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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Grot
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After an unnamed environmental disaster, everyone is heading to Felter City to make their fortune in the 'grot'.

Notes

  • Published in two 65-page volumes, launched 23 March 2018. Also released online in its entirety.

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y separately published work icon The Grot #1 Pat Grant , Pat Grant (illustrator), Fionn McCabe (illustrator), Australia : Pat Grant , 2018 14583018 2018 single work graphic novel

After an unnamed environmental disaster, everyone is heading to Felter City to make their fortune in the 'grot'.

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y separately published work icon The Grot #2 Pat Grant , Pat Grant (illustrator), Fionn McCabe (illustrator), Australia : Pat Grant , 2018 14583121 2018 single work graphic novel

After an unnamed environmental disaster, everyone is heading to Felter City to make their fortune in the 'grot'.

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y separately published work icon The Grot #3 Pat Grant , Pat Grant (illustrator), Fionn McCabe (illustrator), Australia : Pat Grant , 2020 21042418 2020 single work graphic novel

'Penn and Lippy are here in Falter City. Things are grim. They're setting up their business but, somehow, something seems off. Penn is heading out to a chookfight. Lippy is putting a deposit down on the new shop. Someone is going to get swindled! Who's it gonna be?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Strange New Worlds Firmly in the Frame Cefn Ridout , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8 January 2022; (p. 18)

— Review of The Grot Pat Grant , 2018 series - author graphic novel ; Under-Earth Chris Gooch , 2021 single work graphic novel
Pat Grant, The Grot Adam Ford , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 29 August - 4 September 2020;

— Review of The Grot Pat Grant , 2018 series - author graphic novel
New Comic Book The Grot Is a Timely Quarantine Read Imagining Australian Life in a Climate-ravaged World Teresa Tan , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2020;

'In 2012, musing what the future might look like for his children in the age of climate crisis, cartoonist Pat Grant conceived a world where harvested algae is a commodity worth more than gold, Kevin '07 campaign t-shirts are archaeological treasures, and a plague is decimating the population's migrant have-nots.'  (Introduction)

Ten of Australia’s Best Literary Comics Gabriel Clark , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 September 2018;

'With news that the Man Booker Prize long list includes a graphic novel for the first time, the spotlight is on comics as a literary form. That’s a welcome development; the comic is one of the oldest kinds of storytelling we have and a powerful artform.' (Introduction)

Pat Grant, The Grot Adam Ford , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 29 August - 4 September 2020;

— Review of The Grot Pat Grant , 2018 series - author graphic novel
Strange New Worlds Firmly in the Frame Cefn Ridout , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8 January 2022; (p. 18)

— Review of The Grot Pat Grant , 2018 series - author graphic novel ; Under-Earth Chris Gooch , 2021 single work graphic novel
Ten of Australia’s Best Literary Comics Gabriel Clark , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 September 2018;

'With news that the Man Booker Prize long list includes a graphic novel for the first time, the spotlight is on comics as a literary form. That’s a welcome development; the comic is one of the oldest kinds of storytelling we have and a powerful artform.' (Introduction)

New Comic Book The Grot Is a Timely Quarantine Read Imagining Australian Life in a Climate-ravaged World Teresa Tan , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2020;

'In 2012, musing what the future might look like for his children in the age of climate crisis, cartoonist Pat Grant conceived a world where harvested algae is a commodity worth more than gold, Kevin '07 campaign t-shirts are archaeological treasures, and a plague is decimating the population's migrant have-nots.'  (Introduction)

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