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Pat Grant

Pat Grant

Pat Grant is a renowned Melbourne cartoonist, writer and zine maker, whose work has appeared in Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, and The Lifted Brow as well as in magazines such as Australia’s Surfing Life, Tracks, Beat, and 3D World. Grant is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, and has been publishing installments of Blue online, to critical acclaim. His comics include The Last Sharehouse and Waiting for Something to Happen. Grant is currently completing a PhD on cartooning at Macquarie University, and lives by the beach in the Illawarra.

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Blue

Pat Grant

96 pages
Paperback, 17 x 24 cm
Published March 2012
ISBN 9781920882914

Blue is the debut graphic novel by Australian cartoonist Pat Grant. Part autobiography and part science fiction, the book follows three spotty teenagers who skip school to go surfing and end up investigating rumors of a dead body on the train line. Provincial values and the emotions aroused by immigration clash as the teenagers encounter strange, blue-skinned foreigners that have arrived in their little beach town. Things become even more confronting when the trail leads them to make first contact with a new wave of immigrants to their coastal tow, who might be the harbingers of sweeping change. Blue is a delicate and affectionate portrayal of an iconic setting and way of life, told with an unerring ear and eye for the vernacular. But it’s also a story about difference, fear and change, and the political implications of this for contemporary Australia.