In the first of a planned two-volume graphic history of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), Chris Oliveros, cartoonist and founder of renowned publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, brings to life the many personalities whose ... Read More »
Roaming, the latest graphic novel from cousins Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, explores friendship, sex, and identity in an energetic romp through New York City rendered with sharp dialogue and in mesmerizing tableaus of soft ... Read More »
September 20, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Graphica, Reviews
Lac-Mégantic made headlines across the country and around the world when a train derailment destroyed half of that sleepy Québec town one summer night in 2013, taking 47 lives in an instant. Now, in an ... Read More »
October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Science, Technology & Environment
More than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. ... Read More »
August 24, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Never forget. This is the rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. Yet Holocaust denial is widespread and global anti-Semitism is on the rise. There is an epidemic of both ignorance and disinformation about the ... Read More »
April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Emily Carrington’s debut graphic memoir is a deeply affecting and incisive examination of her experiences of childhood sexual abuse. The illustrated format allows for increased emotional impact in a story that is often difficult to ... Read More »
January 11, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
On the heels of her English-language nonfiction debut for young people – The League of Super Feminists, released last year – comes Mirion Malle’s resonant graphic fiction debut, also published by Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly. ... Read More »
Award-winning novelist and poet Hiromi Goto has written her first graphic novel, illustrated by debut artist Ann Xu. Together in Shadow Life, they tell the tale of Kumiko, an elderly woman who battles the shadow ... Read More »
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 »
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 »
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