Tongues comic books issue 1

Story and art by Anders Nilson. Award-winning indy artist Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, The End, Dogs and Water) is back, with the first issue of his new full-color series Tongues. Set in the modern Middle East, the series follows the entwined stories of an imprisoned god, the eagle that is his jailor, an east African orphan on an errand of murder and a young American with a teddy bear on his back, lost in a trackless wilderness. Revenge, evolution, the fate of the world... and a talking chicken. 9" x 12 1/4", 52 pages, full color. Cover price $15.00.

1st printing. Collects Tongues (2018 Fantagraphics) #1-5. Story and art by Anders Nilson. Set in a version of modern Central Asia, Tongues is a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus. It follows the captive god's friendship with the eagle who carries out his daily sentence of torture and chronicles his pursuit of revenge on the god that has imprisoned him. Prometheus's story is entwined with that of an East African orphan on an errand of murder, and a young man with a teddy bear strapped to his back, wandering aimlessly into catastrophe (a character readers may recognize from Nilsen's Dogs and Water). The story is set against the backdrop of tensions between rival groups in an oil-rich wilderness. Tongues is both an adventure story and a meditation on human nature in our present fraught, historical moment. Hardcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 368 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.