"Luke Healy stumbles through the elegantly drawn frames of Self-Esteem and the End of the World like a gay millennial Harvey Pekar, asking himself the questions currently dogging an entire generation: How can we save the Earth? How can we survive late-stage capitalism? And most importantly: How can we love ourselves? What makes Healy such a joy to read is his canny awareness that these questions aren't easily answered through pithy self-help psychobabble, nor even through finally getting all the things we want. The answers are lived, not spoken, and look more like having a heart-to-heart with your mam at a crime scene or caring for an AI whale with a glitching fin: in other words, the messy, confounding, lovely business of being human in extraordinary times." -- Rafel Frumkin, author of Confidence "Full of unexpected laughs; at once both absurd and sincere." -- Sophie Yanow, author of The Contradictions "Enhanced with a philosophical chorus of mice, seagulls, and cleverly inserted extras. Healy produces a poignant graphic meditation on grasping identity amid relentless unpredictability." -- Booklist "Full of deadpan humour. a deeply felt exploration of happiness, trust and the lies we tell our friends and ourselves." -- The Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2022 " The Con Artists feels like a tender little indie film--about friendship and trust between twenty-somethings floundering for whatever it takes to survive into their thirties.

" -- The Stranger.