Danish cartoonist Rikke Villadsen makes her English language debut with this playfully creepy and oddly beautiful seafaring tale. When a shocked fisherman pulls up his net to find a newborn baby and a talking fish, the unlikely shipmates embark on a journey filled with madness that doesn't just bubble beneath the surface of the water but drenches the sailor - and the reader - like a tidal wave. Depicted in distinctive graphite, The Sea is ultimately about the end of one life, the beginning of another, and a man literally and figuratively lost at sea.
Danish cartoonist Rikke Villadsen deconstructs the tired tropes of the Western genre with wild abandon. Villadsen's absurd vision of the old West features exploding prostitutes, menstruating cowgirls, mysterious gender-bending, and much more; when the dust settles, the rip-roaring ride that is Cowboy ultimately reveals itself to be an interrogation into gender identity and queerness. Giddyap!
There are many kinds of levels out there: Physical, psychological, spiritual and digital. Every story in C´est Bon Anthology vol. 13 is on a level of its own. In "Giving Ground", Lars Krantz shows the passing of time as a mechanism in body and clockwork alike. In Chad Verrill's stories, medieval art meets video game graphics and creates a unique vision. Victor Kerlow blurs the line between being awake and dreaming, in a story called "Weird Things Downstairs". Veiko Tammjärv creates iconic narrative art scapes in "Ape and the City", where story is symbolic as much as it is sequential. And more stories, more levels. Volume 13 features Niklas Asker (SE), Allan Haverholm (DK), Victor Kerlow (US), Lars Krantz (SE), Lawrence Marvit (US), Jess Smart Smiley (US), Veiko Tammjärv (EST), Chad Verrill (US), Rikke Villadsen (DK) and Henric Wallmark (SE). Beautiful narrative art by the best artists on every level.
Danish cartoonist Rikke Villadsen makes her English language debut with this playfully creepy and oddly beautiful seafaring tale. When a shocked fisherman pulls up his net to find a newborn baby and a talking fish, the unlikely shipmates embark on a journey filled with madness that doesn't just bubble beneath the surface of the water but drenches the sailor - and the reader - like a tidal wave. Depicted in distinctive graphite, The Sea is ultimately about the end of one life, the beginning of another, and a man literally and figuratively lost at sea.
Danish cartoonist Rikke Villadsen deconstructs the tired tropes of the Western genre with wild abandon. Villadsen's absurd vision of the old West features exploding prostitutes, menstruating cowgirls, mysterious gender-bending, and much more; when the dust settles, the rip-roaring ride that is Cowboy ultimately reveals itself to be an interrogation into gender identity and queerness. Giddyap!
There are many kinds of levels out there: Physical, psychological, spiritual and digital. Every story in C´est Bon Anthology vol. 13 is on a level of its own. In "Giving Ground", Lars Krantz shows the passing of time as a mechanism in body and clockwork alike. In Chad Verrill's stories, medieval art meets video game graphics and creates a unique vision. Victor Kerlow blurs the line between being awake and dreaming, in a story called "Weird Things Downstairs". Veiko Tammjärv creates iconic narrative art scapes in "Ape and the City", where story is symbolic as much as it is sequential. And more stories, more levels. Volume 13 features Niklas Asker (SE), Allan Haverholm (DK), Victor Kerlow (US), Lars Krantz (SE), Lawrence Marvit (US), Jess Smart Smiley (US), Veiko Tammjärv (EST), Chad Verrill (US), Rikke Villadsen (DK) and Henric Wallmark (SE). Beautiful narrative art by the best artists on every level.