Will Self on the cartoon strip that set him on the road to writing – The Start podcast

The novelist and journalist shares how living a life of austerity inspired his first professional work, SlumpSubscribe and review on Apple Podcasts or Acast, and join the discussion on Facebook and TwitterIn 1982, as mass unemployment gripped Britain, a young graduate with an array of criminal convictions carried hopes of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. Spurred by the difficult socioeconomic climate, Will Self started to draw Slump, a cartoon whose hero lived a life of hopelessness that many young people felt acutely at that time. It was published in the political magazine New Statesman. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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