The book is made up of lots of small moments – my characters tend to speak colloquially, in short bursts, with lots of hesitation and pauses. 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.
Their friend Emma, meanwhile, seems to have it all figured out-job, mortgage, engagement-yet the long hours working for tech giant Arko and endless wedding admin prove equally dread-inducing.īut when Katie's latest job finds her tutoring the daughter of Arko's formidable CEO, Michelle, and Emma welcomes the eccentric and enigmatic Alicia to her team at Arko, none of the three women are aware that their lives-and possibly the future of society itself-are about to change forever.Emily McGovern’s latest graphic novel, Twelve Percent Dread, might increase your personal dread percentage, even as it entertains. While Katie bounces from job to job and obsesses about falling behind in life, Nas has bigger things in mind-waiting endlessly for their visa to come through, while working on a seismic art project that will revolutionize politics and society as we know it. They share everything, including a tiny room in a North London townhouse belonging to their landlord Jeremy, former host of the hit 90s show 'Football Lads'. Katie and Nas are best friends, exes, co-dependents. Twelve Percent Dread is a fast-paced, laugh-a-page graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your f***ing phone away from Emily McGovern, author of Bloodlust & Bonnets and the hugely popular webcomic My Life As A Background Slytherin.
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