Max Huffman for Dogtangle
Dogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married. From their union springs the idea of the Hypermutt: a many-headed mass of dogs that absorbs each new dog it encounters.This debut graphic novel from Chicago cartoonist Max Huffman, about an awful power couple who defy God and nature in creating a hound of hell for our times, is at turns a rich satirical fable, a white-collar black comedy, and a stylistic tour de force blending elements of abstraction, cubism, mid-century modernism, and visual sight gags. One of the most visually distinctive and funny graphic novels in recent memory, Dogtangle is also underpinned with a deep mistrust of corporate and cultural hegemony, cementing its relevance in our increasingly oligarchal times.
Max Huffman is a Chicago-based cartoonist whose work synthesizes absurd comedy, retro illustration and geometric abstraction into a frenzied, writhing mass. His comics Them-Shaped Clouds and Cover Not Final have been nominated for Small Press Expo's Ignatz Awards. As an illustrator, his commercial clients include Doughboys, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and The New York Times. Dogtangle is his first graphic novel.
Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington, DC area. Between exhibiting his art at various DMV region galleries and tabling his comics around the country, he authored "Washington White," a surrealistic graphic novel reimagining his grandmother's landmark Civil Rights case as a science-fiction spy thriller. In 2022, Griffiths opened DwightMess, a comics 'compound' in his Silver Spring, MD home that includes several gallery spaces, screen-printing workshop, Riso studio, and an extensive library of comics, zines and periodicals. DwightMess has mounted over 25 exhibitions since opening, sponsors an annual artist residency program, hosts a regularly-convening comic book readers' club, organizes an artists' summer retreat program in West Virginia and has thrice hosted the StoryBox Comics Fair, a 2-day mini-convention for area creators to showcase their artwork to the general public.
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