In the shattered remnants of a doomed planet, the last shuttles are leaving soon… So why do these misfits want to stay behind?
Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder “what’s the point?” Gradually, a cluster of lonely souls who’ve spent their lives emotionally adrift are pulled into one another’s orbits as they try to stay in place in a universe that is moving all too quickly.
With Space Junk, the startling imagination of award-winning graphic novelist Julian Hanshaw explores profound questions of past and future, trauma and recovery, staying grounded and taking flight.
Julian Hanshaw won the Observer/Comica Short Story Award in 2008. His graphic novels with Top Shelf, Self Made Hero, and Jonathan Cape include the Prix Europa–winning The Art of Pho, as well as I’m Never Coming Back, Cloud Hotel, and Free Pass. Julian contributed to Hoax: Psychosis Blues and also co-edited the anthologies I Feel Machine and I Feel Love, the former having one of its stories nominated for an Eisner. His graphic novel Tim Ginger was shortlisted for the British Comic Award and the LA Times Book Prize. Julian has animated on BAFTA-winning shows including Charlie & Lola. His own animation short film won a Golden Reel Award in Los Angeles. He lives on the south coast of the UK.
In the shattered remnants of a doomed planet, the last shuttles are leaving soon… So why do these misfits want to stay behind?
Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder “what’s the point?” Gradually, a cluster of lonely souls who’ve spent their lives emotionally adrift are pulled into one another’s orbits as they try to stay in place in a universe that is moving all too quickly.
With Space Junk, the startling imagination of award-winning graphic novelist Julian Hanshaw explores profound questions of past and future, trauma and recovery, staying grounded and taking flight.
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Julian Hanshaw won the Observer/Comica Short Story Award in 2008. His graphic novels with Top Shelf, Self Made Hero, and Jonathan Cape include the Prix Europa–winning The Art of Pho, as well as I’m Never Coming Back, Cloud Hotel, and Free Pass. Julian contributed to Hoax: Psychosis Blues and also co-edited the anthologies I Feel Machine and I Feel Love, the former having one of its stories nominated for an Eisner. His graphic novel Tim Ginger was shortlisted for the British Comic Award and the LA Times Book Prize. Julian has animated on BAFTA-winning shows including Charlie & Lola. His own animation short film won a Golden Reel Award in Los Angeles. He lives on the south coast of the UK.
