Big Questions

Anders Nilsen’s Big Questions, published by Drawn & Quarterly since 2011, is a meditative, wordless graphic novel that follows a community of birds and a mysterious, fallen bomb in a remote landscape. This single-issue work distills Nilsen’s signature spare, poetic style into a quiet, existential fable about life, death, and the unknowable. Its stark beauty and philosophical depth make it a standout example of contemporary literary comics.