Tag Archive | "Drawn & Quarterly"

Guy Delisle on tour

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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One of the comics works I am most looking forward to this spring is Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, coming from D&Q in the US and Canada and Cape in the UK. I love the unassuming and unpretentious way in which Delisle actually lets himself live in the other culture that he [...]

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The Adventures Of Hergé – a life in moments….. but not in depth

Friday, January 20, 2012

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The Adventures Of Hergé Written by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jen-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Stanislas Barthélémy Drawn And Quarterly Bouquet, Fromental and Barthélémy deliver a biographical graphic novel of Georges Prosper Remi, the man known the world over as Hergé. His work, his art, his creations are forever associated with his name, his books sell in [...]

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Welcome to your midlife crisis…..

Monday, November 21, 2011

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Mid-life By Joe Ollmann Drawn & Quarterly Midlife is a sort of, maybe, possibly kind of autobiography by Ollmann. He says it himself – “This is largely a work of fiction. Except where it isn’t” How much is autobiog and how much fiction he leaves open to us. But it certainly feels like the sort [...]

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Daybreak – indie zombie goodness…

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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Daybreak By Brain Ralph Drawn & Quarterly Brian Ralph’s Daybreak is described on the back cover as “an art-house take on the zombie genre”. And you can read that in one of two ways….. a subtle, clever reworking of the genre, utilising stereotypical aspects and touchstones that we’ll all be familiar with to create something [...]

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Anders Nilsen signing at Gosh this month

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Hayley at fine London comics emporium Gosh! tells us they have the quite excellent Anders Nilsen paying them a visit on Saturday October 15th from 6 to 7pm in their shiny, new Soho lair (1 Berwick Street) to celebrate the massive collection of his long-running Big Numbers which has been published by the good folks [...]

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Pascal Girard’s going to his school reunion….. pity him.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

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Reunion By Pascal Girard Drawn & Quarterly So far the score with Pascal Girard’s work is something like won one, lost one. I adored Nicolas when it arrived, a debut fully formed, packed with raw, intense emotion. Yet the follow up; Bigfoot, although technically brilliant, and full of all the things that should have hooked [...]

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Paying For It – Chester Brown tells all…..

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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Paying For It By Chester Brown Drawn & Quarterly Chester Brown has always been an artist who takes his own, rather unique route. His debut; “Yummy Fur” was one of my first introductions to a world of alternative comics, and I absolutely loved it for its surreality and invention. A switch to the pure autobiography [...]

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TCAF this weekend in Toronto!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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This Saturday and Sunday is the annual TCAF, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in the Toronto Reference Library, a bash that everyone we know who has been before has absolutely loved, so we are jealous of anyone who is heading there over this weekend, of course. And among the people who will be juggling selling [...]

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Scenes from An Impending Marriage – your wedding favour will never top this.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Scenes From An Impending Marriage By Adrian Tomine Drawn & Quarterly Created as a wedding favour at the request of his fiancée, Scenes From An Impending Marriage is a far more lightweight and altogether happier comic than you’d expect from something with Tomine’s name on it. But just because the tone is lighter doesn’t mean it’s [...]

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Hark…. and rejoice. Beaton gets drawn and quartered.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant webcomic has long been something a lot of us have been enjoying, particularly in it’s collected highlights package from 2009 that is Never Learn Anything From History. She’s slowly been making her name, building up fans, from in and outside comics and we all knew it wouldn’t, shouldn’t be long before she [...]

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The Selves – Sonja Ahlers intriguing scrap book art

Monday, September 6, 2010

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The Selves by Sonja Ahlers Drawn & Quarterly Like the Petits Livres series that Drawn & Quarterly put out, The Selves is another work owing more to art than to comics. But more than that it’s a return to the art of zine culture and scrap booking. Not the determinedly middle class modern scrap booking [...]

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Stooge Pile – pretty but obsolete

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver Drawn & Quarterly Another of the Drawn & Quarterly Petits Livre series of small (80 pages, 5 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches) books showcasing the work of an artist. Like the last time I looked at a Petits Livres (Dirty Dishes showcasing the work of Amy Lockhart) I’m rather underwhelmed. [...]

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New from Tomine….

Sunday, August 22, 2010

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One to add to the dates for the diary this. Adrian Tomine’s Scenes From An Impending Marriage is finally being published by Drawn & Quarterly in March 2011. Expect it to be on quite a few best of year lists for 2011. The comic was created by Tomine for his wedding in 2007, perhaps the [...]

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Catland Empire – welcome to the surreal, pop art world of Keith Jones

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Catland Empire by Keith Jones Drawn & Quarterly Mr Universe, Mr Time, Mr Space, Sir Cosmos (the baddie), a Universe of 13 flat round cookie shaped dimensions, Universal Life Forces getting instruction in Humanity (Grade 36) before heading off to Earth for the practical aspects of their course as humans, fun loving cats and dour serious dogs [...]

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Melvin just wants to be good. John Stanley can’t help but be brilliant.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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Melvin Monster Volume 2 by John Stanley Drawn & Quarterly The latest in Drawn & Quarterly’s John Stanley library sports, as per usual, a truly gorgeous Seth cover and stunning design. It’s a beautiful looking book, even down to the authentically yellow tinted pages and muted colours of the strip’s reproduction. And underneath the covers? [...]

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