My Life as a Foot
Richard Suicide
October 2007
Graphic Novel
Mature Content
ISBN 1-894994-26-4 / 978-1-894994-26-2
8x10 inches / 80 pages
$15 CDN / U.S.

Translation by Rupert Bottenberg

Like R. Crumb, Richard Suicide’s work combines social commentary with underground/art comics in a murk of densely inked urban anomie. He uses the local atmosphere of Centre Sud, the poorest neighbourhood in Montreal, as fodder for his stories. A writer and artist of savage wit, his humourous (and often absurd) comics are an amazing testimony of life in the East End. Much of his early work has only appeared in French in various international anthologies, including Comix 2000 (France), Stripburger (Slovenia), The Comics Journal (USA), Kêkrapules (Switzerland), Ferraille (France) as well as anthologies in Japan and Macedonia. Locally he has appeared in the Quebec publications L’Enfance du Cyclopes, Monsieur Swiz, Guillotine, Matrix, Image Gun, and Fish Piss. There has never been a collection of his work in any language so it is an honour to be bringing out his first book which happens to be in English.

The second in the BDANG IMPRINT of graphic novels from underground Quebec artists. Conundrum press is committed to translating the work of these established artists and exposing it to the rest of North America.

"Richard Suicide [has] a style so breathless, so dense, it smothers the reader in its sticky stench." — eye

Richard Suicide has lived in Montreal all his life. He is known for his comics but also his paintings and animations. He often provides illustrations for the Montreal Mirror where translator Rupert Bottenberg works as music editor.