This Myriad Editions show was less a heated debate about the position of the graphic novel and more a showcase for three of Brighton’s most innovative comic book artists.

Nye Wright’s debut, Things To Do In A Retirement Home Trailer Park (eight years in the making), is a sometimes painful autobiographical tale about his father, with surreal added touches, as he transforms himself into a minotaur and his dad into a rhinoceros.

The sharply witty Hannah Berry’s beautifully rendered second book Adamtine sees her move the story out from the pictures and into the black spaces between.

And Woodrow Phoenix is behind not only Rumble Strip, a polemic about the dangers of the road which is devoid of characters other than the reader, but also a giant 1m by 2m graphic novel, She Lives, which he produced for his MA at the University of Brighton to help his readers appreciate the silent form.

Their fascinating insights into the graphic novel, shared with host Comic Book Alliance chair Tim Pilcher, expressed a general distrust of animated web comics – pointing to Scott McCloud’s theory of what makes a comic book is bridging the gap between the panels.

It was certainly proof comics are a serious growth area in modern literature, as well as underlining that Brighton is home to some great creators.