Description

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A gorgeous, ghostly, and silent graphic novella from the modern scratchboard master.

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 layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing effect. In Ott's hands, the medium becomes the perfect vessel for his eerie, horror-imbued morality tales. This gorgeous volume will be printed on heavy art paper with Pantone Black ink to best showcase every exquisite detail of Ott's virtuosic talent.

About the Author

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Thomas Ott is a Swiss artist born in 1967. He received training as a graphic artist at the Kunstgewerbeschule School of Design in Zürich and has been a freelance comics artist and illustrator since 1987, as well as an animator, musician, and political cartoonist.  His books include The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Cinema Panopticum, T. Ott's Tales of Error, Dead End, Greetings from Hellville, and R.I.P.: Best of 1985-2004.

Praise For…

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The art is mesmerizing ... a series of haunting images that tell a story both fantastical and touchingly human.
— New York Journal of Books

Lovers of classical illustration techniques and eerie art will be drawn to this simple but elegant fable.
— Publishers Weekly

An inherently fascinating and intriguing story told without words in one page of deftly crafted art at a time.
— Midwest Book Review

A supernatural tale that is chillingly eerie with a level of detail that combines the everyday and the fantastic to morbid effect.
— Andy Oliver - Broken Frontier