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Kate
@beatonna
's memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of contemporary Canada, coming fall 2022, rights available now. Check out our first D+Q Work In Progress post about it:
DUCKS by Kate Beaton has won Canada Reads🏆🏆🏆"If you want to change perspective, hopefully action follows suit." -
@beatonna
// Thank you
@mattearoach
@cbcbooks
!!
DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS by Kate Beaton is coming in September 2022! Check out the cover reveal on
@lithub
, including this beautiful quote from
@beatonna
about working on DUCKS.
Preorder now!
Feast your eyes on the cover for ROAMING by Jillian Tamaki
@dirtbagg
and
@marikotamaki
, in stores Fall 2023! We’re so excited for this graphic novel about three freshmen on spring break, discovering the pizza, museums, and tourist traps of NYC.
#dqwip
GIRL JUICE by
@BenjiNate
is this week's D+Q Work in Progress! Out in Spring 2023, Girl Juice is about four very different twenty-something women navigating life, friendship, and relationships together under one roof.
We are so excited to announce an original graphic novel by the award winning team of
@dirtbagg
&
@marikotamaki
😍It follows three freshman friends visiting New York City for the first time, cramming in as many new experiences as they can.
#newbooks
THE REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS by
@tomgauld
is our second Work In Progress post! Coming Fall 2022, foreign rights available now. Read more and get excited:
Our good friend, everyone's good friend, Tom Spurgeon
@comicsreporter
, winning an Eisner in 2012 for best comics reporting. We love you Tom, may you rest in peace. {still processing, totally heartbroken}
Joe Matt, 1963-2023. Chris Oliveros shares a remembrance of the cartoonist - his humor, his honesty, how much he defined the first years of D+Q - on our website:
Stunned with the news that
@beatonna
's DUCKS: Two Years in the Oil Sands made
@BarackObama
's Best of the Year list. Proud of Kate, and her journey, and putting her story to paper.
In recognition of the geniuses who must also suffer the mundane,
@tomgauld
presents, "Insignificant Moments in Science." Remember when Marie Curie forgot what she needed from the cupboard? Neither did we!
It's Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month! 🧮 Here's a page from Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, the new book by
@tomgauld
celebrating all things
#stem
@MathAware
➗
#MathStatMonth
GENEVIÈVE CASTRÉE: COMPLETE WORKS 1981-2016 is a D+Q Work In Progress. It's a 560 page tribute to a visionary artist, collecting all her mini-comics, sketchbooks, doodles, and more, with an introduction by
@PWElverum
. Coming fall 2022, read more:
🍂FALL PREVIEW🍂Yokai: The Art of Shigeru Mizuki is in stores October 2023! This visually exquisite book celebrates Mizuki's work in Japanese folklore and includes supplemental writing by Mizuki scholar
@ZackDavisson
We are delighted to share D+Q's winter 2020 catalog, beginning with DEPARTMENT OF MIND BLOWING THEORIES by
@tomgauld
, an uproarious collection of his best
@newscientist
comics. In stores April 2020!
Is there anything better than Sheila Heti on Tove Jansson and
@MoominOfficial
in the
@NewYorker
? "If her stories contain some of the harshness of life, they always end happily, with a joyous return to Moominvalley, family and friends all safe."
Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works 1981-2016 (October) is an immersive curation of Geneviève Castrée’s stunning life’s work and expansive artistic legacy. Edited by
@PWElverum
. Translations by Elverum and Aleshia Jensen
Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the author with Revenge of the Librarians by
@tomgauld
(October)
First up is Lynda Barry’s Making Comics! This September follow-up to Syllabus shares all of her comics-making exercises, encouragement, and advice from teaching students of all majors at the University of Wisconsin.
"[Ducks is] a fascinating, harrowing, unforgettable book about a place few outsiders can comprehend."—
@KirkusReviews
, Starred Review on DUCKS: Two Years in the Oil Sands by
@beatonna
⭐️⭐️⭐️In stores Sept!
Lisa Hanawalt's solo exhibition at
@gallerynucleus
opens today! It'll be online from June 13-28 and will feature some of Lisa's personal drawings and paintings, including pages from Hot Dog Taste Test and more!
