Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero

Resumen del libro

Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, 49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, head- mistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist. After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her.

Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbours an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross- dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him.

Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography. Deforge s witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre yet eerily familiar world. Sticks Angelica plays with autobiography, biography, and hagiography to look at how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we create for them in our own personal dramas.

Biografía del autor

Michael DeForge (Ottawa, 1987) vive en Toronto, Canadá, y es considerado como uno de los iconos del cómic underground para dibujantes e ilustradores. Sus cómics e ilustraciones han aparecido en Jacobin, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Believer, The Walrus y Maisonneuve Magazine. También ha participado con diseños de personajes, cómics y storyboards en la serie de animación Hora de aventuras durante seis años. Entre los libros que ha publicado figuran Very Casual, A Body Beneath, Ant Colony, First Year Healthy, Dressing, Big Kids, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero y A Western World.