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Malcolm Bennett obituary

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Forthright and unpredictable poet and author, he co-created the noir-inspired pulp magazine Brute!

The poet and author Malcolm Bennett, who has died aged 56 from as yet unexplained causes, used his compressed, aggressive, comic book literary style to create the pulp magazine Brute! with the artist Aidan Hughes in 1984. A darkly comic, noir-inspired graphic magazine, Brute! garnered Malcolm a wide audience that included Kazuo Ishiguro, Keith Waterhouse and Vivian Stanshall.

Brute!, which included Bennett’s classic creation Jim Mallett, a psychotic benefits fraud investigator, brought chuckles to bloodbaths, as Quentin Tarantino would do in film later, and readers found themselves entertained by subjects that were theoretically beyond the pale. The magazine ran for four years, spawning a film short, Love Me Gangster (1986); a paperback, Brute! Classified Pulp Nasties (1987); an animated TV series, Brute’s Adventures of Sizzler (1988); and various magazine and newspaper comic strips.

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