Simplicity
By Mattie Lubchansky
By Mattie Lubchansky
By Mattie Lubchansky
By Mattie Lubchansky
Part of Pantheon Graphic Library
Part of Pantheon Graphic Library
Category: Fiction Graphic Novels | Fiction
Category: Fiction Graphic Novels | Fiction
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$29.00
Jul 29, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701126
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Jul 29, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701133
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$29.00
Jul 29, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701126
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Jul 29, 2025 | ISBN 9780593701133
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Praise
âMy favorite thing I read all year.â
âPatricia Lockwood, author of Priestdaddy and No One is Talking About This
âMattie Lubchansky is a crucial voice, and we should all sit up and listen.â
âJames Tynion IV, author of Something Is Killing the Children
âMattie Lubchansky is a psychedelic clairvoyant, a cross between Philip K. Dick and R. Crumb, only with much better gender politics. Simplicity filled me with hope and wonder even in the ruins of civilization, and Iâm so glad I went on this wild journey. The future is going to be weird no matter what, but Mattie Lubchansky shows us how beautiful and full of life weirdness can be. I love Simplicity in all its deceptive complexity.â
âCharlie Jane Anders, bestselling author of The City in the Middle of the Night
âTruly superb! Simplicity is a marvel, a perfect look into the ways that people can either fool themselves into accepting complicity or take the harder road that supports community; one that requires us all to make incredibly tough choices. Itâs funny, heartbreaking, spellbinding, sexy, horrifying, and legitimately brilliant. Mattie Lubchansky is a genius.â
âKristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth
âMattie Lubchanskyâs work is essentialâa horny, Boschian vision of paranoia and deliverance. There is more comedy and emotion in their charactersâ black punctuation-mark pupils than most cartoonists can put in a whole face. In Simplicity, they tackle extremes of bravery and cowardice, of closed-mindedness and freedom, of gender liberation, that Ursula Le Guin should have lived to see. It is a book to savor and ponder and live with until youâve finally forgotten enough to read it again.â
âIsaac Fellman, author of Dead Collections
âThe hottest, most satirically dazzling, heart-wrenchingly brilliant ecosexual call to action youâll ever read. Simplicityâs futurelens puts desperately needed present-day hope in our sights.â
âAlissa Nutting, author of Tampa and Made for Love
âAs our future looks more like a boot stomping on a human face forever, Mattie Lubchansky asks us to rid ourselves of repression and complacency in this sensual, savage satire.â
âMatt Bors, author of Justice Warriors
âSimplicity by Mattie Lubchansky blends dystopian science fiction and folk horror into a queer, trans story of hard-won hope in a future as terrifyingâand as ridiculousâas our present. Sexy, insightful, and darkly funny, Simplicity could be an exhibit in a future museumâone that might bear the plaque âWe Won,â or at least âThey Went Down Swinging.'â
âLindsay King-Miller, author of The Z Word
âSimplicity has it all, from eroticism and ecohorror to cyberpunk dystopia and punk-rock rebellionâall illustrated in Lubchanskyâs luscious and emotive style. Itâs a wild ride, but also a thoughtful meditation on questions that only grow more pressing each year: How do we live, love, and stand together in a world thatâs falling apart? Youâll tear through it, and immediately want to read again.â
âLincoln Michel, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms
âAn ambitious, weird spectacle. Simplicity plays with a lot of our big ideas about an ending world, while maintaining an intense, engaging focus on character motion and emotion.â
âEvan Dahm, author of The Last Delivery