A01=Bobby Joseph
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absent father
action
Author_Abbigayle Bircham
Author_Bobby Joseph
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Category=XQM
Category=YFB
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demon
diverse
divorce
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family drama
fantasy
full colour
magic
magical realism
original
surreal
teen drama
teenager
urban
urban fantasy
wizard
Young adult
Product details
- ISBN 9781914224348
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2025
- Publisher: SelfMadeHero
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Welcome to Rye’s world: their stepdad hates them, their mother ignores them, and they’re stuck in a dead-end relationship. To make matters worse, their world is turned upside down one day with the return of their father, the Magical Mr Mantrikz, self-styled “greatest sorcerer in the world”, and Rye now has to spend their weekends with this rude, pushy, and frankly ridiculous wizard. And that was never going to work – especially when magic is involved…
Bobby Joseph is an acclaimed South London comic creator, whose early work includes the creation of cult comic classic Skank magazine, in which his best-known strip, “Scotland Yardie”, originated. He has written for The Guardian, Dazed and Confused, and Vice, and his work featured prominently at the “Comics Unmasked” exhibition at the British Library in 2015. A long-standing advocate for diversity and representation in comic books, his graphic novel, Scotland Yardie (Knockabout Comics, 2017), was the first diverse graphic novel to be studied as a module on an English Literature MA course. He is the fifth incumbent to be appointed the UK’s Comics Laureate. Abbigayle Bircham is a Norwich-based comic artist with a penchant for the weird and wonderful, who is probably scribbling away in her favourite tea shop at this moment. A LICAF [Lakes International Comic Art Festival] Breakthrough Initiative participant, she has published work with Soaring Penguin Press and the Rat Pack Collective, dreams of having her own cartoon show one day, and first met Bobby Joseph when taking his Writing Comics short course.
