Little Brown said it would be a "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising" novel.
Publisher Little Brown said it would be a "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising" novel.
When my father died in 2006, I had the bleakly comic thought that some previously unknown sibling might show up on our doorstep.
Yet even amid these years of drama and anguish, the loft embodied a comic thought, for this very building was the setting for a fictional story about art and madness that fascinated him.
The company describes the tale as being "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising".
Described by publishers Little Brown and Co as "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising", there were mixed reviews for the novel when it was published in September, with Rowling variously described as "unadventurous", "bleak" and "brilliant" by newspaper critics.
A new confidence is to be found in the industry, and in the wider world of comics, which includes hugely popular cross-over events like San Diego Comics Con, New York Comic Con, Thought Bubble in Leeds and many others like them worldwide.
Then he was introduced to yet another successful stand-up comic, Tim Allen, with thoughts of turning his act into a television series.
The comic launches at Thought Bubble in Leeds with all four Alex Automatic creators – writer Fraser Campbell, artist Corcoran, colourist David B Cooper and letterer/designer Colin Bell – in attendance.
