Announcing THE MIRACLE
An all-new comics collection, launching in August
Hello friends, I hope your Summer is going well! I know that most folks aren’t too plugged in this time of year, but I wanted to post a short update to share the news that I will be crowdfunding a deluxe limited-edition hardcover collection of five of my best long-form cartoon essays, scheduled to go live around the third week of August.
Please visit the link below to sign up to get notified when the campaign goes live so you can take advantage of Early Bird offers and exclusive rewards.
From Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist, Mike Dawson, comes an all-new graphic novel collecting five of his most thoughtful and acclaimed long-form cartoon essays. With signature humor and emotional honesty, these thematically intertwined stories explore the ways we construct our self-identities through memory, history, music, and art. Whether reflecting on taking his son to see Back to the Future on the big screen, or wrestling with Scottish identity, or revisiting a much-maligned Queen album that became unexpectedly meaningful, Dawson takes the small and familiar moments in life, and transforms them into meditations on modern living, nostalgia, beauty, regret, and belonging.
This collection includes the Eisner Award-nominated Life During Interesting Times, originally published at The Nib, now revised and reformatted for the page, a powerful examination of inherited fears, historical catastrophe, and the ongoing climate crisis. Together, these five essays demonstrate why Dawson has become one of comics’ most distinct autobiographical voices, combining wit, self-reflection, and formal innovation, to create essays that provoke and linger with readers long after the final page.
Beautifully produced, this limited-edition volume will serve as an ideal introduction for new readers and a definitive collection for longtime fans.
Is This The Real Life?
To give you a sense of the material, here is one of the five cartoon essays published in its entirety. I hope you enjoy!
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Your pal,
Mike
I didn't want to like the sample comic but was so lovely; so authentic. I read and enjoyed every word.