![]() ![]() DeForge's striking visual sensibility-stark lines, dramatic colour choices, and brilliant use of page and panel space-stands out in this volume. All of this is done with humour and sensitivity, exposing a world where spiders can wreak unimaginable amounts of havoc with a single gnash of their jaws. ![]() Underneath, though, Ant Colony plumbs the deepest human concerns -loneliness, faith, love, apathy, and more. On the surface, it's the story of this war, the destruction of a civilization, and the ants' all-too-familiar desire to rebuild. Ant Colony follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants. ![]() From its opening pages, Ant Colony immerses the reader in a world that is darkly existential, with false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers. With his debut Drawn & Quarterly title, Ant Colony, DeForge confirms his place as a mover-and-shaker in the world of graphic novels. I like writing stories where the characters can only see the edges of their world, says Michael DeForge, a twenty-seven-year-old cartoonist based in Toronto, about his just published first. His brash, confident, undulating artwork sent a shockwave through the comics world for its unique, fully formed aesthetic. In the few short years since he began his pamphlet-sized comic book series Lose, Michael DeForge has announced himself as an important new voice in alternative comics. ![]()
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