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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • A New York Times Notable Book of 2011, included on Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, and NPR'S Best Comics listsA haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists work...



  • A wise and funny collection of modern-day parables about the ties between humans and their gods Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don'...



  • Dogs and Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger and musings along the way. The landscape ...



  • New and formally inventive work from a New York Times notable author In Poetry is Useless, Anders Nilsen redefines the sketchbook format, intermingling elegant, densely detailed renderings of mythical animals, short comics drawn in ink, meditations ...




  • Assembled from work done in Anders Nilsen’s sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver, in 2005, The End is a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting, and transformation R...



  • From the three-time Igantz award-winning artist and author of Big Questions comes a fascinating graphic novel retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus"An extraordinary reinvention of some of our oldest stories. Nilsen brings these old gods to a...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anders Nilsen has published 7 books.

The next book by Anders Nilsen, Tongues, Volume 1, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Anders Nilsen, Big Questions, was published in August 2011.

No. Anders Nilsen does not write books in series.