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Author: Lindsay Pereira

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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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My Perfect Life – Lynda Barry Continues to Shine a Light On Her Iconic World of Ernie Pook for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 26, 2022

Nostalgia is a tricky thing, painting the past to be a lot rosier than it often is. That overriding scepticism comes to the fore whenever the great Lynda Barry approves…

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“I’d Love To Be Cancelled. Sounds Extremely Profitable” – Luke Healy Does What He Does Best on D+Q and Faber’s ‘The Con Artists’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 24, 2022

There is something extremely perceptive about Luke Healy’s response to a question about what he expects readers to take away from his work. He says he wants them to make…

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“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 4, 2022

School libraries in America banned more books in 2021 than ever before. Adding to this disturbing fact is the possibility that the LGBTQ+ community in that country is under attack….

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Better Man – Frank Page’s Poignant Tale of Love, Loss, and Growing Up in New York

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 22, 2022

It sometimes feels as if being different in any way often leads to unpleasant experiences of the sort shared by everyone the world over, regardless of nationality, faith, or colour….

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“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 18, 2022

A colostomy involves the creation of an opening for the colon through the abdomen. The cartoonist Matthew Thurber refers to it as something in the body that passes out in…

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Time Zone J – Julie Doucet Uses Her Distinctive Style to Dissect a Whirlwind Romance In Her Latest Book for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 7, 2022

There is an early panel in Time Zone J where a version of Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 pop art painting, Kiss II, appears to show up. One isn’t quite sure about…

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“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 1, 2022

It is impossible to read Emily Carrington’s graphic memoir, Our Little Secret, dispassionately. The pages are weighed down by her documentation of a traumatic personal history, but so many panels…

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“Despair Only Aids the Enemies of Democracy” – Darryl Cunningham Warns Us About Putin in ‘Putin’s Russia’, His Latest Book for Myriad Editions and Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 23, 2022

To immerse oneself in a book by Darryl Cunningham is the equivalent of signing up for a history lesson by a particularly engaging lecturer. This isn’t only because of his…

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Vessel – Introducing Us to the Strange and Interesting World of Lily and Generoso Fierro

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 10, 2022

To spend time at Lily and Generoso Fierro’s website is like being invited to dine with a colourful couple for a few hours. They blog about the “carbs and caffeine”…

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The Collected Neil the Horse – Katherine Collins Still Makes Canadian Readers Smile With the World’s Only Musical Comic

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 25, 2022

It’s called a musical comic because the eponymous horse is part of a song-and-dance act. This may sound like an anomaly today, but Neil the Horse made perfect sense in…

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Weeding – Montréal Artist Geneviève Lebleu Uses Body Horror to Powerful Effect in Her Stunning Debut

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 7, 2022

There are several things going on in Geneviève Lebleu’s debut Weeding that don’t register with one’s first reading. The body horror, unsurprisingly, becomes the most engrossing thing about the book…

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The Shiatsung Project – Brigitte Archambault Raises Interesting Questions About Humanity and Technology with Her Debut Book

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • January 3, 2022

We are plunged into the world of Brigitte Archambault’s unnamed protagonist in The Shiatsung Project without a preamble. We aren’t given any information about who she is, why she lives…

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“This Process Turned Me into a Better Cartoonist” – Theo Ellsworth on His Adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Secret Life’ for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 18, 2021

It sometimes feels as if Jeff VanderMeer lives in a world far removed from our own. The American writer was once referred to ‘the weird Thoreau’ and even a cursory…

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This is How I Disappear – Mirion Malle Creates A Powerful Portrait of Grief, Anger and the Aftermath of Assault

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 11, 2021

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association published a worrying report on the health of millennials in 2019, revealing a 12% increase in major depression amongst that demographic. The data showed…

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