Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me...
Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina Becomes First Ever Graphic Novel Nominated for Man Booker Prize
Historic Nomination at the Man Booker Prize for Nick Drnaso's Graphic Novel Sabrina
SDCC ’18: Drawn & Quarterly Announces Comic-Con Signing and Panel Schedules + Exclusive Merchandise
Why, yes, that _is_ a Jason Lutes panel.
Review: Nick Drnaso’s ‘Sabrina’ won’t stop haunting me
The concept of fake news existed long before Trump, and conspiracy theorists have also, but one difference between now and even a decade ago...
Review: ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ not hard to enjoy
The Angouleme-winning Monsieur Jean series by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian is celebrated here with It Don’t Come Easy, a collection of some of...
HOORAY! D&Q is reprinting Little Lulu in color starting next year
The very first news item on the Beat back in 2004 was a note that Dark Horse was reprinting Little Lulu in B&W.
Well, now...
D&Q to publish Michael DeForge’s astounding ‘Leaving Richard’s Valley’ next year
Michael DeForge's powerful parable of gentrification is getting a hardcover edition from D&Q in 2019.
Leslie Stein wins LA Times Book Prize for ‘Present’
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...
Drawn & Quarterly offers a Publishing Fellowship
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...
Review: Anneli Furmark’s drama of Swedish winter, politics, and family dynamics
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...
Review: The Cartoonist is ‘Present’
Near the end of Present, Leslie Stein tells a short tale about a particular long term customer of hers who goes into restaurants, orders...
