This rigorously produced volume takes the physical form of a 176 page, full color, oversize, smyth-sewn hardcover, printed in Italy on heavy flat-white stock.  It opens with a thoughtful and deeply engaged introduction by New York Review Comics co-founder, Gabriel Winslow-Yost and then proceeds through a judiciously selected – by Sammy Harkham, no less – array of CF’s work from the first decade of our current millennium, before concluding with a casual yet absorbing interview with CF, conducted by Rob Goyanes, that is surprisingly revealing, shedding significant light on CFs personality and process, and in particular on the crucial relationship between his music and comics practices. 

Distant Ruptures is a real gift to the comics creative community, providing a wealth of hard to find comics work by comics’ master renegade.  Those new to CF or just getting underway and/or who are only familiar with his more recent work stand the most to gain from this volume, but even long-time CF devotees who are likely to have encountered the bulk of this material before, will benefit, as this edition does right by the material and it’s great to have it all together, where it takes on added significance. 

Endowing the comics form with the qualities of a sacred vessel, CF stashed his boyish exuberance within its hallowed confines. Guarding it carefully, and all the while maintaining his focus on his comics practice and meticulously honing his craft, he protected it through the traumas of adolescence and then smuggled it past the border guards of adulthood, and in doing so managed to channel unadulterated childhood perceptions and conceptions through a self-forged comics linguistics; a rare feat. 

CF deploys the language of comics to short circuit the hegemonic language employed by capitalism to assert and maintain control of the body.  His comics embody the physicality of creativity, at times simultaneously demonstrating comics as a form of writing and writing as a form of drawing, making for a paradoxical project of merging the Lacanian pre-symbolic and symbolic in pursuit of expressing the ineffable.  His comics tap into that “something” that is always just beyond the reach of conscious understanding, where memories, dreams and ideas mix it up and merge.  Sometimes brutal, other times funny, often absurd, the comics of CF defy classification; they simply embody the essence of comics.  

Here's a gallery of pages from the book that we posted on Tumblr.