One Bloody Thing After Another (10 page)

Joey Comeau writes the comic
A Softer World
, which has appeared in
The Guardian
and has been profiled in
Rolling Stone
, and which
Publishers Weekly
called “subtle and dramatic.” The website (asofterworld.com) has been online since 2003 and has an average daily readership of 70,000 people worldwide. His previous books include the self-published first novel,
Lockpick Pornography
, which sold out its print run of 1,000 books in just three months;
It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry
(2007), a collection of short stories; and
Overqualified
(ECW, 2009), now in its fourth printing. Comeau lives in Toronto, Ontario.