Godmothers, Mothers and Daughters

Over on Slate's sister site, Doublex, James Sturm presents a interesting slide show, Virginia Lee Burton: From Mike Mulligan to R. Crumb, that claims Virginia Lee Burton (pictured above) as the godmother of the graphic novel and presents the claim that the history of comics is wrongfully relegated to publications put out solely by the comic book industry....

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Let Matt's Star Shine! Gab's too.

I was pretty excited to pick up the new issue of the Montreal Mirror weekly yesterday and see my dear D+Q coworker Matt Shane and his band mates on the cover of it. (Matt, you better say thanks to your publicist! that's a score!) He's in the band Think About Life, and they have a new album out called Family.I also read in the paper that Cinema du...

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Also tonight!

Julie Morstad has an opening tonight at Together Gallery in Portland. Go and celebrate! The show will be up until June 21st featuring new work + installations by Julie Morstad, Mia Nolting, Nigel Peake and Stefanie Augusti...

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Dan Zettwoch's The Ladies Man

Check out this Dan Zettwoch cover for the current Cinefamily program cover! Also, If you're in or around LA, be sure to check out their Jerry Lewis film fe...

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This is tonight!

James Sturm will be presenting a historical slide lecture TONIGHT entitled "The Curious Case of the Haitian Hobo of White River Junction, Vermont" Don't miss it! Reception at 6:00 and lecture at 7:00 at the Main Street Museum, 58 Bridge Street, White River Juncti...

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What is that Ron Rege up to?

I missed him at this show at Thanky but I'll see him at MOCCA in a week and catch up. What? MOCCA?!? Aren't you goi...

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Gabrielle in Book Forum (along with a bunch of other great artists.)

Sort of a sequel to the Summer Camp story in Gabrielle's new collection Cecil and Jordan in New York. {Click the image and scroll down bit for the stri...

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Reminder: One Week From Today!

D+Q's anniversary concert with the Dirty Projectors and TV on the Radio at the Metropolis in Montreal!!!! With a poster by Adri...

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Tune into the CBC: Seth on Q today! Update!

TODAY ON Q: Be sure to set your dial, or to download to the podcast, or to watch Q TV, for today's interview with Seth and Jian Ghomeshi.Podcast he...

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Carousel NYC

This Thursday, May 28 join R. Sikoryak & friends at 8pm for a night of cartoon slide shows at Dixon Place. $15 general admission, $12 for students, special deal if you present this fly...

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If you are in Montreal then you must be going here

All you Montrealers should get on your refurbished bikes and head down St. Laurent to La Centrale to the opening reception for Amy Lockhart's show. It's way cheaper than going all the way to NYC for that Francis Bacon show. Just saying. It's tonight at 7pm at 4296 St. Laure...

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Belated Congrats to Jasper (and Kari and Greg!)

Not D+Q news and not even timely but I finally thought I should post something. Greg Cook and Kari Percival are a couple of my closest friends and they have joined the ranks of cartoonists with babies with the handsome (and apparently angry) Jasper Percival Cook, born May 13th. Congrats, you gu...

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Happy Birthday

What is the common thread between goth Betty Boop, Joyce's Ulysses, a certain waitress, vegetarianism and the new and only slightly disconcerting idea of 'medium juicy'? Fiestas of course! Happy Birthday Chris! Just look at that ice cream ca...

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Long live the queen!

Having just celebrated Victoria Day (which as an American living in Quebec I perversely enjoy even more!)I always marvel at how the Brits are just always ahead of the game. While here in North America, everyone is using twitter to promote things (speaking of which are you a follower?) over across the pond, they are using the device for something intelligent,...

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It is never too late

If you weren't able to attend Gabrielle's reading at The Strand, do not fear, here is a video of the entire evening. Thanks, live TV module! Cecil and Jordan also ranked in the SF Chronicle's Best Sellers list this week, congratulations from ocean to ocean Gabriel...

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TCAF! TCAF! TCAF!

We are all still on a high in the office from attending last weekend's TCAF, and whats the best thing about the whole office going to a festival armed with cameras, we have a great flickr set. I'm a bit tired from uploading the photos Chris and I took, so I won't be able to do a pithy travelblog, i leave that to the young kids. The movies are courtesy...

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Gabrielle in NYC! Strand! Next Tuesday!

Gabrielle officially wraps up her Cecil & Jordan tour next Tuesday with an event at the Strand with Miss Lasko Gross (A Mess of Everything). Don't miss Gab, who the Village Voice compared to Ann Beattie and Lorrie Moore, talk about the book. Austin English, from everyone's favorite downtown comics shop Forbidden Planet,will ask the questio...

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New England

This weekend Gabrielle Bell will be in Maine and Rhode Island where they have chowda and the official state drink is coffee milk! Go and see her on the waterfront at the Maine Comics Arts Festival run by Casablanca Comics all day Sunday and then in Providence at Ada Books on Monday from 7:00pm onwar...

