Nixin is the new graphic novel by J. W. Clennett, a ripping alternate history of the early Australian colony, told in stunning hand-drawn illustrations, that invites the reader to interrogate the myths of Australian history. In Nixin, Clennett reimagines the world of the early Australian colony, where a violent revolutionary religious cult threatens to destabilise the colony and cause a convict revolt. Nixin weaves a web of obsession and violence that links contemporary Australia to its roots in colonial history. J. W. Clennett creates a thoroughly believable fictional history a strange, dark, and delightful entertainment woven with considerable story-telling skill, that proceeds with the force of a myth. ‘Clennett is a writer and artist of rare originality, commitment and skill, creating a universe filled with twists, turns and secret lives that resonate so well with that strange thing we call ‘history.’ Shaun Tan Praise for J. W. Clennett’s The Diemenois: ‘a triumph of the graphic novel, strange, dark and very Australian.’ The Age/ Sydney Morning Herald
