Synopses & Reviews
The multi-award winning Lose series is Michael DeForge's comics laboratory. The art form is pushed to its limits in these first-time-in-full-color pages. Revel in a cartoonist at the height ofand#160;his powers exploring the eccentricities of a woman who befriends her dad's doppelganger, and the realities of a flightless bird/boy hybrid.
Michael DeForge currently lives and works in Toronto as a cartoonist, commercial illustrator, and designer for the hit Cartoon Network program Adventure Time. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner Awards.
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andldquo;DeForgeandrsquo;s comic universe reflects the dark corners of our real one, but andmdash; sensitive and hopeful storyteller that he is andmdash; he hasnandrsquo;t forgotten about the exuberance, wonder and happiness there either.andrdquo; andmdash; Chris Hampton,and#160;The Toronto Star
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and#147;DeForgeand#8217;s comic universe reflects the dark corners of our real one, but and#151; sensitive and hopeful storyteller that he is and#151; he hasnand#8217;t forgotten about the exuberance, wonder and happiness there either.and#8221; and#151; Chris Hampton,and#160;
The Toronto Starand#147;Toronto's comics arts scene is thriving, and young Michael DeForge, with his penchant for body horror and cute-meets-perverse aesthetic, is at its hub.and#8221; and#151; Carla Gillis, Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine
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Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding SeriesWinner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist
and#147;This issue continues DeForgeand#8217;s exploration of a world where fantasies can be hauntingly painful and bizarre.and#8221; and#151; Heidi MacDonald, The Comics Beat
and#147;DeForgeand#8217;s comic universe reflects the dark corners of our real one, but and#151; sensitive and hopeful storyteller that he is and#151; he hasnand#8217;t forgotten about the exuberance, wonder and happiness there either.and#8221; and#151; Chris Hampton,and#160;The Toronto Star
and#147;Toronto's comics arts scene is thriving, and young Michael DeForge, with his penchant for body horror and cute-meets-perverse aesthetic, is at its hub.and#8221; and#151; Carla Gillis, Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine
and#147;DeForgeand#8217;s world is not for the squeamish. But it is one whose grotesqueries increasingly mirror, rather than distort, the mundane world with which we think we are familiar.and#8221;and#160;and#151; Sean Rogers,and#160;The Globe and Mail
and#147;One of the most exciting and unpredictable cartoonists working in comics, Michael DeForge has a unique perspective that juggles humor, tragedy, whimsy and horror to create unforgettable stories.and#8221; and#151; Oliver Sava, Los Angeles Times
"Everything and everyone in his [DeForge's] drawings is dripping, bubbling and developing unsightly growths. He warps and dents the assured, geometrical forms of vintage newspaper strips and new wave-era graphics into oddly adorable horrors; his stories are prone to whiplash formal shifts.and#8221; and#151; Douglas Wolk, The New York Times
and#147;Prolific young Canadian-born avant-garde artist DeForge has become one of his generationand#8217;s most admired cartoonists, and this is his first sizable collectionand#133;While often willfully unsettling, DeForgeand#8217;s work resonates on many levels.and#8221; and#151;and#160;Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Synopsis
Lose, now in full color!
Synopsis
The multi-award winning Lose series is Michael DeForgeand#8217;s comics laboratory. The art form is pushed to its limits in these first-time-in-full-color pages. Revel in a cartoonist at the height of their powers turning their attention to performance art and the modern Panopticon; all rendered in their succinct and singular style.