Lose - Michael DeForge

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Résumé :
Lose #5 is the latest issue in Michael DeForge's award-winning, one-man anthology series.

Biographie:
Michael DeForge was born in 1987 in Ottawa. He currently lives and works in Toronto as a cartoonist, commercial illustrator and 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 and is published by Koyama Press. 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 the fifth instalment is slated for Spring 2013. His web comic strip Ant Comic is serialized weekly and will be collected into a graphic novel by Drawn and Quarterly upon its completion. DeForge's work blends an encyclopaedic knowledge of cartooning with a range of influences that include Jack Kirby, Eduardo Munoz Bachs, Mark Newgarden, and Hideshi Hino.

Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist I've discovered the work of Michael DeForge, which I'm really digging. -- Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man, Powers, Alias), The Nerdist If you aren't reading Michael DeForge, I don't know what you're doing with your life. -- Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources 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 DeForge a fantasist and a horrorist and a humorist who doesn't seem interested in any of the established rules for any of those genres. In his hands, they aren't even genres, they are something else. Impressions. Moments. Dreams of something else. His comics are the best of the year so far. And he's so prolific, I expect we will see more from him before the year is done. -- Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources When it comes down to it, Lose #5 contains some of DeForge's best work to date. There was a period of time when I thought his star might not be able to rise any higher, that he couldn't possibly get any better, but this latest work has proven me shamefully wrong. May he continue in this pattern of putting out great work only to eclipse his own genius the year after. Michael DeForge, I salute you. -- Lindsey Morris, Girls Gone Geek [T]here's a new issue of one of the hottest underground comics going on right now, Lose. It's a collection of trippy, weird and entertaining short stories - it's sort of like Adventure Time for grown-ups. -- Benn Ray, Largehearted Boy His [DeForge's] newest releases-a collection of convention minis and other short run one-offs called Very Casual, and the fifth issue of whatever-he feels-like Lose series-is exactly what one arrogantly screeches all cartoonistsl