Fungae Paperback by Wojtek Wawszczyk

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2026-05-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9798875001567
• Item Weight: 946.89 grams
• Dimensions: 21.59 x 16.51 x 3.3 cm

A family pushes through nearly impenetrable physical and psychic terrain in a metaphorical parable of life in the 21st century.

A family treks with purpose and tenacity through a dense, primeval jungle, searching for…a respite…a goal…a home. They have been trekking for a long, long time. The jungle is a wasteland of viscera, grime, and rot. Within every darkened crevice is something waiting to kill, unless they kill first.

Fungae is a story of struggle, of violence, of cruelty, but it is foremost a story of family, of fathers wanting their sons to be strong, of mothers wanting to nurture them in a hostile world. An electric collaboration between Polish animators and cartoonists Wojtek Wawszczyk and Tomasz Lew Lesniak propel this thrilling and horrifying survival tale. Lesniak’s textured and animated style conveys absurdist and intimately human moments, flickering like embers against the thickening miasma of abject privation. This is a story of the obduracy and fragility of human will. Fungae will grow on you.

About the Author

Wojtek Wawszczyk is a director, screenwriter, animator, and artist. He is the creator of the award-winning animated films Headless, Mouse, and Penguin. He also worked as a special effects animator for the Oscar-nominated movie I, Robot. Wawszczyk co-directed the full-length animated feature George the Hedgehog. Since 2011, he has been one of the leaders of the Human Ark animation studio in Warsaw. He currently works as a screenwriter and director and is in the process of completing another full-length feature, Diplodocus. He lives in Warsaw, Poland.

Tomasz Lew Lesniak is a Polish animation artist, designer and illustrator.