All of this is done with humor and sensitivity, exposing a world where spiders can wreak unimaginable amounts of havoc with a single gnash of their jaws.ĭeForge's striking visual sensibility-stark lines, dramatic color choices, and brilliant use of page and panel space-stands out in this volume. 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 por Michael Deforge, 9781770461376, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. His brash, confident, undulating artwork sent a shock wave through the comics world for its unique, fully formed aesthetic.įrom its opening pages, Ant Colony immerses the reader in a world that is darkly existential, with false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers, as it follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants. Psychedelically gorgeous, uncomfortably funny.-Sean Rogers, Globe & Mail Best Books of 2014 The debut graphic novel from a dazzling newcomer with a singular, idiosyncratic style In the few short years since he began his pamphlet-size comic book series Lose, Michael DeForge has announced himself as an important new voice in alternative comics. Michael DeForge’s Ant Colony chronicles a community of black ants’ decay, faced with corrupt cops, a siege of hostile red ants, swooping entomological predators, a sabotaged queen and, ultimately, colony collapse. BEST OF THE YEAR NODS FROM THE GLOBE & MAILL, AMAZON.COM, QUILL & QUIRE The Toronto cartoonist's first full-length graphic novel follows a clutch of misfit ants, trying to maintain some semblance of civilization in the shadow of war. A civilization’s decline begins with a single existentialist ant bemoaning the teensiness of colony life.

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