The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is a delightful accordian of a book. Hugely imaginative and sardonically funny - Glen Weldon, author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography
When it was released at the very end of 2013, Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth very quickly turned its author from a young cartoonist with a first book to one of the most acclaimed of her generation. Utterly charming.a graphic remaining of early Earth that is both a tribute and send-up of the folk tales we know. As intricate and richly imagined as the work of Chris Ware, and leavened with a dry wit that rivals Kate Beaton's in Hark! A Vagrant, Isabel Greenberg's debut will be a welcome addition to the thriving graphic novel genre.Ī loving homage to storytelling itself.Sewing her own sly humor, Greenberg deeply immerses readers in the themes and lessons of world mythology.Just as evocative is her art, which uses simple, childlike illustrations to channel the power of ancient cave paintings and archetypal images from our own imaginations. Early Earth's unusual and finicky polarity means the lovers can never touch. There, he meets his true love, but their romance is ill-fated.
In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he paddles from his home in the North Pole to the South Pole. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable.
Before our history began, another - now forgotten - civilization thrived. About the Book Contains many stories, big and small, about and pertaining to the following things: Gods, monsters, mad kings, wise old crones, shamans, medicine men, brothers and sisters, strife, mystery, bad science, worse geography, and did we already mention true love?īook Synopsis A beautifully illustrated book of imaginary fables about Earth's early - and lost - history.
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