![]() ![]() He also cites Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau's Seripop work as strongly affecting how he wanted to draw for some time. ![]() He became interested in the work of Marc Bell (which he saw for first time in Exclaim!) and Matt Brinkman and has described Chester Brown's I Never Liked You as his "introduction to alternative comics". In high school he realized that drawing could be a vocation and started drawing gig posters, initially in exchange for free entrance to concerts until he started charging for his work. He has described his early comics as "just these dinky revenge cartoons" in response to having been "picked on a lot growing up". He read and tried to draw in the style of superhero comics until junior high and high school. He has described Peanuts as his all-time favorite cartoon strip. Īccording to DeForge, he has "always been drawing cartoons" and learned to read and draw from his parents' comic strip collections such as Bloom County, Far Side, Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes. Biography ĭeForge grew up in Ottawa and attended the University of Toronto, dropping out after two years. Michael DeForge (born 1987) is a Canadian comics artist and illustrator. ![]()
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