**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.
