To Know You’re Alive

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.

About the Artist

Dakota McFadzean ia a cartoonist from Toronto. He is the author of two other books, Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On and Don’t Get Eaten by Anything.

Publication Details

160 pages
6 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Paperback
December 2020