Rachael Smith Archives

Rachael Smith has been making regular diary comics about her and her son Henry, since July 2023 These scribbly, urgent, honest slices of life are usually captured quickly, whilst Henry is napping Detailing the highs and lows of parenthood (nursery settles, nappy changes, friendships, breastfeeding, illnesses, etc…) The comics have been heralded as Smith's finest,[...]

This is a way of playing with the idea of what is a comic book?" The artists named so far include Mari Naomi, Diana Tamblyn, Scott Koblish, Pia Guerra, Nate Powell, Victoria Ying, Chris Wisnia, Sanya Anwar, Jose Pimienta, Nicole Goux, Hope Larson, Dan Santat, Sina Grace, Faith Erin Hicks, Jenny Soep, Allison Conway, Dean Haspiel, Thit[...]

"I'm genuinely not exaggerating when I say there was only a handful of points between all entries, and no obvious leader until the last two judges results came in." Judges on the panel included Kieron Gillen, David Leach, Rachael Smith, Oriana Leckert, James Wills, Harry Markos and me. Here's a look at the Caliburn Prize winning entry[...]

Rachael Smith is a comic artist & writer who has created a number of critically acclaimed autobiographical and other graphic novels including Quarantine Comix, Snippets, Glass Half Empty, Wired Up Wrong, Stand in Your Power, The Queen's Favorite Witch, Artificial Flowers, and The Rabbit Rachael has worked on Doctor Who for Titan Comics, her new[...]

The judges will be Kieron Gillen, David Leach, Oriana Leckert, Rachael Smith, James Wills, Harry Markos, Tony Lee and… me Blimey Honoured to be asked And I'm going to make sure it happens By waving the following in front of people Five handfuls of these. /The Bank Of England CC BY-ND 2.0 And maybe one of these[...]

Her debut book, a collection of short stories called Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't, is published later this May, and she will be touring the UK to promote it on her "Long Book Tour". Also announced as attending the event are Charlie Adlard, Mehdi Annassi, aka Machima, Peter Hogan, Lucie[...]

Alice Oseman describes the book as candid writing, with playful artwork, and a riotous and a fearlessly real story of figuring out that you're trans – this book will bring hope and comfort to so many. Thursday , 7th of July Troopers, Central London, inquire here. Friday, 8th of July London Film & Comic Con, Hammersmith Olympia, London, From[...]

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Wired Up Wrong by Rachael Smith might just be my book of the year, perhaps for the wrong reasons (I'm laughing at someone's depression!) — but since when have reasons been important? [rwp-review-recap id="0"] There's a warning at the start of this book, so I'll put a warning here: I liked this book so much, and I[...]