E(xtinction)/E

by Alcebiades Diniz, Fábio Laoviahn (Illustrator), Damian Murphy (Introduction)

E(xtinction) is based on some well-defined sources: in the first place, the short story "The Extinction Hymnbook", by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel, published in the Lantern of the Old Night, originally published by Mount Abraxas in 2017. But both the short story and the comic are inspired by Louis Auguste Blanqui's L'éternité par les astres: hypothèse astronomique. Blanqui (1805-1881), a socialist revolutionary, was linked to many revolts and seditions at his age, and was imprisoned for much of his life. It was at one of those moments at France jails, imprisoned in the Château du Taureau, he wrote his hypothesis about the cosmos that, in fact, would become a defense of the exquisite notion of the Eternal Recurrence or Return.
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This extraordinary work and the journey of its author are evoked here through the drawings of Fabio Laoviahn in a Graphic Novel without any language interventions – paying homage to the beginnings of silent cinema and the infinite cosmos, which incessantly, in its endless dance of genesis and destruction, crushes every inch of its extension just to re-create everything and start the cycle again.

70 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2019

Reviews

[Forrest]

I am reminded of the more psychedelic instances of Decadence Comics, but less psychedelic and much, much more mystical. This is an introspective graphic novel. Now, you don't have to have read Lanterns of the Old Night to fully enjoy this wordless wonder, but one's insight is accentuated, having read it.

(Limited edition, 40 of 45)

[Lukasz]

Isn't it intriguing that a wordless adaptation excites and assures you that the original's style of prose would be right up your isle?

Also the intruiging continuity and transition of narration clearly reminds me of some writer/artist but still struggling who exactly...