WORKS

TERRIBLE FATHER

Click on the four issues for previews, and send your questions and concerns to Terrible Father, and perhaps he will answer it in one of the upcoming issues.

ALL THE LIVING

Fantagraphics (English, currently out of print but still around in certain bookstores) | Dargaud (French)
“What a strange and beguiling book this is. No summary can quite prepare you for it. Beneath the scrawly surface of Muradov’s artwork, there is meticulous care and a painterly eye, borrowing from Japanese manga as much as European modernism. Each time I revisited the book, more salient details emerged.”
“Muradov’s minimalist illustrations underpin the story’s minor-key modernism with diaphanous pencil strokes and muted tones, echoing the work of Øyvind Torseter and Ludwig Bemelmans. Gradually, the clever story of a woman haunted by herself gives way to a subtle meditation on inhabiting loneliness—and perhaps sharing it. Fans of the melancholic whimsy of Kore-eda, Ali Smith, and Tove Jansson will be pleased.”
“Nothing on the shelves looks like All the Living, and few things are as existentially touching. The protagonist’s despondence and loneliness is palpable and oozes from every page. That this somehow makes the book inviting is a wonder – we feel our own tendencies toward loneliness call out, reach out, connect.”

LAMBERTO LAMBERTO LAMBERTO

A classic Italian children’s book, published by Enchanted Lion
NYT author profile and review by Mac Barnett

SHORT STORIES

Harvey (2026)
Céline as a Woman (2026)
Altaltcomics (2023)
King of the Timberdrum (2023)
My First Goose (2023)
A River’s Run (2019)
Long Nights in the Desert (2019)
Resident Lover (2017)
Quarters (2017)
Courbet Reduction (2017)
Taking Care of Maurice (2017)
Not Saturday (2017)
Priest, Picnic (2015)

COMIC STRIPS

Bootleg Nancy (2026)
Emily in Paris (2025)
Painting with Children (2024)
Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker (2023)
Conceptual Illustration (2023)
Malcolm Gladwell Quote Convention (2023)
The Lads (2023)
Emily in Paris (2022)
No-Phones Dinner Party (2021)
Life (2021)
Moose Island (2019)
Extended Family Abridged (2014)

CARTOONS 2025

FOGHORN

Current graphic-novel-in-progress. Read chapters one and two in full, and follow the story on my Substack

DRAWINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 2025

Illustrations for the New Statesman, World of Interiors, Agapius, and other things.

RESIST-25

An attempt to make the worst imaginable political cartoons, since outdone by actual political cartoonists.

CARTOONS 2024


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