Description: Assembled from work done in Anders Nilsen's sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver, in 2005, The End is a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting, and transformation -- a physical manifestation of grief.
Brief description: Anders Nilsen is a cartoonist living in Portland, OR. He is the author of the graphic novel Big Questions and is currently serializing his next graphic novel, Tongues.
Review Quotes: A strikingly universal response to an inescapable part of being human. ... Through straightforward drawings and simple dialogue, the artist explores, with a perspective gained through time, the evolution of his grief.-- "The New Yorker"