Chris Shepherd discusses Liverpool in the 80s and the beauty of ANFIELD ROAD

Award-winning filmmaker & animator (and all-around charming artist) Chris Shepherd has just created his first graphic novel for Titan Comics: ANFIELD ROAD, a wonderful Northern Fantasy based upon his early life in 1980s Liverpool. Chris joins fellow Merseysider Andrew Sumner at Forbidden Planet TV to discuss the inspiration and creation of Chris's unique and beautiful artistic triumph (while swapping various memories of Liverpool).

Chris will be signing copies of ANFIELD ROAD at Forbidden Planet Liverpool, Bold Street on Saturday November 2nd at 12pm. You can find full details HERE.

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Writer, artist, and filmmaker, Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel depicts a beautiful coming of age story centered around growing up in the working-class dynamics of Merseyside in the late eighties. For fans of emotional stories about family and ambition and set in the rich history of Liverpool.

As Conor Sterling is about to turn 18, he wrestles with the tough choice to go to art college or look after his sick, dominating grandmother? While life seems to move faster, he falls for a West-Indian girl who his grandmother disapproves of. Conor is torn between doing the right thing for him or submitting to the will of his crazy grandmother.

What follows is a funny and poignant coming of age story set in Liverpool in 1989. The land of The La’s, the Hillsborough disaster and Findus Crispy Pancakes.

You can order ANFIELD ROAD from Forbidden Planet below.