Eve

All about Eve

My latest 240 page graphic novel Eve. It’s a beautiful book, a gorgeous print job, and hopefully you will enjoy it. Published in the UK in May 2021 and available in US and Canada bookshops from March 2023. It’s a story about a girl called Eve, and it’s a piece of political writing about the changing climate in the UK (the climate of political confusion and polarisation, and the environmental emergency). This brings the cast of the novel to the brink – the Eve of their destruction, perhaps.

I’ve created a tale of ordinary people struggling to navigate life, because even when everyone is doing their best, things can go wrong (Spoiler, they go very wrong!) but humans somehow, always find a way to rebuild. The eponymous Eve, our stroppy, independent shero, reluctantly comes of age in this strange new world. Though there are echoes of the past, Eve enters a new era.

Creative method

I used a combination of handmade and digital drawing to produce it and I’ve sampled colours from photographs of North Yorkshire – especially Ilkley Moor and Haworth Moor, where I love to go walking – so that it looks and feels like an adventure through a dark and brooding Northern landscape.

Get a copy

You can get a signed copy using my online shop here. Or you could get it from Leeds indie shop OK Comics, who have kindly made a unique signed book plate. Or any good bookstore. Try Foyles of London, Bristol and Birmingham or Waterstones, who have been supportive of my work in the past.

Nice things people have said about Eve

‘The sickly quiet before the storm…big, imaginative and confrontational’ Strong Words Magazine

‘Una has held up a chilling mirror for us, and leaves us with a choice – what kind of world will we make for ourselves?’ Jacky Fleming

‘EVE’s gripping narrative and poetic, haunting imagery of a world sliding into dystopia has stayed with me.’ Moma.co.uk

‘As with all good speculative fiction, it predicts a set of circumstances that are rooted in reality so could easily happen, and often do’ Big Issue North

‘Is there going to be a sequel? Because I’m not happy with how it ended!’ My mate Julie, Packhorse Pub, 31st July, Leeds

‘It’s heartbreaking, it’s terrifying in places, there are moments of warmth and despair. It is, and I can’t stress enough, utterly extraordinary and the best thing I’ve read this year by a distance. Even if you’re not in to comics or sequential art in general just pick up a copy. It’s really something and it will definitely speak to you in a way nothing else has for me in a really long time. Essential.’ James Hudson, a reader.