Heaven No Hell

By Michael DeForge

Book Overview

"One of the most inventive and prolific cartoonists working today."--Vulture

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.

Heaven No Hell collects DeForge's best work yet. His ability to dig into a subject and break it down with beautiful drawings and sharp writing makes him one of the finest short story writers of the past decade, in comics or beyond. Heaven No Hell is always funny, sometimes sad, and continuously innovative in its deconstruction of society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770464352
• ISBN13: 9781770464353
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up

Customer Reviews

this will stick with you

i laughed, i cried, i was captivated, i was horrified, i was awestruck, i am disgusted with myself and humanity, i am so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this world. concise, clever and enormously funny, michael deforge pulled me in with his stunning and playful technicolor illustrations and didnt let me leave until i was served a good ol fashion philosophical beatdown. you will not regret buying this book. you will regret reading this book because once you finish reading it you will have to face the fact that there is no more book left to read and oh god oh god what am i going to do with my life now???? but then you will go online and find that michael deforge has published many other books and you can buy those to satisfy your need for that fleeting and ephemeral sense of purpose.... PHEW! thank.... God? no... thank MICHAEL DEFORGE!