Art of not quite fitting in explored by Cork illustrator in Stick Boy book for children
Cork author/illustrator Paul Coomey, with his Stick Boy book.
If you’ve ever felt different, or just like you didn’t fit in, you might just find a kindred spirit in Stick, the hero of Stick Boy. Just released by Cork publisher and illustrator Paul Coomey, it tells of a world of fully-illustrated, well rounded characters, where our hero Stick is, well… a stick-boy.
Coomey grew up in West Cork, and attended school in Macroom, where any of us might have undergone the same growing pains that Stick and others among us felt at the ages at 8-12. The author's own childhood informed his latest artistic excursion.
