The Forest Danielle Burgos as a great graphic novel

as a great graphic novel

generally hilarious panels are characterised by their distinctive use of an all-animal cast

drawing you in with its harrowing and uplifting tale of loss

Now that I am a grown woman I realize that one thing does not negate the other

The Forest Danielle Burgos as a great graphic novelBy Thomas Ott. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 32 pages, B&W, 2022. The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black