You’re Actually Dead, and Other Lost Causes & Unfortunate Truths
Ten single-panel comics by Matt Dojny
Welcome to Recommended Reading’s Monday Commuter, our home for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narrative.
Issue №37
A Story About Becoming the Paranoid Parent
You are the Stepson
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.
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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.
Lost Causes & Unfortunate Truths was originally published in Electric Literature on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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