Every graphic novelist has a different method of working and has different insights into, and attitudes towards their work. Yet we seldom speak of or discuss what we know and there isn’t much written on the subject.

Through adopting the graphic novelist Joanna Hellgren´s method of working, this project investigates how changing one’s way of working will change both the resulting story and the narrative process of graphic storytelling. As a graphic novelist myself, I want to find out what kind of knowledge I can attain through investigating someone else’s working process from the inside and what new light it will shed on my own working method.