When the Sky Falls - Graphic Novel

About Fred Fordham, Phil Earle

Born and raised in the north of England, Phil Earle is the author of numerous best-selling, award-winning books for children and teenagers. He has worked as a carer, a dramatherapist, a bookseller and a publisher, and loves talking at schools and festivals around the world. His novel When The Sky Falls won the British Book Award for Children's Fiction, was voted The Times Children's Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. He lives on the side of a very steep hill with his wife, their five children and two dogs.

Fred Fordham was born in 1985 and grew up in North London. He studied Politics and Philosophy at Sussex University while working as a portrait painter and occasional tutor. Here he discovered comics after reading Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. This book sparked a general interest in the form, and particularly in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées tradition. He wrote and illustrated his first graphic novel, Nightfall, which was published in France by Editions Delcourt in 2013, and he has since contributed to The Phoenix Comic, the Guardian, and David Lloyd’s online magazine, Aces Weekly. He also continues to paint.