FORTY LIES A Work of Ipsedixitism

FORTY LIES A WORK OF IPSEDIXITISM

• Publishing Company:

  KNOCKABOUT COMICS

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  DAVID SHENTON

• Number of Pages:

  322

• Cover price:

  GBP 16.99

• Publication Date:

  October 2023

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

• Key words:

  LGBTQ, HUMOR,

• Summary:

  David Shenton says: FORTY LIES is my Queer History from birth in 1949. I was told I was different from very early on because I could knit and my older brother couldn’t, or didn’t want to. I have been a ‘Queer Cartoonist’ for over 40 years and throughout this time I have been as serious, as angry, as funny, camp, and ridiculous as I can possibly be, sometimes all at the same time, because it’s how I see my job, and my duty as a gay man.

  This anagram of a book, is a vaguely chronological patchwork of forty(ish) personal stories, that don’t bear too much factual scrutiny, yet are as real and honest as need be, following the trials of Coming Out, the Age of Consent, family rejection, dodgy boyfriends, shaky career prospects, police swoops, the enemy without, queer bashers, the stern presence of HIV/AIDS, the loathsome Section 28,the friends, the outrage and outrageous, the fun, the sex, the scene, Love, Equal Marriage and bereavement…

  This is my History, it is the history of every 70 year old gay man in Britain today. FORTY LIES=LIFE STORY
  
  Basically, a Comic Book, with knitting patterns.