It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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Zoe Thorogood: It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (2022, Image Comics)

English language

Published 2022 by Image Comics.

ISBN:
978-1-5343-2620-0
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Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.

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In comics you can do anything.

A tough read, auto bio where things actually happen always is. I enjoy the wide and relaxed approach to an art style to help shoe Zoe's internal conflicts between different parts of her mind, memory and personality. I also very much enjoyed the immediate feel of the comic and it's ability to break the narrative to start again, reframe a scene or break the fourth wall. In comics you can do anything.

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She probably hates the idea, but ... It is pretty "relatable". Sometimes it feels very much a book written by a 23 year old (not in a bad way, I can't wait to see how she writes about her depression, if she still does, at 30 and 40, god knows the way I examine mine has changed from 14 to almost 40), but other parts are extremely universal. 

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