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Product details
- ISBN 9781770468603
- Dimensions: 162 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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A memoir of British middle school bullying and one precocious comic nerd s fight to make it through while remaining as invisible as possible. Paul B. Rainey takes a look back at his middle school education and the indignities suffered a mix of stalled friendships, pitched battles with martinets, and exasperated pleading with intractable parents. Playground games take on outsized importance as Paul and his friends seek respite from a particularly abusive science teacher. Paul jockeys to hold his place in the complicated hierarchy of school bullying. Rainey takes a classic 'school daze' tale both wistful and hilarious and manages to turn it on its head with a couple of his now famous twists. Find out the truth behind The Murder School and the effect it s had on Rainey well into middle-age.
Paul B. Rainey is a British cartoonist who has been making comics for decades. He won the Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize in 2020 with the strip Similar to But Not. In it, he recounts meeting Madonna in his local pub in 1985.
