Ian Williams was interviewed for the BBC’s World Update about his new graphic novel The Bad Doctor (Myriad Editions). You can listen to the interview at the link below.
Ian Williams was interviewed for the BBC’s World Update about his new graphic novel The Bad Doctor (Myriad Editions). You can listen to the interview at the link below.
Iwan James is a GP with OCD working in a small country practice dodging the bullets and the craters in the no man’s land between the chemist’s shop and the hospital. He is not a bad doctor,in any sense. He sets himself impossibly high professional standards and works in a society which still needs the benign authoritarian figure of the traditional GP but also takes a cruel,modern delight in their doctors’ frailties. Ian Williams has an uncluttered cartoon format and can capture complex situations in few captions. Although there is a lot of dark stuff in the book there are also some very funny bits . You can’t help liking Dr James,and worrying about him too. He is a corner shop family doctor in a Tescodoc age. Will he be steamrollered into boring ,faceless middle age in a prize-winning Community Wellbeing Centre? My hunch is that he will survive and I hope to read of his further adventures.