Mandy Ord Pack

For fans of art-meets-literature… two books by Australian cartoonist Mandy Ord.

In Bulk Nuts, Ord delivers twenty-seven masterful, personal comic stories, spanning from her youth to recent times. Empathetic and often poetic in their mysterious import, the episodes Ord recollects, taking place in Australia and abroad, are maximised by her distinctive, dynamic monochrome.

In When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over (longlisted for the Stella Prize and shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award), Ord establishes, with pitch-perfect relatability, how a loved one’s sudden absence can catalyse a search for meaning. Encompassing a year in the author’s life, When One Person Dies… is a timeless visual diary, rendering joys, frustrations, amusements and negotiations big and small.

Praise for Bulk Nuts

‘Ord is an observer who notices the worthwhile things and makes them alive on the page.’

— Fiona Hardy, Readings

‘Through verbal economy and graphic surety, this collection of comic strips directs our flow of reading deftly from word to image and back again.’

— Bernard Caleo, Australian Book Review

‘Ord’s brush-and-ink drawings and calligraphy hum with energy; her human figures grotesquely exaggerated yet still warm and familiar. There is a cumulative effect to reading these short pieces together: a gentle, meditative state arises, and the small, funny or ambiguous interactions of everyday life take on a deeply beautiful significance.’

— Clare Millar, The Big Issue