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Author: Lindsay Pereira

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“I Have a Lot of Doubts in Real Life” – An Interview with Guy Delisle on His Latest Book, ‘Factory Summers’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 5, 2021

Guy Delisle sounds exactly the way one imagines he would. The thought popped into my mind seconds after his quiet voice echoed on the phone from the South of France,…

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Rebecca and Lucie In the Case of the Missing Neighbor – Pascal Girard Gives Us Another Unexpected Slice of Life

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 30, 2021

There’s almost always an element of doubt that creeps into the mind of a reader looking through the work of Pascal Girard. It is a healthy kind of doubt; one…

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Factory Summers – Guy Delisle Turns a Dispassionate Eye to His Own Past in His Latest Book for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 24, 2021

Why is Guy Delisle turning his observant, careful, dispassionate eye upon himself? That was the first question that popped into my mind a few pages into Factory Summers. I thought…

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“Colour is All About Contrast (or Lack of It)” – An Interview with Brecht Evens on His Latest Work from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 18, 2021

Brecht Evens must have had a more productive time under a state of lockdown than most of us, which is why we were lucky enough to be able to review…

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The City of Belgium – Brecht Evens Transfers a Beguiling Dream to Paper Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 4, 2021

To open a new book like The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens is the equivalent of breaking out a bottle of fine wine: It marks a special occasion, warrants…

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Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful – The Evil that Some Men Do is Laid Out in Stunning Simplicity By Darryl Cunningham

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 3, 2021

There is something particularly disconcerting about malevolence when it is being discussed in the form of a comic. That feeling of being disconnected from what is being revealed crops up…

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“Everything Feels More Fragile and Less Permanent” – An Interview with Keiler Roberts on ‘My Begging Chart’, Her Latest Book for D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 31, 2021

Trying to describe My Begging Chart, the new book by Keiler Roberts, is like trying to capture what everyday life is like: we all seem to think we can explain…

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The Down River People – Adam Smith and Matt Fox Plunge into Southern Gothic Literature

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 27, 2021

There’s something about troubled families that clearly attracts Adam Smith and Matt Fox. It is a theme the writer-illustrator team last explored on Long Walk to Valhalla a little over…

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“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” – An Interview with Joe Ollmann on ‘Fictional Father’, Published by Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 24, 2021

Fictional Father, by legendary Canadian cartoonist Joe Ollmann, declares its intention at the outset, its ingenious cover image pointing to what lies within. This is a faux memoir, supposedly written…

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Cyclopedia Exotica – Aminder Dhaliwal Uses Her Second Graphic Novel to Ask Us All a Few Uncomfortable Questions, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 10, 2021

Brampton, in Canada’s province of Ontario, is home to one of the largest groups of immigrants in the country. It often makes the list of most diverse cities in North…

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“I’m Always Trying to Be a More Elastic Cartoonist, Especially with My Character Designs” – Michael DeForge on His New Book ‘Heaven No Hell’ from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 6, 2021

Following on from his review of Michael DeForge‘s Heaven No Hell last week at Broken Frontier, Lindsay Pereira talks to DeForge about his art, being productive during a pandemic, and…

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Heaven No Hell – Michael DeForge Continues to Go Where Comics Haven’t Gone Before in His Latest D&Q Offering

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • April 2, 2021

There is always a sense of trepidation mixed with excitement when one approaches anything created by Michael DeForge, like today’s review subject Heaven No Hell. This may sound like a…

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“His Life Was Dedicated to Japan” – Zack Davisson on ‘Tōno Monogatari’ and the Legacy of Shigeru Mizuki

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 23, 2021

It’s safe to assume Zack Davisson spends as much time in the spirit world as he does in Seattle. It comes with the territory, given his roles as writer, lecturer,…

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Tōno Monogatari – Shigeru Mizuki Introduces New Readers to the Supernatural Wonder of this Japanese Classic

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • March 17, 2021

It’s interesting to consider that one of the most popular versions of Tōno Monogatari, Japan’s supernatural literary classic, was born because of one man’s desire to protect his country’s cultural…

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“What I’ve Looked for in My Life is a Way to Just Live in the World” – John Porcellino Talks About His Decades of Minicomics Practice and New Drawn & Quarterly Collections

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 17, 2021

It has been three decades since John Porcellino began sharing his singular view of the world in the form of self-published minicomics. What began as an experiment in tune with…

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‘King-Cat Classix’, ‘Map of My Heart’ and ‘Perfect Example’ – Three Reissues from Drawn & Quarterly Give John Porcellino the Spotlight He Has Always Deserved

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 11, 2021

“Somewhere along the line, King-Cat went from being something I do for fun, to something I do, to what I do.” That admission comes from John Porcellino’s introduction to King-Cat…

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Michael Jackson in Comics – NBM and Writer Céka Invite Artists to Tell Stories About the Once Legendary King of Pop

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • February 4, 2021

The cynic in all of us would ask if Michael Jackson deserves yet another biography, given how every aspect of his life continues to elicit scrutiny even a decade after…

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Paul at Home – Michel Rabagliati Creates the Perfect Parable for Our Time

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 17, 2020

On the surface of it, this book has nothing to do with the virus that has changed life as we know it. A tale about a middle-aged cartoonist coming to…

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