Omschrijving
A satirical comedy about an ambitious power couple
in a bleak corporate landscape who defy God and
nature to create a modern Cerberus for their time.
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.