Babylon

The third book in Fantagraphics ongoing project to reprint Tomi Ungerer's 1970s-1980s satirical work, BABYLON may be the most sobering collection so far, an example of his humour at its blackest. Drawn entirely in pencil, these fully rendered images, reproduced in lush, dense, gray tones, rival the satirical vitriol of his anti-war posters of the previous decade, radiating repulsion at what human beings can do to one another in the guise of 'civilisation.'