Published by Pencil Magazine
Words and illustrations by Sarah Shaw
Pencil Magazine is a print publication with a beautifully simple concept: All text and images in its pages are created with graphite pencils on paper. The second issue was released last year, themed, ‘The Eraser Issue’, and it’s full of stories about revision, correction, and absence. There are comics, essays, lists, and graphic experiments, but my favourite is this lovely, poignant piece of visual storytelling by Sarah Shaw. This is the first time we’ve included a story in The Mortar that’s not straight-up writing, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
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