Honorable Mention in the Publishers Weekly 2021 Graphic Novels Critics Poll and one of Heavy Feather Review’s “Favorites of 2022.”

Damm upends the usual fare of celebratory biographies of successful lives by finding inspiration in artists who tried and failed to change the world around them… It’s a heady concept at which he—ironically enough—wholeheartedly succeeds in accomplishing… [A] weird and engrossing volume.

-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Funny, irreverent and urgent, FAILURE BIOGRAPHIES’ method is best described as creative mayhem. Immerse yourself in this tribute to failure and embrace all it has to offer. Magnificent!

-Jack Halberstam, Author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE

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Excerpts from Failure Biographies have been published in The Adroit Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, Aquifer: The Florida Review, DIAGRAM, Drunken Boat, Entropy, Ink Brick, Nashville Review, Phoebe, Redivider, Sweet, and Western Humanities Review.