{"product_id":"endsickness-9781772621075","title":"Endsickness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA first collection of graphic stories about climate change and eco-anxiety.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoined by Elizabeth Rush, \"endsickness\" is a term that describes our modern malaise and severe anxiety over the end of the world. For Alarcon, It's also a shorthand way of describing our culture's current obsession with all things dystopian and apocalyptic. Climate change is often referred to as a hyperobject: so large in scope and scale that it's difficult to see or understand the entirety of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eEndsickness\u003c\/i\u003e, each story attempts to counter that challenge by taking a close look at the individual quandaries of living in a society that seems at odds with itself, unable to face the existential threat looming on the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSofia Alarcon\u003c\/b\u003e is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Guatemala and now based in Kjipuktuk\/Halifax. She graduated from NSCAD University, where she pursued her interests in film, textiles and drawing. After taking a long hiatus to raise her kids, she returned to art-making through comics and cartoons. In 2021, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, she began self-publishing her one-person anthology series: Endsickness. Endsickness #1 was nominated for a Broken Pencil zine award and three Doug Wright awards, and Endsickness #2 was likewise nominated for a Doug Wright Award. She is still busy raising her kids, but she hopes to keep making comics whenever she has some free time. \u003ci\u003eEndsickness\u003c\/i\u003e (the completed anthology) is her first book, published by Conundrum Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Conundrum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324654878994,"sku":"9781772621075","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12ea7198-9219-4849-a006-10828595aee9.jpg?v=1748692080","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/endsickness-9781772621075","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}