In 2018, Nick Drnaso’s graphic novel, Sabrina, became the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Man Booker prize. Acting Class, which is out this year, is Drnaso’s follow-up, a book exploring the inner lives and outward personas of a group of misfits enrolled in an unnerving acting class.
In this exclusive mini-documentary, Drnaso describes the making his new graphic novel, and the delicate process of constructing this world of Acting Class, and filling it with characters.
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
