Monsters

Thirty-five years in the making, this volume is one of the most anticipated graphic novels in recent comics history!

Publisher Marketing: Barry Windsor-Smith has for over three decades been working on Monsters . Almost twenty years ago I read an unfinished version and was shocked and astonished at the power and delicacy of the storytelling, by the honesty of the family relationships, by the feeling that this was being created by someone willing to reveal too much and go too deep in order to tell the story he had to tell. That it is completed and that it will be released to the world is something that's genuinely exciting for any of us who care about comics, or stories, or the place where art and imagination meet.--Neil Gaiman, New York Times best-selling author Review Quotes : Any time Barry Windsor-Smith decides to put pen to paper, it's worth paying attention, but the publication of Monsters feels especially momentous even when you consider his illustrious career. ... Barry Windsor-Smith remains a master of the form, and Monsters is proof.-- "Syfy Wire" Brief Description : 35 years in the making, the most anticipated graphic novel in recent comics history! Review Quotes : This exquisitely illustrated epic bursts with emotion, insight, and empathy. Five decades into his already influential career, Windsor-Smith has created his magnum opus.-- "Library Journal (starred review)" Review Quotes : The illustrations are in black and white and finely detailed, with shadows enhancing an ominous tone, and readers of political and supernatural thrillers, sf, and historical fiction with a vein of forbidden love will all enjoy this book.-- "Booklist" Review Quotes : Deeply disturbing and frequently beautiful ... Fans will pick up the book for Windsor-Smith's ornamental artwork.-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : For 365 large-format, black-and-white pages, Windsor-Smith conveys gruesome body horror and tender family scenes, nightmarish doom and quiet moments of connection. ... [The artist] feverishly traces the roots of a single violent act backward and forward in time, across generations and nations and the border of life and death itself.-- "The New York Times" Review Quotes : One of comics' great literary epics, a masterpiece of story and art and a generous, unexpected gift from a legendary creator in total command of his craft.-- "Forbes" Review Quotes : Windsor-Smith uses this vast canvas to explore wide-ranging questions about the nature of humanity and the scope of individual responsibility.-- "NPR Books" Brief Description : "In 1964, Bobby Bailey is recruited for a U.S. military experimental genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany 20 years prior. His only ally, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes to try to protect him, which sets off a chain of events that spin out of everyone's control. As the titular monsters multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning"-- Review Quotes : Brilliant. A great, grim 365-page slab of postwar angst... forcefully told and thoroughly affecting.-- "The Guardian" Review Quotes : Barry Windsor-Smith has undoubtedly earned his reputation as one of the comic book industry's finest living artists. He has kept a fairly low profile for the past two decades, but that promises to change very soon with his haunting new book, Monsters .-- "IGN" Review Quotes : Achingly good, epically scaled, and impeccably designed, Monsters will leave you changed.-- "The Paris Review" Publisher Marketing :

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 380 | Publication Date: 2021-04-27