100% Evil: 5 unit prepack

by Nicholas Blechman, Christoph Niemann

A revised edition of the acclaimed satirical guide to the world’s evils, embracing pain and laughter, the extraordinary and the banal In what forms does evil show its ugly face today? Gigantic worms boring their way through the globe? Pieces of a puzzle eating one another? The jets of a shower piercing the body of an unexpecting man beneath? A lone leaf fluttering to the ground before finally shattering? These and other delightfully incongruous images await us in 100% Evil .Simultaneously dark and hilarious, this book of drawings by renowned illustrators Nicholas Blechman (born 1986), creative director of the New Yorker , and Christoph Niemann (born 1970), a regular contributor to the New Yorker , reveal their visions of evil in today’s unpredictable world. The pair, who met in the ’90s while working at the New York Times and the New Yorker , respectively, spent many nights of their early friendship at bars, sketching out images to represent the sex affairs, political scandals and acts of terror that constituted the news. As the world grew darker, they devoted more time to the depiction of evil. The result, 100% Evil , is a thoughtful, comical and―at times―joyful book that shows sometimes it's good to be bad. It was originally published in 2005 as part of the One Hundred Percent series of limited-edition illustrated books.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Design

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Nicholas Blechman is an internationally recognized illustrator, designer, and art director. His award-winning illustrations have appeared in GQ, Travel + Leisure, Wired, and the New Yorker. He is currently the art director of the New York Times Book Review.

Reviews

[Pouria · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the way he blended mundane things to create an interesting and, in some of them, meaningful context. Some of the drawings were just funny but I liked them, too, since they re-created scenes that we usually experience, but with other visual objects. I think it would be a fun thing to colorize some of these drawings.

[Rosemary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great artwork, but the Introduction is the best of all. When you are in one of those situations where at the end, the speaker asks, Does anyone have any questions? Your answer should be, Why does Evil exist? For me the question has always bern what is evil and is there really such a thing? I was drawn to this book after seeing Christoph Niemann’s recent artwork in the New Yorker and NYTimes, perfect work for a pandemic.

[Jeff · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't understand it.

[Mustafa Jamal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting ideas, not so good execution.

[Zhenquan Yu · Rating 3 out of 5]

fun

[Srishti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite evil

[Sachi]

A visual chucklefest.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

i don't know why more design isn't as fufilling as theirs is, to me, as an individual.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

321st - 2011

[M0rningstar · Rating 2 out of 5]

A few amusing pictures; not bad.