Dogtangle

Max Huffman

ISBN 13: 9798875001291

Published by Fantagraphics Books November 2025, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dogtangle
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books November 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798875001291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • comics

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Synopsis

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.

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.

This debut graphic novel from Chicago cartoonist Max Huffman, about an awful power couple who defy God and nature in creating a hound of hell for our times, is at turns a rich satirical fable, a white-collar black comedy, and a stylistic tour de force blending elements of abstraction, cubism, mid-century modernism, and visual sight gags. One of the most visually distinctive and funny graphic novels in recent memory, Dogtangle is also underpinned with a deep mistrust of corporate and cultural hegemony, cementing its relevance in our increasingly oligarchal times.

One-color illustrations

About the Author

Max Huffman lives in Chicago, IL, and holds a cartooning degree from the School of Visual Arts.