![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesse Doogan: Most of your comics have been set in contemporary high schools, but The Nameless City takes place in historic China. I sat down with Faith Erin Hicks to talk about the Silk Road, switching careers, and creative collaboration. Despite the new setting, the story still includes the hallmarks of Hicks’s earlier work: friendship, family, identity, relationships, and the supernatural. She began researching the history of China, which led to her new novel, The Nameless City, about two teenagers on different sides of a racial divide in a city under constant threat of invasion. So when Hicks set out to write her next graphic novel, she wanted to do something completely different. Graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks has drawn thousands of school lockers and backpacks during her career, from her first web comic Demonology 101 (about a 16-year-old demon being raised in modern society) to the Eisner Award-winning Friends with Boys (about a home-schooler making the jump to public high school … with ghosts). ![]()
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