Books by Anders Nilsen
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review 1: An hugely ambitious and gorgeously sparse graphic novel about a charm of finches and their existential crises after their serene meadow is disturbed by a crashed plane and its explosive payload. Nilson's artwork may be sparse with an abundance of white space but it's thematically...
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review 1: Okay, I really tried to like this comic. And I DID like it... for about the first three hundred pages. Then... I lost interest. There were characters I cared about- Algernon, Curtis and Betty, Clay, the Snake... (And hey what happened to the matriarch?)But in the end, it read lik...
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review 1: Wow. An opus of narrative art, like the Ulysses of graphic novels, and it mostly concerns itself with a flock of finches in the forest. You feel like you've entered into a dream, one where planes crash from the skies, crows cast aspersions while feasting on corpses, and an idiot ...
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review 1: This is a collection of mostly existential gags, which were often (to me, anyway) very funny, and also thoughtful, but he's light here, trying to have fun, largely, maybe kind of in a Beckett Waiting for Godot sort of way. . . But he's never arty-pretentious, to me, though many o...
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review 1: Anders Nilsen is, without a doubt, my favorite comic artist. This is quite the departure in style from his other work, but it works. This is an incredibly beautiful book both in content and in construction. I've never seen an accordion style book this large. It is exciting to see...