Issue 31
Gutted
Throughout most of her first collection, Evie Christie’s poetry is masterfully calculating and focused. In “Twenty-Fifth Birthday Suit,” Christie manages […]
My Most Secret Desire
Julie Doucet is the shock rocker of cartoonists disguised as a gag-femme hooked on genital and bathroom humour. This hardcover […]
Get A Life
Chronicling the essential Parisian everyman, M. Jean, Get A Life engages with old school Francophone élan, comical, wise, romantic, profoundly […]
Something to Pet the Cat About
Montreal-based Elisabeth Belliveau’s first book, Something to Pet the Cat About, compiles a number of her zine works of the […]
Kill the Robot
MacDonald’s first crack at the graphic novel wields a cold hard punch. What little warmth it holds is from protagonist […]
We Are on Our Own
This is the difficult story of Katin and her mother faking their deaths to escape the Nazi occupation of Budapest […]
Whispers the Missing Child
This book reminded me of Twin Peaks. I was never sure where the plot was going but the oddball characters, […]
Down Sterling Road
It can be difficult for adult authors to write about teenagers. Most of us try to block out the more […]
Bonk on the Head
A Canadian army boy writes about growing up in a military family and entering military college. If you read this […]
Venusia
This is 1984 meets Naked Lunch-pretentious scifi that took too long to read. Government conspiracy/controlled state on the colony of […]
Code White
Code White holds a courageous mirror up to the world of the mentally ill and those in recovery. This is […]