Michael DeForge HOLY LACRIMONY
The post-alien abduction trauma memoir we’ve all been waiting for
“Ah, there’s that famous lip quiver!” says Jackie’s abductor and student. Jackie has been determined to be the “saddest living person in the entire world” by a mysterious team of alien abductors. His earthly musical celebrity is nothing compared to his emotional superstar status in the eyes of these curious and peculiar shape-shifters. Jackie is forced to perform his sadness over and over again on command, so his captors can study and master this very puzzling, very human emotion. Until just like that, Jackie is returned to his old life. Trying to comprehend what has happened, he joins a support group. It’s a sea of conspiracy theorists, emotional vampires, and simpatico “real” abductees. As each person tells their story, he realizes he may never know.
Holy Lacrimony is classic DeForge - oscillating between shockingly dirty, casually funny and earnestly engaged in the socio-politics of his fictive worlds. Part abstract shape blending and part hieroglyphic storytelling, each image is a discrete and tightly designed object of beauty that never loses the forward motion of the best personal cartooning. DeForge continues to prove that he’s the single most innovative and empathetic cartoonist in the past twenty years.
Published by Drawn & Quarterly
Canada Import
Softback
120 color pages
6.8 × 8.8 inches
“A new release from Michael DeForge should be met with trumpet blasts across the length and breadth of the book world.” - The New York Times
“DeForge continues to establish himself as one of the most thoughtful and imaginative voices working in any popular art form today.” - Library Journal, Starred Review
“Michael DeForge’s bold, playful colors and trippy-but-scientific illustrations transport you to a weird and wonderful world where the internet is cool and economics isn’t real.” - NPR
The post-alien abduction trauma memoir we’ve all been waiting for
“Ah, there’s that famous lip quiver!” says Jackie’s abductor and student. Jackie has been determined to be the “saddest living person in the entire world” by a mysterious team of alien abductors. His earthly musical celebrity is nothing compared to his emotional superstar status in the eyes of these curious and peculiar shape-shifters. Jackie is forced to perform his sadness over and over again on command, so his captors can study and master this very puzzling, very human emotion. Until just like that, Jackie is returned to his old life. Trying to comprehend what has happened, he joins a support group. It’s a sea of conspiracy theorists, emotional vampires, and simpatico “real” abductees. As each person tells their story, he realizes he may never know.
Holy Lacrimony is classic DeForge - oscillating between shockingly dirty, casually funny and earnestly engaged in the socio-politics of his fictive worlds. Part abstract shape blending and part hieroglyphic storytelling, each image is a discrete and tightly designed object of beauty that never loses the forward motion of the best personal cartooning. DeForge continues to prove that he’s the single most innovative and empathetic cartoonist in the past twenty years.
Published by Drawn & Quarterly
Canada Import
Softback
120 color pages
6.8 × 8.8 inches
“A new release from Michael DeForge should be met with trumpet blasts across the length and breadth of the book world.” - The New York Times
“DeForge continues to establish himself as one of the most thoughtful and imaginative voices working in any popular art form today.” - Library Journal, Starred Review
“Michael DeForge’s bold, playful colors and trippy-but-scientific illustrations transport you to a weird and wonderful world where the internet is cool and economics isn’t real.” - NPR
The post-alien abduction trauma memoir we’ve all been waiting for
“Ah, there’s that famous lip quiver!” says Jackie’s abductor and student. Jackie has been determined to be the “saddest living person in the entire world” by a mysterious team of alien abductors. His earthly musical celebrity is nothing compared to his emotional superstar status in the eyes of these curious and peculiar shape-shifters. Jackie is forced to perform his sadness over and over again on command, so his captors can study and master this very puzzling, very human emotion. Until just like that, Jackie is returned to his old life. Trying to comprehend what has happened, he joins a support group. It’s a sea of conspiracy theorists, emotional vampires, and simpatico “real” abductees. As each person tells their story, he realizes he may never know.
Holy Lacrimony is classic DeForge - oscillating between shockingly dirty, casually funny and earnestly engaged in the socio-politics of his fictive worlds. Part abstract shape blending and part hieroglyphic storytelling, each image is a discrete and tightly designed object of beauty that never loses the forward motion of the best personal cartooning. DeForge continues to prove that he’s the single most innovative and empathetic cartoonist in the past twenty years.
Published by Drawn & Quarterly
Canada Import
Softback
120 color pages
6.8 × 8.8 inches
“A new release from Michael DeForge should be met with trumpet blasts across the length and breadth of the book world.” - The New York Times
“DeForge continues to establish himself as one of the most thoughtful and imaginative voices working in any popular art form today.” - Library Journal, Starred Review
“Michael DeForge’s bold, playful colors and trippy-but-scientific illustrations transport you to a weird and wonderful world where the internet is cool and economics isn’t real.” - NPR
