Bad Island

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Bad Island
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stanley Donwood
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreGraphic novel and Manga artwork
Science fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780241983904
ClassificationsDewey:741.5
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 18 March 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

From artist Stanley Donwood, a starkly beautiful graphic novel about the end of the world A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerising, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.

Author Biography

Stanley Donwood is a graphic designer, artist and writer. He has worked with the British band Radiohead since 1994, producing the artwork for all their albums and promotional materials. He is also the author of numerous books including Catacombs of Terror!, Slowly Downward and Small Thoughts. His collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, Ness, will be published in November 2019.

Reviews

Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read it. * Robert Macfarlane *