Animal
About the book
Animal is a 300-page, wordless graphic novel that evokes empathy by visually exploring animal agriculture practices through monochromatic watercolor pencil & ink depictions.
The novel begins with a woman and a cow in a garden sharing a mystical fruit in full color. After sharing the fruit, both the cow and the woman experience the life of a dairy cow, represented through monochromatic chapters.
These chapters include:
- Gestation (purple)
- Upbringing (blue)
- Auction (turquoise)
- Small farm life (green)
- Dissolution of the small farm and life in a factory farm (yellow)
- Transfer (orange)
- Slaughter (red)
The novel ends with a largely black-and-white, modern-day scene in which the main character purchases meat and dairy from the grocery store. She stores the food but ultimately opts for convenience items, eventually discarding the animal products. When she realizes the life connected to the product she has just wasted, she feels remorse and says a prayer.
