Adapting Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s best-selling study Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States to a slimmer comics format while retaining its core essence is, of course, an achievement in itself. As…
Conundrum Press’s anniversary Conundrum 25 series of one-shots has provided the Canadian publisher with an opportunity to spotlight a diverse number of approaches to the medium alongside some powerful creative…
Canadian publisher Conundrum Press’s commitment to giving a voice to Indigenous creators has been notable in recent years. You can read more about Conundrum publisher Andy Brown’s feelings about that…
The artist FLuX describes his work as ‘Trompe Nouveau’, a style and technique that combines hyper-realistic oil painting with the ornamentation of Art Nouveau. It makes for a mildly disconcerting…
Cole Pauls’ Kwändǖr has already gained a significant degree of acclaim, having won a BC and Yukon Book Prize to sit aside the Indigenous Voices Award he won for previous…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! The most worrying thing about climate change is that we may already be beyond the point of no return in combatting humanity’s greatest existential threat. With vested…
The introduction to the striking Movements and Moments anthology makes an interesting point that doesn’t often crop up in discussions about comics. It points out that while there have been more…
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It’s a marker of the distinctive properties of comics narrative that sometimes so much more can be expressed and communicated with an economy of line than the most detailed artwork…
This past Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the death of twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack. Found dead of exposure beside a stretch of desolate train tracks in Northern Ontario, Chanie had…
Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie and critically-acclaimed comics creator Jeff Lemire’s (Essex County, Descender) multimedia collaboration shines a spotlight on the Canadian government’s deplorable use of residential schools to forcibly…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
