Danish visual artist John Ken Mortensen has a new book this summer called The Wrestler. This joins an already impressive resume along with books with illustrations such as Nightmare Factory, Flesh Beasts, Night Terror and more.
What sets the wrestler apart is that it is Mortensen’s first sequential English graphic novel. As the name suggests, it is about wrestlers, and as Mortensen’s other works suggest, it is creepy and brought to life by his rich black ink style. We are fortunate here at Beat to have an exclusive excerpt from today’s book courtesy of publisher Fantagurafis.
You can first see the following wrestlers: It is located under the catalog copy. The wrestler is scheduled to be released on June 24th.
The black and white ink image, mediated by John Ken Mortensen, took you to the meat-beard, the nightmare factory, and gave you the night terror. Well, in the first available graphic novel of an internationally bestselling visual artist, you’ll fight like hell!
The freestyle wrestler Sledgehammer has never met defeat, not painkillers, handsome Jens, Fetzik giants, or the hand of an angel of death. But over the course of 80 pages, Danish illustrator John Ken Mortensen’s surreal black and white graphic novel takes Sledgehammer to the limits of reality, showing that he is far more motivated than hub arrogance. That’s also love.
Mortensen’s first English graphic novel conveys the promise that his bizarre, crowd-pleasing illustration book was previously made for readers around the world. With his spider black ink style reminiscent of Edward Golly’s Gothic lines, we are taken to a world where heavy metal meets the seventh seal.
And now the page…
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