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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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    “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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    “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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