Brandon O'Rourke

Raptured

How will the world finally end?
Every generation debates the signs and headlines that signal the 'end of days'. Doomsday scenarios throughout history have gone unfulfilled or proven anti-climactic, but somehow contemporary events are still taken as proof of an imminent, cataclysmic apocalypse. ‘Raptured’ is an illustrated lesson on the events that failed to end humanity. From the wrath of the Black Plague to the scientific probability of a giant asteroid wiping us out – and even to those pesky doomsday cults with an obsession for apocalypticism – it explores how world ending events unravel and make us question what else is in store for the human race.

Images 01-06 — spreads from riso book Raptured, an illustrated history of the doomsday scenarios that failed to end humanity, and the possibility of future events.

Images 01-06 — spreads from riso book Raptured, an illustrated history of the doomsday scenarios that failed to end humanity, and the possibility of future events.

Images 07-10 — spreads from The Movement members guide. All members of the church must pass the Tier System, a four stage journey that transforms followers into worthy Children of Fire.

Images 07-10 — spreads from The Movement members guide. All members of the church must pass the Tier System, a four stage journey that transforms followers into worthy Children of Fire.