The inmates of an extensive underground prison struggle to build meaningful lives in a broken system, in the most ambitious graphic novel to date from rising indie star Chris Gooch (Bottled and Deep Breaths).
Chris Gooch (b. 1993) is a cartoonist based out of Melbourne, Australia. His first graphic novel, Bottled, was published in 2017, followed by Deep Breaths, a short story collection, in 2019. He recently won the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Prize for "Mooreland Mates," one of the short stories collected in Deep Breaths, and a Ledger Prize for Bottled.
2021 Best Graphic Novels for Adults - American Library
Association
"Gooch builds to a brutal climax before offering a deeply tender,
legitimately moving denouement... A perfectly paced page-turning
meditation on the possibility of grace from a creator who grows
more impressive with every release." — Library Journal (starred
review)
"The hyper-grim focus amplifies the significance of every act of
kindness, making those moments surprisingly moving. Told with
superb rhythm, this pitch-perfect thriller gets dystopia down
right." — Publishers Weekly
"Elevated by Gooch's spare, evocative artwork, Under-Earth is
an expertly crafted, at times meditative, thriller that will have
you on tenterhooks as you follow the protagonists' attempts to
survive a brutal dystopian system with their humanity somehow
intact." — Sonny Liew, author of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock
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