Giant Days

Giant Days SeriesThe British comic writer and artist John Allison is well known for his witty and award winning comics that have become bestsellers across the world. Knowing his audience well, he has a bright colorful style that really jumps off the page, delivered in an entertaining and highly compelling manner. His career would start out in webcomics finding an audience an online, which is a readership he continues to foster and nurture to this day. Maintaining a following both online and off, he attends many different events worldwide, delivering his work to an international audience. Becoming a household name for many, he’s produced a number of well known comic-book series as well, as he continues a variety of different franchises. Writing series such as ‘Scary Go Round,’ which would be in the tradition of British horror, Allison would later propose a more realistic spin-off titled ‘Giant Days’ looking at university life.Starting out back in 2011 as a webcomic, Allison’s ‘Giant Days’ series is one such collection of comics that he’s become well known for. Becoming a comic-book in 2015, the series would run through to 2019, building up a popular following, while also winning several Eisner and and Harvey awards for the duration of its run. This would also be a series that John Allison would focus on writing, leaving a lot of the artwork and illustrations to the talents of Lissa Treiman and Max Sarin as artists. There would also be a collection of three compendiums titled ‘Not on the Test,’ which would collect eight issues at a time in hardback, running up to issue twenty-four.