Heaven No Hell – Michael DeForge
Heaven No Hell – Michael DeForge – (226 pages, English, hardcover, published by Drawn And Quarterly)
In the past ten years, Michael DeForge has released eleven books. While his style and approach have evolved, he has never wavered from taut character studies and incisive social commentary with a focus on humor. He has deeply probed subjects like identity, gentrification, fame, and sexual desire.
In “No Hell,” an angel’s tour of the five tiers of heaven reveals her obsession with a haunting infidelity. In “Raising,” a couple uses an app to see what their unborn child would look like. Of course, what begins as a simple face-melding experiment becomes a nightmare of too-much-information where the young couple is forced to confront their terrible choices. “Recommended for You” is an anxious retelling of our narrator’s favorite TV show—a Purge-like societal collapse drama—as a reflection of our desire for meaning in pop culture. Each of these stories shows the inner turmoil of an ordinary person coming to grips with a world vastly different than their initial perception of it. The humor is searing and the emotional weight lingers long after the story ends.
‘DeForge’s comics feel several steps ahead of everyone else’s thinking. [...] Few cartoonists feel as liberated, in a sense of starting from a place of exploration, just starting to draw to see what happens, with few decisions made in advance or thought out beforehand to ensure a story works. There is a sense that reader and author are journeying out together into some unexplored landscape where it’s not clear yet how safe anything will be. That's the future I believe we're all hungry for.’ – The Comics Journal
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