Kessler Joe - The Gull Yettin - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly rendered entirely wordless graphic novel by a contemporary comics innovator. Joe Kessler is at the forefront of European comics. Co - founder and art director of UK's Breakdown Press and winner of the Angoul me International Comics Festival's Fauve R v lation for his breakthrough comic book Windowpane Kessler rejuvenates the form once again with his vivid and moving The Gull Yettin. Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines The Gull Yettin's story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky shapeshifting Gull. Orphaned by the fire and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull the boy faces an uncertain future one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant. Without a word Kessler builds a strange but recognizable world using it to explore all the forms that grief jealousy longing and love can take in our lives and the compassion and cruelty that can dwell in a single heart. Filled with all the warmth and poignancy of a great folktale The Gull Yettin proves that Kessler is pushing comics to new heights.
Title: The Gull Yettin
Author(s): Kessler Joe
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681377391
Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Graphic Novels