Tumult

Description

Adam Whistler has it all - so why does he feel so empty? When he breaks his ankle on a Mediterranean holiday he impulsively ends his relationship, toppling himself into emotional free fall. At a house party he meets - and beds - the lovely Morgan. But when he encounters her a few days later she has no memory of him, and introduces herself as Leila. Leila has dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personalities. People are being murdered and Leila fears that Morgan, the personality Adam first met, is the killer. He doesn't believe that any part of her is capable of it, so he sets out to unravel the mystery of her past. Tumult is a stylish contemporary psychological thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith.

Writer John Harris Dunning's graphic novel Salem Brownstone was published by Walker Books in the UK and Candlewick in the USA. He instigated and curated the "Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK" exhibition at the British library in 2014, the biggest and most prestigious exhibition of comics ever to be held in Britain. He also co-authored the award-winning accompanying book. Dunning has contributed to The Guardian and Metro newspapers, as well as to magazines including Esquire, GQ, iD and Dazed & Confused , to name a few. Mike Kennedy is a twenty-three-year-old comics artist and animator. Based in Birmingham, he is currently drawing Spiritus for Vault Comics.

"It looks fantastic, its frames drawn in a combination of hallucinatory colour and noirish inkiness. This singular comic [has a] slippery, shivery power" -- Rachel Cooke, The Guardian "'Tumult' Is a Graphic Fiction Noir Thriller Viewed Through a Surreal Lens" -- PopMatters "I was so keen to unravel the mystery I didn't get up from the sofa till it was read. Only complaint is that I wanted more by the end of it." -- Frazer Irving "Utterly compelling to an almost sinister extent" -- Jake Arnott "An involving story and great graphic impact" -- Dave Gibbons "When I'd finished reading Tumult, it felt like I'd met an interesting person on a train journey, and when I got off at my stop, I hoped to meet them again. We keep books on the shelf as company - some of them are best friends we visit often. Tumult is a journey I must travel again." -- Simon Bisley