The End was born from Anders Nilsen’s sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiancée in 2005. A unique collection of strips about loss, paralysis, coping, and transformation, The End reflects Nilsen’s great struggle to reconcile the confusion of mortality. Furthermore, it is a musing on paying attention to both the life we possess and the life that surrounds us.
The book’s emotional potency coupled with Nilsen’s refreshing blend of disparate styles-from bold simplicity to finely rendered imagery-make this title worth discovering.