Description
A new self-contained issue in Michael DeForge’s one-man anthology series. In the issue’s main story, “Dogs 2070,” screenwriter Stephen tries to reconnect with his ex-wife and son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and operates out of Toronto, where he works as a cartoonist and commercial illustrator. Past clients include The Believer, Vice, New York Times Magazine and The Walrus. In 2008 he was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the category of “Best Illustration” for work printed in Ottawa Magazine. He has collaborated with the printmaking group Bongout on the silkscreened book “Hand Astronaut” and recently participated in the group show “Neighbourhood Sacrifice” at the Deleon White Gallery with Jesjit Gill and Steph Davidson. Among his influences are Jack Kirby, Mark Newgarden, Saul Steinberg and Eduardo Munoz Bachs. Lose #1 was his first full length comic, published by Koyama Press in 2009. He was nominated for a 2010 Doug Wright Award in the category of “Best Emerging Talent.”
“This is DeForge’s most ambitious comic yet, centering around the post-apocalyptic, funny animal slice-of-life story “Dog 2070″. DeForge’s ear for painfully funny detail and awkwardness combined with his desire to create a feeling of claustrophobia in his reader make this an uncomfortable read, yet an incredibly compelling one. ” –Rob Clough, who selects Lose #3 as one of his top 15 comic books of 2011 on his High-Low blog.
NOTE: Lose #3 is out of print. Its stories are collected in A Body Beneath
36 pages. Black and white comic with color covers.
Koyama Press, 2011.
