Strange Cargo

For the Hatton Gallery at the University of Newcastle, UK, Strange Cargo is a new 24-page color comic book illustrating the personal experiences of area young people with the Hatton Gallery's unique and idiosyncratic collections.



The book (distributed through schools and youth groups in an edition of 30,000) contains different narratives that illuminate aspects of the Hatton's collection from the narrator's point of view. Narratives contain prompts for activities that can be undertaken by readers/visitors outside the context of the comic book, but which are suggested by the story and lead back to the Gallery's collections.

If you can't make it to Newcastle to pick up a copy, you can visit Printed Matter, either in person in New York or via their web site and purchase a copy of Strange Cargo. Proceeds go to help support Printed Matter, a very fine aritsts book store.

Dates and Details
Grennan and Sperandio make comic books for as artworks museums including the Museum of Modern Art/PS1 and New York's Public Art Fund and in conjunction with publishers such as Fantagraphics Books and DC Comics. Strange Cargo is their 13th comic. The exhibition "Strange Cargo" launches September 2004. This installation will feature a new, 80,000 square foot temporary wall painting by Grennan & Sperandio incorporating important items from the Hatton Gallery collection as featured in the Strange Cargo comic book.