This gorgeous little graphic novel is free of text, but is full of emotion. So detailed, so lovely. The illustrations are nothing short of phenomenal. I want to read this over and over again to catch all of the beautiful details.

A lovely, wordless graphic novel about the love between a fisherman and his wife - when the fisherman is lost at sea, his wife goes looking for him. Hijinks ensue as both the fisherman and his wife cross the seas searching for one another. This is one of those books that requires no translation - it can be understood by anyone reading it, no matter their native language.

Here's a graphic novel with no words. The illustrations tell the story so have no worries...

Lion Forge and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you). It's being published July 31st.

He's a fisherman who goes out each day after his catch. He and his wife live a simple life and they are content with each other.

Except one day he goes out and doesn't come back. She prays, she waits for a sign and finally she visits a fortune teller. As she follows the path the fortune teller set her on, her husband is trying to get disconnected from the big boat that ran into him. Then he runs out of gas. She continues to search for him, he keeps trying to get home.

All hope is not lost. They eventually reunite at home. But, boy, do they have adventures to talk about!

Fantastic and fantastical wordless story of the adventures of an aging fisherman who disappears at sea one day and his amazing wife’s journey to find him. Very sophisticated illustrations take you through each story in alternative turns.

This is a beautiful, simply written story of a man, a woman, and the lengths both go to in order to be reunited. To start, the story is told completely with pictures, which is often harder than you would expect. However, Lupano handles this perfectly, crafting a story that is incredibly easy to follow. It's also incredibly amusing, too. Not "bust a gut" funny, but certainly good for a chuckle.

Readers will be enchanted by the beautiful artwork and creative storytelling. Would highly recommend, especially to readers who enjoyed Chabouté's graphic novel, "Alone".

It just didn’t grab me. The art was too dark, the characters kinda uninteresting, the plot a bit silly and the whole thing was a bit of a boring drag. Well done but not a fun read.

Unfolding in total silence, from a script by Wilfrid Lupano, and with absolutely breathtaking art by Grégory Panaccione, A Sea of Love inserts broad strokes into very simple lives by portraying the slapstick, satirical adventures of a fisherman and his wife as they become swept up by the fury of the sea and the wider world huddled around it.

Living a life as quiet as the pantomime of the presentation, we are introduced to an older couple preparing for the day. The man, a grizzled little fisherman, gets ready to go to his job while his wife, matronly and serving as both servant and overseer, moves him along. Getting on his boat, he confronts the giant visage of the modern world in the form of a huge ocean liner that is so big it takes no notice of him or his boat and that means danger.



One calamity leads to another and the fisherman finds himself adrift at sea with nothing but a scraggy seagull for company. He wants to get home but doesn’t have the means, and a frenzied misadventure where he crosses paths with just about any nautical scourge you can think of, from destructive weather to engulfing pollution to modern pirates, seems to take him further away from the home he is desperately trying to get back to.

The narrative doesn’t ignore his wife. At first desperately waiting for her husband to return and then stricken with the grief of believing him dead, the wife attempts to seize the moment as her chance at a new life, and by going on a cruise attempts to both bond with the master of her husband’s life and scene of his final resting place, as well as enact her own odyssey to capture a future alone.



Things don’t go smoothly or as planned, but as her misadventure careens out of control, she is able to survive on her own merits, and the simplicity of her former life becomes the mechanism that turns an international incident into a positive affirmation of her own worth.

French illustrator Panaccione is also an animator, which is no surprise considering the lively flow of his panels and the rich details that mix the emotional impact of the scenes with the literal presentation of the story, but I haven’t seen that any of his animation work matches the power and passion of what he puts down on the page here. I’ll admit to not encountering his work before, but he’s certainly got my attention now.



With its vigorous narrative and gentle intentions, A Sea of Love is a beautiful book that wows you with the cinematic artwork even as it latches onto the simple, honest emotions being explored in the relationship between the couple.

