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Kill your darlings: a sampling of pieces that didn’t make it into my graphic novel

Posted by Katarina Thorsen on

My graphic novel, Salt Green Death (Conundrum Press),  is a work of creative nonfiction born out of historical research – a Vancouver-based family saga spanning mainly 1924 to 1968.

Salt Green Death, Katarina Thorsen, Conundrum Press 2025

(Video and music by Julian Bowers)

Salt Green Death contains 165 hand-drawn pages. Of course, there is a lot of art that didn’t make it into the book. That is all part of the creative process!

Here are some examples:

 

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