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Heartstopper is a comic about love, friendship, loyalty, life, time, and mental illness. It explores, among other things, the blossoming relationship between Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring, two boys at a British all-boys grammar school. It updates three times a month.
A WORD FROM THE ARIST/WRITER
Hi everyone! My name is Alice Oseman. I’m an author and an artist.
In July 2014, Solitaire, my first novel, was published by HarperCollins. This book was about a pessimistic sixteen-year-old girl named Tori Spring, and in this book, Tori has a fifteen-year-old brother named Charlie, and Charlie has a boyfriend named Nick. Nick and Charlie are in a committed, long-term relationship.
I wrote about Nick and Charlie in my 2015 spin-off e-novella Nick and Charlie, which looked at their relationship one year on from Solitaire.
I have always harboured ambitions of telling their backstory (i.e. the events of them meeting, becoming friends and then boyfriends, and Charlie’s slide into severe mental illness). I’ve tried to plan it as a novel several times, but have never been able to come up with anything I’m happy with. What I realised, after doing this, is that it just won't work as a novel. It doesn’t have a good plot arc for a novel. There’s no gradual rise and fall. Nick and Charlie’s story isn’t like that.
Nick and Charlie’s story is made up of fragments. Episodes. There are episodes of their lives; small stories that make up something larger. The story of them meeting. The story of them becoming friends. The story of them falling in love, becoming boyfriends, finding their way through a new relationship, fighting back against mental illness. It doesn’t work as a novel because there’s no overarching drama - because it’s just real life. Just one normal, loving relationship between two people.
And so what I realised was that the best way to tell this story would be through a webcomic.