Tag: canadian comics
Kate Beaton’s ‘Ducks’ will be one of the must-read graphic novels of 2022
Lithub just revealed the cover for Kate Beaton's Ducks; Two Years in the Oil Sands, a powerful memoir of her time working in remote Canada
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...
INDIE VIEW: PAUL AT HOME takes readers behind closed doors
Paul At Home
By Michel Rabagliati
Drawn and Quarterly
Quebecois cartoonist Michel Rabagliati has established a definite tone of the last couple decades that he’s produced his Paul series, but with Paul At Home, he’s disrupted this...
INDIE VIEW: The ART LIFE revealed
Art Life
By Catherine Ocelot
Translated by Aleshia Jensen
Conundrum Press
Catherine Ocelot is trying to figure things out. You could say that about anyone, of course, but what Ocelot is delving into are the concerns of an...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Cursed Hermit’ delves even deeper into the mysteries of Hobtown
The Cursed Hermit
Written by Kris Bertin
Illustrated by Alexander Forbes
Conundrum Press
In the first book of the Hobtown Mystery Stories series The Case of the Missing Men, members of the Teen Detective Club, an afterschool program...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Creation’ gives the full picture of gentrification in Hamilton, Ontario
Creation
By Sylvia Nickerson
Drawn & Quarterly
As a resident of Hamilton, Ontario, cartoonist Sylvia Nickerson hasn’t allowed herself to become entrenched solely in her own concerns, despite recent motherhood. She understands that the lives of the...
2019 Joe Shuster Awards winners including Zdarsky, Kerschl, Carroll and Variant Edition
The awards honor the best in Canadian comics.
Focus on Alberta: Parenting is weird & funny in Kelly Tindall’s THE ADVENTURERS
The Adventurers captures a very distinct, almost raw feeling about the experience of parenting.
INDIE VIEW: Women making their marks in ‘Aurora Borealice’ and ‘Nhun the Huntress’
John Seven reviews 'Aurora Borealice' and 'Nhun the Huntress'
Awards Watch: Pulitzers, Doug Wright Awards, Studio Prize winners, The Reuben, LA Times Book...
Who won the Pulitzer? Who will win the Reuben? What about those Doug Wright Awards?
INDIE VIEW: ‘Chicken Rising’ just feels like the end of the world while ‘The...
John Seven reviews 'Chicken Rising' and 'The Consumptive #4'
INDIE VIEW: Canadian Anti-Semitism explodes in ‘Christie Pits’
John Seven reviews 'Christie Pits'
