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Anders Nilsen

Author of Big Questions

45+ Works 971 Members 32 Reviews 5 Favorited

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Series

Works by Anders Nilsen

Big Questions (2011) 276 copies, 11 reviews
Dogs and Water (2004) 152 copies, 6 reviews
Don't Go Where I Can't Follow (2007) 79 copies, 1 review
Monologues for the Coming Plague (2006) 75 copies, 3 reviews
Rage of Poseidon (2013) 50 copies, 4 reviews
The End (2013) 48 copies, 2 reviews
Poetry Is Useless (2015) 34 copies, 1 review
The End, Vol. 1 (2007) 17 copies
Tongues #1 (2017) 14 copies, 1 review
Big Questions #11: Sweetness and Light (2008) 10 copies, 1 review

Associated Works

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 623 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Comics 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 542 copies, 13 reviews
The Best American Comics 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 388 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Comics 2009 (2009) — Contributor — 184 copies, 4 reviews
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: v .2 (2008) — Contributor — 161 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 147 copies, 7 reviews
Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics (2014) — Illustrator — 131 copies, 9 reviews
The Best American Comics 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 115 copies, 4 reviews
MOME Summer 2005 (Vol. 1) (2005) — Contributor — 105 copies, 1 review
MOME Fall 2005 (Vol. 2) (2006) — Contributor — 96 copies, 1 review
The Best American Comics 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 93 copies, 1 review
MOME Winter 2006 (Vol. 3) (2006) — Contributor — 81 copies, 1 review
MOME Spring/Summer 2006 (Vol. 4) (2006) — Contributor — 75 copies
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 74 copies
MOME Winter 2007 (Vol. 6) (2007) — Contributor — 71 copies, 1 review
MOME Fall 2006 (Vol. 5) (2006) — Contributor — 69 copies
MOME Spring 2007 (Vol. 7) (2007) — Contributor — 65 copies, 1 review
A Bubble (2018) — Contributor — 18 copies, 1 review
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 2 #26 (2017) — Illustrator — 5 copies

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jwebb202 | 2 other reviews | Sep 24, 2024 |
3.5. The incredibly beautiful artwork and poignant philosophical musings are often overshadowed somewhat by the fact that all the finch characters are exactly identical, so determining who is doing what and when, especially given the episodic nature of the narrative, is often very difficult. Also, not sure how I feel about the character of the Idiot--he seems like a needlessly literal and somewhat insensitive rendering of the Holy Fool archetype.
 
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localgayangel | 10 other reviews | Mar 5, 2024 |
A very quick read (took all of 30 minutes, maybe 45) but the art is beautiful and the stories fun and thought provoking.

What would Poseidon do faced with our current total disregard for the world's oceans?

What would Prometheus think of what his gift has wrought?

What if Isaac was old enough to engage with Abraham on the mountain, what would he have thought of the whole thing?

These and a few more questions are tackled in the pages (well, page since the book is one long accordion reminiscent of the scrolls on which these stories are based) of this book.

As a side note, I really want to find a way to showcase the entirety of this accordion of pictures at once. But the length of wall necessary to do so is rather out of my price range.
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boredwillow | 3 other reviews | Mar 4, 2023 |
My first time reading anything by this author. I enjoyed the novel and found the approach to storytelling and being a graphic novel different than anything I've previously read. Definitely this book has a tone and style all to its own. I enjoyed the birds and different characters. I think more could have been done to keep the story moving in different ways, at time I found the pace a bit slow. Overall would be interested in reading other novels by this author.
 
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briandarvell | 10 other reviews | Aug 7, 2020 |

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Works
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