February 2, 2019
Hobo Mom, by Charles Forsman ′08 and Max de Radiguès (CCS Fellow 2009-10), is barely out and already on a best of list for January 2019, at Barnes and Noble! Published by Fantagraphics, this collaboration was drawn simultaneously across the Atlantic. Charles—author of The End of the Fxxxing World (now a hit Netflix series), is based in the United States. And Max de Radiguès—winner of a prestigious prize at the Angoulême International Festival of Comics for his 2018 graphic novel Bastard—is based in France.
Hobo Mom follows a father and daughter whose wife/mother left the trap of domestic life to hop trains. After some more serious incidents while exploring her freedom, she turns up back home and we read along as the family tries to figure out what is next. As Fantagraphics says, “Forsman and de Radiguès’s Hobo Mom explores the ideas of being trapped in domesticity and whether one deserves happiness, even at the cost of others.”
And the reviews, they are coming:
- Publisher’s Weekly says, “This brief but well-crafted comic is a remarkably smooth collaboration.”
- Rachel Cooke on The Guardian says, “…you can read it in about the same time it takes to make a decent omelette. But don’t be deceived. Hobo Mom is a slyly subversive book, and it stalks some unexpectedly bleak emotional territory.”
Tags: Angoulême, cartoonstudies, CCS Alumni, Charles Forsman, Fantagraphics, Fellow, Graphic Novel, Hobo Mom, Max de Radigues
