Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
$41.73
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
24 December 2012
Summary
A STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS INSCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, LETTERS, AND BEDSIDE SKETCHESIn this collection of letters, drawings, and photos, Anders Nilsen chronicles a six-year relationship and the illness that brought it to an end.Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is an eloquent appreciation of the time the author shared with his fiancee, Cheryl Weaver. The story is told using artifacts of the couple’s life together, including early love notes, simple and poetic postcards, tales of their travels in written and comics form, journal entries, and drawings done in the hospital in her final days. It concludes with a beautifully rendered account of Weaver’s memorial that Glen David Gold, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called “16 panels of beauty and grace.” Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is a deeply personal romance, and a universal reminder of our mortality and the significance of the relationships we build.Originally published as a limited edition in 2006, this collection includes a new afterword written by Nilsen.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770460911 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770460918 |
| Author: | Anders Nilsen |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 24 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 169mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
“[A] lonely, tender pastiche.” —Chicago Tribune
“A tribute to the life and death of a woman he loved and to the redemptive power of art.” —Glen David Gold , Los Angeles Times Best of 2007
“Evokes unavoidable swells of emotion.” —Seattle Weekly
“Grave and glorious, life affirming and love affirming … Raw emotions are transformed by observance and love, into memory and art.” —New City Chicago
Anders Nilsen
Anders Nilsen is an award-winning cartoonist and visual artist. He is the author of several books, includingDon’t Go Where I Can’t Follow and the magnum opus Big Questions, for which he was awarded the 2012 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and the Ignatz Award, and was nominated for the top prize at the Angoulame International Comics Festival. Nilsen’s works have been translated into a number of languages, and he has exhibited his drawing and painting internationally.
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