Existential Ants: A Comic Book on Navigating Existentialism, One Species at a Time

Siddharth Nair

Beloved Artist @asiddababa (Instagram) Taps into His Rampant Existentialism in This Witty, Biting, NSFW Comic Book

WILD ANIMALS. CIVILIZED PROBLEMS.

Gorgeous sumi-e ink washes bleed into stark white space in Existential Ants, a comic book where animals grapple with what makes us human. Beneath delicate brushstrokes and biting wit runs a current of existential unease – ants obsess over purpose, cats interrogate destiny with skepticism, penguins barter intimacy against the void and crows dismantle common romanticism with inconvenient, razor-sharp truths.

Marrying breathtaking artwork with humour and honesty, this book offers the companionship of creatures who suspect that meaning is fragile and elusive, but perhaps still worth the trouble of finding.