Ouroboros

17x23 © 2010 is a new graphic short story project designed to help talented young graphic novelists tell their stories in a manageable and economic format. The hope is that, while the series encourages artists to write one off stories, 17x23 can act as a springboard for more ambitious projects.

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Your typical « Ben newman » is made up of one large boiled egg, replete with heavily cereal'd beard, brown teeth and a monocle, wibbling about town with a pickaxe, in floods of tears.

Oft depicted as a serpent devouring its own tail, the ouroboros represents the unending cycle of nature, a force so powerful that on each occasion of its death life does inevitably spring forth it is that which is forever done but which may not be undone it is life and death intertwined both chicken and egg, but also sunday dinner.

Dedicated to my mother, Kathy (...) Newman and my dear friend Laura Parke.