Graphica

★ Titan

Old energy sources have become unsustainable. An alienated workforce agitates for systemic change. New technologies are manipulated to nefarious ends. And a world can no longer bear its own government’s kleptocracy. Science fiction is often ... Read More »

November 5, 2020 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

Umma’s Table

By Yeon-Sik Hong; Janet Hong (trans.)

How our way of life and health are interconnected with those of our children and parents is of particular interest in this season of global pandemic. In a translation by Vancouver writer Janet Hong, Korean ... Read More »

May 4, 2020 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Frogcatchers

By Jeff Lemire

Two new, disquieting graphic novels from a pair of Canadians who have found success on the international stage explore fears, solitude, and shortened days. Sarah Leavitt’s latest imagines and expands the possibilities suggested by a ... Read More »

December 12, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

Agnes, Murderess

By Sarah Leavitt

December 12, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

★ Grass

By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Janet Hong (trans.)

Comics’ rise to respectability in recent decades has as much to do with the inherent value of the medium as the gravity of subjects that comprise its landmark works. Fun Home, Maus, Persepolis, Louis Riel: ... Read More »

October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

The Complete Stay as you are.

By Brad Yung

Let’s talk about the 1990s; it was a time when we made zines. Today, though paper craft is alive and well (unique art items, high design), its very existence stands in contrast to all things ... Read More »

August 12, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

Death Threat

By Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee (ill.)

Right from its slim hardcover format – reminiscent of French-language comic albums and seldom seen in English comics – it’s clear Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee’s Death Threat is no ordinary graphic novel. Both writer ... Read More »

May 23, 2019 | Filed under: Graphica

★ The New World: Comics from Mauretania

By Chris Reynolds; Seth (ed.)

That we are living in a golden age for graphic novels is clear. Satrapi, Telgemeier, Tagame, Beaton, and Bechdel – what other generation of readers has had access to such a variety of visual narratives? ... Read More »

May 17, 2018 | Filed under: Graphica

★ Young Frances

By Hartley Lin

For many, this new graphic novel from Hartley Lin will signal the debut of a talented, thoughtful cartoonist. But connoisseurs of Canadian literary comics have already gotten to know Lin’s work over the past decade, ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Graphica

★ Louis Undercover

By Fanny Britt; Isabelle Arsenault (ill.); Christelle Morelli (trans.); Susan Ouriou (trans.)

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault follow up their Governor General’s Literary Award–winning Jane, the Fox and Me with a second graphic novel collaboration of equal acuity. The titular protagonist of Louis Uncover is a perceptive ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Kids’ Books

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