num_pages: 32
description: The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations without words of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing effect. In Ott's hands the medium becomes the perfect vessel for his eerie horror-imbued morality tales. This gorgeous volume will be printed on heavy art paper with Pantone Black ink to best showcase every exquisite detail of Ott's virtuosic talent.
language: English
title: The Forest
publisher: Fantagraphics