Garlandia [Hardcover]

The gars are peaceful, happy animals living in Garland.Their shaman, Zachariah,helps them to interpret the spirits that foretell their future. But a strange visionbodes ill. This long-awaited second collaboration between Italian artists LorenzoMattotti and Jerry Kramsky, ten years in the making, is masterfully drawn in soft, psychedelic black andwhite.The loose, stream-of-consciousness narrative showcases Mattottis flowing, delicate black-and-white art and the endlessly imaginative settings. His world is developed with clarity, originality, and a touch of poetry.Mattotti has total control over his medium, and its his careful attention to visual world-building that makesIn this graphic novel by two world-class creators, an idyllic animal kingdom is threatened, and the shamans son, Hippolytes, goes on a quest to find his lost wife.