Drawn & Quarterly

In a move that will surprise no one, Julia Pohl-Miranda has been promoted Director of Marketing at Drawn & Quarterly, where she will continue to oversee day-to-day publicity operations, author tours, festivals and events, and remain a calm and encouraging presence at D&Q's booth wherever she goes. A graduate of McGill University, Pohl-Miranda started as a marketing intern for joined D&Q in 2008, while progressing to publicity assistant and editorial marketing manager before reaching her current title.

Although most of these books have been announced, here's all of Drawn & Quarterly's fall schedule in all it's glory. You can read the complete catalog here -- commentary below is my own.

Somehow I managed to miss last week's biggest news of all: a new collection from Adrian Tomine, coming in October! The ominously titled Killing and Dying which collects the last few issues of Optic Nerve:

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...

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...

One of the eagerly awaited books of fall is The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino, a graphic novel length account of his health issues...

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...

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....

  Here for your perusal, I examine a pile of worthy comics and graphic novelish books that I have found in my travels to Brooklyn;...

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