A delightfully witty and exciting graphic novel by one of Britain's favourite artists Dragman
tells the story of August Crimp a man who has superpowers when he puts on women's clothes.
August loves wearing a dress but is deeply ashamed of his compulsion and terrified of rejection
should it ever come out. So he tells no one. Not even his wife. But then one day a little girl
falls from the rooftop cafe at the Art Museum and August has no choice but to fly and save her
- an event witnessed by hundreds of people. And August Crimp's life is never the same again.
Dragman is Steven Appleby's first long-form graphic thriller. Inspired by the superhero comics
he read as a child and informed by his own secret life as a transvestite Steven Appleby has
created a multi-layered tightly plotted cleverly structured novel with a compulsive forward
drive in which August battles greed evil and his own self-doubt in a fight to save himself
his marriage - and the human soul. A real page-turner Dragman brims with humanity subtlety
and wit - plus plenty of Steven Appleby's oblique and absurdly imaginative musings on 'what is
life really all about?' Fans of Steven Appleby's unmistakable drawing style as seen in his
many books and in comic strips such as Captain Star (NME Observer) Small Birds Singing (The
Times) and Loomus (Guardian) will not be disappointed.
