Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero - Hardcover

DeForge, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1770462708 ISBN 13: 9781770462700

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2017

Synopsis

Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, '49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist.' After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Deforge's witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre yet eerily familiar tale of how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we create for them in our own personal dramas.

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Review:

..". absurdist slices of life to tales of uncanny transcendence ... [Sticks Angelica] eschews human society for a surreal life in the forest; strange hijinks do, in fact, ensue."--Vol 1 Brooklyn

"A surreal trip into the Canadian wilderness."--Vice

"One of DeForge's talents is to create an off-kilter world that differs from ours in various strange ways, yet to do so convincingly, and in a way that sheds light on aspects of our own ... Sticks Angelica is an absolute pleasure."--The Quietus

"Toying with autobiography, biography, and hagiography, DeForge examines both how we build our own sense of self and how others take on the roles we create for them."--The Guardian

"Michael DeForge improvises his own brand of classic comic strip, as though we were reading a mutant Mark Trail ... a self-conscious lark on the Canadian theme of survival."--The Globe and Mail

"[Sticks Angelica is] a meditation on fame... a beautiful, disturbing daydream in pink-and-black ink."--Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"Is there meaning in the world? In the wilderness? In the universe? Who knows. But there is art, and Michael DeForge is making it."--Paste

"Michael DeForge... has become one of the comic-book industry's most exciting, unpredictable talents because of this eagerness to push himself outside of his comfort zone."--NPR

"Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero is weird, hilarious and affecting."--CBC

About the Author:

Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for, or won, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His illustrations have been published in The New York Times and Bloomberg View; his comics have appeared in the Believer, Maisonneuve, and the Adventure Time comic book series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1770462708
• ISBN 13: 9781770462700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96