Big Questions
by:
Anders Nilsen (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781770460478 (1770460470)
ASIN: 1770460470
Publish date: August 16th 2011
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Philosophy,
Animals,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book
Series: Big Questions 1 (#1)
I don't read a lot of comics, but Anders Nilsen's minimalist, philosophical, anthropomorphic work called to me. His artwork is seductive and the slowly paced and dreamlike plot through these 600 pages and ten years of Nilsen's work kind of just draws you in.
An enormous (almost 600 pages!) graphic novel, that somehow intermingles the stories of a flock of birds with a grandma and her grandson and a pilot who crash lands his plane. A book that is both simple and profound, sad and happy, quiet and busy, concrete and deep.
It kind of makes me feel bad to read this book quickly. It took so long to make. But I bought it, so I can reread it, and that makes me feel better about sitting and reading it in one swoop. It's a strange story, and it has sad bones. The kind of sadness that you can almost forget about, so it als...