Crashpad Alexander Forbes Michael DeForge’s ability to find

Michael DeForge’s ability to find the humanity and emotional truth within the outlandish bureaucracy of everyday life is unparalleled

yet consistently laugh-out-loud funny

CBC Teen Choice Book of the Year Award Nominee

Pablo Boffelli (Argentina)

a hybrid that Barry coins “autobiofictionalography

Crashpad Alexander Forbes Michael DeForge’s ability to findBy Gary Panter. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 80 pages, B&W, 2021. This fine art monograph faux underground comic facsimile is a psychedelic trip through the hippie movement. In 2017, Gary Panter created an art installation, Hippie Trip, inspired by his first visit to a head shop in 1968. It expanded his mind to the possibilities of psychedelic art and music, analog crafts and drug culture. Crashpad is an extension of that installation and a