How did this project come about?

I was half way through my Small Press book for Nobrow when they asked me if I would be interested in creating a comic book to launch their new 17×23 range. I’ve been a huge comic fan since before I can remember but I’d given up on the idea of illustrating comics because I’d been concentrating on exhibitions and freelance work for the past six years. The opportunity was too good to turn down so I said yes, put my nose to the grindstone and got to work trying to figure out what story I wanted to tell.

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