Anders Nilsen

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Anders Nilsen is a popular artist and graphic novelist who grew up in Minneapolis and lives in Chicago, IL.

He works on an ongoing comic series, Big Questions which has been nominated several times for the Ignatz Award. In addition, his comics have appeared in the anthologies Kramers Ergot and Mome. His graphic novel Dogs and Water won an Ignatz Award in 2005. An excerpt from Dogs and Water was featured in the inaugural 2006 edition of the Best American Comics anthology, and the book was expanded and reissued in hardcover in 2007. Other, more recent works include a graphic memoir, Don't Go Where I Can't Follow and a comic The End.


He is a member of The Holy Consumption, a Chicago based group of comic artists, who collectively blog and post images of their current projects. The Holy Consumption also includes Jeffery Brown, John Hankiewicz, and Paul Hornschemeier. Anders also hosts his own blog called the monologuist

Nilsen played guitar on two tracks on the debut album of NYC noise-jazz trio Talibam!.


[edit] Works by Anders Nilsen


Big Questions
Issues 1-6, Self Published, airplane books, some reprints with color covers

1 [title unknown]
2 [title unknown]
3 Astrophysics Spring 2000 $5.00
4 Asomatognosia, Whose hand is it anyway? 2001 $4.00/$5.00
5 Nothingness Spring 2002 $5.00
6 Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany March 2004 $5.00

Big Questions #7-10
published by Drawn and Quarterly
7 Dinner and a Nap Fall 2005
8 Theory and Practice 2005
9 The Lost and Found 2006
10 The Hand that Feeds 2007


Dogs and Water
Drawn and Quarterly
October 2004 ISBN 1-894937-77-8

[Untitled handmade black book]
Back Cover: From Empty Words by John Cage
By Cheryl Weaver and Anders Nilsen
Clean Slate Press and Airplane Books
www.crashingairplane.com

The Ballad of the Two-Headed Boy
By abel brekhus 2000 Airplane Books

Ballad of the Two Headed Boy (mini) -- 1999

Monologues for the Coming Plague
Fantagraphics 2006 ISBN 978-1-56097-718-6

Comic Art
Number 6 Spring 2004 ISSN 1542-7447
Comic Strip Insert

Don’t go where I can’t follow
Drawn and Quarterly 2006 ISBN 1-897299-14-1

Lists Cartoons Floorplans Poem Other 60 pages
self-published

The End #1
Fantagraphics Books, Coconino Press January 2007
Ignatz Series
ISBN 978-1-56097-814-5


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