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Lost Causes & Unfortunate Truths

You’re Actually Dead, and Other Lost Causes & Unfortunate Truths. Ten single-panel comics by Matt Dojny

Lost Causes & Unfortunate Truths

About the Author

Matt Dojny’s debut novel, The Festival of Earthly Delights, was published by Dzanc Books in June 2012 and is now available in paperback. Dojny’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, A Public Space, The Collagist, Better Magazine, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Visit him at mattdojny.com, or follow him at www.instagram.com/hiphop_is_the_future, where he (usually) posts a drawing a day.

“Lost Causes & Unfortunate Truths: ten comics” is published here by permission of the author, Matt Dojny. Copyright © Matt Dojny 2018. All rights reserved.

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The Commuter, arriving every Monday morning, is our home for flash fiction, graphic narrative, and poetry. Sign up  for The Commuter newsletter to get every issue straight to your inbox, or join our membership program for access to year-round submissions. EL’s lit mags are supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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