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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Chippendale, DeForge and Shapton arriving in February from D&Q
2015 isn't even cold in its rocking chair and 20126 is coming on like gangbusters. Here's what D&Q has coming in February, the long...
