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An environmentally-themedgraphic novel brings together a dream-team of European artists and writersincluding Denise Mina andIrvine Welsh to imagineScotland in 30 years
A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, IDP (short for internally displaced person or persons ) imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics and graphics novels collaborate on a single narrative. Celebrated French graphic novelist and illustrator Barroux,Dotter of Her Father's Eyes authorMary Talbot, artist Kate Charlesworth, grandfather of British comics and co-creator of 2000AD Pat Mills, graphic novelist Hannah Berry, enfant terrible of Scottish letters and author of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh, graphic artist Dan McDaid, and graphic novelists Adam Murphy and Will Morris have been brought together by story editor, crime writer, and graphic novelist, Denise Mina. The story, a singlenarrative divided into six chapters,follows the catastrophic effects of a small rise in sea levels on the county's heavily populated low lying areas and how society reimagines itself in the face of a huge population shift in a world of scarce resources.
