To Know You're Alive by Dakota Mcfadzean

To Know You're Alive by Dakota Mcfadzean

Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Dakota McFadzean returns with a brilliantly dark collection that offers a glimpse into the cracks between childhood imagination and the disappointing harshness of adulthood. Populated by cruel bullies, exhausted parents, and relentless cartoon mascots, the world of To Know You're Alive renders the familiar into something that is alien and absurd. The characters in these stories long to uncover something uncanny in shadowy attics and beneath masks, only to discover that sometimes it's worse to find nothing at all.

Dakota McFadzean is a Canadian cartoonist whose work has appeared in MAD Magazine, The New Yorker The Best American Comics, and Funny or Die, among other publications. He has also worked for DreamWorks Animation as a storyboard artist. McFadzean attended The Center for Cartoon Studies and graduated with honors. Other Tales and the Horse You Rode in On, and Don't Be Eaten by Anything, which includes three years of daily comic strips, are also available from Conundrum Publications. McFadzean, his wife, and their two sons currently reside in Toronto.