Is this a new genre: a partly autobiographical, partly historical, documentary prose text, interspersed with illustrations, written and drawn by an author, illustrator and political cartoonist, partly covering the period when he was creating a graphic novel? Usually, I would be reading the graphic novel. This time, I am reading a prose account of its creation. Next, the book could be filmed, showing the author drawing pages of the graphic novel.
A story can be narrated, enacted or depicted. Thus, the three story-telling media are narrative, drama and sequential art, which can be creatively combined. Once, in a school where I worked, a drama group showed and discussed an animated film and, on a later visit, enacted a sequel, playing the parts of the screen characters. We need
more multi-media creativity to which Nick Hayes could contribute.