“Submit to the will of the envelope” – Leaving Richard’s Valley by Michael DeForge

First of all, get Peanuts in your mind. Charlie Brown, Lucy, all those guys. You probably know Schultz largely delivered those strips in order for them to run consecutively, each day, building up a world based on the accretion of small details, small repetitions, creating as he did so, wider arcs and patterns built around holidays and celebrations. You get that. Daily strips, familiarity over time. Now, Michael DeForge has done something similar with Leaving Richard's Valley, creating a vast (or vast-ish) world, page by page, telling a story in strip form, that invites digressions and side-steps and asides, even as it builds a world. Ah, you might be thinking, so Leaving Richard's Valley is like Peanuts then? No. Not really. Only in as much as the pattern of a daily strip creates certain patterns and inflections. Those patterns, inflections and demands are worth having in your mind before anything else.

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