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.

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.

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.

A Sea of Love is an amusing wordless graphic novel with utterly gorgeous illustrations. Each morning a doting wife sends her frail-seeming old fisherman of a husband off to work. One day things go a bit astray for the husband when his boat gets tangled up in the lines of an enormous ship. One thing leads to another and he finds himself a adrift and alone at sea. Concerned when he doesn't return home, his wife refuses to give up hope that she'll find him, and eventually she hops on board a cruise liner to go find him.

Alternating between the husband and wife, we see the story slowly unfold as each spouse tries to find their way home to each other. The lovely illustrations made this a joy to read and the wordless story means that just about anyone of any age might enjoy this.

Thanks to NetGalley and Diamond Book Distributors for a free DRC of this book.

A simple fishermen gets up one morning, eats breakfast with his wife, and sets out to sea hoping for a good catch. But his day does not go as planned. A massive fishing trawler almost runs him down, a storm hits his little craft, he encounters bloodthirsty pirates, and gets his propeller tangled in a fishing net. Meanwhile, his wife is distraught with worry, and decides to go looking for him, falling into adventures of her own with belligerent chefs, sleek fashionistas, and military dictators.

This story takes so many twists and turns! I loved every page. It is absolutely hilarious and fun from start to finish, and I felt such a connection with the dear fisherman and his sweet wife. It was delightful to see good and simple people, who only want a quiet life in their little village, thrown out into the world in the most ridiculous circumstances.

The artwork is so eloquent that no words are needed. There is not one bit of dialogue in the entire story, and it is perfect! The facial expressions of the characters, and the energy of their movements tells the whole story. I was completely entranced with the art, and read the whole story in one sitting.

I would love to see more from this artist/ author!

Disclaimer: I received an ecopy if this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts and are not influenced by anyone.

Illustrated by Panaccione in a playful cartoonish style, and "written" by Lupano, this is an absolutely authentic graphic novel since it's completely text-free! In some two hundred pages, it tells the amusing and event-filled story of a European fisherman who sets out in his boat one day with a friend to bring in the morning's catch, and ends up instead being 'caught' by a giant factory ship and through one misfortune after another, winds up somehow transported across the Atlantic, to Cuba.

His intriguing wife has to determine what happened to him. His friend survived the collision and reported what little he knew: that her husband bravely (or foolishly!) refused to abandon ship! His wife becomes ever more heroic, while he becomes ever more plagued by problems, including an environmentally-minded seagull which he rescues from a six-pack plastic yoke.

The lack of text made this difficult to understand at times, but overall I enjoyed the story, and I recommend this as an entertaining non-read, so to speak!

I love this wordless story about how far we will go for love.
There were a few parts when I got confused about what was happening - why characters had certain reactions and how the plot moved - but I realized that it wasn't as important as the overall absurdity and wild ride each spouse was experiencing. In fact, not understanding specific parts made me want to reread, and that's what I hope for my students wh are reluctant readers. This story is perfectly sweet and adventurous and downright farcical.
Thank you for sharing these advanced copies with educators.