Twelve percent dread5/15/2023 Can you talk about how your layout style developed for this project? Looking at your “making of” pages at the end, it looks like you started out with more traditional rectangular panels with narrow spaces between them. Thank *you*! A pleasure! The lozenge style of the panels was great for this story, as it felt claustrophobic, and like I wasn’t getting the whole picture - which, of course, I wasn’t. McGovern’s art in Twelve Percent Dread generally appears in capsule-like panels, as though the reader is scrolling through a social media page with lots of bite-sized updates from multiple people, and it builds tension through these snapshots to a monumental ending.Įmily McGovern chatted with WWAC about her process, goals, and toxic girl bosses.Įmily, thanks for doing this interview! I know it’s a busy time and I hope the UK launch is going great for you. Drawing on some of McGovern’s own life experience as a tutor for a millionaire family right after she graduated from college, it’s also about the intersections between those worlds. It’s also about a tech giant making terrible ethical decisions, and how their employees become complicit. It’s about roommates and former couple Katie and Nas, scrambling to get Nas’s visa approved and to survive in the gig economy. Emily McGovern’s latest graphic novel, Twelve Percent Dread, might increase your personal dread percentage, even as it entertains.
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