@lisadraws
The revolutionary William Morris was born on this day in 1834! In his new collection, Department of Mind Blowing Theories,
@tomgauld
imagines what Morris's textiles may have looked like had he been alive in the 21st century:
Alert! New Adrian Tomine illustration in the
@NewYorker
: “It turns out that I was a pretty good husband and parent as long as my wife and kids were out of the house all day.”
Tom Gauld's "Revenge of the Librarians suggests that creative play is essential to navigating the mundaneness and dreariness that can encumber everyday life" -
@ComicsJournal
@tomgauld
On the occasion of Kate Beaton’s Ducks winning Canada Reads, Drawn & Quarterly has donated $2000 to the Keepers of the Water, a non-profit organization whose mandate is to elevate decolonized traditional Indigenous water governance.
@KeepersOfWater
Ducks by Kate
@beatonna
has won the Harvey Award for Book of the Year. We're so delighted to see it sweep the comics industry awards that we've put it on sale -get 25% off when you buy Ducks from our website:
Ducks is not a light read, it's a read just like all of the other books. Graphic Novels are the medium not the genre, to be repeated always and forever. A medium that can change perspectives.
@cbcbooks
#canadareads
Phil Elverum introduces the Geneviève Castrée monograph with touching words about the life and work of such an imitable artist. This collection, translated by Jensen/Elverum, is in stores now
@PWElverum
💙
NIGHT BUS by Zuo Ma hits stores July 2021. Journey through the countryside in this magical realist debut from an underground Chinese cartoonist
#nightbus
#zuoma
#newbooks
#spring2021
Chris Ware has made a 1000-piece Building Stories jigsaw puzzle with custom piece shapes, packaged in a box that mimics the building, with a drawer that pulls out. Order it now!
"I don’t think there are a lot of comics aimed at adult women where they’re just enjoying themselves. I want people to enjoy themselves." -
@BenjiNate
chats with
@PublishersWkly
"The reaction I could hope for is, I think, that it's a book about empathy--and that empathy could be for just about any character in the book." -
@beatonna
discussing DUCKS with
@ShelfAwareness
@SIBookDragon
DUCKS by
@beatonna
is a Canada Reads selection! It will be defended by Nova Scotian Jeopardy super-champ
@mattearoach
in a grand debate running March 27-30 🏆
@cbcbooks
Kate Beaton tours DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS this September - November 🍂She'll be visiting cities including Halifax, New York, Boston, Calgary, Los Angeles, and more!
@beatonna
Good morning Portland! we had four hours on the train to refine our cool Portland looks, see ya at 12:15 in the Art Museum! We are so excited for today’s
#pdxbookfest
Congratulations to
@NearSitedMonkey
and
@ebonydraws
for their wins in the 2020
@WillEisner
Awards!!! Lynda Barry's MAKING COMICS has won Best Comics-Related Book and Best Publication Design! "Hot Comb" from Ebony Flowers's HOT COMB won Best Short Story!
@Comic_Con
@sophieyanow
We can’t wait for I Want You by
@lisadraws
! This September, pick up the filthy, funny early work from the Tuca & Bertie Creator and Bojack Horseman production designer.
📣 Announcing Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 3 by Chris Ware, as well as Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 1-3, Slipcase Edition. Both available this October. Read more:
And that’s a wrap on the Chris Ware and Lynda Barry North America Tour Fall 2019 is a wrap! Thank you to
@TheBeguiling
@agotoronto
for hosting the last stop.
"Like in her previous works, Beaton’s talent for capturing the essence of a scenario or a conversation in a couple comic panels is finely tuned."
@flinnflon
speaks to
@beatonna
about DUCKS
Love watercolours? 🎨Watch cartoonist Camille Jourdy draw & paint the main character from her new book JULIETTE! In stores now, translated by Aleshia Jensen
Julie Doucet accepts the
@bdangouleme
Grand Prix: "Thank you so much. I’m overwhelmed. It’s hard to believe it all began from nothing, from a little fanzine in the 1980s with a dirty little name and now I find myself receiving the most important prize in the comics industry."
Signed copies of WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME? by
@pbrainey
are up for preorder on our site now! "What a masterwork. To understand all is to forgive all." -
@neilhimself
"Underneath the pithy dialog and dreamy watercolors of a children’s book, Coyote Doggirl has the dark heart of the bleakest Western."
@artsy
interviews
@lisadraws