Search Results by tag: graphic novels

Polaris winner Lido Pimienta to perform “live graphic novel”

Lido Pimienta, the Toronto-based, Colombian-born musician who took home this year's Polaris Prize for her album La Papessa, will be performing what she describes as a "live graphic novel" at this year's Caminos Festival, Oct. 6 ... Read More »

September 25, 2017 | Filed under: Book news

Justin Trudeau stars in forthcoming Marvel graphic novel

By Becky Robertson

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will up his cool factor even more this summer with a starring role in a new Marvel graphic novel written by Toronto cartoonist Chip Zdarsky and illustrated by Ramón Pérez. Issue ... Read More »

June 28, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture

Koyama, Drawn & Quarterly score Eisner Award nominations

By Sue Carter

Comic-Con International has announced the shortlists for the 2013 Eisner Awards, with Toronto's Koyama Press and Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly each receiving multiple nominations. The fourth instalment of Koyama artist Michael DeForge's comic series Lose is ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian booksellers pick the top graphic novels of 2012

By Safa Jinje

According to booksellers contacted by Q&Q, graphic novels continue their move into the mainstream. Jason Grimmer, manager of Montreal's Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, says, "People are starting to look at graphic novels as literature." Calum ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Books of the Year

Q&A: Shelley Wall talks comics and medicine at the University of Toronto

By Natalie Samson

While comics artists have tackled all manner of sex, drugs, and violence in their work, medicine “ an area in which all these issues (and more) intersect “ still seems to carry the stink of ... Read More »

July 19, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Cartoonists petition Canada Council for grant eligibility

By Sue Carter

Yesterday at San Diego's international Comic-Con convention, two generations of Canadian cartoonists, Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) and Lynn Johnston (For Better or for Worse), shared the stage for a discussion about the craft of ... Read More »

July 13, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Crowdfunding website Kickstarter becomes big player in graphic novels

By Sue Carter

According to research conducted by Publishers Weekly, crowdsourcing website Kickstarter is now one of the top revenue-generating graphic-novel publishers in the U.S. From February to April of this year, graphic novelists and comic artists who ... Read More »

July 11, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Kobo releases classic novels as digital comics

By Katie Gowrie

Kobo users can now read ebooks like Alice in Wonderland, The Last of the Mohicans, and War of the Worlds as illustrated comics, through a content distribution deal between Kobo and the digital publisher Trajectory. ... Read More »

May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Book links roundup: Canada’s best-selling graphic novels, Schnittman leaves Bloomsbury for Hachette, new Vonnegut e-single; and more

By Natalie Samson

Sequential lists 30 best-selling Canadian comics and graphic novels Evan Schnittman leaves Bloomsbury for executive post at Hachette Does capitalism trounce freedom of expression at the London Book Fair? Unpublished Kurt Vonnegut novella, Basic Training, ... Read More »

March 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Guy Delisle wins gold at French comic book awards

By Natalie Samson

Guy Delisle's latest graphic novel, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, has been named best comic book of the year at the 39th AngoulÃªme International Comics Festival. The Quebec-born artist was presented with the Fauve ... Read More »

January 31, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

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