It wasn’t until George was later receiving treatment in hospital, that the two started to collaborate on something together in Andy’s regular visits. “I wrote down page after page of his birding stories [...] It was fascinating, and I ended up learning a ton about him and his birding adventures going back to the 1970s,” Andy says. Working from what was originally a text-only article, crafted from George’s words at an early stage of his treatment, Andy set out to illustrate his fathers birding adventures as well as the memories he had, stemming from his diagnosis. The series of illustrations took over six months to complete with George working closely on the comic’s text in his “matter-of-fact tone, as well as a great sense of humour”. While the illustrator often collaborates with other authors or designers, this collaboration with his father is a first for the pair and resulted in “probably the most personal project I’ve ever done”, says Andy.

Source: New York Times June 25, 2024 08:44 UTC