Alan G. Brooks - Art and Illustration

This book was supposed to hit home and have uncomfortable truth's within it.  It was meant to provoke and make you uncomfortable in it's "what if" scenario.  Now we see it was prophetic all along.  It's happened - happening - and in your face - right now.  Unbelievable.  Actually, I'll rephrase that.  It is totally believable.  Nobody has to travel far to see it unfolding in their daily lives. Live and in color . . .  1984 The above piece was made a few years ago for a magazine when the story 1984 was still a novel.  A disturbing read at the best of times. Provocative and unnerving. But still just a novel. I didn't really expect to see it play out the way that it is. It seemed to be steadily getting closer. Then all of a sudden - and in fast forward - we are now suddenly  in it. Alan Brooks

and why not . . . ? Jimi Hendrix - "Impression 67" - Alan Brooks Oil on board "Floral Peace" - Knight Herald - Alan Brooks Acrylic on board My roots were bound in the late sixties - early seventies. Big O, Oz Magazine, Underground Comics and Posters, International Times, Mati Klarwein, Ernst Fuchs, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Martin Sharp - and on and on and on. Where does the time go? Onwards and Upwards Alan G Brooks