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G.B.H. Published by Underground Press (1996) ISBN: 1 897607 05 9 Price: £3.95

Reviews of G.B.H.

"Camus said a writer must bear witness to his/her age. Evans is attempting to paint today through this well crafted, elusive yet incisive work that provokes the reader to question and attack...no room for apathy in these pages. GBH struggles with the today of modern society, in the same way as Joy Division captured a certain period and Sartre's Nausea depicted existence...it is not pretty...we have drug dealers, death, emptiness, decay, immorality, violence, numbness, void and nothingness...there is no hope no act of communication no sense of beauty no relationship to be seen in the work. A similar mood is sensed in The Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible whereby we are bombarded with images of death, evil and destruction." - Patrick Jones, Y Faner Goch, April '97   "John Evans is the voice of the disaffected, alienated youth of the south Wales valleys, the street voice of post-industrial Britain rattling to its death.... In style of writing and format GBH follows that of Industria - Evans's poetry pours from the decaying world of council estates where the social cement has been loosened. His writing is set against illustrations and photographs by turn fascinating and repellent, opening the wound to very guts of an urban culture rotting from Capitalism... His style is reminiscent of William Burroughs and the later works of Hunter Thompson. It's Burroughs with graphics and graffiti." -Gwyn Griffiths, Morning Star, Dec. '96   "GBH, the latest graphic-novel-cum-poem by hard-hitting Valleys writer John Evans, does not make for comfortable reading. His style - punchy, raspy, biting - is uncomfortable in its confrontational quality yet claws the reader in, aided by the visually challenging graphics and typography. His tight-fisted, full on approach he first nurtured as a punk musician in '76." -Finetime, Nov. '96.