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What It Is – Lynda Barry’s Eisner Award-Winning Book is Now in Paperback, Still Impossible to Describe, But Incredibly Vital

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 30, 2024

What It Is is one of those books that either grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let go, or seeps slowly into your consciousness and shifts how you look…

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GLEEM – D+Q Remind Us of Why Freddy Carrasco’s Work Deserves a Reappraisal

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 20, 2024

It has been four years since Dominican-born artist Freddy Carrasco took home the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection, as well as the Doug Wright Award for Best Small- or Micro-press…

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Winnie-the-Pooh – Travis Dandro Reinvents a Classic with Charm, Poignancy, and a Great Deal of Love

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 15, 2024

Does a graphic adaptation of a literary classic deserve to exist? It’s the kind of question that lovers of music tend to obsess over whenever a remixed version of an…

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Girl Juice – Stay Hot and Simple Forever in Benji Nate’s Hilarious Slice-of-Lifer Celebrating Female Friendship, from D+Q

  • by Lydia Turner
  • March 13, 2024

I’ve always been a huge fan of Benji Nate’s graphic novels – from the hilariously deadpan Lorna, to sweet Catboy to the mysterious Hell Phone. So, when her latest project…

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So Long Sad Love – Aleshia Jensen Brings Mirion Malle’s Powerful Exploration of Heartbreak and Rebirth to a New Audience

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 12, 2024

In 2021, the English translation of French illustrator Mirion Malle’s This is How I Disappear taught us to question how we look at sexual assault and its devastating impact. It…

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Club Microbe – Elise Gravel Continues to Help Young Readers Make Sense of Our World of Wonder, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 4, 2024

One of the things that teachers of young people believe in most is the importance of speaking to them at their level. This doesn’t mean talking down to them, nor…

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Firebugs – Nino Bulling’s Unflinching yet Meditative Look at How Individual Identity and the Politics of Gender Collide

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 20, 2024

“I look at the body as a place that is traversed and shaped by affects.” German writer and artist Nino Bulling said that to journalist Lars von Törne in Der…

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Curses – This Reprint from Drawn & Quarterly Serves as a Reminder That Kevin Huizenga Has Always Made Great Comics

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 13, 2024

In 2006, American cartoonist Kevin Huizenga’s Curses was included on Time Magazine’s list of the Top Ten comics of the year. He was 29 at the time and, although he…

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Blackward – Finding One’s Community is at the Heart of Lawrence Lindell’s Heartwarming Story of Four Black Nerdy Queer Punks

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 29, 2024

Another book recognised in the 2023 Broken Frontier Awards nominations, Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward has already had some extensive spotlight time at BF when Lindell provided this pre-publication creator commentary ‘Inside…

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Aya: Claws Come Out – Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie Bring Their Feisty Ivorian Aya Back to Life

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 18, 2024

New stories about Aya, Bintou, Adjoua, and their families: if that’s not a great start to a new year, what is? Any happiness associated with this news will be undeniably…

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Portrait of a Body – Julie Delporte Raises Intimate, Honest Questions About Feminine Identity and Sexuality, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • December 1, 2023

There’s a lot to unpack in Julie Delporte’s new book Portrait of a Body, not only because her brutal honesty may compel readers to address some thorny issues, but because…

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“The Sort of Events Depicted in this Book Now Seem Far Less Remote” – Chris Oliveros Brings a Lesser-Known Part of Montreal’s History to Life With ‘Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?’ from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 14, 2023

History lessons aren’t always easy to stomach, which may explain why so many of us refuse to learn from them. Recent events only reinforce this, making the work of artists…

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Roaming – Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki’s  Poignant Tale of Love, Friendship and Growing Up from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 27, 2023

It is when one first looks up, after a hundred odd pages or so into Roaming, that Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki’s individual skills start to become just a little…

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Why Don’t You Love Me? – Paul B. Rainey’s Twisting Tale from Drawn & Quarterly Finds the Humanity in the Gloom

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2023

Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…

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The Naked Tree – Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Continues Her Exploration of the Horrors of War With this Adaptation from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 29, 2023

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s third novel, translated by Janet Hong, is her first adaptation, but does not seem particularly out of step with her oeuvre. The Naked Tree was writer Park…

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Juliette – Camille Jourdy Blends Magic With Melancholy to Create an Exquisite Comic Experience, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 4, 2023

Here’s a warning of sorts: one may sigh a lot while reading Juliette by French writer and cartoonist Camille Jourdy, first published in 2016 and newly translated into English by…

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20 km/h – Chinese Artist Woshibai Uses the Deceptively Simple to Create Something Profound in His Debut for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 19, 2023

The easiest way to describe a kōan — a Japanese reading of the Chinese gong’an — is to compare it to our version of a riddle, although Zen Buddhists probably…

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“I Am Comfortable with My Lack of Faith” – Miriam Katin on the Paperback Edition of ‘We Are on Our Own’, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 28, 2023

It has been a little over 15 years since Hungarian-born American artist Miriam Katin’s award-winning memoir We Are on Our Own (the story of Katin and her mother’s escape from…

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