What I personally like about the comic form is its immediacy. In one panel you can convey a meaning very quickly. I think that if people who are in a state of shock in a hospital, recovering from some trauma, can sit down with a book that takes an hour to get through and has pictorial prompts is much easier than reading text…‘

Nicola chats with Elaine Aldred about the ways in which comics and graphic novels can talk about life, in a blog interview for Strange Alliances.