H Day

Rene French, the acclaimed graphic novelist and Inkpot Award winner, has entranced legions of fans with her twisted, highly inventive pencil drawings, whose agile lines and delicate shading open up strange imaginary vistas. She has been heralded as an inimitable and masterful stylist, a kind of Ed Gorey who draws out the whimsical side of body-horror. In H DAY, French's first graphic novel in four years, she explores, through metaphor and in pictures, her struggles with migraine headaches, marshalling troops of insects, beasts and humanoids.