Next month, Image Comics and Eisner Award-winning comic creator Emma Rios are taking readers to the deep.
In her upcoming graphic novel Anzuelo, Rios pens and illustrates a tale centered on The Sea, with secrets and complexities barely known to humanity. What happens when the depths call what’s above, pulling in everything in its path? What is to become of three children not folded into The Sea? How will they change and grow and transform those survivors? Azuelo is at times gorgeous and awe-inspiring and unnerving and hopeful and will be on many reviewers’ “Best of 2024” lists. It’ll certainly be on mine.
Ahead of the book’s release, FreakSugar has an exclusive look at a Spotify playlist Rios put together for the captivating book. Titled “The Seashell,” the playlist includes songs from artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Zola Jesus, and Chelsea Wolf. Check out the full list of songs here and listed below below:
Heroin And Your Veins, “I Feel Nothing”
Current 93 & Bonnie Prince Billy, “Iduema”
Forest Swords, “Panic”
Haruomi Hosono, “Underwater”
Nine Inch Nails, “Adrift & At Peace”
Anna von Hausswolff, “Theatre of Nature”
Julia Kent, “Idlewild”
Emma Ruth Rundle, “The Ecstasy in Thinking of Final Exits”
Soap&Skin, “Janitor of Lunacy”
This Mortal Coil, “Song to The Siren”
fingerspit, “Mourning”
Zoe Keating, “The Last Bird”
Raiche Coutev Sisters, “A sai en”
Chelsea Wolfe, “Sea Talk”
Einsturzende Neubauten, Anita Lane, “Blume”
Rita Ryes, Elisabeth Roma, “Alfonsina y el mar”
Dead Can Dance, “ACT I: Sea Borne”
Hiroki Kikuta, “Eternal Recurrence”
Uboa, Otay:onii, “Impossible Light/Golden Flower”
Lustmord, Zola Jesus, “Prime”
The Blood of Heroes, “Drift”
Lena Raine, “Anxiety”
Boris, sunn O))), “The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)”
Boards of Canada, “Reach for the Dead”
Grails, “Burden of Hope”
Fever Ray, “Bottom of the Ocean”
Hildur Guonadottir, Johann Johannson, “Erupting Light”
Guilhem Desq, Sebastien Gisbert, “The Lighthouse”
Brendan Perry, “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”
Brian Eno, “An Ending (Ascent)”
Massive Attack, Shara Nelson, “Unfinished Sympathy”
Give “The Seashell” playlist a look and a listen before picking up Anzuelo on its November 6th sale date. And be sure to check back here Monday, October 28, 2024, for our interview with Emma Rios about Anzuelo!
From the official graphic novel description:
A gorgeous and brutal story that revolts against the notion of violence as the only response to a life without hope.
The Sea, secretly more complex than anyone imagined, rises one day. The horizon folds as the Sea absorbs the world and transforms everything that’s been pulled inside it. Three kids find themselves unmoored and lost, but brought together by the physical and mental changes wrought by the tides and a desire to avoid harming any living creature.
ANZUELO is the new graphic novel by the Eisner award-winning cartoonist EMMA RÍOS (PRETTY DEADLY, MIRROR, I.D.).