It is an adventure story that can be fully enjoyed by young adult readers, but it also has levels of complexity in its humour and themes that become deeper and more meaningful with age and experience.

It explores complex themes of honor, responsibility, and the grey areas between right and wrong, but it does so with a frequent application of humour, wit and absurdity that keeps the story lively. He only wish is to return home, but along the way she makes enemies into friends, friends into heroes, the weak into warriors, and monsters into … better monsters.ĭigger is a serious fantasy tale that manages to be both meaningful and light-hearted. Thrust into the middle of a puzzling and often perilous situation involving gods, demons, destiny and redemption she finds her way based on a pragmatic honesty and the sincere belief in doing the right thing. 2012 Hugo Awards NomineeWinner of the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in the categories of Outstanding Black and White Art (2005, 2006) & Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic (2006), as well as the Broken Frontier award for Best Webcomic Creator (2007), Digger has also attracted the attention of the wider comics industry garnering Ursula Vernon a 2006 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards nomination in the category of Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.Digger is the story of a shrewd, sensible wombat engineer named Digger-of-unnecessarily-convoluted-tunnels, who finds herself stranded in a fantasy world that is far from sensible. The New York Times calls Digger '.A visually powerful strip.', and Ping Teo ('The Jaded') says 'Everyone's been rhapsodizing about it, and with good reason.'This collection also contains a short bonus section written and illustrated by Ursula, describing the domesticated species of moles favored by wombat society in the pursuit of their digging. A seemingly innocuous fossil she picked up on the way is suspected of having more to it than meets the eye, and the beneficient talking statue of Ganesh has a need that sends Digger and a decidedly unhinged acolyte deep underground in search of answers.Compared to all that, vampire squash, hungry hyenas, and over-zealous religious police are trifles, really.Digger Volume Two continues the story which is attracting so much attention. Digger is still lost in the strange land she discovered at the end of a one-way tunnel, which now seems more intentional than accidental.

The second collection of Digger features the third and fourth chapters of the highly acclaimed webcomic.

Digger, Volume One by Ursula Vernon