Drawn & Quarterly

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....

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...

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.

Review: Turning the mirror on journalism

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Having worked as a journalist since the late 1990s, I have found that most people have no clue about how news organizations work, which...

Review: Comics don’t come more gentle than ‘Mooncop’

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Some dreams never turn out quite like you hope they will, and when they all come crashing down, things are going to change. Many...

Review: Two tiny books with big differences between them

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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...

Guy DeLisle’s “Hostage” coming from D&Q next year

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      Canadian graphic novel artist Guy Delisle is slowly unveiling details about his upcoming book “Hostage”. The book will relate the real life experience of...

Artist Genevieve Castree could use some help

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Last year, cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée Elverum was diagnosed with inoperable Stage Four pancreatic cancer just four months after giving birth to a...

Chester Brown vs the Bible: The final chapter

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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,...

Get your Wonder Woman make-up fix at Walgreens this week

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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...

Review: Brecht Evens and the complications of growing up

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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...

Chester Brown is hitting the road with his Biblical prostitution treatise (NSFW)

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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...

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