Look – anyone who invents something really great has a moment where they think it's going to destroy the world.
For the first time in her life, Fin is off the network.
The book I keep going back to for its
peerless haunting art… is Anna Mill’s and Luke Jones’s
Square Eyes… it’s utterly confident and audacious in its space, aesthetics, innovation and design, and
I could page through it from now until next Christmas with the same sense of wonder. A thing of beauty, indeed.
This exquisite book…
may scare you half to death… [but] what truly sets this book apart is its
extraordinary illustrations… on every
beautiful, teeming, phantasmagorical page… it fairly
takes the breath away. [An] instantly gripping work with an important point to make.A spiky tale set in a dystopian near-future… [
Square Eyes] certainly is
a wild ride.A remarkable, prophetic graphic novel debut. Through 286
deliriously colourful pages, [Anna Mill and Luke Jones]
plunge us into an all-too-plausible future, where the real and the digital are blurring and dangerous powers want to control them both.
Whatever you put on your head to stop your mind from exploding, make sure it’s fitted properly before immersion in Square Eyes. Just the volume and quality of work alone defies belief, and that’s before you get onto the disconcerting psychedelia of the graphics and the story.
A big, bleak yet gorgeous dystopia... Square Eyes comes at you in a disorienting rush…
This immersive, inventive graphic novel offers its own brand of escapism.The digital dystopia presented by
Square Eyes is scarily busy and psychedelic, contrasted by the grey near-ruins of the modern age. The world building in this book is extraordinary. Take your time to absorb the crowd details and bits of characterisation layered into Anna Mill's art.
Anna Mill (Author) Anna Mill is a designer and illustrator working on projects which range from postcards and posters to boats and buildings. She and Luke Jones are the joint creators of
Square Eyes — originally a short comic entry to the
Observer Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Prize in 2010.
Luke Jones (Author) Luke Jones is an architect, lecturer, and co-host of the podcast
About Buildings + Cities, exploring architectural history, theory, process and ideas from the distant past to the present day.