Tag Archive | "Drawn & Quarterly"

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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Can you guess what’s inside the box?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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The Box Man by Imiri Sakabashira Drawn & Quarterly Drawn & Quarterly continue with their mission to bring the work of Japan’s greatest Gekiga-kas to a wider audience (Gekiga being Japanese for “dramatic pictures”, a term first used by Yoshihiro Tatsumi to distinguish them from Manga’s “irresponsible pictures“). I’ve previously looked at Red Snow and [...]

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Dirty Dishes – art but not comics

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart Drawn & Quarterly Dirty Dishes is the latest entry in D&Q’s Petits Livres series and it’s a strange little book. Not something I really understand to be honest – not the actual art on show, I’m more at a loss as to why D&Q published it at all. Because it’s [...]

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Batman and Robin

Friday, April 9, 2010

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New Comics Day is a day later than usual in the UK this week, due to the Easter Monday holiday and subsequent delivery problems caused by the UK’s main distribution routes being choked by millions of fluffy bunnies carrying baskets. But it’s worth waiting for -  there’s Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Batman and Robin: [...]

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Red Snow – wonderful Gekiga

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata Drawn & Quarterly Red Snow isn’t modern Manga, it’s Gekiga (literal translation “dramatic pictures“), a movement in Japanese comics that began in the 50s as a reaction to the “whimsical pictures” of Manga and attempted to portray more serious and dramatic themes. Like many readers what I know about Gekiga [...]

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Robert Sikoryak’s aptly named Masterpiece Comics

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Masterpiece Comics by Robert Sikoryak Drawn & Quarterly Masterpiece Comics collects together a series of comics by R. Sikoryak that he’s been working on for many years, taking well known literary classics and parodying them mercilessly using some of the most iconic characters and styles to be found in the history of comics.The cover, with [...]

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Björk singing for the Moomins

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin [...]

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