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COMIC REVIEW - Alice In Sunderland
From Bryan Talbot, the acclaimed creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and The Tale of One Bad Rat, comes Alice in Sunderland, a graphic novel unlike any before. Funny and poignant, thoughtprovoking and entertaining, traditional and experimental, whimsical and polemical, Alice in Sunderland is a heady cocktail of fact and fiction, a sumptuous and multi-layered journey that will leave you wondering about the magic that’s waiting to be unlocked in the place where you live. roll, part history of the North East, but what is striking about it is how much it makes use of the format in ways that make me think you couldn’t tell this story, or present this information, in any other way. But I’m getting ahead of myself, and should start with the actual content. Alice In Sunderland combines three main strands. Firstly, it is a history of the North-East in general and of Sunderland in particular - from the earliest recor ?
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