This was so so sweet! Review to come.

I love love love comics with no words on it. Simply because it tells a story similar to a small movie, and must rely only on show and not tell.

Make way for the cutest comic of the year thus far, everyone. This is also so lushly and gorgeously illustrated that I couldn't pass it up! The Sea of Love: And you think babies are cute. Just look at this old man!

It begins when an old man gets a lovely breakfast, presumably from his wife and then turns on his radio to hear about the weather. I just LOVE how the medium of silence is used. There is so much more emotion to look for in the characters' eyes and so much to deduce from the environment.

The antics between husband and wife are so sweet and serene at the beginning. She packs him his lunch and sends him off to his fishing trip. This is a story of their simple life - their simple love and the sea. I can't refrain form praising this artwork over and over! It's just lovely.

And so, the Old Man sets off on his boat with his friend, who I'll name Young Man since this is a silent comic, you know. Whenever the Old Man doubts himself, he looks at his tin that says "Sea of Love". They continue to catch nothing at all.

This book begins to highlight the troubles of large fish-catching ships and how they take everything away from not just the ecosystem, but from the little guys like Old Man and Young Man. They also have to scramble for safety from the large, looming ship.

The Old Man lets the Young Man escape on a small lifeboat. His wife awaits to give him dinner, but he does not return. And so begins the Old Man's adventure. And he faces so many fears - including his fear of swimming. The transitions are so beautifully illustrated. He begins to despair, but finally eats the tin of sardines that gives him hope. We also see the worst that we do to our planet.

 I won't spoil much more of the story (other than it all leads to Cuba and turns into an almost country-wide struggle), but it's absolutely wonderful. It shows the tenacity of an old couple to never give up hope for each other and always keep that love in their hearts. This is the kind of love I want to see in books - old love that still stays true.

This has got to be one of my favourite comics of this year - it's wonderfully illustrated and beautifully written, albeit without words. I loved the Old Man and his Wife so much - their charm and sweetness seeped from every page.

I cannot stress how the love of these two for each other knows no bounds. The adventures that both husband and wife go through are awesome; their characters develop and they learn (and teach) so much. This is also a story about how helping one person, however close, can cascade into helping so many others. And also how special routine can be in a good relationship.

This graphic novel was an absolute gem. The artwork, the story hits you right in the feels. The story is charming and so much fun.

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.

The art in this book is arresting and lovely, the story is unique and engaging. I am looking forward to sharing this with my students...and my graphic-novel-loving husband.

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.

Stunning! Left smiling after enjoying this story..... a really lovely example of how engaging a really good graphic story can be.... Narrated through the fantastic illustrations and thoughtful layout, I was absorbed completely within the adventures of the fisherman and his wife, loved all the details, the jokes, setting....  A really beautiful book, can't wait to get a real copy when it comes out

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!