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...
Chester Brown is also going biblical with a book on Bible prostitutes
While Gilbert Hernandez is new to the bible comics business, Canadian iconoclast Chester Brown has long been fascinated by scripture; long ago he adapted...
D&Q January books: New Oliveros, new Drnaso and more Lutes and Skeezix
D&Q has just announced their January releases, including a new edition of Jason Lutes' Berlin, more Gasoline Alley, an exciting debut graphic novel from Nick Drnaso AND The Envelope Manufacturer, the book by former D&Q publisher Chris Oliveros, who has been quietly working on this book for years. The subject matter -- the gradual erosion of a small business -- echoes Seth's Clyde Fans and maybe even the comics industry? We'll find out!
In case you're wondering about Jason Lutes long simmering epic, a new issue, the 18th, came out last May, and he's slowly but surely working on completing it.
