"A wise and funny journey through loneliness and confusion."-The Guardian
"[Shit is Real] uncannily conjures both a sense of familiarity and displacement. Reality blends with dreams, as well as the hyper charged digital environment."-Los Angeles Review of Books
"Depression and loneliness - and how people cope - are aptly explored through Aisha Franz's often surreal pencil drawings."-The Globe & Mail
Aisha Franz is a comic book artist and illustrator living in Berlin. She has published four graphic novels that have been translated into multiple languages and her illustrations have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Die Zeit Leo, and The New York Times. Her book Shit Is Real was nominated for the Los Angeles Times book Award in 2019. Together with the Berlin-based print studio Colorama she cohosts the residency project Clubhouse.
