Chris James books in order
Chris James is a copywriter, cartoonist, animator, picture framer, sculptor and author.
Born in New York, he moved to the UK at the age of eighteen.
The author of The O.D., a book that emanated from his lifetime concern over the dire state of the planet, Chris is also renowned for creating Reel People, About Face and After Beardsley—three award-winning animated films from the late 70s and early 80s.
A father of two who lost his beloved wife Laura, Chris is now married to Melinda, his American girlfriend from high school—with the two presently residing in Penzance, Cornwall.
Non Series
- The Flatman Compendium (1976)
- The O.D. (2014)
Detailed book overview
Non Series
The Flatman Compendium by Chris James is an environmental comic strip book featuring 'Flatman', the anti-hero and greatest threat to the world since the discovery of oil, and his family members—who are all dysfunctional except for daughter Doora.
The messages in this book are just as applicable as they were when the book was first published in 1976.
First Release: 1976
An unmapped mass of land is ‘extruded’ into the Bay of Biscay by a solar-tidal magmatic pulse. Waiting to lay claim to the virgin island are 80 people in a flotilla of trussed up barges with a year’s supply of essentials.
Who are all these people?
How exactly did they come to know about the island’s formation?
And what next if their claim to autonomy is embraced by the rest of the world?
Fascinating and intriguing to the core, this book tells the story of how humanity’s race to self-destruction could come to a sudden stop.
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1499158465
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform