THE CLOVEN

A graphic novel by Garth Stein with Matthew Southworth

BOOK TWO
Published by Fantagraphics.
The second in a series…

From the first stark, cut-you-to-the-bone scene, The Cloven is riveting—a delightful modern-day twist on the Frankenstein story. The writing is stylistically dark; the art is vivid and strikingly beautiful. Stein and Southworth have created a masterful and unique world.

– Neal Bascomb, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Fortress and Faster!

In the eagerly anticipated Book Two, Dr. Kenneth Langner, a world-renowned geneticist and creator of the Cloven species, reveals himself to Seattle Stranger reporter Jake Arthur, who continues his in-depth research on the homeless encampment known as “the Jungle.” When Langner turns up dead the next morning, Arthur realizes he’s into something far more sinister than he realized. Meanwhile, in an effort to evade the paramilitary that have begun rounding up Cloven, Tuck is taken to Halcyon Meadows, a bizarre retreat of the true insiders — Supreme court justices, ex-presidents, movie stars, rock musicians, health gurus — those who are really in the know and who gather there every summer to worship goats. And to celebrate the existence of the first human/goat hybrid: The Cloven. And that’s when things really start to get weird.

Moody and mysterious and atmospheric as a fever dream, The Cloven is a raucous, funny, and dynamic sci-fi graphic novel series about James “Tuck” Tucker, a genetically modified human organism known as a Cloven, written by Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain) and drawn by Matthew Southworth (co-creator of the graphic novel series and ABC tv series Stumptown), two of today’s bestselling and critically acclaimed storytellers.

“This is a story about the manipulation of Truth that we live with constantly in our society, the fragmentation of reality. A world where facts are malleable; where genetic ‘experiments’ live in the margins while we look the other way; where billionaires and secret societies decide the fate of our world; where we believe the scripted television news over something we’ve actually seen; and yet where searching for one’s place in the world — searching for one’s home — is still the most powerful yearning of a person’s soul.” — Garth Stein


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Homeless people in Seattle’s notorious urban Jungle, secret labs, a gentle scientist who believes lonely genetic mutations need love, gorgeous illustrations, and a new species of gifted goat people in our midst as mythic as the Sasquatch — The Cloven has it all in a suspenseful debut.

– Charles Johnson, National Book Award winnin author of Middle Passage

The Cloven makes me believe in comics, in art on the page, in the beauty of an image, in the intimacy of a story that moves from the mind to the hand the then to the imagination of the reader. Mostly it makes me believe—truly believe —in a hero that comics champion better than any other medium: the underdog.

– Chelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author and Eisner Award nominee

The Cloven is a daring graphic novel that casts light on a dark fictional world, full of stories yet to be told.

– Foreword Reviews

This unusual collaboration stands out from the crowd of similar superpowered mutants bucking the system.

– Publishers Weekly


The Cloven by Garth Stein

BOOK ONE
Published by Fantagraphics.
The first in a series…

Wildly, dizzyingly imaginative, and grimly allegorical. At times it fairly ‘bleats’ with wry humor, and the art is spectacular. Can’t wait for the next two installments!

– Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City

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The Cloven Book One available now from these online sellers:

THE CLOVEN BOOK ONE stars James Tucker, the most successful genetically modified human organism ever created. Conceived in a privately financed, top-secret laboratory on Washington State’s Vashon Island, Tucker is a cross between a human and a goat — a Cloven. Known to his friends as Tuck, all he wants is to live a normal life as a university student; everything is going fine, until he shows a girl his hoofs…Moody and mysterious and atmospheric as a fever dream, The Cloven Book One follows Tuck’s breakneck journey across the Pacific Northwest as he searches for a place to belong.

Book One of a dynamic, atmospheric, and wryly funny graphic novel trilogy by two bestselling and critically acclaimed storytellers.

The Cloven Book One features a special full-color four page fold-out spread.

“This is a story about the manipulation of Truth that we live with constantly in our society, the fragmentation of reality. A world where facts are malleable; where genetic ‘experiments’ live in the margins while we look the other way; where billionaires and secret societies decide the fate of our world; where we believe the scripted television news over something we’ve actually seen; and yet where searching for one’s place in the world — searching for one’s home — is still the most powerful yearning of a person’s soul.” — Garth Stein

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