<b>The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly rendered, entirely wordless graphic novel by a contemporary comics innovator.</b><br><br>Joe Kessler is at the forefront of European comics. Co-founder and art director of UK’s Breakdown Press, and winner of the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s Fauve Révélation for his breakthrough comic book <i>Windowpane</i>, Kessler rejuvenates the form once again with his vivid and moving <i>The Gull Yettin</i>.<br><br>Told in striking colors and loose but confident lines, <i>The Gull Yettin</i>’s story begins when a young boy awakens late one night to find his home on fire. The boy is saved by a lanky, shapeshifting Gull. Orphaned by the fire, and now adrift in a boat piloted by the Gull, the boy faces an uncertain future, one that will be both helped and hindered by his new attendant. <br><br>Without a word, Kessler builds a strange but recognizable w