The world Randall Watson invisions in his NO EVIL IS WIDE. Illustration by Charles Moody
An illustration by Charles Moody for Randall Watson's graphic novel, NO EVIL IS WIDE
an illustration by Charles Moody of prostitutes working their beat for Randall Watson's graphic novel, NO EVIL IS WIDE
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No Evil Is Wide – Graphic Novel

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by Randall Watson with art by Charles Moody
ISBN: 978-1-956440-57-7 paperback $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-956440-58-4 ebook $9.99
August 2023


WINNER OF THE DAVINCI EYE
presented by The Eric Hoffer Book Awards committee for superior cover art, 2024


No Evil Is Wide is the violent story of an unnamed narrator, the prostitute he is tasked to “find,” and Carpenter Wells, a man who has lost his soul and wanders, empty, unable to quench his desire. The remembrances of the narrator revolve around sexual awakening, family distance, and dissolution—how they crumble to common and inevitable animalism. It is filled with philosophical epistles to the reader that concretize the themes of the work. The narrative that allows the reader purchase within the text begins with the narrator locating the unnamed girl while the world devolves into a chaotic madness of bombings and destruction not dissimilar to contemporary existence. This chaos serves as an uncanny reminder of the everyday violence we overlook.

This graphic novel contains adult content.

$9.99$22.95

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No Evil Is Wide: The Graphic Novel

No Evil is Wide: Graphic Novel, Award winning story by Randall Watson, with award winning art by Charles Moody. This version of the cover with a bird-headed girl with men falling at her feet also proudly displays the DaVinci Eye award for excellence in cover designby Randall Watson with art by Charles Moody
ISBN: 978-1-956440-57-7 paperback $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-956440-58-4 ebook $9.99
August 2023


WINNER OF THE DAVINCI EYE
presented by The Eric Hoffer Book Awards committee for superior cover art, 2024


No Evil Is Wide is the violent story of an unnamed narrator, the prostitute he is tasked to “find,” and Carpenter Wells, a man who has lost his soul and wanders, empty, unable to quench his desire. The remembrances of the narrator revolve around sexual awakening, family distance, and dissolution—how they crumble to common and inevitable animalism. It is filled with philosophical epistles to the reader that concretize the themes of the work. The narrative that allows the reader purchase within the text begins with the narrator locating the unnamed girl while the world devolves into a chaotic madness of bombings and destruction not dissimilar to contemporary existence. This chaos serves as an uncanny reminder of the everyday violence we overlook.

This graphic novel contains adult content.

What people are saying about No Evil Is Wide:


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just read [this] novella and loved it. gorgeous sentences. so lush even for all its darkness. something sort of noir-ish about it. i was so touched . . .

—Nance Van Winckel, author of Our Foreigner, Book of No Ledge, and Pacific Walkers


I would not have picked the winner I have were anyone to try and tell me what it was about, what it was like, what it was. And in a way I am still struggling to figure out how to describe [it] except to say it is a work of art. Sometimes reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, sometimes Kem Nunn, there is to this work the kind of ambition, the sort of bravery and insight and quality of writing and mind behind it that all defy easy summation. The language to this, its pace, its architecture, its audacity and cruel bone-jarring brutality and the cold and loving and miserable and strong-hearted vision of it just blew me away. Period. This was a meaningful, powerful, flat-out, go-for-the-throat read on all fronts. And what makes it especially strong is that throughout this dark dark dark story there is a strand of hope, unbeatable, undeniable, unquenchable hope, despite the ugly and graphic and deadly world the story inhabits.

—Brett Lott, former editor of Quarterly West, and of Crazy Horse


The poetry of this book is astounding. It reads like a glorious symphony sounds, even triumphing over the cruelness of the world depicted within. The story is complex and not for the fan of light reading, for this reads much more like classical literature. Watson’s story centers around an unnamed narrator and his obsession with a prostitute in a world filled with evil. In between the story of finding her, the author weaves the philosophy and beliefs of the narrator. The book will challenge you at every turn.

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Author, Randall Watson, as drawn by artist, Charles MoodyRandall Watson is the author of No Evil is Wide, (Madville Publishing), which received the Quarterly West prize in the novella, The Geometry of Wishes (Texas Review Press), a finalist in the Juniper and Tampa Review Poetry Prizes, The Sleep Accusations, which received the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize at Eastern Washington University, (currently available through Carnegie Mellon University Press), and Las Delaciones del Sueño, translated by Antonio Saborit with an Introduction by Adam Zagajewski, published in a bi-lingual edition by the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico.


Self-portrait of artist Charles MoodyCharles Moody’s work has appeared in venues all over Texas. His art has also been featured as the cover for numerous literary and musical publications, most notably works by Naomi Shihab Nye, Randall Watson, and the German group, Beehover.


Black and red book cover with a hand containing an eye in the palm. The title is No Evil is Wide by Randall Watson. The cover is on a gray background of the NYC skyline with Big Book Award 2022 Distinquished FavoriteCharles Moody also did the cover art for the non-illustrated version of No Evil Is Wide that Madville published in 2018, and which  subsequently won a Distinguished Favorite award which was presented by the NYC Big Book Awards in 2022.


And if that isn’t enough good news, Madville also produced an audiobook version of No Evil Is Wide read by Nick Gilley. It is currently available on Audible.

Additional information

Weight 10.4 oz
Dimensions 10.25 × 6.6 × .35 in
Edition

Audiobook, Ebook, Paperback

1 review for No Evil Is Wide – Graphic Novel

  1. kpdavis

    This story has already won prizes, but now, with illustrations by Charles Moody, it really comes to life.

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