“The Impending Blindness Of Billie Scott” creator Zoe Thorogood has announced her next graphic novel, “It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth,” will be published by Image Comics this November. The book follows Thorogood herself over “six 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. This fresh and thought provoking auto-bio-graphic is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.”
Thorogood further describes the book as “an exploration of the chronic depression I started developing as a child, and how that along with an obsession to make art has in itself created a bit of a monster.” The project was conceived after an especially difficult spell last year, which led her to “manically [decide] to start this project and record myself in the hope I could figure myself out- like a storyteller would do with a character, right? Anyway, sorry!”
Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson says, “Zoe’s debut graphic novel, ‘The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott,’ was one of the highlights of 2020, and we were thrilled when she approached us about publishing her next project… which as it turns out, will be the project after this one! But one of the great things about exciting new talent is that the creative process often takes on a life of its own and ‘It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth’ was a project that had to happen, very much to everyone’s delight. This is excellent work by one of comics’ best new voices!”
“It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth” will be released digitally and in comic book shops on Wednesday, November 9, and in bookstores on Tuesday, November 15.
