Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas

Laurence Hyde’s Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas is a single, self-contained graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly, first published in 2007 and continuing in print ever since. Hyde both writes and illustrates this wordless narrative, using stark woodcut-style art to tell a haunting story of survival and loss in the Pacific. A masterwork of visual storytelling, it stands as a powerful, silent epic that demonstrates the expressive potential of comics as a literary medium.