<P style="BORDER-TOP-COLOR: ; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: ; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: ; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: " align=left><B>An environmentally-themed graphic novel brings together a dream-team of European artists and writers—including Denise Mina and Irvine Welsh— to imagine Scotland in 30 years</B></P> <P style="BORDER-TOP-COLOR: ; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: ; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: ; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: ">A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, <I>IDP </I>(short for "internally displaced person or persons") imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics and graphics novels collaborate on a single narrative. Celebrated French graphic novelist and illustrator Barroux, <I>Dotter of Her Father's Eyes </I>author Mary Talbot, artist Kate Charlesworth, "grandfather of British comics" and co-creator of 2000AD</I> Pat Mills, graphic novelist Hannah Berry, enfant terrible of Scottish letters and author of <I>Trainspotting</I> Irvine Welsh, graphic artist Dan McDaid, and graphic novelists Adam Murphy and Will Morris have been brought together by story editor, crime writer, and graphic novelist, Denise Mina. The story, a single narrative divided into six chapters, follows the catastrophic effects of a small rise in sea levels on the county's heavily populated low lying areas and how society reimagines itself in the face of a huge population shift in a world of scarce resources.