The Past is a Grotesque Animal

Even the most obsessive of fans will not have tracked down most of these pieces from their original micro print runs, making the book an engrossing compendium of Parrish’s career to date. Above all, it’s wildly inspirational, exhibiting such a burning DIY ethos that any aspiring creators are likely to catch a spark.– “Cinema Sentries”
This collection is like opening Tommi Parrish’s drawers and finding ten years of work scattered across the table. From 2013 to 2023, everything that’s obsessed them: fear, loneliness, identity, queer desire, the body as battleground. What emerges, right from the first few pages, is a confident artistic voice and a willingness to explore the human condition with an almost brutal honesty.– “RetroFuturista”
No cartoonist working today does interpersonal drama as authentically as Parrish.– “Four-Color Apocalypse”
Parrish has one of my favorite traits in a cartoonist: intense passion for the craft. They are rapidly evolving and experimenting wildly and it’s joyful to watch.–Simon Hanselmann (Megahex)
Parrish is great at making panels that you can both read and linger over.–Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button)

Tommi Parrish (b. 1989, Melbourne) is a trans Australian cartoonist and painter living in Western Massachusetts. Their debut work, The Lie and How We Told It, won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBTQ graphic novel, was nominated for the Ignatz award, was featured in many best of 2018 lists, and translated into 11 languages worldwide. Tommi was the 2020 recipient of the Center For Cartoon Studies Fellowship and their work has been showcased in The New Yorker, Granta Magazine, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Vice, and many more.

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