Dogtangle

A satirical comedy about an ambitious power couple in a bleak corporate landscape who defy God and nature to create a modern Cerberus for their time.

Publisher Marketing: Dogtangle delivers sharp social critique through brilliantly abstract cartoons. The expressive, visually distinctive artwork is a joy to flick through.-- "Comics Bulletin" Review Quotes : Max Huffman's DOGTANGLE is an off the leash walk through a queasily off-kilter reality that still manages to feel real, if mostly lysergic.--Michael Cavender Review Quotes : Through the sheer madness, the intellectual heft, and the art that demands your enthusiastic participation, Dogtangle is one man's deeply human expression of living your life through art and trying to make a connection (any damn connection) in this day and age.-- "AIPT Comics" Review Quotes : Huffman allows us the satisfaction of seeing terrible people punished for their hubris... He's making science fiction about a world where corporate adventures have rewired the metaphysics of sky and animals.-- "The Comics Journal" Review Quotes : So far as I know, there are not a lot of Vorticist comics out there. Max's comics operate in some/several folded dimensions that are not totally forthcoming but must be captured and deciphered. The stories are zingy, go around impossible corners and I think Wyndham Lewis might have written a blurb for them as well.--Gary Panter Review Quotes : This is Jim Flora-esque, operatic, cartoon world-building, and world-ridiculing, and world-re-enchanting, and it's good.--Kevin Huizenga Review Quotes : What happens when a navel-gazing egocentric corporate creative decides to improve upon mankind's best friend? Horrors beyond comprehension of course! Beneath Dogtangle 's beautiful stylized abstraction (I'm a big fan) is a blunt force absurdist critique of the tech-overlords and business elites remaking the world around us without our consent. I love this book!--Lale Westvind Review Quotes : Between the peculiar art, clever plotting, and general kooky vibe, Max Huffman has created a surrealist masterpiece.-- "The Newest Rant" Review Quotes : Huffman has a flair for character names--Caressa Vignette, Vernon Smilth, Councilman Burg--but it's his stylized, almost baroquely cartoony figures that steal the show. His cubist spin on mid-century comics illustration syncs lithe linework and ingenious use of negative space to the frenzied pace of the story. The result is a deliriously inventive send-up of corporate hubris.-- "Publishers Weekly" Publisher Marketing : Dogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married. From their union springs the idea of the Hypermutt: a many-headed mass of dogs that absorbs each new dog it encounters.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 136 | Publication Date: 2025-11-04