"I'm Aware that a Lot of these People that I'm Feeling Sorry for are Wankers": A Conversation with Hannah Berry. Issue 1 (2nd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Giddens, Thomas
• Is Part Of: Comics grid. Volume 8:Issue 1(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-07-02
• Subjects: law -- social justice -- politics -- comics form -- comics production
• DOI: 10.16995/cg.132
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2048-0792

Abstract

This is an interview with renowned comics creator Hannah Berry, creator of Britten and Brülightly, Adamtine, and Livestock (all Jonathan Cape). It was recorded at the first annual conference of the Graphic Justice Research Alliance: Graphic Justice Discussions 2017, hosted by St Mary's University on 4–5 July 2017. The interview was a plenary session at this conference, and was subsequently transcribed into text. In it, Berry discusses the various relationships between her creative comics work and her perspectives on law, the legal system, responsibility, politics, and social justice, as well as her creative practice and approach to comics production, and the general value of comics as an art-form.