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'Dentist Robs Women of Teeth' - 'Death Chair for Nice Old Man' - 'Mother Feeds Son Like Bird' The British newspaper clipping collection of egalitarian George Ives, collected between 1892 and 1949, ranged from murder and theories of crime to cricket scores. He was fascinated by the unusual, the gothic, the sexual, and the melodramatic. In this graphic novel, acclaimed cartoonist J. Webster Sharp shares some of the most bizarre stories from his archives in silent comics form. With often shocking, visceral black and white artwork, the strangeness and eccentricity of the Edwardian era provides a backdrop for Sharp's own struggles with mental health. The Scrapbook of Life and Death is a fascinating, personal window into forgotten historical views of eccentric and socially transcendent and disturbing behaviours - and their resonance in life today.

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"""Jemma's an exciting artist with a pointillist style of rendering horrific imagery, reminiscent of early Ren�e French or Melinda Gebbie. These comics do not deal in linear narratives so much as they present associations. The art feels both Victorian and rotting away with decay. Uncomfortable feelings are rendered in a refined style."" -- Brian Nicholson, The Comics Journal ""There's no one else making comics the way she is, and there's no mistaking one of her comics for somebody else's. Her concerns, fixations and flights of fancy are more or less entirely her own, and her means of communicating them are likewise utterly unique. Her training as a fine artist obviously influences her modes and methodologies of expression, but beyond that one might almost be forgiven for thinking that her perspective is that of a true outsider artist."" -- Ryan Carey, The Comics Journal"

"""Jemma's an exciting artist with a pointillist style of rendering horrific imagery, reminiscent of early Ren�e French or Melinda Gebbie. These comics do not deal in linear narratives so much as they present associations. The art feels both Victorian and rotting away with decay. Uncomfortable feelings are rendered in a refined style."" - Brian Nicholson, The Comics Journal ""There's no one else making comics the way she is, and there's no mistaking one of her comics for somebody else's. Her concerns, fixations and flights of fancy are more or less entirely her own, and her means of communicating them are likewise utterly unique. Her training as a fine artist obviously influences her modes and methodologies of expression, but beyond that one might almost be forgiven for thinking that her perspective is that of a true outsider artist."" - Ryan Carey, The Comics Journal"

"""Jemma's an exciting artist with a pointillist style of rendering horrific imagery, reminiscent of early Ren�e French or Melinda Gebbie. These comics do not deal in linear narratives so much as they present associations. The art feels both Victorian and rotting away with decay. Uncomfortable feelings are rendered in a refined style."" - Brian Nicholson, The Comics Journal ""There's no one else making comics the way she is, and there's no mistaking one of her comics for somebody else's. Her concerns, fixations and flights of fancy are more or less entirely her own, and her means of communicating them are likewise utterly unique. Her training as a fine artist obviously influences her modes and methodologies of expression, but beyond that one might almost be forgiven for thinking that her perspective is that of a true outsider artist."" - Ryan Carey, The Comics Journal"

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J. Webster Sharp began her professional art career as a portrait painter, and she also explored textile sculpture, collage and drawing. Having always been a lover of comics she committed herself to a career in sequential art in May 2021. She’s inspired by the strange, eccentric and the psychology behind unusual imagery.

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