Inside

New Yorker cartoonist Will McPhail's debut graphic novel is a an invigorating and moving story centered on the person of Nick, a young man withdrawn who will slowly awaken to the world. Nick is a young city dweller, an illustrator, whose life oscillates between his projects personal and a food job within an advertising agency. He takes posing in cafes and craft beer bars, aware that something something is missing from his life, and that something is other people and their intimate worlds. Much more than a critique or a simplistic autobiographical story of the life of a millennial among millennials, this slice of Nick's life focuses on the gap that separates us all from each other. Whether it is from the barista on his street corner, from his family members or from Wren, a oncologist whose path will painfully cross his, Nick cannot to stop thinking that there is a hidden world of human interaction outside of his reach. Nick will finally open up to others at the most tragic moment of his young life. Illustrated in both black and white and color in the immediately McPhail's recognizable "Inside" is poignant as well as fresh and hilarious. This leading cartoonist from the New Yorker transmutes the graphic novel here with heartbreaking compassion, an embodied echo of our societies where the specter of isolation. Au-Dedans is the winner of the BD Fnac - France Inter 2025 Prize, the First Print Awards 2024 and ACBD - Comics Awards 2024. In official selection Angoulême 2025. Selected for the 2025 Canal BD Prize and the 2025 Fauve Prize.