Drawn & Quarterly

The long awaited second collection of Kate Beaton's madly popular Hark! A Vagrant comic is finally on its way, and it's called Step Aside, Pops, a phrase we'll all be saying a lot come September. Tom Devlin acquired the book for Drawn & Quarterly. “Kate’s wit is sharper than ever in Step Aside, Pops,” said Devlin in a statement. “She’s found the perfect way to explore her love of history, while effortlessly deflating the pompous, self-righteous figures of authority we were taught to respect in school. Her restlessness has made her drawings even funnier."

In case you missed it, Sony Pictures has been forced to cancel the theatrical release of The Interview after hackers have released a catastrophic trove of private emails and scripts, and threatened to bomb theaters showing the film—and theater owners began saying they wouldn't carry it. The film follows a pair of bumbling journalists sent to North Korea to assassinate Kim Jong Un, and apparently, Supreme Leader did not like this plot line. The repercussions of this Hollywood disaster will be felt for years to come, but one piece of collateral damage was a planned adaptation of Pyongyang, Guy DeLisle's graphic novel about his two months spent in the North Korean capital working on an animation project. New Regency has pulled the plug on the project which was to have starred Steve Carrell and be directed by Gore Verbinski from a Steve Conrad script. However the log line for the movie bears little resemblance to the book that I read:

D&Q has just firmed up their Winter/Spring titles for 2015 and...well, it's going tobe another great year, in case all these previews we've been publishing haven't given you that idea yet. As if new books...

D&Q sent along info on their four debuting books this weekend at CAB: Earthling Aisha Franz, translated by Helge Dascher   First Year Healthy Michael DeForge Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan Shigeru Mizuki, translated by Zack Davisson   Pippi Won't Grow Up Astrid...

One of the eagerly awaited books of fall is The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino, a graphic novel length account of his health issues and battle with OCD, depression and other ills. Despite the...

How has it escaped the notice of the world for a week that Drawn and Quarterly announced that Gilbert Hernandez's Bumperhead will debut at San Diego this year? And a cover and preview...

You heard me, D&Q, one of the all tme great comics publishers, is having a 40% off sale just in time for BLck Friday. And they already HAD Thanksgiving in Canada! * Yes, any...

  Here for your perusal, I examine a pile of worthy comics and graphic novelish books that I have found in my travels to Brooklyn; from a few book release parties at Bergen Street Comics,...

A tiny snippt of a lost project that would have animated Chester Brown's great graphic novel of Canadian history.

Gilbert "Beto" Hernandez's status as One Of Our Greatest Living Cartoonists got yet more validation today when it was announced that he's the recipient of The Pen Center USA's 2013 Graphic Literature award for Outstanding Body of Work. The Pen Center Awards are given out each year to deserving authors in multiple categories, and as the name suggests, it honors a notable body of work.

The fall comics landscape is shaping up with the books we'll be talking about and one will definitely be Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, straightforward but lively biography of the women's right pioneer...

This year, publishers have distributed fifty-two titles for Free Comic Book Day this Saturday. While it is not uncommon for many comics shops to order all of the titles, it is becoming common that most comics...