Tegan O’Neil Reviews Michael Deforge’s Holy Lacrimony for The Comics Journal.
From the article:
It’s resonant. I read it about a week ago and in the time needed to gather my thoughts those thoughts matured alongside the story ripening in my brain. For all his skill as an artist Michael DeForge is no slouch as a storyteller, either. As I’ve observed previously, DeForge’s secret weapon as a cartoonist is that he has a good ear for prose, which only sounds like an insult if you don’t actually read the words in those little balloons. So who knows! He might have a future in prose fiction if this comics thing doesn’t pan out. For a fable this hangs together quite well, a story about love that manages to exist almost entirely in the absence of love, an expression of grief absent tragedy. That empty core is crucial to DeForge, a generative frost across the whole of the oeuvre.
Read the review here.
The Toronto Comic Jam 