Seb Humphrys’ panels tell the story of a neurotic, overwhelmed by the world, in a voice that is at once calm and deranged, and in the graphic form and the material qualities of the print studio, vivid, illustrational, refined. Coping through caring. A Ladybird book for artists in start-the-century crisis mood/mode. But this voice works, because you can’t quite tell where it’s coming from; similar to Jamie Shovlin’s work, it doesn’t have the distance of an authorial, or a rhetorical voice, but neither does it pretend to being an internal monologue. It’s almost a manifesto, which touches on the immobility of individuals faced with a situation that can’t be altered simply through wishful thinking.’

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Seb Humphrys’ panels tell the story of a neurotic, overwhelmed by the world, in a voice that is at once calm and deranged, and in the graphic form and the material qualities of the print studio, vivid, illustrational, refined. Coping through caring. A Ladybird book for artists in start-the-century crisis mood/mode. But this voice works, because you can’t quite tell where it’s coming from; similar to Jamie Shovlin’s work, it doesn’t have the distance of an authorial, or a rhetorical voice, but neither does it pretend to being an internal monologue. It’s almost a manifesto, which touches on the immobility of individuals faced with a situation that can’t be altered simply through wishful thinking.’