I'm very happy to reveal that from the 9th December, my graphic novel A Journey to Motherhood will be published as a series on the Graphic Medicine blog. You will be able to discover a new chapter every two weeks on Mondays: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/
A Journey to Motherhood is an autobiographical comic book diary depicting with humour (but not without cynicism) the fun and less fun bits of maternity, from pregnancy to toddler years. Written and illustrated by Camille Aubry, the graphic novel was twice long listed for the Laydeez do Comics Prize in 2018 and 2019. A black & white limited long extract (32 pages) was launched at the ELCAF festival this year. It was exhibited at the Representing Realness show in London this summer and sits on the bookshelf of the Homerton Hospital NHS Library. Now sold-out, Graphic Medicine and Camille Aubry have announced that they will reveal A Journey to Motherhood in its entirety, 66 pages in colour, through a blog series with a chapter published every fortnight from ??
Following a bi-national French-British family living in East London, A Journey to Motherhood shines a light on a particularly tricky part of adulthood in a post-referendum UK. It makes testimony to all the aspects of society that one witnesses when becoming a parent such as maternity, childcare, working parents, health, finance and education. It is a rebellion against the “how-to” parenting guide and the injunction to be a perfect mother. Unapologetically cynical and honest, A Journey to Motherhood shows what a terrifying as well as eye opening experience parenthood can be, whilst denouncing the hypocrisy of western societies that continuously penalise young families and the people who are, in essence, our future: children.