Indie comic artist Michael DeForge's new graphic novel depicts a chatty, grotesque, anthropomorphic Ant Colony.
by Dominic Umile
In January, an article in the science journal ZooKeys described a newly discovered aggressive North American ant species called Temnothorax pilagens, or "pillage ant." Pillaging is central to the ant's livelihood; news stories announcing its discovery, stacked with descriptions of "slave-making,""chemical camouflage," and "mortal fighting," read like H.G. Wells's The Food of the Gods, or perhaps Ant Colony, a once Web-serialized, now print-collected comic from the award-winning Canadian indie cartoonist Michael DeForge.…[ Read more ]