Michael DeForge
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The bodies of citizens and the infrastructure surrounding them is constantly updating. People can't recognize themselves in old pictures, and they wake up in apartments of completely different sizes and shapes. Commuter routes radically differ day to day. The citizens struggle with adaptability as updates happen too quickly, and the changes are far too radical to be intuitive. There is no way to resist--the updates are enacted by a nameless, faceless...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Long after the demise of humankind, birds roam freely around a new earth complete with fruitful trees, sophisticated fungal networks, and an enviable socialist order. The universal worm feeds all, there are no weekends, and economics is as fantastical a study as unicorn psychology. No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds. Instead, there are angsty teens who form bands to show off their best bird song and other...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, "49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist." After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 'No Hell,' an angel's tour of the five tiers of heaven reveals her obsession with a haunting infidelity. In 'Raising,' a couple uses an app to see what their unborn child would look like. Of course, what begins as a simple face-melding experiment becomes a nightmare of too-much-information where the young couple is forced to confront their terrible choices. 'Recommended for You' is an anxious retelling of our narrator's favorite TV show--a Purge-like...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Richard is a benevolent but tough leader. He oversees everything that happens in the valley, and everyone loves him for it. When Lyle the Raccoon becomes sick, his friends-Omar the Spider, Neville the Dog, and Ellie Squirrel-take matters into their own hands, breaking Richard's strict rules. Caroline Frog rats them out to Richard and they are immediately exiled from the only world they've ever known. Michael DeForge's Leaving Richard's Valley expands...
8) Big kids
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style. Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to...
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Short, succinct and, more often than not, strange stories have always been a central part of Michael DeForge's oeuvre. In a career that's volume outweighs its years, DeForge's most powerful work has often been his most pithy."--Amazon.com.
10) Brat
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A major star of minor crime struggles for delinquency relevancy as she ages out of the delinquent scene she pioneered. Michael DeForge presents the mid-career crisis of a merry prankster in his singular style that blurs the banal with the absurd."--Amazon.
11) Stunt
Author
Publisher
Koyama Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A stunt double is hired by an actor to serve as his doppelgänger in order to sabotage his career. Seeing your double is often viewed as an ill omen, a portent of bad luck, and an harbinger of death. Hiring a professional double, an actor spurs on his own demise as he and his double explore the depths of degradation and self-destruction"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"No zombies. No vampires. No werewolves. No familiar solutions. No safe havens. An anthology of 26 all-new, original comics, by 34 different creators. The sleep of reason produces monsters. Let us give you something to be afraid of."--Page 4 of cover.
