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Square Eyes

Square Eyes

Summary

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. A few months ago, she was the inventor of a programme so powerful, so unusual that she was untouchable.

Until she wasn't.

Meanwhile, people have started disappearing from the streets of the city and the technology she created might be implicated.

Square Eyes is a graphic novel about a future where the boundaries between memory, dreams and the digital world start to blur. It’s a kaleidoscopic mystery story which asks: in a city built on digital illusion, who really holds the power? What is weakness? And when is it most dangerous?

Reviews

  • 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.
    Tim Martin, Spectator

About the authors

Anna Mill

Anna Mill is a designer and illustrator working on projects that 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.
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Luke Jones

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.
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