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Products by Anders Nilsen
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Big Questions #12: A Young Crow's Guide to Hunting
Anders Nilsen
The wounded bird Clay completes his slow crawl over the rim and into to the bomb crater. There he finds the lonely and depressed Betty. The two compare notes on the cataclysm's effects, and are shortly thereafter descended upon by three upstart crows on a lark and mission of revenge.
ISBN: 97818972999
$5.95 US / $5.95 CDN
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Dogs & Water (hardcover edition)
Anders Nilsen
"Nilsen creates an epic landscape of desolation and doubt" --New City Chicago
"Nilsen's sparse, thinly rendered line work adds to the level of existential discomfort that the artist seems to excel at... 'Dogs and Water' stays with you a lot longer than most recent comics, easily marking it as one of the best of the year." --Harrisburg Patriot News
"Nilsen's art is filled with amazing white space showing a true sense of human loneliness. Above all else, the work echoes our need to be heard, even if only by ourselves." --Punk Planet
Dogs & Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with instinct, the drive for survival, and human ethics concerning the killed and injured. He finds acceptance with a pack of dogs, though their nature is wild and their potential threat is as unsettling as the sudden presence of a massive pipeline on the horizon. In a dreamlike state, the endless land becomes a vast body of water where his boat is destroyed and his body floats in a subconscious space. On land, the road disappears and only blind circumstance remains. All is uncertain and all can be lost, but he continues on regardless.
Dogs & Water received an Ignatz award for "Outstanding Story" and has been translated into several languages.
This hardcover edition features a few new pages and panels not included in the original saddle-stitched comic.
ISBN: 9781897299081
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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Big Questions #5: Nothingness
Anders Nilsen
Betty's premonitions prove to be true. The Idiot starts to figure things out. And the consequences of decisions past weigh heavy on the birds.
ISBN: BQ#5
$5.00 US / $5.00 CDN
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Big Questions #4: Asomatognosia
Anders Nilsen
Charlotte delivers her evangelical theories on the mysterious egg. Betty struggles with her sense of duty as opposed to her own will and belief, and to the advice of Curtis. The squirrels have it in for Algernon, and he winds up below ground. The Idiot's life is about to change drastically, and we get a glimpse of Isaac, the pilot's, point of view.
Available for a limited time only in this photo-copied edition.
ISBN: BQ#4
$5.00 US / $5.00 CDN
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Big Questions #10: The Hand That Feeds
Anders Nilsen
October 2007
Anders Nilsen is recognized as being one of the most talented new cartoonists in recent years. Aside from having authored the books Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow and The End (Fantagraphics), Nilsen is also known for his somber and haunting comic series, Big Questions. Issue #10 sees night fall at the crash site. Tensions flare among the birds in skirmishes over food and loyalty, blood is drawn. The crows watch, amused and make way for wild dogs.
ISBN: 9781897299432
$6.50 US / $6.50 CDN
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Big Questions #11: Sweetness and Light
Anders Nilsen
Acclaimed cartoonist Anders Nilsen continues his surrealist trek through the queries and conundrums of life that plague the minds of reptile, fowl, and mammal alike. In the eleventh issue of Big Questions, Nilsen's detailed yet minimalist visual style continues to grow in answer to the complexity of the concepts he addresses in his writing. It begins at the dead of night. The Idiot sleeps, the Pilot dreams. He seems to wake momentarily, sleepwalking out into the night on a curious errand. One injured bird also wakes after days of unconsciousness and leads his protector, the reluctant Louis, on a slow crawl toward the site of the explosion that wounded him. Philo shares a late night conversation and midnight snack with a crow. The dogs squabble.
ISBN: 9781897299821
$6.95 US / $6.95 CDN
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Big Questions #3: Astrophysics
Anders Nilsen
Alger searches for his missing home and his companion, Thelma; Donnie has little patience for Leroy's philosophical musings; the Idiot and his caregiver, whose health is failing, go about their daily routine; the bomb drops; and Leroy has a run-in with an owl.
A photocopied reprint of the issue that prompted Nilsen's grad-school drop-out, in favour of drawing comics. Anyone who was captivated by this evocative series with the later issues now has a chance to catch-up on its history.
ISBN: BQ#3
$5.00 US / $5.00 CDN
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Big Questions #8: Theory and Practice
Anders Nilsen
From 2005 Ignatz Award winner Anders Nilsen, Big Questions #8 features a rainstorm, an apparent drowning, the pilot losing himself in the forest, Algernon descending deeper underground than he could ever have imagined, and a return from the dead. The issue also features a synopsis of the story so far, an overview of the main characters, and a lesson in the anatomy of a giant. 40 pages, with a painted cover. Nilsen has also authored the successful one-shot Dogs And Water and appears regularly in Kramers Ergot.
ISBN: BQ#8
$5.95 US / $5.95 CDN
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Big Questions #7: Dinner and a Nap
Anders Nilsen
D+Q takes over publishing Big Questions, one of the best independent comics in recent years, written and drawn by rising star Anders Nilsen. Big Questions has evolved steadily from a modest Xerox project to its current ambitious state over the span of a few short years. Nilsen's work has garnered numerous grants, including the Xeric, and has earned him Ignatz award nominations for Promising New Talent and Outstanding Comic. Nilsen has also authored the successful one-shot Dogs And Water and appears regularly in Kramers Ergot. This issue of Big Questions features some of Nilsen's best artwork yet, which is accentuated by his somber, graceful storytelling.
ISBN: BQ#7
$4.95 US / $4.95 CDN
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Big Questions #6: Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany
Anders Nilsen
Nilsen's own photocopied reprint edition, includes fold-out page. Limited quantity available.
While the idiot begins fending for himself, the plane hits his home. Algernon awakens underground, the pilot endures his post-crash frustration and the birds curiosity, and Louis & Morris arrive with disturbing news.
Note: the edition currently available has a black & white cover.
ISBN: BQ#6
$6.00 US / $6.00 CDN
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Big Questions #9: The Lost and Found
Anders Nilsen
Anders Nilsen's Big Questions series continues.
Betty defends the explosion site against hungry crows, who scavenge their meal elsewhere. The pilot and the idiot have an encounter, and their relationships with the finches evolve. Meanwhile, Alger's journey through the underground holds a bitterweet surprise. The predators philosophize.
October 2006.
ISBN: 9781894937986
$6.95 US / $6.95 CDN
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Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Anders Nilsen
"Don't Go Where I Can't Follow is both a tribute by a good artist to the life and death of a woman he loved and to the redemptive power of art." --Los Angeles Times
"...a glimpse into a real relationship that ended far too soon. The definition of heartbreaking." --Nashville City Paper
"This story is, obviously, very personal, but ultimately I think it isn’t exclusive. It feels incredibly particular to me, still, but it's just love and loss. And everyone, for better or worse, can relate to that." --Anders Nilsen
Don't Go Where I Can't Follow is a tender collection of letters, photographs, and drawings Anders Nilsen has compiled in memory of his fiancee, Cheryl Weaver, who died of cancer in November 2005. It is an appreciation of the time they shared together, and a heart-breaking account of the progression of her illness. From early love notes, simple and poetic postcards, and tales of their travels together in written and comics form, to Nilsen's journal entries and drawings done in the hospital during her final days, and the beautifully rendered tear-jerking account of Weaver's memorial, Don't Go Where I Can't Follow is a deeply personal romance, and a universal reminder of our mortality and the significance of the relationships we build.
ISBN: 1-897299-14-1
$17.95 US / $17.95 CDN
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