Gamish

Gamish is a fascinating read. Insights for anyone who games, and revelations for those who don’t – Val McDermidFascinating, revealing and thoughtful … Ross constructs loving, pastel-coloured visual narrative around titles such as Metroid, Doom and Papers Please, exploring not just the timeline of games but also the culture that makes and consumes them – Keith Stuart * Guardian *A love letter to gaming in all its forms - from board games, to role-play, to virtual reality and video games. For fans of gaming, this is the perfect read. For those new to gaming, it is the perfect introduction – Hannah Sycamore * The Scotsman *A very fast paced and entertaining read * Metro *Gamish is warm, it has a sense of fun and humour and importantly it has a lot of optimism for the media and for the way it can empower all sorts of people (the book takes pains to include a lot of diversity in the characters we see, which again I appreciated greatly), and right now that feels like a wonderful, uplifting notion to leave the readers on – Joe Gordon * Down the Tubes *I’m adding non-fiction comic book Gamish to my Christmas list. It’s a graphical history of gaming, with an emphasis less on the technological beats of the last 40 years, and more on the games themselves and the culture surrounding them – Colin Campbell

Edward Ross is an Edinburgh-based comic-book artist, writer and illustrator. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Filmish- A Graphic Journey through Film and has also worked on a series of science-themed comics.