Ubby's Underdogs is being touted as 'Australia's first indigenous graphic novel'. Written and illustrated by Brenton E. McKenna, Ubby's Underdogs is set in a pearling town in remote north-western Australia during the 1940s. The story's rough-around-the-edges hero, Ubby, together with his 'rag-tag gang', The Underdogs, become embroiled in a mysterious adventure, soon after the arrival of Sai Fong, a Chinese girl from Shangahi.Drawing on McKenna's own childhood experience of growing up in the Western Australian pearl-fishing town of Broome, and displaying a vibrant, manga-influenced style, Ubby's Underdogs is the first in a planned trilogy from Magabala Books, Australia's oldest, independent Indigenous publishing house.
Brenton E. McKenna will be signing copies of Ubby's Underdogs at Readings Bookstore, Carlton (VIC) on Monday 30 May 2011, from 8.oopm onwards. He'll be joined by Melbourne comics impresario, Bernard Caleo, and Mike Shuttleworth, Program Coordinator, Centre for Youth Literature, State Library of Victoria.
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