Or at least if I had, it would have been something very different.

Is One Line something you think you could've done in 2011, with you you were then versus now?įawkes: No, I really don't think I could have done it back then. Nrama: From what Oni Press has shown me, this is more than just One Soul part 2. There is both more death and more life in One Line, as there has been in my own experience. I remember that there was a certain contingent who thought One Soul was a particularly sad book, because of all the death in it.

I certainly haven't become any less lost in thought, questions, and fascinations. Have I become softer in my thoughts or darker in my outlook? It depends on the given day. I suppose you can say there's about ten year's worth of those thoughts in One Line. I constantly think about the world my children are growing into, and the path I'm helping them layout for themselves. I've also grown older, as we all have, and see the changes in the world and the changes in myself. I had a son and I went through a divorce. (Image credit: Ray Fawkes (Oni Press)) (opens in new tab)įawkes: I mean, in terms of family - my own family has both grown and split since One Soul. How have you changed since One Soul, in terms of the family that surrounds you, and how is that impacting One Line? Nrama: You've expanded the storytelling conceit from following 18 people on their individual lives to 18 families and their lives.

I had a few discussions with James Lucas Jones at Oni Press - always one of the strongest supporters of the two earlier volumes - and we talked each other into committing to it. As the tenth anniversary of One Soul approached, I began to feel that the time was right to set myself to the business of getting it on paper for people to read. It never left my notes over the years, and I went over it again and again. One more thing I wanted to say in that format - a book about families and their patterns of inheritance - prejudice and expectation, and the struggle of each generation to define itself. But there was always one more piece I wanted to create.

Ray Fawkes: After One Soul and its exploration of individual lives, I followed it with a book called The People Inside (opens in new tab), about love and togetherness (and separation).

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