The City of Belgium – Brecht Evens Transfers a Beguiling Dream to Paper Via Drawn & Quarterly
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
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…
“Everything Feels More Fragile and Less Permanent” – An Interview with Keiler Roberts on ‘My Begging Chart’, Her Latest Book for D+Q
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…
“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” – An Interview with Joe Ollmann on ‘Fictional Father’, Published by Drawn & Quarterly
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…
Cyclopedia Exotica – Aminder Dhaliwal Uses Her Second Graphic Novel to Ask Us All a Few Uncomfortable Questions, from Drawn & Quarterly
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…
“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
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…
Heaven No Hell – Michael DeForge Continues to Go Where Comics Haven’t Gone Before in His Latest D&Q Offering
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…
“His Life Was Dedicated to Japan” – Zack Davisson on ‘Tōno Monogatari’ and the Legacy of Shigeru Mizuki
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,…
Tōno Monogatari – Shigeru Mizuki Introduces New Readers to the Supernatural Wonder of this Japanese Classic
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…
“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
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…
Paul at Home – Michel Rabagliati Creates the Perfect Parable for Our Time
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…
Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics – Valérie Plante, the First Woman Elected Mayor of Montréal, Uses Comics to Tell Us Her Story
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…
“I’m Not Sure if I’m Optimistic or Pessimistic, but I’m Not Nihilistic” – Sophie Yanow’s Work is Perfect for the Uncertain World We Currently Live In
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…
The Contradictions – Sophie Yanow’s Coming-of-Age Story is a Complex Study of Idealism in Our Formative Years
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…
Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi – Little Lulu First Appeared in 1935, and D+Q’s ‘Best-Of’ Collection Proves She is Still a Feminist Icon
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…
Wendy, Master of Art – A Career In Art Can Be Fulfilling, But Pretentious. ‘Wendy, Master of Art’ Explains Why, from Walter Scott and Drawn & Quarterly
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…
I Know You Rider – Is Having a Child Necessary? Leslie Stein’s Drawn & Quarterly Graphic Memoir Grapples with Powerful Questions
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…
Familiar Face – Michael DeForge Spotlights the Impermanence and Insecurity of the Shifting Contemporary World
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…
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