Norton, the hero, travels through London's underbelly trapped in space but not in time. He is present to witness dark deeds from Deptford at the time of Marlowe's death and in the East. Enduring the sixties watching the murder of Jack the Hat McVitie. Bizarre and phantasmagoric, the book draws on images of the city from the Renaissance to the decay of Thatcher's London.
A highloy original collaboration between cult novelist Iain Sinclair and cult comics artist Dave McKean, combining text and graphics in a paroind and dystopian vision of London, following the central character, Norton who is trapped within London, but not in time...
Norton, the hero, travels through London's underbelly trapped in space but not in time. He is present to witness dark deeds from Deptford at the time of Marlowe's death and in the East. Enduring the sixties watching the murder of Jack the Hat McVitie. Bizarre and phantasmagoric, the book draws on images of the city from the Renaissance to the decay of Thatcher's London.
A highloy original collaboration between cult novelist Iain Sinclair and cult comics artist Dave McKean, combining text and graphics in a paroind and dystopian vision of London, following the central character, Norton who is trapped within London, but not in time...