Graphic novel about warring ice-cream trucks scoops first for Wodehouse prize

Matthew Dooley’s Flake wins the annual award for comedic fiction ‘in the spirit’ of the Jeeves and Wooster creator PG Wodehouse

A graphic novel about ice-cream turf wars in an English seaside town has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comedic fiction.

Flake by Matthew Dooley is the first graphic novel ever to win the award, which goes to a work “in the spirit” of the Jeeves and Wooster creator PG Wodehouse. It has been won in the past by “true comic gems” including Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little.

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