The Cliff Thierry Smolderen with every detail depicted vividly

with every detail depicted vividly on the page

”—Tillie Walden

indigenous activist

Jon Vermilyea is a cartoonist and animator based in Los Angeles

The Cliff Thierry Smolderen with every detail depicted vividlyBy Manon Debaye. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Softcover, 160 pages, Colour, 2023. A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their sleepy town. They make a blood pact to jump together in five days time, before their thirteenth birthdays. Not that navigating the unspoken pecking order of the school quad