Graphic Narrative

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

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

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 on Instagram, where he (usually) posts a drawing a day.

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