Why Don’t You Love Me?
with Paul Rainey
in conversation with Caz Tricks
Saturday 6 April, 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Central Milton Keynes Library,
555 Silbury Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 3HL
Tickets: £10/£7
Paul Rainey’s graphic novels take the challenges and chaos of the world around us and channel them into an absorbing narrative filled with dark humour.
His acclaimed latest, Why Don’t You Love Me?, was hailed by Neil Gaiman as ‘a masterwork’. So what makes a graphic novel – and novelist - tick?
Join Paul in conversation with Caz Tricks to discover more about his process, the highs and lows of this creating particular literary art, and his take on why their popularity is currently exploding across all ages.
About Paul Rainey
Paul Rainey is a writer, artist, and cartoonist contributor to Viz Comic. He won the Observer newspaper Graphic Short Story Prize in 2020 with his entry Similar To But Not. His graphic novel, Why Don’t You Love Me?, published by Drawn & Quarterly in January 2023, has been included in many Best of the Year lists including the Guardian and The Times, and was voted best graphic novel by readers of Broken Frontier. If you live in Milton Keynes, you may recognise his comic-strip murals Going Backwards and Jog On from The Centre MK.
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About Caz Tricks
Caz Tricks is a cultural polymath: Artistic Director of Stony Stratford Theatre Society, recipient of the 2023 Mayor’s Award for Contribution to the Arts in MK, presenter for Stony Radio, singer, actor, theatre director, events promoter, festival compere and occasional performance poet… if there’s a cultural pie within ten miles of Stony Stratford, Caz has at least one finger in it.
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