The End DFA 2025 The Atomics

The Atomics

Inscribed by the artist on the half-title page: "For / Stuart / Best thoughts

Penciled and inked by Alex Nino

and 16 pages of unpublished color illustrations by Reynes

d'esquisses

The End DFA 2025 The AtomicsAssembled from work done in Anders Nilsen's sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiance in 2005, The End is a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting, and transformation. It is a concept album in different styles, a meditation on paying attention, an abstracted autobiography and a travelogue, reflecting the progress of his struggle to reconcile the great upheaval of a death, and finding a new life on the