The Idris File

An awkward young man discovers that his quiet seaside Welsh town harbors Nazi horrors in its haunted cemeteries, making for a historical graphic novel thriller that reads likeThe Banshees of InisherinmeetsRaiders of the Lost Ark.

Publisher Marketing: For all its quaint and quiet seaside vibes, The Idris File is a book about gruesome crimes and frozen führers, political plots and infidelity - presented with a sort of hilarious, bored malaise: This is a boy's adventure story for absurdists, and it's a sodden sort of delight.-- "AIPT Comics" Review Quotes : Anyone who appreciates an absurd comedy won't read a funnier graphic novel this year.-- "Slings and Arrows" Review Quotes : An excellent comic for those who like boy's own adventures and folk horror, but want something weirder, more disturbing, and more adult.-- "Fortean Times" Review Quotes : British writer-artist, Dix, flies solo in his major new album, set in 1970s Wales mired in discomforting secrets.--Paul Gravett Review Quotes : Dix's use of color has been brilliant... You have to read this. It's full of horror, it's full of mystery, it's full of suspense. It's just thrilling from page to page.-- "Taylor Talks Comics" Review Quotes : A quiet teen boy stumbles across a Nazi plot involving veteran embedded foreign agents who have been waiting 30 years to raise a concealed submarine off the coast filled with cryogenically frozen soldiers and their leader. So just an average summer holiday in Wales then.-- "Cinema Sentries" Publisher Marketing : In Wales 1974, a fisherman inadvertently reels in a Nazi flag. Meanwhile, young Idris and his mother ride a train in the countryside. Idris's mother has a new housekeeping job awaiting her in the small town of Bothelli, by the sea. Her new employer, a wealthy man named Mr. Miller, is confined to a wheelchair and beginning immediately upon their arrival, Mr. Miller's unceasing demands as an employer leave the socially awkward Idris adrift in his new town, friendless. That is, until he meets the mysterious and profane Gwen in the local cemetery. When Idris shows Gwen a map that he found at Mr. Miller's, it sucks them into a web of mystery and unimagined horrors.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 132 | Publication Date: 2025-06-24