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Chris Gooch (b. 1993) is a cartoonist based out of Melbourne, Australia. His first graphic novel, Bottled, was published in 2017, followed by Deep Breaths, a short story collection, in 2019. He recently won the Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Prize for Mooreland Mates, one of the short stories collected in Deep Breaths, and a Ledger Prize for Bottled.
"2021 Best Graphic Novels for Adults - American Library Association ""Gooch builds to a brutal climax before offering a deeply tender, legitimately moving denouement... A perfectly paced page-turning meditation on the possibility of grace from a creator who grows more impressive with every release."" — Library Journal (starred review) ""The hyper-grim focus amplifies the significance of every act of kindness, making those moments surprisingly moving. Told with superb rhythm, this pitch-perfect thriller gets dystopia down right."" — Publishers Weekly ""Elevated by Gooch's spare, evocative artwork, Under-Earth is an expertly crafted, at times meditative, thriller that will have you on tenterhooks as you follow the protagonists' attempts to survive a brutal dystopian system with their humanity somehow intact."" — Sonny Liew, author of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye"
