The effect of reading Stages of Rot is of visiting a world that is a strange mirror of our own, reflecting our lives back at us in such a manner as, through the specific differences, we see how our world is arranged in a way that is only one of the many (infinite?) ways it could have been, and how it is that what we take as given in our lives has, in actuality, been “given” to us by… the universe, nature, evolution – god? – that, ultimately, we populate a world not of our own making. This world is different in other ways, but we are meant to recognize ourselves in its contours. – populate the skies, together with those, such as birds and insects, that are “normally” airborne. The central visual ploy here is that we are presented with a world in which a splendid array of aquatic animals – whales, dolphins, jellyfish, etc. Here we have a French-flapped softcover containing page after page of lush, full (but muted) color comics, beautifully printed (in Poland) on flat, off-white paper stock, presenting comics inspired by a mix of (mostly) Moebius, Miyazaki and Ernst Haeckel that as often as not is reminiscent of biological, zoological and anthropological illustration. She is best known for her work in her 2017 Eisner nominated graphic novel Stages of Rot, and for her most recent work A Frog in Fall. Her work focuses on nature, life and death, and most importantly, frogs.Stages of Rot is a unique work of anthro-bio-zoological speculative fantasy, and, furthermore, is one that could really only succeed on its own terms in comics form. New art prints and other exclusives will be available for purchaseĪBOUT THE ARTIST: Linnea Sterte is an artist and illustrator based in Sweden.

New artwork will be on display and available for sale.

The artwork will be available online to the public on July 16th.

The art be available for early pre-sale starting Friday, July 14th.

Exhibition on display July 15th beginning at 5 PM PT to July 30th.

Gallery Nucleus is pleased to welcome illustrator Linnea Sterte, author and artist of award-winning books Stages of Rot and A Frog in Fall, to the gallery for her first solo show in the United States! Traveling all the way from Sweden, Linnea will be signing copies of her books and debuting brand new artwork for the show.

A frog in the fall linnea sterte