Review: Turning the mirror on journalism
Having worked as a journalist since the late 1990s, I have found that most people have no clue about how news organizations work, which leads to a lot of confusion about how the news...
Review: Comics don’t come more gentle than ‘Mooncop’
Some dreams never turn out quite like you hope they will, and when they all come crashing down, things are going to change. Many humans are allergic to change, so they cling to their...
Review: Two tiny books with big differences between them
Nicolas by Pascal Girard
This is a deceptively simple book that takes slices from the life of creator Pascal Girard’s life that all revolve around his younger brother, who died as a child. Girard’s cartooning takes...
Guy DeLisle’s “Hostage” coming from D&Q next year
Canadian graphic novel artist Guy Delisle is slowly unveiling details about his upcoming book “Hostage”. The book will relate the real life experience of Christophe André, an administrator at Doctors without Borders who was...
Artist Genevieve Castree could use some help
Last year, cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée Elverum was diagnosed with inoperable Stage Four pancreatic cancer just four months after giving birth to a daughter. She is only 34 years old. You can read...
Chester Brown vs the Bible: The final chapter
Regular Beat readers know I'm OBSESSED with Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus. For many years, I've generally admired Brown's work, from the gonzo Ed the Happy Clown to the devastating...
Get your Wonder Woman make-up fix at Walgreens this week
Wonder Woman is truly a multi-faceted triple goddess of lore and branding. For some she's a feminist role model; to others she's a powerful but sexy female superhero; and to still others, she's a great way...
Review: Brecht Evens and the complications of growing up
Unfolding like a children’s book gone horribly wrong, Brecht Evens’ Panther begins with the death of Christine’s cat and the appearance what might be an imaginary friend designed to take its place and ease...
Chester Brown is hitting the road with his Biblical prostitution treatise (NSFW)
There's a new Chester Brown book coming out, and it's a doozy. It's called Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, and it examines stories of bibles heroines via their relationship with prostitution. This...
Review: Michael DeForge’s ‘Big Kids’ tells us something about ourselves
Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations, this is a self-righteous pile of bull built from Gen...
Review: Nick Drnaso gives us 2016’s first great work with ‘Beverly’
Nick Drnaso’s fictional world is a particularly joyless one where even coming together doesn’t much help the human condition. It might even make things worse. As depicted in the Drnasoverse, each human has their...
D&Q to republish three Lynda Barry masterpieces
The Lynda Barry renaissance that's been underway at D&Q for the last few years with What It Is, Syllabus and reprints of her early comics strips now comes to its crowning moment with new...
