The “Ecocalypse” graphic essay/art book doesn’t really fit into any previous genre. It is a book about the societal collapse that might precede our extinction as a species, but the style is simple, ironic, and, at times, intentionally funny. It is imagined as a dialogue with the German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), but the material is non-fiction, as the written fragments are drawn from history, news, or the my personal experience. Except at the very beginning, the text doesn’t explain the drawings nor do the drawings illustrate the text, but rather, they are both seen as building-blocks of a single story.

The backbone for the fragmented narration is given by Albrecht Dürer’s late 15th century “Illustrated Apocalypse”. Each of his 15 woodcuts was an inspiration for one of the new drawings, although the original is not always followed closely. Fifteen quotes from the Book of Revelation are added to mirror Dürer's engravings whereas my drawings are followed by specular texts, one- or two-page short stories that illustrate societal fault lines that might become a problem in the future: the ecological and social negative feedback loops, the reemergence of infectious diseases, the narcissism epidemic, Doomsday Shelters and the problem of the ruling élites, the problem of economic growth on a raging planet, the problem of self-preservation at all costs on the state and government levels, the problem of self-preservation at all costs on the individual level, the potential unruliness of mercenary armies and the problem of human behavior in extreme environments.