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‘You need to look outside your own window’: the winner of our graphic short story prize 2020 – The Guardian

Loneliness, isolation and grief were common themes in this year’s Cape/Observer award. But the winner made the judges laugh out loud

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In Similar to But Not, the winner of this years Observer/Jonathan Cape graphic short story prize, a prematurely aged teenager visits his local pub hoping to spend his paper round money on an illicit pint, only to find a certain famous pop star sitting at the bar. As if this isnt eye-popping enough (our hero lives in mild-mannered Bucks, not ritzy Belgravia), the singer in question is happy to talk and even, perhaps, to flirt with him a little not that he seems to notice. You have a black mark on…

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