Monsters [Hardcover]

35 years in the making, the most anticipated graphic?novel in recent comics history!? 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. 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. Windsor-Smith uses this vast canvas to explore wide-ranging questions about the nature of humanity and the scope of individual responsibility. Brilliant. A great, grim 365-page slab of postwar angst& forcefully told and thoroughly affecting. Achingly good, epically scaled, and impeccably designed,? 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,? Barry Windsor-Smith has for over three decades been working on? Any time Barry Windsor-Smith decides to put pen to paper, it's worth paying attention, but the publication of? Deeply disturbing and frequently beautiful ...?Fans will pick up the book for Windsor-Smith's ornamental artwork. This exquisitely illustrated epic bursts with emotion, insight, and empathy. Five decades into his already influential career, Windsor-Smith has created his magnum opus. 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.