Bad Island
Stanley Donwood
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Author: Stanley Donwood
Condition: Used, Very Good
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781324001850
Condition notes:
a large part of the dustjacket has been torn away completely (it was nearly a quarter of the area of the front cover), and is now missing; otherwise new and unread
A starkly beautiful, wordless graphic novel about the end of the world by the cult artist and longtime Radiohead collaborator. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and man appears, with clubs, with spears, with crueler weapons still—and things do not go well for the wilderness. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke choke the undergrowth and the creatures that once moved through it. This is not a happy story, and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood achieves with his art what words cannot convey, carving out a mesmerizing, stark parable of environmental disaster and the end of civilization.