First Year Healthy Av Michael Deforge

<p><b>A mysterious, unsettling parable from one of North America''s most popular cartoonists<br></b><i><br>First Year Healthy</i> purports to be the story of a young woman, recently released from the hospital after an outburst, and her burgeoning relationship with an odd, perhaps criminal Turkish immigrant. In a scant forty-five pages, working with a vibrant, otherworldly palette of magentas, yellows, and grays, Michael DeForge brings to life a world whose shifting realities are as treacherous as the thin ice its narrator walks on. <i>First Year Healthy</i> is all it appears to be and more: a parable about mental illness, a folktale about magical cats, and a bizarre, compelling story about relationships.<br> DeForge''s singular voice and vision have, in a few short years, rocketed his work to the apex of the contemporary comics canon. <i>Ant Colony </i>was his first book with Drawn & Quarterly: It appeared on <i>The New York Times</i> Graphic Bestseller List and was lauded by the <i>Ch