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The cover to Comfortless, featuring an illustration in light pinks and blues. In the foreground, a young woman looks toward the camera, a mask pulled down around her neck. In one hand she holds a cigarette, and in the other she holds a lighter. A man holds her upper arm, turning to look away from the camera. Beside and behind her, people look toward an explosion resembling a mushroom cloud in the distance, their backs to the camera. One wears a mask on her face, another around her arm.
The cover to Comfortless, featuring an illustration in light pinks and blues. In the foreground, a young woman looks toward the camera, a mask pulled down around her neck. In one hand she holds a cigarette, and in the other she holds a lighter. A man holds her upper arm, turning to look away from the camera. Beside and behind her, people look toward an explosion resembling a mushroom cloud in the distance, their backs to the camera. One wears a mask on her face, another around her arm.
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  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The cover to Comfortless, featuring an illustration in light pinks and blues. In the foreground, a young woman looks toward the camera, a mask pulled down around her neck. In one hand she holds a cigarette, and in the other she holds a lighter. A man holds her upper arm, turning to look away from the camera. Beside and behind her, people look toward an explosion resembling a mushroom cloud in the distance, their backs to the camera. One wears a mask on her face, another around her arm.
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Miguel Vila, Translator: Jamie Richards

Comfortless

On sale date: November 11, 2025

Miguel Vila magnifies the petty and morbid narrowness of the human soul with a precision to rival storytellers such as Mike Leigh, Andrey Zvyagintsev, or Michael Haneke.

“This book makes no claims to scientific validity and is in no way intended for informational purposes.” So declares Miguel Vila in the outset of his new graphic novel, Comfortless, a taxonomy of the masks with which we pretend to live, executed with the precision of a master sociologist. It collects a kaleidoscope of weaving character studies, united by the ways vanity, jealousy, and selfishness manifest via fear, vice, and lust. Giorgia ends her relationship with Eva because she thinks her fling with Nic has resulted in her pregnancy. Nic has a secret to reveal to Daniele, but he can’t express it. Stella meets Daniele and tells him about the strange events they have experienced in recent years. Simone attends a New Year's Eve party knowing that he is positive for Covid.

Set in the Venetian province of Italy, the themes Vila addresses are global. Comfortless is a catastrophic fresco of a humanity adrift, where fears and selfishness draw a merciless map of the emptiness of our times.

Praise

"At the top of my list of most-anticipated books for the year. ... dark and weird and cringey and compulsively readable." — Comics Beat

"Comfortless is a book that fully captures an era that we still aren't quite on the other side of, and while it shows us a bleaker set of experiences, they all feel eerily familiar. It's a work that will feel as relevant to those of us who experienced the lockdown even as we get years distant from the event, as if its captured those feelings in amber where time cannot diminish them." — AIPT Comics

"A versatile stylist, Vila pivots from impersonal, tightly gridded sequences to harshly lit close-ups that revel in the pores, stubble, and ruddy complexions of his characters' all-too-human features. The result is a claustrophobic tableau of petty grievances and global catastrophe that's unsparing, sardonic, and painfully recognizable." — Publishers Weekly

Specs

Pages
208
Format
Paperback / Softback
Color
Full-color.
Dimensions
6.8" × 9.6"
ISBN-13
9798875001284