★ Therefore Repent!

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

Essex County Vol. 1: Tales from the Farm

By Jeff Lemire

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

Spent

By Joe Matt

In the annals of confessional Loser Lit, few capture the minute details of their own downfall with as much glee and obsessiveness as cartoonist Joe Matt. Matt, an American who lived in Toronto for years ... Read More »

May 29, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

Pride of Baghdad

By Brian K. Vaughan; Niko Henrichon

Virgil’s Aeneid famously sang of arms and the man. Pride of Baghdad, a collaboration between California author Brian K. Vaughan and Quebec City illustrator Niko Henrichon, sings just as passionately of arms and the mane.The ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

This Will All End in Tears

By Joe Ollmann

First, a confession: I have never been able to accept the term “graphic novel.” The label has always struck me as a pretentious and self-aggrandizing way of referring to comic books. So it was with ... Read More »

December 19, 2006 | Filed under: Graphica

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China

By Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle appropriately quotes Baudelaire in his new graphic non-fiction title, Shenzhen: “Bitter the knowledge we get from travelling!/ The world, monotonous and mean today,/ yesterday, tomorrow, always, let us see our own image/ an ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Graphica

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