Underwater | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Drawn & Quarterly |
Schedule | irregular |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | Alternative comics |
Publication date | Aug 1994 – Oct 1997 |
No. of issues | 11 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Chester Brown |
Underwater was an alternative comic book by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown that was published from 1994 until 1997, when the ambitious project was abandoned unfinished by its creator.
The story was unconventional in that it was told from the perspective of a child who is still acquiring language. The dialogue of the characters is encoded[1][2] into a "language" that at first appears to be gibberish. As the child matures, the parts of the dialogue start to appear as normal, uncoded English.
The series was unpopular with readers,[3] and Brown gave up on the series after three years, although he has said he may return to it someday.