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Three Instances Of Not Meeting Jarvis Cocker
Project type
Graphic Novel
Date
November 2024
Media
Gelli prints + drawing
'Three Instances Of Not Meeting Jarvis Cocker' is not really about not meeting Jarvis Cocker, it’s a story about loss and the loss of love of all kinds.
Some of it is based on things that happened adjacent to the author's life. She did work in journalism in the 1990s. She did almost meet Jarvis Cocker on a number of occasions. She did have a flatmate who died, but the character of Hannah is entirely fictitious. She stands for all the people in the author's life that are no longer in her life.
It's about not only the loss through death, but also the loss of friends as you get older.
Printed in full colour on 120gsm recycled paper, with 250gsm recycled cover, 'Three Instances Of Not Meeting Jarvis Cocker', is a fictionalised memoir: auto-bio-fiction.
Technique: backgrounds in Gelli prints with acrylic paint, drawing
Review:
"‘Three Instances of Not Meeting Jarvis Cocker’ is sophisticated: the sparse words and striking graphics lead you through the story of love and loss that we’re promised on the back cover. We’re invited right into the narrator’s memory of the 1990’s and early 2000’s where nostalgia meets grief... It manages to be both huge and understated. Some of the most difficult questions are literally boxed off, like ‘Why didn’t she tell her family?’ while the big philosophical, existential, heart-breaking revelations are contained in short floating thoughts against a black background."
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