Iceberg

by Michel Hellman

The canadian artist draws the north Arctic with empty pages of lined paper. Beneath the dark shadows are peeled outlines of a military incident. It is long over, but its legacy will live on for thousands of years to come.

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40 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[François Vigneault · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and haunting comic constructed entirely of silent images and a short colophon. What at first seems to be a simple story of timeless natural rhythms turns out to be something very different, and like a great poem, this brief and simple will linger in your mind long after you have finished reading it.

[E · Rating 2 out of 5]

A strange, beautiful little wordless book (with cut-paper art!) about an incident in Alaskan history I never knew about

[Francis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une mini bande dessinée sans texte qui nous invite à la fois à contempler, par des feuilles lignées, les plaines désertiques de l'Antarctique et sa faune, et à assister, impassible, au tragique accident d'un Bombardier, venant du coup rompre la quiétude initiale du récit. Une oeuvre magnifique artistiquement parlant, mais qui nous parle finalement très peu...