Graphic Memoir

The Breadcrumb, 2014

Pages: 180 pages | Available in: Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover | Language: English | Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches

Inspired by the likes of Alison Bechdel and Marjane Satrapi, 'The Breadcrumb' takes your everyday coming-of-age and turns it inside out. In this book, I set out on what I admit is a rather futile endeavour: to preserve my idealistic adolescent mind on the brink of adulthood. ‘The Breadcrumb’ documents my near-neurotic attempt to take a lasting snapshot of the mind as if it were a finite world with physical boundaries. And in this picture you can see me simultaneously assume all the roles within this world – protagonist, antagonist, friend, parent, therapist and omniscient narrator – producing a frenzied mono-act to whom I myself am also the audience. ‘The Breadcrumb' is essentially one long therapy session between me & my various selves as we try to crack the ever-elusive formula to "adulting" before time runs out. In these obsessive and neurotic attempts to protect my inner adolescent from the jaded world and keep it alive beyond its stipulated lifetime, the book whimsically reveals some of the core preoccupations that define the 21st century millennial mind – an irrational fear of change, a near constant state of delusion, raging misanthropy and incurably self-righteous narcissism.