Her Eisner-nominated comic 'Digger' won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and the Mythopoeic Award, and her childrens book Dragonbreath won the Sequoyah Award in 2013. Winner of the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in the categories of Outstanding Black and White Art (2005, 2006) & Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic (2006), as well as the Broken Frontier award for Best Webcomic Creator (2007), Digger has also attracted the attention of the wider comics industry garnering Ursula Vernon a 2006 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards nomination in the category of Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.ĭimensions: 22.9 x 19.1 x 1.3 centimeters (0. Ursula Vernon is the author and illustrator of Nurk, Digger, Dragonbreath, Castle Hangnail, and Hamster Princess. This collection also contains a short bonus section written and illustrated by Ursula, describing the domesticated species of moles favoured by wombat society in the pursuit of their digging. The New York Times calls Digger '.A visually powerful strip.', and Ping Teo ('The Jaded') says 'Everyone's been rhapsodising about it, and with good reason.' A seemingly innocuous fossil she picked up on the way is suspected of having more to it than meets the eye, and the beneficient talking statue of Ganesh has a need that sends Digger and a decidedly unhinged acolyte deep underground in search of answers.Ĭompared to all that, vampire squash, hungry hyenas, and over-zealous religious police are trifles, really.ĭigger Volume Two continues the story which is attracting so much attention. Digger is still lost in the strange land she discovered at the end of a one-way tunnel, which now seems more intentional than accidental.

The second collection of Digger features the third and fourth chapters of the highly acclaimed webcomic.

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