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Nominated for the 2015 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story
"Canadian artist DeForge's anthology series is a showcase for his
warped imaginings and offbeat, genre-bending cartoons." - Matt
White, Publishers Weekly
"Stories about body horror, S&M, Canada; it's easy to call
Michael DeForge the David Cronenberg of comics. But more
specifically, I'd call him the 'noise rock' of the industry, and
it helps that he's in a noise rock band." - GeekRex
"This is DeForge's best all-around effort to date, as his bleak
and brutal sense of the absurd is coupled with surprisingly
stirring humanism and drawn in a 'stupid' line style that makes
perfect sense." - Rob Clough, The Comics Journal
"DeForge's comic universe reflects the dark corners of our real
one, but - sensitive and hopeful storyteller that he is - he
hasn't forgotten about the exuberance, wonder and happiness there
either." - Chris Hampton, The Toronto Star
"Heartwarming isn't a word typically associated with DeForge's
often unsettling work, but the main story in Lose #6, "Me As A
Baby," is a surprisingly sweet tale about how far a 'cool aunt'
will go to make her niece happy ... It's really quite touching,
as long as you're willing to forgive the string of dead bodies
left by Cherelle [the cool aunt] on her path to triumph." -
Oliver Sava, A.V. Club
"I don't know what Michael DeForge is reading these days, but
I'll be damned if this isn't the 'Here's to Crime' issue of his
ongoing comic book anthology series, undoubtedly the closest new
thing we've got to the likes of Eightball or Schizo right now in
terms of popularity and sustained quality." - Joe McCulloch, The
Comics Journal
"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." - Oliver Sava, Los Angeles Times
"DeForge'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." - Sean
Rogers, The Globe and Mail
"Prolific young Canadian-born avant-garde artist DeForge has
become one of his generation's most admired cartoonists, and this
is his first sizable collection. While often willfully
unsettling, DeForge's work resonates on many levels." -
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Laid out side by side, DeForge's sub rosa sense of humour is
what comes through the most: it's so dry that it can slip by
unnoticed in individual works, but taken as a whole, it's as
stark and pointed as his lines are dripping and chaotic." - David
Berry, National Post
"Everything and everyone in his [DeForge's] drawings is dripping,
bubbling and developing unly 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." - Douglas Wolk, The New York
Times
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About the Author
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Michael DeForge currently lives and works in Toronto
as a cartoonist, commercial illustrator, and as a designer for
the hit Cartoon Network program "Adventure Time." Past
illustration clients include "The Believer," "Vice," "New York
Times Magazine," and "The Walrus." His one-person anthology
series "Lose" has received great critical and commercial success.
"Lose #1" won in the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2010
Doug Wright Awards, and "Lose #3" won the 2011 Ignatz Award for
Outstanding Comic. "Lose #4" was released in Spring 2012, and was
nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue (or
One-). The fifth installment was released in Spring 2013. The
2013 Ignatz Awards saw DeForge take home three Ignatz bricks for
Outstanding Series ("Lose"), Outstanding Anthology or Collection
("Very Casual"), and Outstanding Artist for his entire body of
work.
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