The Gull Yettin: Accidental Graphic Novel Book Club meets with author Joe Kessler

Our occasional graphic novel book club meets to discuss The Gull Yettin. We are very pleased to be joined by the author, Joe Kessler, to discuss his stunning and moving, wordless creation.

If you’d like to sign up please get in touch: read@heronbooks.info. Space is limited. We ask that you buy the book from us or a different book if you already own this one.

Joe Kessler is at the forefront of European comics. Co-founder and art director of UK’s Breakdown Press, and winner of the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s Fauve Révélation for his breakthrough comic book Windowpane, Kessler rejuvenates the form once again with his vivid and moving The Gull Yettin.

Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines, The Gull Yettin’s story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky, shapeshifting Gull. Orphaned by the fire, and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull, the boy faces an uncertain future, one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant.

Without a word, Kessler builds a strange but recognizable world, using it to explore all the forms that grief, jealousy, longing, and love can take in our lives, and the compassion and cruelty that can dwell in a single heart. Filled with all the warmth and poignancy of a great folktale, The Gull Yettin proves that Kessler is pushing comics to new heights.