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Article: Interview with Gareth Brookes on The Black Project
Posted: August 12, 2013
“One of my preoccupations is how to represent childhood realistically. There’s a great collective amnesia towards childhood, adults often regard it as a lost utopia when in fact it’s often brutal and cruel.” In his graphic novel debut The Black Project, out from Myriad Editions this September, Gareth Brookes unflinchingly anatomises one prepubescent boy’s secret obsessive crafting of artificial girlfriends from found objects. Set in a suburban Surrey of headlines like ‘Mammoth Marrow Madness’, Richard’s unself-conscious narration is part memoir, D.I.Y. guide and sex education manual, weaving his joined-up handwriting between embroidered frames and images and linocut vignettes. Read the rest of my new Article, a Web Exclusive Interview and his new 2-page Strip for ArtReview Magazine here…
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