Monologues For The Coming Plague

The longest and most ambitious work to date by critically acclaimed cartoonist Nilsen. Taking a cue from the school of Automatic Writing, a process is born out of a stream of consciousness followed by limited editing and rearranging (an aesthetic mode that became the foundation of the Surrealist Movement). Nilsen began work on "Monologues for the Coming of the Plague". The results are experimental, absurdist art comics, but the book is a page-turner, and some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. Reading it is not so much like reading comics, as it is watching the artist make connections between ideas, find patterns, and set down the story as it happens. It is a tour de force, beautifully and uniquely packaged, in both black and white and colour, by one of the most fascinating cartoonists of the decade.