Issue #61

A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting

Guy Delisle, 191pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $12.95 This book is a delight; a collection of “hopefully, they won’t hold […]

The Trials of Francis Bear

Gregory Mackay, 184 pgs, Milk Shadow Books,milkshadowbooks.com, $21.95 AUS The Trials of Francis Bear is the second volume of the […]

The Property

Rutu Modan, 232 pgs, Drawn & Quarterly, drawnandquarterly.com, $24.95 CAN/US Love, loss and regret are all parts of life and […]

The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame

Gengoroh Tagame, 271 pgs, PictureBox, pictureboxinc.com, $29.95 Reviewing pornography is tricky business: perhaps there is no clearer example of something, […]

Look Straight Ahead

Elaine M. Will, 256pgs, Cuckoo’s Nest Press, blog.e2willustration.com, $19.95 Elaine M. Will’s graphic novel debut (originally released periodically online and […]

Jane, the Fox & Me

Fanny Britt (writer) and Isabelle Arsenault (artist), 101 pgs, Groundwood Books, houseofanansi.com, $19.95 At some point, Hélène’s friends became her […]

The Grey Museum

Lorenz Peter, 216 Pages, Conundrum Press, conundrumpress.com, $20 Imagine a future where the earth had dried up and humans are […]

Fanny & Romeo

Yves Pelletier & Pascal Girard, 136 pgs, Conundrum Press,conundrumpress.com, $20 Yves Pelletier is well known in Quebec as an actor […]

Need Machine

Andrew Faulkner, 72 pgs, Coach House Books, chbooks.com, $17.95 print edition, $10.95 ebook Topics which often recur in contemporary poetry […]

Late Night Knife Fights

Cathy Petch, 37 pgs, LyricalMyrical, lyricalmyricalpress.com, $20 It takes a special kind of writer to open a book with her […]

Mutant Sex Party

Ed Macdonald, 175 pgs, Anvil Press, anvilpress.com, $18 Ain’t no party like a Mutant Sex Party ‘cause a Mutant Sex […]

The Jesus Year

Julia Scheeres, 355 pgs, Counterpoint Press, counterpointpress.com, $15.95 U.S. Man, this book will make you sad. This memoir is told […]