Graphica

A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel (ill.); W. Donald Wilson (trans.)

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

★ Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By Kate Beaton

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

★ But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer; Gilad Seliktar and Nico and Rolf Kamp; Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel; Charlotte Schallié (ed.)

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

★ Our Little Secret

By Emily Carrington

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

★ This Is How I Disappear

By Mirion Malle; Aleshia Jensen  and Bronwyn Haslam (trans.)

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 »

December 15, 2021 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Shadow Life

By Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu (ill.)

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 »

April 29, 2021 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Titan

By François Vigneault

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