Entropy Names A Walk In Eden Best of 2016

This gets billed as a “coloring book,” no doubt to capitalize on the huge market for adult coloring books as art therapy in recent years (yet another weird little marker of our dark strange times). Whether or not you want to color over Nilsen’s gorgeous line drawings, fans of the surrealist naturalism and existential quandary in his epic graphic novel Big Questions will find almost a companion piece in A Walk In Eden. On the customary “look and find” checklist at the back of book, one of the items the reader is urged to look for is “God.” These days, this doesn’t seem too far off the mark.