My Dad Fights Demons!

Welcome to Rye’s world: his stepdad hates him, his mother ignores him, and he’s stuck in a dead-end relationship. To make matters worse, his world is turned upside down one day with the return of his father, the Marvellous Mr Mantrikz, self-styled “greatest sorcerer in the world”, and Rye now has to spend his weekends with this rude, pushy, and frankly ridiculous old wizard. And that was never going to work – especially when magic is involved…

Author Biography

Bobby Joseph is an acclaimed South London comic creator, whose early work includes the creation of cult comic classic Skank magazine, in which his best-known strip, “Scotland Yardie”, originated. He has written for The Guardian, Dazed and Confused, and Vice, and his work featured prominently at the “Comics Unmasked” exhibition at the British Library in 2015. A long-standing advocate for diversity and representation in comic books, his graphic novel, Scotland Yardie (Knockabout Comics, 2017), was the first diverse graphic novel to be studied as a module on an English Literature MA course. He is the fifth incumbent to be appointed the UK’s Comics Laureate. Abbigayle Bircham is a Norwich-based comic artist with a penchant for the weird and wonderful, who is probably scribbling away in her favourite tea shop at this moment. A LICAF [Lakes International Comic Art Festival] Breakthrough Initiative participant, she has published work with Soaring Penguin Press and the Rat Pack Collective, dreams of having her own cartoon show one day, and first met Bobby Joseph when taking his Writing Comics short course.