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Comics & Graphic Novels Literary

Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero

by (author) Michael DeForge

Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Initial publish date
Mar 2017
Category
Literary
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781770462700
    Publish Date
    Mar 2017
    List Price
    $24.95

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A Johnson has his Boswell and every Sticks Angelica has her Michael DeForge
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. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.
DeForge’s witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre, yet eerily familiar world. Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero plays with autobiography, biography, and hagiography to look at 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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Contributor Notes

Michael DeForge draws comics and posters in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

"Michael DeForge makes some of the most excellent and unnerving comics currently in print." - Wired

"… a mesmerizing, poetic rumination on how we exist in the world, all exquisitely rendered with DeForge’s storytelling mastery" - Publishers Weekly

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