Rian Hughes is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist, and typographer who has worked extensively for the British and American advertising, music, and comic book industries. He has written and drawn comics for 2000 AD and Batman Black and White and designed logos for the Avengers, the X-Men, Superman, record label Hedkandi, MTV, and James Bond. He has edited books on mid-century lifestyle illustration and custom typography, and written on semiotics, culture, and collecting vintage science-fiction pulps and paperbacks. In 2020 he was nominated for an Eisner Award for his book Logo-a-gogo. He lives in London.
"... it's a beautifully designed piece of art with a compelling, at
times hilarious, story behind it."--The Hollywood Reporter
"XX ... delights in exploring design's potential to amplify
meaning. ... That does not mean XX is a triumph of appearance over
content ... like the best pulp tales, it keeps you turning the
pages, engages with big ideas and delivers an authentic jolt of awe
as it takes its galaxy-spanning conceit to the limit, and then
some."--Neville Hawcock, Financial Times
"XX is a page turner that transcends the typical alien story,
becoming an engaging treatise on the nature and development of
written language and its indelible impact on human culture."--The
Boston Globe
"A monumental, wildly creative new novel that pushes the boundaries
of storytelling."--Foyles
"An alien invasion story like no other [that] raises the bar for
science-fiction."--The Big Issue
"Compulsively readable. Its ideas are grand, and it moves like a
thriller. Come for the lush design, stay for the Clarkeian ideas
and sly sense of humour."--SFX
"Every single page has been meticulously crafted, appearing exactly
as the author intends. Not a single piece of punctuation is without
point or purpose."--Sci-Fi Now
"Extraordinary stuff... There are ideas larger and more
mind-bending, I think, than those I have come across in any other
sci-fi novel."--Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-time
"How can UK graphic design, illustrator, comics artist, author of a
stack popular culture books, and now novelist, do it all?...to have
conceived, written, and designed a sci-fi extravaganza on the
intricacies of AI where complex, nuanced typography is essential to
the narrative structure and, in effect, has redefined the structure
of the graphic and illustrated novel, is short of miraculous."
--Steven Heller, Design Observer
"The combination of hard sf elements and Hughes's background as a
cartoonist create a vivid, expansive reading experience. This will
especially interest readers who are excited by hybrid novels that
blend traditional and illustrative formats." --Library Journal
"To have conceived, written, and designed a sci-fi extravaganza on
the intricacies of AI where complex, nuanced typography is
essential to the narrative structure, and in effect redefined the
structure of the graphic and illustrated novel is nothing short of
miraculous."--Design Observer
"Vastly ambitious, XX is the most astonishing blend of narrative,
meta-narrative and visuals. Real 'wow' moments and big ideas
combine with brilliant typographical flourishes to create the Moby
Dick of sci-fi."--The Daily Mail
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