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Michael DeForge

Michael DeForge lives in Toronto, Ontario. He draws the annual series Lose for Koyama Press and is currently drawing the graphic novel Ant Colony for Drawn and Quarterly.

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So Basquiat

Art, film, and Topps trading cards all converge when Baylis goes on a journey that takes him from New York University to Bilbao, Spain, where he discovers that he might have something in common with the great 1980s artist, Jean-Michael Basquiat. Cover art by the legendary underground comics and Garbage …read more

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Obituary Man

Behold: Obituary Man! A nondescript man who gains indescribable energy from reciting the eulogy at the funerals of strangers. He has never felt so alive! Maurice Petit is the unremarkable type, unaware of his own loneliness until, one morning, on his way to work he feels the crowds in the …read more

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Everything Takes Forever

Manhattan-born and based Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever is a collection of the cartoonist and illustrator’s ink-and-wash comics that blur the quotidian with the absurd. In Kerlow’s world tacos and toast have bodies and smoke, tiny men who can no longer copulate or consume sandwiches deal with existential angst, and dream logic …read more

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Very Casual

Culled from mini comics, online comics and anthology contributions, Very Casual collects notable short stories from DeForge’s prolific oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forest-bound drag queens. Very Casual also collects Spotting Deer, which won the Pigskin Peters Award for best non-traditional, non-narrative or avant-garde work at …read more

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The Grey Museum

Set in the future, The Grey Museum is a galactic romp, following a small group of survivors as they fend with mystic beings, interstellar parasites and themselves. Everything here is decided by narcissistic gods and goddesses, disturbed spirits, and bored aliens. Our clueless captives are left to wander, meandering their …read more

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Hair Shirt

John and Naomi were childhood sweethearts— and then they grew up. Life took them on very different paths, but accidents will happen. When their two lives intersect again, they decide to have another go at love. But this is no simple romantic rekindling: Both John and Naomi are wearing the …read more

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Black Paths

When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter “Pirate King” Gabriele d’Annunzio, an Italian poet who stormed the city with 3,000 Italian nationalists. D’Annunzio declared Fiume a free republic and himself commander. He envisioned a …read more

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Aesthetics: A Memoir

This eye-popping illustrated autobiography by Ivan Brunetti traces his artistic trajectory and output, from youthful doodles to his latest cover illustrations and comic strips. Aesthetics: A Memoir unearths a trove of previously unpublished materials, including working drawings, sketches for cartoons, book covers, personal photographs, and items from the artist’s collection of toys …read more

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Chronicles of a Wanderer

The wanderer is on journey across the lands of the subconscious. Travelling through the fantastic vistas of his imagination, our intrepid adventurer draws what he sees. Chronicles of a Wanderer is a record of his travels. Author and visual artist Frédéric Cordier imagines playful worlds where imaginaton, poetry and beauty …read more

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Look Straight Ahead

Jeremy Knowles is a 17-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question, as is his very existence. Can he survive the experience through the healing power …read more

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