A crowdfunded graphic novel on the ‘raw, intense and often shockingly violent’ fight for the right to vote has hit its funding target within a matter of days of going live. 

Titled COURAGE: Luddites – Peterloo – Chartists – Suffragettes, the book is the work of Polyp, the Manchester-based illustrator and cartoonist previously responsible for graphic novels on Peterloo and the life of Thomas Paine.

The current project is part-funded by the Society for the Study of Labour History. But with further financial support needed to make it happen, Polyp is promoting the book through crowdfunding website Kickstarter – raising more than £2,500 in three days.

More about the project and opportunities to support it, along with details of the rewards on offer, from copies of the book to original illustrations, can be found at the link below.

COURAGE: Luddites – Peterloo – Chartists – Suffragettes.