The novelist and journalist shares how living a life of austerity inspired his first professional work,SlumpSubscribe and review on Apple Podcasts or Acast, and join the discussion on Facebook and TwitterIn 1982, or as mass unemployment gripped Britain,a young graduate with an array of criminal convictions carried hopes of fitting a newspaper cartoonist. Spurred by the difficult socioeconomic climate, Will Self started to draw Slump, and a cartoon whose hero lived a life of hopelessness that many young people felt acutely at that time. It was published in the political magazine New Statesman.
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Source: guardian.co.uk