'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, Winner of the 9th Art Award 'Brilliant. Clever, inventive and beautifully written.' - Sarah Lightman, LDComics co-founder and author of The Book of Sarah 'Sublimely creepy.
The matter of fact delivery, through both word and image, works like a gift.' - Ed Hillyer 'Extraordinary emphasis on doing and making almost in real time.' - Sacha Craddock 'I enjoyed his weirdness.' - Will Self 'Utterly bizarre and quite brilliant.' - Steve Bell 'A masterpiece of comic timing and an extraordinary feat of imagination and creativity.' - Pamreader '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, Comics and Cola '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.' - Nicola Streeten 'If you're in any way interested in alternative comics, and or contemporary textile crafts I urge you to look this one out.' - Cherry and Cinnamon 'Like Cath Kidston embroidering for David Lynch.' - Teddy Jamieson, Herald 'Very clever, packed with lots of detail, and incredibly well executed.' - Page 45 '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 'You could follow every detail of the story if you only heard the words, but you'd be missing the half the pointwork.' - Andrew Moreton, Comiczine FA '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 'Painstaking and wonderfully original.' - Paul Ashley Brown, Comics Bits Online.