Description

Teddy Goldenberg has the ability to create, through technical minimalism, a sensation of disorientation and delicate confusion, where it’s not frightening to let oneself get lost. One simply needs to accept its rules, without resistance. In this story, temporal ellipses and narrative shifts jolt us into a dreamlike state, a memory increasingly blurred, like a hazy recollection that one tries to identify. Like David Lynch or screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he portrays through this surreal angle anomalies and inconsistencies—metaphors of the chaos in which we exist, and which we are forced to rationalize in order to find meaning. All the characters seem to operate with a naive goodwill, a consensuality dressed in 1950s attire under a Hollywood-inspired, fantastical light. Here, absurdity is never gratuitous; it invites us to question our reflexes in how we receive and expect narrative. It’s humorous, chilling, and at times fascinating. The author also explores this through his drawing and framing, offering a vibrant staging with a demanding and rigid grid, and a mechanical reading rhythm. The ideas that disrupt this strict framework are unexpected, always surprising, and brilliantly original.

Back cover text by Pierre La Police.

Teddy Goldenberg was born in 1985 in Israel and lives in the Pankow district of Berlin. He began drawing in 2003 and has published numerous short stories in both English and Hebrew. His stories are a clever mix of the strange and dark humor. His latest work, “City Crime Comics,” was first published in French by Fidèle Éditions, then in English by Floating World Comics, and in Spanish by Fulgencio Pimentel.