RaveBroken FrontierI picked up a mini-comic extract of Shit is Real...a couple of years ago, so it’s fitting that I’m now looking at the complete work as its creator, Aisha Franz, returns to the festival as a featured guest. And along the way, the book has become a confident and compelling graphic novel about the pressures of urban life and the (not always helpful) ways the mind deals with them ... a graphic novel that...has depth and empathy, and it uses the infinite stylistic possibilities of the comics form to take us where words alone can’t go.
