It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An auto-bio-graphic novel

- Nominated for the 2023 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award

- Included in Forbes' ""The Best Graphic Novels of 2022"" list

"Thorogood elevates the dark material with her expressive use of the comics medium & the urgency of her voice. One to watch for the 2020s." —Forbes

"This has the force of a fist punching through the page." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Thorogood taps into sensation & the way that it is experienced in a way that is unlike anything I’ve seen before. It’s astonishing." —AIPT

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood (writer & artist of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, artist on Joe Hill's Rain graphic novelisation) records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. 

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth is an intimate & metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival. A poignant & original depiction of a young woman's struggle with mental health—through the ups & downs of anxiety, depression, & imposter syndrome—as she forges a promising career in sequential art & finds herself along the way.

Zoe Thorogood is a comic creator from the UK. She debuted in 2020 with The Impending Blindness Of Billie Scott. She has also illustrated HAHA & most recently Joe Hill’s Rain. Her forthcoming auto-bio-graphic novel is IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH coming from Image Comics in November 2022.