The Rime of the Modern Mariner

A former Graphic Novel of the Month in the Observer, Nick Hayes's inspired update of Coleridge's famous work tells a tale of environmental disaster using a powerful and poetic visual language. The wedding guest has become a divorced office worker eating sandwiches in the park, and the old seadog recalls killing the albatross, then finding his ship caught in the North Pacific Gyre - an area of the ocean that is full of plastic waste.