Alienation Michael DeForge and the pressures of modern

and the pressures of modern life

the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn’s Bottle Beach

board games and angst across the strip’s witty and beautifully drawn panels

Mariko Tamaki

" -- Phil Oldham

Alienation Michael DeForge and the pressures of modernBy Ins Estrada. Published by Fantagraphics. Softcover, 250 pages, Monochrome, 2019. Fossil fuels have become fossilized. Wildlife has been civilized to extinction. Corporations have colonized our lives. Elizabeth and Carlos are bored. Drawn in hazy gray pencil and printed in blue pantone ink, this book is about Elizabeth, an exotic dancer in cyberspace, and Carlos, who was just fired from the last human staffed oil rig, attempting to keep their