Collages of vintage magazine cuttings and found materials create surreal, humorous imagery that evokes nostalgia for the golden years of printed ephemera. Portraits of fictitious characters and graphical records of bizarre conversations that have never happened fill this colorful book. Nick White skillfully creates playful anecdotes in his unique style.

People I've Never Met & Conversations I've Never Had

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Nobrow Press

"Another neat little hardcover beauty, The Wolf's Whistle is a Richard Scarry meets Wes Anderson fusion of art comics and children's books. It's a superhero origin story made with the deft touch of a printmaker, and which might be the title in Nobrow's catalogue that best showcases the care and attention given to the printing process."—John Martz from Drawn!
Enter the big bad wolf. But was he really so bad? This is the question at the heart of The Wolf's Whistle, the first installment in Nobrow's Behind the Tails series. The series explores the back-stories of fairy tales' most notorious villains. In this tale, we follow the wolf from The Three Little Pigs through his childhood experiences to find the ultimate source of his animosity for the porcine protagonists.
Albert is a comic-creating, scrawny little wolf who, along with his misfit friends, battles the Honeyroast brothers, the school's alpha male sports jocks: three bratty pigs. Sons of the local property magnate, they will stop at nothing to torment their weaker classmates. The story resumes many years later when Albert is a mailroom assistant and lives in a dingy one-bed studio in Brooklyn where the Honeyroast brothers are now his landlords. Tragedy strikes and Albert is forced to take the mantle against his oppressors and fulfill his destiny as the crime fighting "Lone Wolf."
Bjorn Rune Lie, originally from Norway, is an illustrator and author living in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Scott Donaldson a freelance writer who lives and works in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Alex Spiro is creative director of Nobrow Press.

The Wolf's Whistle (Behind the Tails)

Children's Books

Spiro, Alex

Donaldson, Scott James

Animals

Jon McNaught undertakes a thirty-eight-page graphic novel where he revisits his youth in the bleak windswept Falkland Islands situated in the South Atlantic. In his trademark silent storytelling style he covers two separate narratives, Peat Bog and Broadcast, both set in these stark and unforgiving surroundings that nonetheless exude an air of tranquility. "Quiet, subtle, deeply felt. Gorgeously designed. Quintessentially British. A rare joy. Simply put—Jon McNaught is sublime."—Seth, author of George Sprott, 1894–1975

Pebble Island

Comics & Graphic Novels

How To Create Comics & Manga

Temporama takes place in a city where, like any concrete jungle, technology favors the privileged and nature is quarantined like a virus. A silent picture story told during one night of primal urges and strange happenings, Temporama is a beautifully simple tale told in Clayton Junior's trademark bold graphic style.Using a rhythmic, abstract, approach to the comic genre, Brazilian illustrator Clayton Junior finds magic where others wouldn't even bother to look. Part of the Nobrow 17x23 series.

Temporama (Nobrow 17x23)

Graphic Design

A violent drama unfolds as two weary soldiers fail to adapt to civilian life after returning home from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Neglected by the government and with no heroic memories or loving family members, they seek solace in alcohol, drugs, and nihilistic hedonism. Constantly haunted by nightmares of their recent tumultuous pasts, they desperately struggle to stay on the surface of reality. Part of the Nobrow 17x23 series.

Obsolete (Nobrow 17x23)

Sommer, Mikkel

Literature & Fiction

Forming is a super-mystical epic in which Jesse Moynihan details the spawning of worlds, and the trajectory of consciousness on Earth. Volume 1 follows the trials and tribulations of primeval gods and demi-gods as they vie for control of primitive Earth's resources.

Forming

Moynihan, Jesse

Science Fiction & Fantasy

A beautifully rendered, literally haunting tale of the afterlife, Robert Hunter's The New Ghost follows a spectral entity on his first day at work: dark, gentle, poetic, and heart-warming all at once, it is an atmospheric tale to dash the conventions of comics and leave you thirsty for more from this young storyteller. Part of the Nobrow 17x23 series.

The New Ghost (Nobrow 17x23)

HUNTER, Robert

Big Mother

Mcbess

On the dawn horizon, a pine tree all too briefly uproots itself. It dances . . . and nobody sees. The low drone of the car's engine is heard and ignored from sleepy bedroom windows for miles around.
Have you ever wondered what goes on in your life when you're looking the other way? Perhaps you're so drawn into what's going on with you that you fail to notice the events taking place in your periphery—or even right under your nose? In Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson explores the dying days of a failing relationship through the infinitesimal unseen moments that surround it—and us. Pearson's most ambitious project to date is a poignant and empathetic graphic novella from one of the most exciting young creators in British comics. As well as an essential showcase of Pearson's astonishing visual storytelling ability, this is a book for anyone who's ever experienced loss, or agonized about what they have yet to find.
Luke Pearson, a comic book artist, author, and illustrator, lives in Tamworth, United Kingdom.

Everything We Miss

Parenting & Relationships

Inspired by the late, great Georges Perec, who is famous for writing a book whose sole subject was the letter E, illustrator Katja Spitzer and freelance writer Sebastian Gievert teamed up to tackle the letter Q. Katja explains that in the German language, as in English, Q is a rather peculiar letter. One of the rarest in the German language, Q is only given a fleeting position in the Brockhaus Lexicon (an equivalent to our Encyclopaedia Britannica), a mere forty-five pages of Q words, falling somewhere in the middle of a volume entitled PES–RAC, in spite of granting an individual volume to every other letter in the alphabet. Feeling that the letter was given undue negligence, Katja took it upon herself to create the missing "Q" volume of the lexicon and thus Quodlibet was born. Translated from the German, this edition contains several new Q letter entries to replace those from the original text that didn't have direct English language equivalents. Quodlibet covers everything from famous Grindhouse movie directors, to obscure eighteenth century dances, to nature's marvels and ancient Chinese mythological beasts, each illustrated with mastery in four unique spot colors. Katja Spitzer is a freelance illustrator in Berlin, Germany. Quodlibet, her final major project at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, won her the prestigious 3 x 3 Illustration Gold Medal in 2010. Sebastian Gievert is a freelance writer and journalist based in Berlin, Germany.

Quodlibet

Spitzer, Katja

Gievert, Sebastian

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