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Madam Rhino
- Troubled Waters: A Graphic Novel by Chris Lewis is an exciting story. So Chris tell
us about the book.
Well as the title
suggests it’s a comic. Angela Adisa is a secret agent (Agent Grey) who uses
cruise holidays as a mission cover. Unfortunately, in this story, she is
surprised by her family joining her ‘on holiday’. How can she
complete her mission while her family are aboard and avoid them finding out
she’s an agent? A bit of silliness where age is just a number.
Any plans
to turn it into a series?
In the future,
‘the when’ will depend on my interest and recovery from writing this story. I
may do the original story to explain how Angela Adisa was recruited by the
secret organisation called the Bridge Club. It has been four years in the
making. I found it a lot harder than writing a traditional story of words. This
was because I had to think about what the characters looked like and the
scenes' content - I loved it!
What
inspired the idea for your book?
I’m fortunate to
have friends from the older generation who have been retired for decades. Most
are sharp and very witty. Some of them are also a bit grumpy, and I love them
no less than the ones who are jolly. One of my older friends commented that
they were not represented in comics and that printed books were too
time-consuming to read. So I thought, why not represent it in a comic? So I
wrote the book and then used that as a basis for the comic.
I connected with a
brilliant illustrator called Toisen from Brazil. Some of my older friends were
not used to reading comics but chuckled at my prototypes, so I continued.
Can you
tell us a little about Agent Adisa?
Angela is also a
granny, master hugger and part-time secret agent. She was recruited as a secret
agent in her eighties. Angela also has some superhero powers currently being
explored, aka the nickname Madam Rhino. However, Angela prefers to use her
secret agent skills and knowledge from being a retired scientist to complete
missions.
What part
of the book was the most fun to write?
The fight scenes
were the hardest but also the most fun.
What do
you like to do when not writing?
When I can, I
sleep and eat good food. I also write technical and business semi-fictional
story guide books starring the Carnsa family in non-office situations. Angela’s
daughter is called Claudia Carnsa.
Where can
readers find out more about your work?
www.booksbychrislewis.com