Tag: Joe Ollmann
The 2022 nominees for the Doug Wright Awards are in!
The nominees are announced, the late Margaret Bloy Graham is inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame, and a return to in-person awards after two years
Comics make new firsts at Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards
Joe Ollmann's Fictional Father is the first graphic novel to make it into the Fiction category; Paul at Home the first for Translation
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: 9/2/21: People just won’t stop writing about comics
Silver Sprocket responds to controversy, a directory of newsletters and the most surprising celebrity comic yet.
INDIE VIEW: FICTIONAL FATHER makes you hurt till you laugh
Fictional Father
By Joe Ollmann
Drawn and Quarterly
In the world of comics, I’ve always felt like Joe Ollmann inhabited his own space, but I’m not sure I can cohesively define what that space is. The Joe...
Interview: ‘This Is Serious’ Curator Alana Traficante talks Canadian comics’ place in art museums
47 Canadian indie cartoonists' work is on display until January.
Review – The Riveting Biography of a Compelling Journalist in Joe Ollmann’s The Abominable...
Joe Ollmann's The Abominable Mr. Seabrook is a riveting read. An incredibly compelling portrait of a man whose life is the very definition of "larger than life" turned into an engaging page turner under the...
A year of free comics – Joe Ollman’s Making of The Abominable Mr. Seabrook
Drawn & Quarterly recently released Joe Ollmann’s latest graphic novel, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook. Joe Ollmann worked on this graphic for a period of five years, not simply to write and illustrate the book,...
