Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero

In Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, Michael DeForge creates a surreal and deadpan wilderness fable for Drawn & Quarterly, following a reclusive former child star who has fled to the woods to live as a folk hero. The series, which began in 2017, blends offbeat humor with DeForge's signature psychedelic, angular artwork, exploring themes of fame, solitude, and the absurdity of self-mythology. Though only a single issue so far, it stands as a distinctive, quietly strange meditation on what it means to escape the spotlight—and what happens when the woods refuse to cooperate.