A previous story about a fisherman and his wife, told by the Grimm Brothers centuries ago, was a cautionary tale of greed and desire in which the universal order provides comeuppance, but this 21st Century version becomes a raucous-yet-soothing tale of the power of love and devotion, and their function as armor in a big, scary world.

Told entirely in illustrations, this is a thoughtful story about love, home, and travel. The two main characters, while very different in appearance, share a common goal of finding each other, and it was entertaining to see their separate journeys rendered in very different color palletes, which were a perfect match for the tone of their experiences. This unconventional love story will appeal to fans of offbeat graphic novels.

wonderful art and fun story of a fisherman whose ship goes off course, his wife who tries to hunt him down, and how he gets back home again. zero dialogue but you get everything from the pictures. i love his wife and the seagull especially.

It took me a while to figure out that the woman was the wife and not a servant but then realizing where the story was taking place things fell into place. The best part of the story was the wife, how everywhere she went she made friends. And the seagull was fun, teaching the fisherman about not polluting the ocean.

This is a great graphic novel. No words needed, the illustrations say it all. I loved the characters and the story.

graphic novel/wordless adventure-romance.
a fisherman husband and his wife separated by an accident at sea, and an indescribable train of events follow (they are reunited finally at the end). Beautiful artwork.

This is different than other graphic novels that i read. It is wordless. I laughed lots of times. I think the seagull is one of the most hilarious characters in this graphic novel. I love both lead characters had their own adventure. It is heartwarming and funny story to read. I loved it.

What I like about wordless graphic novels is that there's no need for characters' dialogues to be able to convey what they want to say; readers only need to check out the illustrations to be able to decipher the flow of the story. And Sea of Love did easily convey the narrative that it wants to reveal by just only checking out the drawings.

This is the second worldless graphic novel that I came across and was really entertained by the tale of a married couple from a small village who both had amazing adventures while they were both on the sea. I am amazed by the wife's unwavering hope and the husband's uncanny friendship with a bird while he was stranded alone.

The story of the couple will remind us of how powerful love is and to never give up amidst struggles. Another great aspect of this one-shot graphic novel is how it briefly mentioned the problem of pollution in the environment. I'm happy that I have the chance to read this marvelous material and I'll definitely recommend this to my fellow readers, especially those who are into graphic novels.

Publishing date: July 31, 2018
Diamond Book Distributors
Lion Forge

In this wordless comic about an old fisherman lost at sea and the wife who goes to the ends of her earth to find him, this is a powerful story not just of love but about the damage we are doing to our oceans and to each other. This is also a story of carelessness and blind industrialization.

How do I get all of this from a wordless story? Because there are no words, I had to bring my experiences to the book. When his fishing boat gets blindly caught in the nets of an industrial fishing trawler and there are no humans to see him, I think of my oldest son on his little kayak fishing in Kaneʻohe Bay last week. He saw a commercial shuttle boat moving quickly towards him, so my son maneuvered his kayak to sit almost on the reef to leave the channel free. The commercial boat zoomed past him so close that it snagged his line, pulled out 300 yards of line and his lure. My son blew his emergency whistle to let them know he was snagged on them and the boat just blew past him. As a mother, I am thankful that he is ok, and I am grateful that the captain of the larger ship that this shuttle was meeting beyond the reef actually heard the whistle, saw the recklessness of one of his skippers and suspended his license, but it helped me to bring my son's experience into this story.

This very cute story also has the power to bring more awareness to current issues like the large trash pile floating in the ocean. I wish there were some resources at the end of this to highlight some organizations that are connected to this tale.

This is a lovely (and wordless) story about love! There's no need for words in this book - you can easily understand and empathize with the characters because the images are very expressive, with a melancholic aura. The story revolves between the two members of a separated couple, after the little boat of the fisherman got cought in the net of a ship. Sailing alone in a vast ocean, he will do anything to come back, as is wife travels around the world searching for him! One of my greatest reads in 2017!

