Joe Kessler NYRC Co-founder and art director of UK’s Breakdown Press, and winner of the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s Fauve Révélation for his breakthrough comic book Windowpane , Kessler rejuvenates the form once again with his vivid and moving The Gull Yettin .

Joe Kessler is a cartoonist and co-founder and art director at Breakdown Press, a London-based comics publisher. His book Windowpane won the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book in 2020.

2023年9月5日 · Kessler’s latest book, The Gull Yettin from New York Review Comics, is a testament to that acutely perceptive grasp of the medium and, while such accolades may not be uppermost in many creators’ minds, it will be a travesty indeed if the book is not featured heavily in 2023’s end-of-year “best of” lists.

Joe Kessler is at the forefront of European comics. Co-founder and art director of UK’s Breakdown Press, and winner of the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s Fauve Révélation for his breakthrough comic book Windowpane, Kessler rejuvenates the form once again with his vivid and moving The Gull Yettin.

2023年4月24日 · His one-artist anthology series Windowpane was collected in 2018 from Breakdown Press, the publisher Kessler is the co-founder and art director of. His latest book, The Gull Yettin, will be out on May 2 from New York Review Comics. The Gull Yettin begins with a young boy’s home erupting in flames.

2023年4月24日 · A couple weeks back New York Review Books announced a comics line stretching debuting in 2016 and edited by NYRB editor and critic Gabriel Winslow-Yost and artist Lucas Adams. Comics criticism, journalism, reviews, plus exclusives!

Joe Kessler has been making comics in London for years, most-known for his anthology series Windowpane, published through Breakdown Press (for whom he's also the lead book designer). His work is striking and profound, with a masterful ability to switch between warmth and nostalgia to stings of upsetting horror and back again; comics that can ...

2023年6月30日 · The Gull Yettin by Joe Kessler – NYRC. Just read the Gull Yettin by Joe Kessler - I'd not read anything by him before and am totally blown away. I'm usually really don't like comics with no words in them - but this has emotional heft, and a strong narrative and a totally unique take on the form. I can't recommend it enough.

2022年1月21日 · The Gull Yettin is a wordless, abstract, and very colorful graphic novel from British cartoonist Joe Kessler. Kessler masterfully switches between meticulous detail and rough sketches to convey mood and draw the reader through the story, which follows a boy whose family dies in a house fire.

The Gull Yettin – Joe Kessler’s Freeform, Expressionistic Graphic Novel from NYRC is a Masterclass in the Possibilities of the Form. by Andy Oliver; September 5, 2023