I fell in love with Jim Meadway's work when I was given his book entitled Shorty Loves WingWang: an autobiographical memoir of life growing up in a small town up north, told through a series of anthropomorphic teen cat drawings. The comic book world he creates is in fact very gritty and familiar, the only difference being is that it is a world populated by cats resplendent in Kappa tracksuits, replete with fags, drugs, acne, underage sex and other resonant teen paraphernalia.
It is the simplicity and detail of his drawings that grip me, leafing through his book you are presented with punchy, Loachian social reportage.
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