Gaia Blues


By Gud (Europe Comics)
No ISBN: digital release only

Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Because it’s never too soon and not quite too late… 8/10

Assuming you don’t live in a bubble – and maybe we’ll all be doing that soon – you know the planet is in a parlous state whilst those we put in charge are refusing to do anything meaningful to fix it.

Comics and creators have a great deal of soft power but we can’t do much to mend a planet – more’s the pity. However, we can keep banging on about the crisis, capturing hearts and minds until some sort of tipping point – or spontaneously assembled citizens’ committee of eco-assassins dedicated to primal justice – removes the political and business interests sabotaging the path to salvation. Aah, it’s good to dream…

Gaia Blues was first released in 2011, an epic journey and painful odyssey painted in comely cartoons by Italian artist, animation designer and storyteller Gud (Gentes; Heidi, Mon Amour; Timothy Top)

It details in a beguiling rollercoaster ride of images, an endless journey around our increasingly befouled and besieged world, rendered in an inviting wealth of primary colours and images bereft of text: a tragic silent movie with adorable characters pantomiming the end of the world so simplistically even the youngest of kids and most dissembling and disingenuous of world leaders will get the message. It even offers a tantalising spark of hope at the end.

You should read it while we still have time…
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