{"product_id":"distant-ruptures-cf-9781681378695","title":"Distant Ruptures","description":"\u003cb\u003eGoblins, wizards, superheroes, talking animals, and an assortment of fantastical shapeshifting characters populate this book of never-before-collected comics and illustrations, many of them drawn on incidental materials such as scrap paper and notepads.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePulling from pulp, sci-fi, gag cartoons, fantasy, and thrillers, and populated by goblins, astronauts, magical thieves, and talking owls, CF's comics break apart genres and forms, reassembling them into one-of-a-kind stories that reveal an immense imagination and boundary-pushing talent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Forgues (better known as CF) roared into the indie comics scene in the early 2000s, producing some of the most exciting and influential work of the decade. His output was startlingly original and impressively prolific: \u003ci\u003ePaper Radio\u003c\/i\u003e, his collaboration with Ben Jones; his multi-part epic \u003ci\u003ePowr Mastrs\u003c\/i\u003e; and the shorter comics and zines now collected for the first time in \u003ci\u003eDistant Ruptures.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThese comics, created using scratchy pencil and brilliant color, smudged Xeroxes and scraps of notepaper, capture the extraordinary range of CF's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFellow cartoonist Sammy Harkham has gathered the best of them into this new collection, which also includes an introduction by Gabriel Winslow-Yost as well as a new interview with CF. \u003ci\u003eDistant Ruptures\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers their first chance to see the full scope of this remarkable era of CF's comics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681378698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Cf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45331988381951,"sku":"9781681378695","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90186aff-fd8a-4f3a-884b-20a8b6d113c0.jpg?v=1713971436","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/distant-ruptures-cf-9781681378695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}