Surrealism Meets Sci-Fi In 'Parallel Lives'
Olivier Schrauwen's new graphic novel is cold and rejecting, giddy and uncontrolled, all at the same time. It's semi-autobiographical and loosely sci-fi, set in an unsettlingly minimalist future.
It's cold and rejecting, with rigid compositions like some sort of third-world safety manual. It's giddy and uncontrolled, with blobby figures engaging wantonly in random acts of pleasure. It's schematic, with a mass-produced feel. It bubbles with images of sexuality, procreation and growth.
You could say all these things about , Olivier Schrauwen's mischievous and mystifying new graphic novel, and you'd still only be telling part of the story. You
