Cannon

Winner of the Stella Prize 2026

The highly anticipated follow-up to the Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, Cannon, by acclaimed Australian cartoonist Lee Lai, is a mordantly funny and emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife.

This graphic novel, featuring black-and-white and colour panels over 300 pages, is available in hardback.

In Cannon, Lee Lai’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a part of what is on offer. Lai’s sharp sense of humour and sensitive eye produce a story that explores the intimacy of queer friendship and the weight of family responsibility, and breaks open the question of what we owe both to each other and to ourselves.