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In his new story collection, “All the Cameras in My Room,” the cartoonist Michael DeForge doesn’t shy away from an absurd premise, and his characters are often monsters we know and love.

By Sam Thielman and Gabriel Gianordoli

May 7, 2026

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A collage of four overlapping pages from Michael DeForge’s comics. The top left one shows a skeleton figure surrounded by green slime; the page to the right shows a red monster sitting on a chair reading a book; the center is a yellow page that says “NON-PROFIT” at the top with black and white animal figures below; and the bottom is a white page that says “Medieval Times” at the top and shows various figures at the entrance to a dark tunnel.

Nothing is ever quite the shape or color we expect it to be in the comics of Michael DeForge.

A zoomed in view of the left side of the “Medieval Times” page that shows the large gray and red figure in greater detail.

The Canadian cartoonist can draw a bubbly figure with a tiny head and 14 ab muscles that is, somehow, unmistakably a knight in shining armor.