Leaving Richard’s Valley

Michael DeForge

When a group of outcasts have to leave the valley, how will they survive the toxicity of the big city?

Michael DeForge’s Leaving Richard’s Valley expands from a bizarre hero’s quest into something more. As this ragtag group makes their way out of the valley, and then out of the park and into the big city, we see them coming to terms with different kinds of community: noise-rockers, gentrification protesters, squatters, and more. DeForge is idiosyncratically funny but also deeply insightful about community, cults of personality, and the condo-ization of cities. These eye-catching and sometimes absurd comics coalesce into a book that questions who our cities are for and how we make community in a capitalist society.

status	Requested
genre	Humor and Satire » General Humor
publisher	Drawn and Quarterly
publish date	2019
votes	1