The Black Project

'One of the most powerful and distinctive graphic novels to come out in a long time. I can't recommend this strongly enough - but brace yourself. It may make your skin crawl.'-Dylan Horrocks; 'Completely bloody amazing. Dark and funny and sad and moving and totally original.'-Stephen Collins; 'Brilliant. Clever, inventive and beautifully written.'-Sarah Lightman; 'Utterly bizarre and quite brilliant.'-Steve Bell; 'You know a story is great when you want to believe it's real, and I do believe this is real. Also I'm a big fan of nostalgia, I lap it up, and this book is piled high with it.'-Joe Decie; 'All 208 pages of this ominous tale are spectacular, mixing dark lino cuts with embroidery and hand-written text. Pack away the craft materials and get reading.'-It's Nice That; 'Brookes has created something truly incredible with his first book... The Black Project is genuinely unlike anything else happening in the graphic medium at the moment.'-We Love This Book; 'Brilliantly excruciating.'-Dr Nicola Streeten; 'Like Cath Kidston embroidering for David Lynch.'-Teddy Jamieson, Herald Scotland; 'Exquisite, excruciating and exceptional... a landmark, once read, not easily forgotten.'- Paul Gravett; 'Clandestine first love with a papier mache twist is the order of the day in this remarkable debut... the perfect entry point into the wicked whimsy of [Brookes's] creative mind.'-Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier; 'Brookes plays on that [creeping horror] feeling, adding dark humour and deadpan first person voiceover to create something really unsettling, genuinely creepy.'-Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet