# Distant Ruptures - Hardcover

by **Cf** (Author), **Sammy Harkham** (Editor), **Gabriel Winslow-Yost** (Introduction by)

**Goblins, 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.**

Pulling 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, then reassemble them into one-of-a-kind stories that reveal an immense imagination and boundary-pushing talent.

Christopher Forgues (better known as CF) roared onto 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: his collaboration with Ben Jones, _Paper Radio_; his multi-part epic, _Powr Mastrs_; and the shorter comics and zines now collected for the first time in _Distant Ruptures_. These comics--created using scratchy pencil and brilliant color, smudged Xeroxes and scraps of notepaper--capture the extraordinary range of CF's work.

Fellow cartoonist Sammy Harkham has gathered the best of them into this new collection, which also includes an introduction by Gabriel Winslow-Yost and a new interview with CF. _Distant Ruptures_ offers readers their first chance to see the full scope of this remarkable era of CF's comics.

### Author Biography

**CF** is a cartoonist, artist, and musician. Born Christopher Forgues in eastern Massachusetts, he is best known for his graphic novel series _Powr Mastrs_. His art has appeared in _Kramers Ergot_, _The Best American Comics_, and _The New York Times_. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

**Sammy Harkham** is a cartoonist and the editor of the influential comics anthology _Kramers Ergot_. His book _Blood of the Virgin_ was selected by _The New York Times_ as one of the best graphic novels of the year in 2024. He lives in Los Angeles.

**Gabriel Winslow-Yost** is a contributing editor at _The New York Review of Books_. He lives in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island.

**Rob Goyanes** is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in _Art in America_, _BOMB_, _e-flux journal_, the _Los Angeles Times_, and the _Miami Herald_. He lives in Los Angeles.

**Number of Pages:** 176

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 12 x 9.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 29, 2024

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