“I like writing stories where the characters can only see the edges of their world,” says Michael DeForge, a twenty-seven-year-old cartoonist based in Toronto, about his just published first graphic novel, “Ant Colony.” “I want to show characters who don’t have much agency—or who don’t feel they have very much agency over their lives.” DeForge continues,
See below for a sampling of pages from “Ant Colony.” A collection of DeForge’s short stories, “A Body Beneath,” will be published later this spring by Koyama Press.
Click the images to expand. Copyright Michael DeForge, used with permission by Drawn & Quarterly.