Graphica

Papercut Heart: A Book of Zines

Papercut Heart is a short volume containing nine poems, all of them charmingly illustrated by the author. Most of the text is handwritten, and the result is a pleasant little collection that tackles the usual ... Read More »

August 11, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

Baloney: A Tale in Three Symphonic Acts

By Pascal Blanchet

If Kaspar Hauser hadn’t actually lived, someone would have made him up. Discovered on the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 by German authorities, the enigmatic teenage foundling quickly became a sensation across Europe, capturing the ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

Kaspar

By Diane Obomsawin

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

Good-Bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany

By Irene N. Watts; Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illus.

Irene Watts’s Good-Bye Marianne is the story of an 11-year-old Jewish girl living in Berlin in the late 1930s. Over the course of several weeks, Marianne witnesses a murder, is barred from attending school, discovers ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

★ Burma Chronicles

By Guy Delisle

Readers familiar with Guy Delisle’s previous travel memoirs, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, may get a jolt from the cover image of his latest. In it, Delisle’s high-foreheaded and low-shouldered avatar is slouching past a heavily fortified ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Graphica

Paul Goes Fishing

By Michel Rabagliati

Paul Goes Fishing is the fourth volume in Michel Rabagliati’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel series. In the new book, it’s July 1991; Paul is 32, and he’s finally establishing himself in the world. He’s got a ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

Hall of Best Knowledge

By Ray Fenwick

As has often been observed, it takes no small amount of ego to write a book. And in this regard, the self-important fictional author of Hall of Best Knowledge, a “typographical comic” by Halifax illustrator ... Read More »

June 2, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

Albert and the Others

By Guy Delisle

Possibly the most pleasant comic-book diversion to come along in the last little while is Albert and the Others by émigré Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle. Albert is a companion volume to Delisle’s Aline and the ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Graphica

★ White Rapids

By Pascal Blanchet; Helge Duscher, trans.

Historical fiction, because of its innate subjectivity and its frequently stodgy presentation, can be a thorny proposition, no less so when the work in question is a comic book. But two new historically themed graphic ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica