Joe Sugg: 'When I said I was doing a graphic novel, a lot of my fans thought it was something sexual and didn’t know what it was'

Joe Sugg has followed in his sister Zoella’s footsteps by putting his name to a book. He talks to site member Patrick about working with a writing and illustration team to create his graphic novel Username: Evie, and the craziness of screaming fans at literary festivals

If I wasn’t already aware of how stratospherically popular Joe Sugg is, the trip to meet him certainly hammered home the extent of his celebrity. A twisting queue of fans - largely female but with a few males sprinkled in - snakes through an already busy Glasgow shopping centre, everyone waiting in line for a selfie with Joe Sugg (a loose interpretation of “book signing”). There are banners, there are t-shirts, there are, of course, copies of his debut book, Username: Evie, a sparky, poignant and fun graphic novel he’s been promoting on his tour.

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