Synopsis
Teenage misfits and adolescent rabble-rousing take center stage in this dark coming-of-age tale
Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets...
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23 February 2016
9781770462243Reviews
"Big Kids is a bildungsroman of sorts; the story of a troubled teenage boy navigating the transformative years of high school, redefining his friends, interests, and life path. Anybody with a passing familiarity with DeForge’s unsettling, vividly beautiful comics will know that this is a deceptively simple summation."—Zainab Akhtar, The Guardian
"In the world of comics, there’s no shortage of narratives about adolescence. But you’ve probably never read one as memorably surreal as Michael DeForge’s Big Kids."—Abraham Riesman, Vulture
"Michael DeForge's Big Kids comic is a transcendental heartbreaker."— The Fader
"... an outstanding work by one of the most original voices in comics today.—Pete Redrup, The Quietus
"Big Kids is a revelation and DeForge’s art is an unsettling, uncompromising and highly refreshing addition to the comics landscape."—Mark Sinclair, The Creative Review
"... a book that is bursting with complex ideas and fragile emotions"—Craig Hubert, Artinfo
