himself with Free Pass. A futuristic sex fantasy that is as …
Space Junk
Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder: what’s the point? Gradually, a cluster of …
Tim Ginger
Finalist for the British Comic Award and the LA Times Book Prize!
Named one of the year's best books by Forbidden Planet, Under the Radar, and The Comics Alternative!
"It's wonderful and inspiring to see a generation of authors with no preconceptions about what comics should be, and what sort …
