Alice Oseman: ‘I’m 50 pages into writing the final Heartstopper… I’m excited but it’s also bittersweet’

Alice Oseman photographed by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review. The creator of the bestselling graphic novels and TV series on turning 30, making playlists for her books and why it’s important to her to be visibly political Alice Oseman, 29, was born in Chatham, Kent and grew up near Rochester. While studying English at Durham University, she published her first novel, Solitaire , then expanded the story of two of its characters, Nick and Charlie, into two ebooks and a 2016 online web comic, Heartstopper . First published as a graphic novel in 2018, it has since become a bestselling series of books, with an acclaimed Netflix TV adaptation following in 2022. Season three of the show, executive produced and written by Oseman, premieres on Netflix next month. Heartstopper has been a huge success in two formats. What’s the transition been like for you as a writer from the graphic novel to the small screen? It’s actually more similar than you would imagine, perhaps because the comic is such a visual medium. So much about making them is about choosing what frames and what angles you’re showing the characters from, like the thought process that goes into directing something for the screen. Heartstopper stars Kit Connor, left, and Joe Locke. Photograph: See-Saw Films But you are dealing with real people. Any trickiness there? Sometimes lines sound quite different when they’re spoken out loud, so I have to make little changes to make them feel like something a real teenager would say, compared with a drawing of a teenager. But my main characters always feel very real to me. Sometimes to the point where if people are criticising the characters I always feel like they’re criticising me as a person, which I know is bad! Are your characters based on real people? No, because the real people will always find out [ laughs ]. I always start with one single personality trait, like this character is shy, or this character is funny, and then from there, you sort of go outwards. What are their lesser characteristics? What are […]

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