24 artists and comic creators each deal with a tale of creation over the course of seven pages.
Alex Spiro is creative director and a founding partner of Nobrow
Press.
Paul Gravett is a highly respected journalist, author and curator,
with a specialism in comics, graphic novels and the sequential
narrative.
Full list of contributors: Stuart Kolakovic, Mikkel Sommer, Brecht
Vandenbroucke, Luke Best, Rob Hunter, Jon McNaught, Ben Newman,
Andrew Rae, Luke Pearson, Jack Teagle, Jon Boam, Jakob Hinrichs,
Clayton Junior, Daniel Locke, Isabel Greenberg, Mike Bertino, Nick
White, Rui Tenreiro, Sean Hudson, Luc Melanson, Katia Fouquet, Yeji
Yun, Matthew Lyons, Liesbeth De Stercke.
In A Graphic Cosmogony, twenty-four of today’s most celebrated
illustrators and graphic artists each take seven pages to tell
their version of the story of the universe’s origin and how our
world came to be. There are unusual takes on traditional creation
myths like The Book of Genesis...imaginative homages to evolution,
gorgeous interpretations of Japanese folktales, and all kinds of
fanciful alternative mythologies that fuse the playful with the
profound.
—Brainpickings
As with most Nobrow releases, A Graphic Cosmogony is a thing of
beauty, elegantly crafted. [...] Each artist demonstrates their
nuance of storytelling while also highlighting their particular
style. The anthology speaks to the myriad possibilities comics have
in terms of narrative, representation, tone, and craft. […] This is
a thing to enjoy. This is an anthology you should experience for
yourself.
—Comics Bulletin
A very exciting and characteristically quality book has just
arrived from NoBrow. The publishers and purveyors of all things
illustrated present A Graphic Cosmogony, their first comics
compendium. With an introduction by Paul Gravett, excellent cover
by Micah Lidberg and each of the 24 featured artists telling ‘their
tale of everything’. Think of it like a brief history of the land
before time or the alternative genesis (no specific religion though
unless your spiritual allegiance lies with the great comic in the
sky).
—It’s Nice That
Despite what the title might lead you to believe, A Graphic
Cosmogony is not one cosmogony, but in fact twenty four separate
cosmogonies, held together only by Nobrow’s trademark cloth
binding. If you were looking for a coherent answer to that ultimate
question—how did the world come to be?—you’ll have to look
elsewhere. A Graphic Cosmogony is much more concerned with
showcasing the work of its contributors than with scientific or
theological speculation. Variously elegant, cute, shamanistic,
messy, hilarious, psychedelic, satirical, and meditative, these
twenty four short comics come chaotically together to form a
dizzying visual feast and a testament to the creative potential of
the creation myth. […] Sturdy and well-crafted, this is the kind of
book that makes an impression as an object. […] The patterned,
cloth bound spine has a striking physicality. The graphic
storytelling takes place on gloriously thick matte pages, and in
some of the chapters, colour bleeds extend to every edge of the
page. […] This is a book to own, keep on the shelf, and revisit
again and again.
—Quadrapheme
Twenty four artists made seven page comics explaining their own
rendition of how it all began from legends to magic to a cyclops
vacuum, there are a lot of crazy tales in here that I want to
believe. The artwork is gorgeous, the printing is top-notch but I
guess I wasn’t expecting anything less from these guys.
— Book By Its Cover
A Graphic Cosmogony is the first anthology from publishers Nobrow
Press. This is a Nobrow equivalent of McSweeney's albeit with a
very deliberate theme. The twenty-four artists in A Graphic
Cosmogony tackle creation in a fitting seven pages each—each one
becoming that shamanic presence, creating their own wild,
imaginative versions to answer that perennial question: 'how did we
get here?' . . . A damn fine read!"
—Forbidden Planet International
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