WHERE? is about 350 odd pages long, and 50/50 prose and visual material, I think. The idea is that the book hands off from prose to comics and back to prose to tell different aspects of the story. The story is told in prose, drawings, photos, pictures of things found in archives, and also sequential art - I’d be happy to call them comics though they’re probably at the slightly unusual end of that spectrum. It combines three strands - one about the events leading up to and after my dad’s death in 2017 one about my childhood in rural Shropshire, a county on the English side of the Welsh border (specifically a hill called Titterstone Clee - where my Dad worked on a radar station - and the village of Caynham nearby where we lived) and one about what happened when I tried to process my grief by revisiting that place and that period in my life. Simon Moreton: WHERE? is a memoir of sorts. Warren Craghead: Let’s start with your new book WHERE? How would you describe it? I was glad to talk to him about the book and his work overall. His latest book, WHERE? , recently published by Little Toller Books, continues that evolution, knitting drawings with texts and found materials to further dig up and interrogate his ideas and memories. His work has grown more visually broad in recent years, using varied ways of mark-making and composing to more deeply investigate the world and how it is understood and remembered. From his self-published series Smoo, his longer works Plans We Made (Uncivilized), What Happened (Kilgore) and The Lie of the Land (Ley Lines series) to his current series Minor Leagues, (along with scores of smaller books and zines) Moreton is continually challenging his own ways of working and telling stories. Simon Moreton’s wonderfully spare and evocative comics have steadily mined his memories, his biography and the world around him for over a decade. Features “I Wanted To Try Something New”: A Conversation with Simon Moreton

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