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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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“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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“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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Library – Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber Give Us a Peek Into Their Droll World, for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 1, 2021

Would you pick up a book titled ‘Better Stay Up All Night Before Starting That New Job’? Imagine an unadorned cover, part of a series, the books all lined up…

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“She is Beginning to Realize that She is Not so Young Anymore” – An Interview with Walter Scott, Creator of Wendy

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 30, 2021

It’s hard to explain why Wendy, the awkward, funny millennial created by artist Walter Scott not so long ago, continues to be so relatable. She has played a starring role…

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Night Bus – Artist Zuo Ma’s Debut for Drawn & Quarterly Uses Surrealism and Humour to Make Sense of a Fast-Changing China

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 26, 2021

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was once asked a series of questions by other artists from around the world, one of which came from German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘In free…

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Families, Parenting and Saving Face – Weng Pixin on Her New Book, ‘Let’s Not Talk Anymore’

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • July 7, 2021

Writing about family is possibly the easiest thing to do, and the hardest. For the artist Weng Pixin, it was an opportunity to try and understand her mother, and the…

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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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