Passage

by Colin Thubron

A heartfelt ode to growing up with well-intentioned but embarrassing parents. Framed by her brother’s coming-of-age ceremony, Tessa recounts with minute details the experience of an oddball adolescence. Beautifully illustrated and perfectly toned. Nominated for two Ignatz Awards in the categories of Outstanding Comic and Promising New Talent. Tessa Brunton is a cartoonist from the Bay Area whose memoir comics have been nominated for two Ignatz Awards and selected as Notable Comics by the Best American Comics series editors. Her comics have appeared in Bitch Magazine, Maisonneuve Magazine, The Comics Journal, many anthologies, and have also been featured in the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum. She was also the Cartoonist-In-Residence at The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. Her book Notes From a Sickbed was released in 2022. 32 page black and white comic book Sparkplug Books, 2011

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About the author

Colin Thubron, CBE FRSL is a Man Booker nominated British travel writer and novelist.

In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.