Lip Hook

Name: Lip Hook
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781910593578
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Set in the eerie, mist-shrouded village of Lip Hook at the edge of the British Isles, this graphic novel follows a dangerously beautiful woman and a wounded man arriving with a mysterious treasure. Seeking refuge at the Hanged Man Inn, their presence unsettles the villagers as sinister changes grip the community, blending folk horror with suspense.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric graphic novels, British folk horror, and dark, suspenseful stories with complex characters and a haunting setting.

Description

Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. For its inhabitants, the village is more than the end of the road - it's the end of the world. Beyond it, there is nothing but mist-shrouded marshland.

Few travellers take the road to Lip Hook, but one foggy night, a car speeds perilously towards the village. The driver is a dangerously beautiful woman, the passenger a man with a gunshot wound and a suitcase containing a treasure he has risked his life for.

Cash-strapped but in need of a place to hide, the two fugitives seek shelter at the Hanged Man Inn, where the woman persuades the inn-keeper to accept payment in kind. As days pass and the woman extends her services to more of Lip Hook's men, among them the village priest, a false faith grips the community - and reason, logic and humanity begin to disappear.

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ComicsBeat praises Lip Hook for expertly using British folk horror conventions to powerful effect, making it a standout in the genre.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910593578

Publisher: SelfMadeHero

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: SelfMadeHero

Contributors:

Text by David Hine
By Mark Stafford

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 160

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Adult Graphic Novels Fiction Graphic Novels

About the Author

David Hine has written extensively for mainstream comics, including X-MEN and SPIDER-MAN for Marvel, BATMAN and GREEN LANTERN for DC, and JUDGE DREDD for 2000AD. For Image Comics, he created the critically acclaimed THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN (with Shaky Kane) and STORM DOGS (with Doug Braithwaite). He has delivered workshops on writing graphic novels in Singapore, Greece and throughout the UK, and is a visiting lecturer at VIA University College in Denmark. His Marvel book, DAREDEVIL: REDEMPTION, was nominated for the prestigious Harvey Award in 2006. He collaborated with Mark Stafford on the British Comic Award-shortlisted THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel. Mark Stafford has been called "the greatest comics artist you've never heard of" by comics website BLEEDING COOL. He collaborated with Costa Award-winning graphic novelist Bryan Talbot on CHERUBS! (Dark Horse) and with the poet Ravi Thornton on HOAX: PSYCHOSIS BLUES. Aside from comics, he has worked with actors and puppeteers to create theatrical posters and programmes, and with borough councils and libraries to create a mural and information graphics. Stafford has been the Cartoon Museum's cartoonist-in-residence for over ten years, running workshops, fun days and demonstrations. He collaborated with David Hine on the British Comic Award-shortlisted THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel.