The Arrival Book Cover

The story is told in the form of sequential art with the mood being set with varying degrees of sepia tone colored illustrations in multiple frames and panels. The book is 128 pages long and divided into six chapters. The arrival is a wordless graphic novel that tells the tale of an immigrant father who leaves his family to work in a foreign land.
the arrival book cover

Inside borderless sepia panels are arranged in careful grids.

The arrival book cover. The plan is to poison our atmosphere with greenhouse gases thus raising the planets mean temperature by about 250f. The story of jesus christ creator of the universe coming into humanity as one of us. Tan often uses a series of small images to convey a thought or a feeling each is a masterpiece. It is composed of small medium and large panels and often features pages of full artwork.

Arrival book cover design. I paged through slowly savoring each image. How do you tell a story visually when it exists in song form. First of all special thanks to tukunjil nayeera for recommending me this wonderful book.

The arrival by shaun tan is a wordless graphic novel published by hodder childrens books in 2006. The arrival is one of the most beautiful pieces of art i have ever seen on several different levels. This book cover answered that question for a narrative song i chose. The arrival is a nightmarish sci fier about an astronomer who first tunes into alien broadcasts and later discovers these shape shifters have already come to earth and are actively adapting our eco system to their liking.

Creases and unidentifiable splotches elegantly blemish many of the pages. The book does what so much great art does it captures the ineffable. The song is arrival by hillsong and it chronicles the christmas story. The cover of the arrival made to look like old worn leather establishes a family photo album motif that tan faithfully carries through the entire book.