This wordless translation (there's a combination of words I'd never expected to type) is a quick read, but enchanting none the less. In a genre that is increasingly embracing more and more text, this is a good reminder that excellent graphic novels can still be made on the strength of art alone.

A lot of Very Serious People have looked down their noses at graphic novels for a long time. "Not enough blocks of dolorous text to tell a story!" or "Picture books are for children, not for discerning adults!" are the general refrains that these Very Serious People cling to in the hopes of convincing the rest of the world that only big books with dense text and unhappy endings tell important stories. They are, of course, completely wrong.

Graphic novels have done a lot of growing and changing in the past few decades, providing audiences around the world (grown-ups included) with a vast array of stories about a vast array of topics. Many of them are silly and fun. Others are dark and impart important messages. Some of them are both at the same time. But what they all do is push the boundaries of how people tell stories through books.

In A Sea of Love, Wilfrid Lupano and Gregory Panaccione do a little more to stretch the boundaries of storytelling via books by doing away with words entirely. Through Panaccione's gorgeous illustrations, they tell a story as rich and complex as any book filled to the brim with words could do.

A Sea of Love tells the story of a bespectacled old fisherman who says goodbye to his doting wife one dark morning and heads out to sea, only to be swept away when an industrial fishing trawler accidentally snags his little boat and carries him across the Atlantic Ocean. When he doesn't return home that night, the other people in town declare that the old fisherman must have died. But his wife holds out hope. She visits a fortune teller, and when she sees an image of her husband- alive and in Cuba- burned into a crepe, she embarks upon a grand voyage to find him. In their search for home and each other, the fisherman and his wife have adventures and meet new friends in their parallel journeys, and the ending is as satisfying as it is enchanting.

A story without words rests upon the strength of its visuals, and Panaccione's illustrations are more than up to the task. Within a few frames, I fell in love with the little old fisherman and could see that he and his wife were devoted to each other. Though the panels were small on my e-reader, I could get clear picture of the tiny fishing boat set against the grandeur of the ocean or understand the fisherman's reaction to a bird's predicament. Each frame was a work of art, beautifully crafted and conveying its message so completely that I didn't notice the lack of words. I felt the fisherman's outrage and sorrow when he sailed into a massive patch of garbage floating in the ocean, and I understood his wife's bewilderment at the situation she found herself in towards the end. And while I don't generally laugh while reading books, I couldn't keep from giggling at the characters' antics. Out loud, and often.

This book hooked me from the first page and I flew through the story, often pausing to admire the incredible artwork, much of which I would love to have framed on my walls. When I reached the final page I was sad to be done with the story. I would happily have stuck around for another hundred pages and more. Though I received a free ebook edition of this through NetGalley, I plan to search for a physical copy to buy and add to my small but growing collection of graphic novels, and would heartily recommend it to anyone who loves stories.

I loved older time feel of this one, and the introduction of both characters. The beginning of the book was solid and he art sucks you in. It lost its footing for me a bit in the middle, as it becomes a more bizarre adventure than I was anticipating and had a lot of moving pieces for a book with no words.. it became a bit difficult to follow. In addition, the art is already darker tones and is beautiful with simpler frames ( in my opinion!).

That being said, I loved that the wife got an adventure of her own, that was probably my favorite part, she was great (and how cute the husband was drawn!). This one was unique and a quick read, I enjoyed it.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for a chance to read this wonderful wordless graphic novel!

Rating: 4 stars.

Plot: Every morning, a wife waves goodbye to her husband as he heads out to sea. One day, the fisherman finds himself adrift in a small boat with no fuel, along the way he meets a variety of people and gets help from an amusing seagull. Meanwhile, when his wife realises he is missing, she decides to go on an adventure of her own to try and find him.

This is the first ever wordless graphic novel I have read and I loved it! The Illustrations are beautiful and the story is very easy to follow.

This is such a heartfelt, moving tale of love, bravery and adventure.