King Trash: BARB NO!! NOT THE STRING!!

There’s weird, there’s weird, and there’s weird. And then there’s Michael DeForge. You may have heard the End of the Universe team talking about the Toronto-based comic creator’s new book, “Ant Colony,” in our most recent podcast. In between lusty hoots of satisfaction and slack-jawed amazement, we discussed how terrifically inventive, curious, fun, and funny of a read it was. That being said, it is also weird, disturbing, and gross.

Whereas “Ant Colony” is DeForge’s most recent output, and perhaps his most consistent, “A Body Beneath” (collecting issues of his brilliant comic book, “LOSE”) is arguably his most fun, surreal, and off-the-wall-bonkers yet. Collecting issues 2-5 of his Koyama Press-published ‘floppies’ (or comic books), “A Body Beneath” serves as a fascinatingly crunchy look into what DeForge has been up to the past 5 years.

2013 has been an exceptional year for Michael DeForge punctuated by an Eisner nomination and a sweep at the Ignatz Awards where he won all three of the categories he was nominated in. The ever prolific young cartoonist released two books with us this year Lose #5 and Very Casual. The latter has been selected by the editors of Amazon.com as one of the best books of the year.

Excerpts from Spotting Deer by Michael Deforge

Let's, just for a second, talk about how amazing this comic is and how it's spectacular and beautiful and totally bizarre.