Anders Nilsen

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born

January 01, 1973 in The United States

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http://www.andersbrekhusnilsen.com/

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Comics & Graphic Novels, Arts & Photography, Philosophy

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Anders Nilsen (born 1973) 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 (Drawn and Quarterly), which has been nominated several times for the Ignatz Award. In addition, his comics have appeared in the anthologies Kramers Ergot[1] and Mome.[2] 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 a...more

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Anders Nilsen's Blog

Anders Nilsen isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

Adam and Eve Sneaking Back into the Garden of Eden to Steal More Apples

I haven't been drawing in my sketchbook much lately as the dearth of recent blog posts will attest. Instead I've been preparing for a show I'm putting up at the Elmhurst Art Museum outside Chicago in a couple of weeks. The show is mostly a drawing show and includes the largest drawing I've probably ever done, a 5' x 8' monstrosity with the above title, which can be seen, dimly, in the backgrou... read more »

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Books by Anders Nilsen

Average rating: 3.99 · 1,385 ratings · 252 reviews · 26 distinct works

	Dogs and Water 3.79 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Big Questions 4.22 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Monologues for the Coming Plague 3.46 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Don't Go Where I Can't Follow by Anders Nilsen, Cheryl Weaver 4.29 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes 3.70 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The End No. 1 (Ignatz Series) 4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Big Questions #11: Sweetness And Light 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings	My rating:
	Big Questions #10: The Hand That Feeds 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Big Questions #3: Astrophysics 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Big Questions #13: A House That Floats 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009	My rating: