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Author: Lindsay Pereira

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Harvey Knight’s Odyssey – Nick Maandag’s New Collection Effortlessly Blends Absurdity with Profundity, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 15, 2023

The nicest thing about picking up a book by Canadian artist Nick Maandag is not knowing what the next page will bring. Will there be hilarity? There almost always is….

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Brooklyn’s Last Secret – Leslie Stein’s Wry and Amusing Look at What It Means to Be a Small Band on Tour

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 9, 2023

Leslie Stein, full-time cartoonist, part-time bartender, famous meme (Google it) and all-round cool person based on the accounts of those who know her, has been playing music with friends for…

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Where I’m Coming From – Drawn & Quarterly Remind Us of How Powerful the Voice of Barbara Brandon-Croft Has Always Been

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 20, 2023

They’re referred to as ‘truth bombs’, defined as ‘blunt, undiplomatic statements of something true that others may not want or expect to hear.’ You can experience a whole lot of…

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“I Am My Favourite Subject” –  Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 12, 2023

It’s always difficult to predict what Paul B. Rainey will decide to work upon next. His history in comics is so varied and intriguing that it sometimes feels as if…

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Movements and Moments – D+Q’s Anthology Brings Together Eight Powerful Stories of Indigenous Resistance

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 23, 2022

The introduction to the striking Movements and Moments anthology makes an interesting point that doesn’t often crop up in discussions about comics. It points out that while there have been more…

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The Joy of Quitting – Keiler Roberts Celebrates the Wry Complexities of Everyday Life, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 16, 2022

In May 2021, when cartoonist Keiler Roberts published My Begging Chart, she was asked how she viewed her work and if there was any distance between her and the person depicted…

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Inversion – Lily and Generoso Fierro Push the Boundaries of Narrative and Form

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 20, 2022

We reviewed Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro’s intriguing debut Vessel earlier this year, and the thing that stood out almost immediately was their refusal to conform. That singularity of…

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Artist – Yeong-shin Ma Examines Fragile Male Bonding and Attitudes Towards Art in South Korea, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 17, 2022

There’s something about South Korea that doesn’t always make sense to an outsider. On the one hand, an increasing number of its cultural assets have become striking examples of soft…

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“She Felt that the Work Should Speak for Itself” – Phil Elverum on the Late Geneviève Castrée’s Complete Works, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 10, 2022

When Canadian cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée passed away in 2016 at age 35, she left behind heartbroken friends who had long recognised her genius, as well as an audience…

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Ulysses: Mahler After Joyce – Nicolas Mahler Gives Us a New Way of Reading Joyce with His Interpretation of ‘Ulysses’ For Seagull Books

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 3, 2022

It takes a bold artist to reinterpret a classic work of literature, and a supremely confident one to choose Ulysses, what many refer to as “the greatest novel in the…

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Revenge of the Librarians – Tom Gauld Celebrates and Skewers Book Lovers with His New Collection for D+Q and Canongate

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 23, 2022

“Perfect cheer-me-up”, is how a reader describes Revenge of the Librarians, Tom Gauld’s latest collection of comic strips, on an online forum. As a succinct critique of everything he does,…

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World Record Holders – Guy Delisle Gives Us Glimpses of an Artist Coming Into His Own, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 16, 2022

There’s a reason established musicians sometimes put out collections of early demos, late into their careers. There’s a hint of vanity, of course, underpinning the assumption that someone wants to…

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It’s So Magic – Growing Up Isn’t Always Great, But Lynda Barry Shows What Makes It Special

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 14, 2022

The period between childhood and adulthood has confounded, engaged, and frustrated the world’s most amazing minds. To write about this transition is to account not just for physical or intellectual…

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Kate Beaton Returns to D+Q and Jonathan Cape with a Memoir as Disturbing as it is Unforgettable

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2022

“The world’s most destructive oil operation.” That is the description National Geographic went with for a 2019 profile of Alberta’s oil sands region north of Fort McMurray. A distressing report…

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Birds of Maine – Michael DeForge Takes a Successful Leap from Instagram to Paper, Thanks to D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 12, 2022

The handle ‘@birdsofmainecomic’ on Instagram has over 450 posts and a little over 7,400 followers. Each panel gets hundreds of likes, and Michael DeForge’s bio for the comic promises a…

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Talk to My Back – Yamada Murasaki Offers Subversive Slices of Women’s Domestic Lives, Via D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 4, 2022

In 2017, Martine van Elk, professor of English at California State University, published a comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It documented responses by women to…

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The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories – Rumi Hara Shares Visions of a Strange and Sublime World, Published by D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 3, 2022

Storytellers use the world they inhabit to shape the stories they choose to tell. When looked at from this perspective, there is nothing particularly weird about Rumi Hara’s stories, despite…

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Hummingbird Heart – Love and Loss Inform Travis Dandro’s D+Q Memoir Set in the 1990s

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 28, 2022

There are moments in every memoir involving a certain kind of trauma where one can sense the writer reaching deep within to find something worth holding on to. Those moments…

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