NOMINATED FOR THE 2024 DOUG WRIGHT EMERGING TALENT AWARD (‘THE NIPPER’)

NOMINATED FOR THE 2024 ‘PIGSKIN PETERS’ DOUG WRIGHT AWARD FOR BEST SMALL-PRESS BOOK

A shepherd without sheep wanders the hills. An injury leaves him more lost than before. Our hero’s path intersects with other wanderers around him, all in search of inspiration and direction. Everyone just wants to be useful. What’s a shepherd without a flock?

The Lonesome Shepherd is the  new comic from Montreal-based cartoonist James Collier. 100 pages, offset printed with spot colors, 7 x 10 inches. Published by Wig Shop in an edition of 500 copies. Printed in Canada.

Follow the artist on instagram at @jmascollier, or visit www.james-collier.com.

Wholesale available to shops, please be in touch at wigshopwebshop@gmail.com to discuss.

ISBN: 978-1-938809-99-6

PRESS:

“…a beautiful thing, light in the hands and easy on the mind.… Reading this book may give you Kevin Huizenga vibes, though there is a bounciness to Collier’s drawings, a roundness and curvature inherent in both his characters and their environs that remind me more of Sammy Harkham. And to an extent, that nigh-on-deific figure, George Herriman.… While there is a definite narrative here, it is loose, light, and held together as though by a delicate yet trustworthy thread, not unlike Collier’s line.… Is it this characteristic that gives The Lonesome Shepherd its meditative quality – that, and the often silent pages that luxuriate in soulful landscapes.”
— Ben Austin-Docampo, The Comics Journal

“…a soft, quiet tale…. Collier lets his gentle thin line speak for itself in many pages of borderless six panel grids, with lovely splash pages to complement. Collier draws in the tradition of the old newspaper cartoonists but gives the art space to breathe…”
— Bubbles