"An incredibly beautiful book!" —JAMES TYNION IV (THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH, Batman, Something is Killing the Children) The middle-grade webcomic and Kickstarter smash hit from MAC SMITH arrives in a single-print volume for the first time! Enter a world where humanity is gone and only animals have survived. Wix, a brave scout from a colony of house mice, must embark on a perilous journey into parts unknown, where he'll face dangerous threats, fantastic new creatures—and a destiny he never ex...

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites.According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In Paris and the Parasite, Macs Smith extends Serres's approach to Paris as a mediatic city, asking what organisms, people, and forms of interference constitute its ...