Staring at the images, I couldn’t stop imagining Van den Ende, pen in hand, drawing each line, one after the other, creating work that seems to defy the passage of time, and all known resources of patience and imagination. The technical aspect of the work is mind-boggling, especially the masterly crosshatching. Instead, we have 96 pages of black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings. But the hero of “The Wanderer” is a paper boat, and there is almost no language at all. At the end, our hero - battered and exhausted - is transformed.
Our hero meets many colorful characters and experiences great trials and setbacks, as well as violence and despair. Like many great 19th-century novels, Peter Van den Ende’s “The Wanderer” begins with the birth of the main character, who quickly sets off on a series of extraordinary adventures.
THE LIGHTS & TYPES OF SHIPS AT NIGHT Written by Dave Eggers Illustrated by Annie Dills
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