Nrama: Mushrooms are the focal point for both Hana and the book’s structure - what drew you to that for 920London, both in terms of the story and that episodic framing around the stages of growing?īoydell: Growing things is like, life giving. Doomsday can always exist in a literal sense though. On a research level, I got really interested in the Heaven’s Gate cult, and the kind of psychological make-up that helps people get hooked into a specific type of End of Days narrative. It definitely exists in a new context that I couldn’t have really anticipated. when I was writing, literally two years ago, the end of the world aspect was partially just an exploration of ‘failure to thrive’ in the context of female trauma. Nrama: The book opens with Hana musing that 'happy people don't start believing in the end of the world.' Can you talk about what the end of the world means, in the context of 920London?īoydell: Oh my god, I’ve been waiting for this. The balance between memories and story-telling means it has a kind of similar truth ratio to The Pervert.

Nrama: What inspired the relationship between Kiki and Hana in general? It felt very real and familiar - in a lot of media relationships seem to fall squarely on one end of a very binary emotional spectrum, and Hana and Kiki seem to live in a nebulous space of obviously wanting to maintain something positive even as they seem to recognize their lives or motivations are sometimes at cross purposes.īoydell: Like a lot of my work, it pulls from a mixture of real experiences without being linear enough for me to really call it true autobio. The people who run it were obsessed with chronicling the original first wave of scene queens.įor me, that era and that subculture is filled with this intense sense of longing, all the songs were mostly about going out and partying, and you’d listen to them on your iPod for the 90% of your life that was currently underwhelming you. I spent ages trawling the web for all the small details I wanted to remember to include, and I really struck gold when I found like, this Czech website. (Image credit: Remy Boydell (Image Comics))

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