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
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 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
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
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
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
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
With his new graphic novel project, writer and DIY publishing pioneer Jim Munroe builds on the events of the Book of Revelation to create a bold and imaginative new world. This is by no means ... Read More »
November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a young boy on a farm discovers he can fly. That the boy is only daydreaming is where Jeff Lemire’s Tales from the Farm departs from more familiar ... Read More »
June 18, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica
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