SEAN MICHAEL WILSON
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    • Bits and Bobs ebook
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    • Black Ships ebook
    • Breaking the 10 ebook
    • Bushido ebook
    • Clear Away ebook
    • Cold Mountain ebook
    • Conway Connection
    • Cross Cultural Studies ebook
    • Demon's Sermon ebook
    • Faceless Ghost ebook
    • Fight the Power ebook
    • The Garden ebook
    • Goodbye God? ebook
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure ebook
    • Japanese Drawing Room
    • Mamiya's Maps ebook
    • Minamata ebook
    • Morningside ebook
    • Musashi ebook
    • Ninja ebook
    • Orwell ebook
    • Parecomic ebook
    • Portraits of Violence ebook
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛 Ebook
    • Story of Lee ebook
    • Tale of Genji ebook
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    • Manufacturing Consent - Illustrated
    • Poems
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  • About Sean's Books
  • Latest News
  • Further Info
  • All Books By Title
    • Articles and Essays book
    • A to Z of Anything
    • AX
    • Black Ships
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Breaking the 10
    • Bushido
    • Cold Mountain
    • Comic Book Collection
    • Christmas Carol
    • Cigarette Girl
    • Clear away the Cliches
    • Cross Cultural Studies
    • Demon's Sermon
    • Faceless Ghost
    • 47 Ronin 忠臣蔵
    • Fight The Power!
    • Gardening Mindfulness
    • Goodbye God
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure
    • Mamiya's Maps
    • Many Not the Few
    • Minamata Story
    • Morningside
    • Musashi
    • Ninja
    • Ocalan and the Kurds
    • Orwell
    • Parecomic
    • Portraits of Violence
    • Ranald MacDonald
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • Spirit of Japan
    • Story of Lee
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Systems
    • Tale of Genji
    • Tao Te Ching
    • Tokyo + Olympics Guide
    • Wuthering Heights
    • Yakuza Moon
    • Yokai Stories
  • Social Issue Books
  • Books On Japan
  • Original Story Books
  • 日本語 Nihongo
    • 日本語の情報
    • 忠臣蔵
    • 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • 東京 +オリンピック
  • Digital/Ebook
    • Comixology, kindle, itunes
    • IZNEO digital website
    • 47 Ronin ebook
    • Articles and Essays ebook
    • Bits and Bobs ebook
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Black Ships ebook
    • Breaking the 10 ebook
    • Bushido ebook
    • Clear Away ebook
    • Cold Mountain ebook
    • Conway Connection
    • Cross Cultural Studies ebook
    • Demon's Sermon ebook
    • Faceless Ghost ebook
    • Fight the Power ebook
    • The Garden ebook
    • Goodbye God? ebook
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure ebook
    • Japanese Drawing Room
    • Mamiya's Maps ebook
    • Minamata ebook
    • Morningside ebook
    • Musashi ebook
    • Ninja ebook
    • Orwell ebook
    • Parecomic ebook
    • Portraits of Violence ebook
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛 Ebook
    • Story of Lee ebook
    • Tale of Genji ebook
    • Tao Te Ching ebook
    • Yokai Stories ebook
    • Français ebooks
  • Français, Español, Italiano, 中文 etc
  • Publishers and Distributors
  • Interviews and Articles
  • TV, Radio, Youtube
  • Film Production
  • Lectures & Teaching
  • Sean's Amazon page
  • Sean's books on Lulu
  • Hand Readers Press
  • Various Other Things
    • A History of Mr X
    • Anti-violence strip
    • Basic Income
    • Fountain of Youth
    • Fred Dixon
    • Infograph on comics as art
    • Manufacturing Consent - Illustrated
    • Poems
    • SSCC
    • What did you do in the war daddy?
    • Blogspot page
    • Where i was born
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SEAN MICHAEL WILSON
           Once Upon A Time In Morningside
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My childhood autobiographical story, set in Scotland. 

​A poetic take on the Scottish childhood of writer Sean Michael Wilson, in comic book form, drawn by lovely Swedish artist Hanna Stromberg. The book mixes together 13 intimate and interesting childhood stories and adventures, with a touch of magical realism.

​Pages from the book can be seen at the bottom of the page.


At last out in a beautiful paper version!

“This is a poetic take on the Scottish childhood of writer Sean Michael Wilson, in comic book form, drawn by lovely Swedish artist Hanna Stromberg. The book mixes together 14 intimate and interesting childhood stories and adventures, with a touch of magical realism.”

This is a special version of 72 pages, with a different cover than on the digital version, for only $6.50 (or 650 yen in Japan) from Nagoya based publisher, BigUglyRobot.

GET THE BOOK HERE, IT'S LOVELY:

​From the Japanese publisher:
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http://biguglyrobot.storenvy.com/collections/54321-print-comics/products/17064891-once-upon-a-time-in-morningside

Or in the US:
https://www.birdcagebottombooks.com/products/morningside
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Now also available from european online digital comics website IZNEO

https://www.izneo.com/en/graphic-novel/slices-of-life/once-upon-a-time-in-morningside-42941/once-upon-a-time-in-morningside-93713
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This is a poetic take on my own childhood. It mixes an accurate account of certain small scale personal events with an element of magic realism in the presentation. It's all set in one specific location - the woods and streets near my childhood home in Edinburgh, Scotland, late 70's and early 80's. All the action will take place in that wood or the streets around it, a conscious decision to narrow the story to just THAT one area. It gives the story as sense of place and anyway, many interesting things happened there. No adults will be seen in the story, or following the old cartoon tradition of Tom and Jerry, only their feet and lower body will be seen - this is a world of children.


It's not one continous flow, but several interesting anecdotes sewn together, with some 'over' narrator aspects woven in. Meaning that their will be some reflections from the later me, the adult me as a ghost like presence, as captions ending or introducing the anecdotes. A fluid interweaving of the childhood visuals with adult narration in a poetic way, to juxtapose the words and visuals. The book has an introduction showing the adult me going to the childhood area, and beginning the reflection process. It is drawn together at the end also, as we see the adult me having gone through this process and leaving his childhood place behind.


This is not an autobiography about some terrible time,  such as war, or coping with a debilitating disease or living in a dictatorship. Quite often comic book autobio books are about those unusual times and places, and that is fine, they are very interesting. But what about all the ordinary little things that happen in normal lives? All the small triumphs and adventures , laughs and sadness that fill the life of most children - that is interesting too. Once upon a time in Morningside is that kind of book.

It is also about the sense of loss and melancholy that we often feel when thinking back to our childhood time – that’s what the adult ‘ghost Sean’ is feeling as he observes these old childhood scenes. But, in the end, he comes back to present reality and gets on with his life, his responsibility to look after his son, who is now in childhood himself.



Facebook page  Please LIKE it and we'll keep you up to date on developments with this book:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Once-Upon-A-Time-In-Morningside/524046781034147

Nice of well known Scottish writer, Ian Rankin, to tweet about our book.
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Digital versions

My childhood autobiography now available for easy digital download to Tablet, IOS, Android, etc...

On KINDLE: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018B0QCCU

On KOBO: 
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/once-upon-a-time-in-morningside

125 pages. $4.97 (about 3 UK pounds) What a bargain!


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The street where most of the story takes place - in and around.
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A mock up of the hard cover version of the book.

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​Also available on the most popular digital comics site COMIXOLOGY: 

125 pages. $4.99 (about 3 UK pounds).

HAVE A LOOK:

https://www.comixology.com/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Morningside/digital-comic/321985?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=OnceUponaTimeinMorningside&utm_content=Submit+Email&utm_term=Indie+Comics




Here is a special preview pdf of the book. 
Showing two full chapters, 'Tough Guy' and 'The Peacock'. 
It's free, just download and enjoy: 
morningside_preview_good.pdf
File Size: 11138 kb
File Type: pdf
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