A City Inside

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman's life, starting from her childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in.Tillie Walden creates a poetic graphic novel exploration of the process of growing older; the journey towards finding out who you are and building a life for yourself.

“"Tillie Walden is a prodigious and stunning artist. Her books have consistently been tender, wistful, complex, and stunning. Her latest release from Avery Hill Publishing is A City Inside and it is everything you would expect from a Tillie Walden comic." - Daniel Elkin, Comics Bulletin”

"The confidence of this work is startling...her turns of phrase heartbreakingly earnest...this slim volume feels like a mission statement and a herald of oncoming talent." - Publishers Weekly

Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. She first published three original graphic novels with Avery Hill Publishing, before going on to create her Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir Spinning. After Spinning, Tillie created On A Sunbeam which was originally published as a webcomic. Her latest graphic novel Are You Listening? won the Eisner for Best Graphic Novel in 2020. She currently lives in Lebanon New Hampshire and teaches at the Centre For Cartoon Studies.

Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman's life from childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in.Walden's follow up to the lyrical I Love This Part is a poetic exploration of the process of growing older; the journey towards finding out who you are and building a life for yourself.

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