The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

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I’m in a codependent relationship with my own work,” Thorogood worries in her raw and relentlessly imaginative graphic memoir, which bristles with self-awareness of the ample pitfalls of its genre. Still, it’s lovely work and there is a real technical challenge of lettering a book like this that I hope gets solved in a future printing. You can find her work on Instagram as well as a signed and numbered print to accompany the release of this graphic novel.

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Creative, unique, and wonderfully illustrated story of an artist with an especially sobering deadline on her artwork. The book is largely in grayscale, with swaths of one or two accent colors that change with the scenes and help set the tone for every interaction.Billie comes from a place of privilege and before a drunken night out was living in an apartment (that she paid for how? Billie herself even makes a joke about how cringe-inducing some of it is, which helps to defuse the awkwardness—but it’s definitely not as graceful as the vast majority of the book.

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Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. I mean, this feels so much like existing in an artist’s mind and works, something you feel very aware of at all times in a good way. As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind. A conti fatti era l’unica cosa che le interessava fare, era sola al mondo e giacché era anche senza soldi non usciva molto.Sie zieht also los, um in der ihr verbliebenen Zeit 10 Portraits von Leuten, die sie noch gar nicht kennt, zu zeichnen und landet dabei in Pubs, auf der Straße und im Obdachlosenheim, wo sie natürlich auch Freunde kennenlernt. Their canon includes psychogeographical mappings, eco-anarchist wizards, boat-shaped coffins, an all-female/non-binary construction crew (in space), a bad canine named Greasy, and much more.

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Around the same time she is also granted the opportunity to show ten paintings in a well renowned London gallery (curated by one Mary Shelley, who asks in her letter: “What does Billie Scott want to say? psychedelia-esque curves represent smoke and musical vibrations, which seems suitable given that smoke and music, both ephemeral materials, have often been used as metaphors for each other.The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott dismisses this redundant habit and replaces it with a powerful message: we are not defined by how or what we create, only by our willingness to choose to carry on trying.