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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Memoirs in the form of graphic narratives have long moved from the realm of novelty to that of genuinely intriguing exploration. The medium has, over the past decade alone, been…
The Contradictions is a title that could fit any study focused on what it means to be young in today’s world. In the hands of a writer and cartoonist as…
Broadly speaking, coming-of-age tales are ostentatious affairs. They’re about profound discoveries, rites of passage and moments of epiphany on the road to whatever is loosely defined as adulthood. Sophie Yanow’s…
The Lulu Moppet who first appeared in February of 1935 was a far cry from the girl millions of readers have grown familiar with in the decades since. That first…
Canadian illustrator, sculptor and writer Walter Scott asks a seemingly simplistic question here: What is it like to study art at university? His answer, spelled out over a little under…
It is always tricky, from a male critic’s perspective, to look at any work of art that has everything to do with a woman’s body and no place for a…
For all the surface appeal of Michael DeForge’s frenetic pop surrealism, his real gift is an ability to use that dazzle to land punches of sobering pathos and wry commentary…
In a world struggling not just with a pandemic but a general aversion towards the cultivation of a scientific temperament, the presence of a new book by Tom Gauld seems…
A couple of years ago, Swedish cartoonist and illustrator Disa Wallander was asked to describe her work. It was not an inane question because, as anyone familiar with what she…
I decided to hand over Lynda Barry’s book, Making Comics, to a 9-year-old. I did this because it made sense to test the former’s long-held hypothesis that we can all…
Inside Look: The Junction – My Error Strewn Path to PublicationMay 25, 2022
“I Wish We Lived in a World Where Honesty and Vulnerability Were the Norm” – R.D. Hunter on ‘Black Boy’s Blues’ and Bringing Life as an African American Millennial to the Comics PageMay 16, 2022
“Religious Groups Claim Moral Superiority but Target the Most Vulnerable” – Jessica Campbell Makes Her Case With ‘Rave’, For Drawn & QuarterlyMay 4, 2022
“Making Art is How I Transcend My Self” – Matthew Thurber on ‘Mr Colostomy’, His New Graphic Novel for Drawn & QuarterlyApril 18, 2022
“I’m Not Surprised Canada Isn’t Helping Us” – Emily Carrington on Confronting Her Painful Past with Drawn & Quarterly’s ‘Our Little Secret’April 1, 2022
