Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsKate BeatonDrawn and Quarterly, 2022 Review by Ellie Eberlee The headline published May 1, 2008, by the New York Times, read as follows: “Canadians Investigate Death of Ducks at Oil-Sands Project.” The article...
The Secret to Superhuman StrengthAlison BechdelHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021 Review by RJ McDaniel It is with a flurry of activity that Alison Bechdel, acclaimed cartoonist and MacArthur genius, welcomes readers to her new graphic memoir, The Secret to Superhuman...
Kimiko Does CancerKimiko TobimatsuArsenal Pulp Press, 2020 Review by Muniyra Douglas A life turned upside down by a single phone call. A young woman must navigate difficult familial, platonic, and romantic relationships suddenly impacted by a new medical revelation....
Familiar FaceMichael DeForgeDrawn & Quarterly, 2020 Review by Kris Rothstein A time of isolation. Bodies beyond our control. Unprecedented control by the state. As we live through a global pandemic, it is tempting to look to art for extra...
Little Girls Nicholas Aflleje, Sarah DeLaine, Ashley Lanni-Hoye & Adam Wollet Image Comics, 2019 Review by Nikki Holmes Little Girls is a standalone horror graphic novel from the creative team of Nicholas Aflleje (writer), Sarah DeLaine (illustrator), Ashley Lanni-Hoye (colourist), and...
Aurora Borealice Joan Steacy Conundrum Press, 2019 Review by Kris Rothstein Aurora Borealice, described as an “autobio/graphic novel”—a very light fictionalization of the author’s life—is the story of Alice, an irreverent underachiever from a working class family that runs...
Review by Amy Kenny Becoming Unbecoming By Una Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 This graphic novel is labelled memoir, but a better categorization might be subconscious. That’s the word that comes to mind reading Becoming Unbecoming—an examination of violence, misogyny,...
Review by Mark Cutts Suite Française: Storm in June by Emmanuel Moynot David Homel, translation Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015 Emmanuel Moynot’s graphic novel Suite Française: Storm in June follows four sets of people as they flee Paris and the...