Henny Beaumont’s graphic novel-in-progress A hole in the Heart was one of the six jobs earlier this year to make it onto the Myriad very first graphic book Competition’s prestigious shortlist. The competition, of course, is one that we have covered extensively this year at damaged Frontier provided both its importance in nurturing new innovative skill as well as my own function as one of the competition judges, together with Myriad’s Corinne Pearlman, novelist Meg Rosoff, as well as graphic novelists Woodrow Phoenix as well as Nicola Streeten.
The victor, as many will no question remember, was Jade Sarson’s For the like of God, Marie! as well as you can checked out more on her reaction to winning the competition in our report on the FGNC event at the British library in may here. But, provided the high quality of the entrances of all six creators, it’s always pleasing to hear of the development of the other books that accomplished a location in that final half dozen. just this extremely month, for example, Jessica Martin – one more Myriad very first graphic book competition shortlistee – revealed solely in our interview right here at BF that her graphic book Elsie Harris photo palace will be published in 2015 (look for that from Miwk publishing next year).
Henny Beaumont providing at the Myriad very first graphic book competition event at the British library in May
Beaumont’s A hole in the Heart is an autobiographical account of the experience of having a kid with Down’s Syndrome from that preliminary diagnosis forwards. While the graphic book is yet to discover a publisher there’s major protection in the household section of today’s Guardian newspaper in the UK with an interview with Henny where she talks about her child Beth, household life as well as exactly how Down’s Syndrome altered their lives for the better. You can checked out the article on the internet right here where there’s likewise an prolonged preview of A hole in the Heart.
While I was only privy to a choice of pages from the book during the judging process – entrants submitted as much as thirty pages of a work-in-progress for consideration – the aspect of A hole in the Heart that most impressed me was Beaumont’s capability to utilize the unique properties of comics as a type to communicate emotional states, as well as enable the visitor to share in the experiences she was portraying, in a method that I believe no other medium might accomplish. The picture below is just one sterling example of this.
For more on Henny Beaumont you can go to her website here. I firmly believe that it’s only a matter of time up until all six of those shortlisted works discover publishers. Today’s Guardian article makes that inevitability a step nearer for Henny Beaumont as well as A hole in the Heart…