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Leslie Stein wins LA Times Book Prize for ‘Present’

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The LA Times Book Prizes were presented over the weekend and the winner in the GN category was Leslie Stein's Present, published by Drawn & Quarterly. It's a lovely slice of life comic about...

Drawn & Quarterly offers a Publishing Fellowship

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  If you are Canadian and like comics, Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly is offering an exciting new program: a paid publishing fellowship that will focus on all facets of the book business: editorial; production and design;...

Review: Anneli Furmark’s drama of Swedish winter, politics, and family dynamics

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That the personal is political is acknowledged by plenty, but seldom in the way, it’s portrayed in Red Winter. Taking place in 1970s Sweden as the Social Democrats find themselves on the wane, Anneli Furmark...

Review: The Cartoonist is ‘Present’

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Near the end of Present, Leslie Stein tells a short tale about a particular long term customer of hers who goes into restaurants, orders a Merlot, and then offers little else. Stein is patient...

Interview: Mimi Pond wraps her coming-of-age tale with ‘The Customer Is Always Wrong ‘

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By Rob Staeger Last month Drawn & Quarterly published the second installment in Mimi Pond’s fictionalized memoir, The Customer Is Always Wrong. A sequel to 2014’s Over Easy, The Customer is Always Wrong follows aspiring...

Review: Yeon-Sik Hong understands that happiness isn’t supposed to be comfortable

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There are going to be a number of American readers who see themselves in Korean cartoonist Yeon-Sik Hong’s Uncomfortably Happy, especially creative people and freelancers. This autobiographical book chronicles the move Hong, and his wife...

Review – The Riveting Biography of a Compelling Journalist in Joe Ollmann’s The Abominable...

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Joe Ollmann's The Abominable Mr. Seabrook is a riveting read. An incredibly compelling portrait of a man whose life is the very definition of "larger than life" turned into an engaging page turner under the...

D&Q’s 40% off sale just solved all your summer reading problems

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Summer is here, so they tell us, and soon you'll be hitting the beach with a cute tankini, some suntan lotion and maybe a big graphic novel to dive into. Well Drawn & Quarterly...

A year of free comics – Joe Ollman’s Making of The Abominable Mr. Seabrook

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Drawn & Quarterly recently released Joe Ollmann’s latest graphic novel, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook. Joe Ollmann worked on this graphic for a period of five years, not simply to write and illustrate the book,...

Comic Book Book Club Report – Nicolas by Pascal Girard

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In 2015, I attended a conference on health care for work. Pierre Lavoie, an athlete and event organizer did a presentation at that event. Lavoie was a triathlete who lived in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. In the...

New Wilson trailer shows Woody Harrelson being misanthropic

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https://youtu.be/AKHFZumOS94   There are a lot of comic book movies coming out this year, but lest we forget, Wilson is one of them. Directed by Craig Johnson and starring Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, and Judy Greer, the...

2017 may be a rough year for comics retail and the industry–or not

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Are comics sales slipping or stagnating as we enter 2017? Some signs point to yes, as you can see from the November sales figures released earlier today. While the sales decline earlier in the year has been reversed to a net positive thanks to the Rebirth surge, as retailers Joe Field of Flying Colors tweeted earlier this week, there is a sense of worry out there.

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