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    Author: Lindsay Pereira

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    Holy Lacrimony – Michael DeForge Continues to Share His Uniquely Skewed Perspective of the World

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • March 12, 2025

    “I thought being tethered to our computers even more would help push us to demand a more democratic, collectively-owned vision of the Internet, but I’m not sure I really saw…

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    Aya: Face the Music – The Story of Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie’s Feisty Heroine Continues from Drawn & Quarterly

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • March 7, 2025

    The last time we saw Aya, much had changed in the life of the young woman and her friends on the Ivory Coast. Claws Come Out was a great, if pithy…

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    Milk White Steed – Michael D. Kennedy’s Drawn & Quarterly Collection is a Bittersweet Exploration of the Meaning of Home that Rewards Patient Reading

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • March 4, 2025

    Milk White Steed introduced this reviewer to the existence of the Ligahoo. Also known as Lagahoo or Lugarhou, the mythical shapeshifting monster comes from the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago,…

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    A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium II – Rick Geary and NBM Bring Together More Trials, Convictions and Crimes from Our Recent Past

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • February 10, 2025

    A decade or so ago, bestselling American journalist David Grann published a collection titled The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession. It brought to light several…

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    Willie Nelson: A Graphic History – A Graphic Biography Strictly for Those Who Know Nothing About the Legendary Musician

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • February 4, 2025

    Willie Hugh Nelson, born April 29, 1933, is now 91 years old. Given that he has spent around 81 of those years in the making of music (he joined his…

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    The British Invasion! – Hervé Bourhis Documents the Long Cultural Shadow Cast By the United Kingdom

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • December 17, 2024

    It sometimes feels as if this began with The Beatles and then simply forgot to stop. By ‘this,’ one refers to the cultural force that was once an Empire. It…

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    The Incredible Story of Cooking – Benoist Simmat and Stéphane Douay Help Make Sense of What We Eat and Why, from NBM

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • November 21, 2024

    In 2020, French journalist Benoist Simmat delved into one of his country’s oldest obsessions. The result was a graphic history of wine, tracing its origins from the Middle Ages to…

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    Audrey Hepburn – Michele Botton and Dorilys Giacchetto Revisit the Life and Times of the Film Star for NBM

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • November 5, 2024

    Audrey Hepburn loved comic books. That revelation, from a preface by the Hollywood icon’s second son Luca Dotti, is an apt piece of trivia with which to begin her graphic…

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    The Road – Manu Larcenet’s Abrams Graphic Novel Adaptation is as Harrowing and Unforgettable as Cormac McCarthy’s Novel

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • October 22, 2024

    There is a little detail on the first page of this graphic adaptation, a blink-and-miss-it silhouette of a man holding a child’s hand. That it says so much is testament…

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    Final Cut – Charles Burns Gives Fabulous New Life to Old Preoccupations

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • October 8, 2024

    Charles Burns offers his readers no clues. There is no subtitle hinting towards a plot, no description or biography, and nothing to give one an indication of what they are…

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    Forces of Nature – Edward Steed Provides a Smart, Hilarious Collection of Gags About a World Gone Awry

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • September 12, 2024

    Legendary cartoonist Adrian Tomine has a wry endorsement of Edward Steed at the back of this, the latter’s debut collection. “I met Steed years ago at a fancy New Yorker…

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    Raw Sewage Science Fiction – For Those Wondering What Marc Bell is Trying to Say, It’s Great How His Drawn & Quarterly Book Comes No Closer to an Answer

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • September 11, 2024

    One of the nicest things one can say about an artist is that their work is confounding. It may seem like a backhanded compliment, but it expresses a willingness to…

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    Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It – A Great Introduction to the Fearless World of Tara Booth from Drawn & Quarterly

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • September 9, 2024

    Tara Booth describes herself as an Ignatz Award-winning comic artist, illustrator and painter from Philadelphia, whose candid autobiographical comics shed lightness and humour on issues related to mental health, addiction,…

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    Erased – Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol Take on Hollywood’s Historical Revisionism with a Fictional Account of an Actor of Colour

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • August 28, 2024

    One of the most troubling notions to emerge from a reading of Loo Hui Phang’s powerful new graphic novel Erased: An Actor of Colour’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood,…

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    Absolute Simultaneity – Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro Tap into the Anxiety of our Zeitgeist

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • August 7, 2024

    There’s something comforting about artists choosing to publish what they want, without worrying about whether established publishers will put their weight behind it. Lily Thu Fierro and Generoso Fierro’s latest…

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    Moomin Adventures: Book One – Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson’s Timeless Stories Are Being Reissued Because They Deserve to Be

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • July 10, 2024

    One of the many delightful things about Tove Jansson’s legendary Moomins is how the series is often recommended online for readers between 7 and 9. This is amusing when one…

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    Second Hand Love – Drawn & Quarterly Provide Further Proof That Japanese Comics Creator Yamada Murasaki Was Ahead of Her Time

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • July 8, 2024

    It takes a while to pinpoint what Yamada Murasaki manages to evoke with her pithy stories. It isn’t exactly ennui, but more a lingering dissatisfaction with the status quo as…

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    A Witch’s Guide to Burning – Aminder Dhaliwal Showcases Her Innate Gift for Storytelling Via Drawn & Quarterly

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • June 4, 2024

    There has always been a quiet confidence about Aminder Dhaliwal’s work, along with a sense of comfort that one is in the hands of a great storyteller. Consider her last…

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