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Free Workshop

Pigskin Peters award-winner Matthew Forsythe is teaching a workshop for kids pop on Saturday, May 16th from 2:00-3:30 for ages 6-13, but why draw the line there? Sign ...

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PW Weighs in on Sprott

"Seth (Palookaville) manages to make what is essentially the story of one man's slow death into an often humorous rumination on the power of media, memory and loss."–Publishers Weekly Full starred review he...

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All Things Walrus.

OK, remember that 1500-word extensive, thoughtful, intelligent profile connecting the dots between Seth's work and his design? I believe the piece was titled, Back in Palookaville, and it was written by Sean Rogers, who also was about the 50th person to interview Lynda Barry last year, but still turned out one of the most interesting and detailed in...

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PEOPLE! You Must Watch This!

Perhaps like all of us at the D+Q office, you were still basking in the glow of TCAF. Basking so much that you missed my link to this 4-minute Globe & Mail documentary titled Seth The Sweet Vanished Life, in conjunction with the profile of Seth by G&M Arts Critic James Adams. And while you're watching scroll down to read the comments. Sue...

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Separated At Birth

Overheard at the D+Q dinner this past weekend:Tatsumi-san to the Chief: "You look so familiar, and then I realize it is because you look like Napoleon."Seth to Chris and Tatsumi-san: "I have often thought that myself."Chris to Tatsumi and Seth: "I have actually heard that befor...

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Separated At Birth

D+Q's Tom Devlin and Nickelodeon's Chris Duffy, the East Coast comics intelligents...

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Nap-Trapped and Voiceless, TCAF Day 2

(swiped from William Self's flickr page)So everyone else is over at the wonderful venue of the Toronto Public Library enjoying the second day of TCAF, and I'm in the hotel with napping toddlers and no voice, so I'll take this time to blog some of the amazing press the kind press corp of Toronto has bestowed upon us. Toronto is one of the handful...

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D+Q is closed for TCAF

The entire office (but not our store) is closed for the Toronto Comics Arts Festival. We'll see you there, schedule below. Check out today's Post to see not one but two articles on Doug Wright! here and he...

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See you there

This weekend is TCAF and there are so many things to do so here is a list to shed some light:Friday, May 8 - 7:00pmThe HARBOURFRONT READING SERIES, with Tatsumi, Adrian and SethSaturday, May 9 - 10:00 amBook signings galore at The Toronto Reference Library10:00 -11:30 - Tatsumi, Tomine & Seth sign in special TCAF area (second floor)11:00 -2:00...

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32 Stories as it was meant to be

After about 14 years and several printings, Adrian Tomine's original collection of his mini comics, 32 Stories, quietly went out of print a few months ago. Adrian was content to leave it at that (almost no artist is happy with their early work), but after a bit of coaxing he agreed to a re-issue. I think the turning point came after he had the idea...

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The Secret of D+Q's Success

Have we mentioned our 20th anniversary? TCAF? This Friday's event at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto to kick off TCAF? Well, if you need a refresher on all things D+Q this week, please check out this wonderful article in today's Globe and Ma...

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R. Sikoyrak, Man About Town

The Beat did a write-up of how fun R. Sikoryak's Carousel was last week and now Time Out New York is running a wonderful preview of Masterpiece Comics, which will debut at the San Diego Comic-c...

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Tom's Destiny....

A photo of our dear Creative Director Tom Devlin in 1987 hanging outside of the Newbury Comics on Newbury Street in Bost...

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Judy Junior (THIRTEEN GOING ON EIGHTEEN!!)

Today is Free Comic Book Day as well as another day in the relentless overposting of large images on the D+Q blog. Go get some free comics. Go hug your comic store owner. HUG HIM. HE NEEDS A HUG. Also, here is a another genius strip from the genius John Stanley. Genius. I wish there were hundreds of issues of this comic. I think it might be my favorite....

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She's Right!! (Free Comic Book Day!!)

Tomorrow is FCBD and Whitney from USA Today knows the score.Look the comics are FREE!!! Go! And buy a couple of comics too, because comic shops are awesome and you need them as much as they need y...

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Pictures of Dirt and Grass

From Anders Nilsen's blog:There will be a closing reception and brunch for Pictures of Dirt and Grass (Home Gallery, 1407 e. 54th place) on this Sunday, May 3rd from 12-3 (the work isn't actually coming down until early June, and will still be viewable by appointment). There will be food provided by Lula Cafe in Logan Square, and supposedly I'm going...

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RIP ICI

Local weekly ici will publish its last printed issue this week. Ici recently published a big feature on Michel Rabagliati and offered an alternative to the other major french language weekly, Vo...

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Tis The (Comic Awards) Season!

Hey, all of you who are eligible should get out there and vote for the Eisners! Votes are due by June 15...

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