Stephen Collins's Room 208, a "strikingly illustrated tale of
listless lovers on their honeymoon," won this year's Cape/Observer
Graphic Short Story prize, the Guardian
reported, noting that "Collins, who did not go to art school and
insists that he is still a relative newcomer to the world of comics,
lists among his influences 'everyone from Gary Larson to Raymond Briggs
to Ronald Searle to Jenny Saville' (though the judges felt we saw clear
evidence in Room 208 of the brooding influence of the great American cartoonist Charles Burns)."
