THE HARD SWITCH

Owen D. Pomery

RIGHTS SOLD: World, all languages - Avery Hill

RIGHTS AVAILABLE: All other rights - The bks Agency

A uniquely talented comics creator with a subtle, deceptively powerful style

Owen D. Pomery has a professional and educational background in architecture. He has spent the past ten years specialising in illustration, with his particular area of interest being architectural narrative. 

His debut self-published series, Between the Billboards was later collected and released by Avery Hill Publishing. He followed up that story of nihilistic isolation, with British Ice, an arctic noir exploring the horrors of a colonial legacy (Top Shelf). He also released Victory Point (Avery Hill) the same year - a graphic novella about the ennui of a young woman returning to a modernist seaside town where she grew up. His most recent book, The Hard Switch (Avery Hill) is a science fiction piece about a small crew trying to survive on the cusp of a new societal order. It hugely outperformed its initial crowdfunding target and is set for great success …

All of his work is interested and linked by the idea of narrative space, and how environments affect the stories that play out within them. This features in his illustration work too, where Owen is known for his worldbuilding, becoming particularly popular for his isometric dioramas, and subsequently working as the concept artist for computer games. In addition to this, he works as a freelance illustrator in brand and editorial, with his drawings being commissioned by Apple, Airbnb, Tribune, The Economist, The New Yorker and many others. He is represented by Brilliant Artists for brand and editorial. 

He lives and works in South London.