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Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero by Michael DeForge
My brother, who specializes in finding weird, cool comic books and graphic novels, got me this collection by Canadian artist Michael DeForge.
The eponymous Sticks Angelica is ... well, she introduces herself on the first page, and the story/collection continues in this vein:
Leaving the molecules in a bowl for the animals to eat--and then calling the animals filthy--that's the flavor of it. Oh, and her hilarious résumé.
Other characters include Oatmeal, a rabbit who's hopelessly in love with Sticks, an eel that's in love with Oatmeal, some Canadian geese ... and Lisa Hanawalt. Lisa Hanawalt is a moose who longs to be Sticks, to the point of stealing her sweaters. Sticks persuades her to go off to the city and build a new life for herself:
(I love that the vital documents you need are a passport, a diploma, and an organ donor card.)
Lisa Hanawalt eventually becomes a lawyer, which is a good thing, because then she's able to defend Girl McNally, who has been marked for death. Here's the panel in which we first see Girl McNally:
There are all sorts of little weirdnesses in the story, like the fact that Harmless Snakes most emphatically aren't:
There's enough of a through-line of story that you can enjoy the book as a coherent work, but each page also is a stand-alone piece. I thought it was a lot of fun--great in a kind of strange-affect way.
PS. Michael DeForge is on Twitter (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
michael_deforge), where it seems like he's running a daily comic, "Birds of Maine."
PPS. It turns out that Lisa Hanawalt is another cartoonist!
The eponymous Sticks Angelica is ... well, she introduces herself on the first page, and the story/collection continues in this vein:
Leaving the molecules in a bowl for the animals to eat--and then calling the animals filthy--that's the flavor of it. Oh, and her hilarious résumé.
Other characters include Oatmeal, a rabbit who's hopelessly in love with Sticks, an eel that's in love with Oatmeal, some Canadian geese ... and Lisa Hanawalt. Lisa Hanawalt is a moose who longs to be Sticks, to the point of stealing her sweaters. Sticks persuades her to go off to the city and build a new life for herself:
(I love that the vital documents you need are a passport, a diploma, and an organ donor card.)
Lisa Hanawalt eventually becomes a lawyer, which is a good thing, because then she's able to defend Girl McNally, who has been marked for death. Here's the panel in which we first see Girl McNally:
There are all sorts of little weirdnesses in the story, like the fact that Harmless Snakes most emphatically aren't:
There's enough of a through-line of story that you can enjoy the book as a coherent work, but each page also is a stand-alone piece. I thought it was a lot of fun--great in a kind of strange-affect way.
PS. Michael DeForge is on Twitter (
michael_deforge), where it seems like he's running a daily comic, "Birds of Maine."PPS. It turns out that Lisa Hanawalt is another cartoonist!