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Joakim Drescher<\/span> was born in Denmark and raised in Indonesia, New Zealand and China. He is the eldest son of illustrator and author Henrik Drescher and artist Lauren Drescher. Joakim studied fine arts in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy where he was a part of the now defunct tape label So Obsolete Records and one part of the DIY publishing outfit Stalking Cat Editions with artist and illustrator Marie Boye Thomsen.<\/p>\n

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\nIN PRAISE OF JOAKIM DRESCHER<\/span><\/p>\n

Motel Universe<\/span> consists of a staggering 110 pages filled with dynamic illustration, while its sequel possesses an even more impressive 180 pages of intricate drawings. Both publications are set in eponymous Motel Universe; \u201ca greedy, seedy, unjust place\u201d explains Joakim. The first volume follows \u201ca race of slaves who are trophy hunted for their precious skin for the pleasure of the rich and famous.\u201d The story features two antagonists, the first being the ghost of the Roman Emperor Caligula while the second is modelled on the real-life you know who \u2013 the all-too-familiar \u201creal estate tycoon come world-developer, B. Flump.\u201d<\/p>\n

– It\u2019s Nice That<\/span><\/p>\n

The intergalactic adventures of Motel Universe<\/em> unfold in seemingly free-form fashion, driven by creator Joakim Drescher\u2019s delightfully go-for-broke imagination in both storytelling and visuals, along with his seriously loopy sense of humor. Drescher sneaks in some potent tropes about scapegoating and the exploitation of the most vulnerable members of society, but his satire is offered up in such over-the-top surreality that it all goes down quite easily. Drescher is clearly having a lot of fun with his creations and that fun is contagious\u2026 \u2026But he remains a sui generis talent, and his extravagant satire hits the spot in these crazy-weird times. I really enjoyed this delightful, warped journey through his id. Though we\u2019re only halfway through the year, Motel Universe<\/em> is already on my list of favorite comics of 2019.<\/p>\n

– The Comics Journal<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m about to tell you why your life is well and truly empty without this comic on your shelf\u2026 \u2026Drescher is one of those cartoonists whose stream of consciousness runs in such interesting directions at such breakneck speed that it\u2019s literally impossible to keep up with him \u2014 even as everything he comes up flows together seamlessly and even, believe it or not, makes a deeply intuitive type of sense. I don\u2019t pretend to know how that works, mind you \u2014 I\u2019m only here to tell you that \u201cwork\u201d it most assuredly does\u2026 \u2026Perhaps most remarkably, though, given all this 10,000-light-years-per-second stuff going on, the entire book follows a clear linear through-line in terms of its narrative \u2014 but this adherence to convention doesn\u2019t limit the scope or the ambition of the work itself, the end result instead being a deceptively accessible comic that nevertheless makes no compromises in terms of how it realizes and communicates its breathtakingly idiosyncratic vision.<\/p>\n

– Four Color Apocalypse<\/span><\/p>\n

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