British cartoonist and illustrator Rachael Smith has introduced new autobio comedian Glass Half Empty from Icon Books – coming January 5, 2023. Following on from her acclaimed autobio books Wired Up Wrong, Stand In Your Power, and Quarantine Comix; Glass Half Empty will see Rachael dig even deeper in maybe her most private e book but – and in her personal inimitable type.
The synopsis:
“At age ten, Rachael Smith was going to group conferences to assist her deal with her dad’s alcoholism. After his loss of life, making an attempt to handle her grief, she discovered herself together with her personal problematic relationship with alcohol.
“From the award-winning author of Quarantine Comix, Wired Up Wrong and Stand in Your Power, this is another extremely honest and relatable auto-bio comic shining a light on the realities of mental health with humour, warmth and insight. Rufus the cat (recent star of a New Yorker cartoon) and Barky, the giant black dog inside her head, are returning characters fans of Rachael Smith will be heartened to be reunited with.”
The final 12 months have been busy for Rachael. The partnership with Icon Books for the print assortment of her pandemic Quarantine Comix in 2021 expanded with new print editions of her earlier Kickstarter-funded books Wired Up Wrong and Stand In Your Power; in the meantime on the fiction entrance she launched an Elizabethan setting youngsters comedian with Benjamin Dickson – The Queen’s Favorite Witch (Papercutz) – for which extra is on the best way.
And that isn’t forgetting that Rachael has additionally discovered time to do every day diary comics for Inktober. Don’t neglect to test them out!
Here is the quilt and among the preview pages that Rachael has revealed.
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