DemoWritten by Brian Wood
Art by Becky Cloonan
2008
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Twelve short unrelated stories about what can happen when we grow up. With minimal black and white by Becky Cloonan artwork that changes style from story to story (so much so that you'll soon forget that it's all done by the same person) these are lo-fi, emotionally intense character studies that defy easy categorisation and resist tidy resolutions. Taking in things like the death of a father to fighting in Iraq to the slow breaking of a relationship all shot through the eyes of early twenty-somethings it's the kind of comic that's best ruminated over slowly with chilled jazz playing in the background.
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Links: The Hurting Review, Are You a Serious Comic Book Reader Review, Focused Totality Review.
Further reading: DMZ, I Kill Giants, Daytripper, The New York Four.
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