Be SUSCEPTIBLE and Join My Graphic Novel Club!

Following the direction of many great stores across North America who host their own book clubs, I decided "Hey I'm already in two book clubs, my daughter is in 2, so why don't I do another at the store on comics?" So please join me on Wednesday, February 26th at 7PM at Librairie D+Q at our first official Graphic Novel Club to discuss the wonderful...

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Halifax! Michael DeForge launches Ant Colony tonight at Strange Adventures!

Good morning, Halifax! It's the last day of January, which means there are only approximately five months of winter left in Canada. In other good news, Michael DeForge is launching Ant Colony tonight, Friday January 31, at 7pm, at Strange Adventures ! (That's the Halifax storefront, at 5110 Prince Street). We had a terrific time in Montreal last...

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Montreal! Michael DeForge launches Ant Colony tonight!

I'm always excited to announce an event in our city, Montreal, and this one promises to be a particularly great one. Michael DeForge is launching Ant Colony tonight, Thursday January 30th, at 7pm, at our very own Librairie D+Q ! Michael recently spoke with Cult MTL, discussing how Ant Colony came to be and explaining some of the choices he made for...

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Over Easy: Bound, glued, and comin' at you

The sun is shining and the sky is blue and we've got brand spanking new copies of Mimi Pond's Over Easy in the office so what in the world is there to complain about? (Ahhh, hot soup!) Also we have new interns and they are A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Here's my saviour, Marcela! Julia and I met her last year at Comic-Con. She came by the booth right after I finished...

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Coming this Fall, John Porcellino's HOSPITAL SUITE

Look at that beauty up there. John P is finishing up his first original graphic novel (say what?) called Hospital Suite about among other things his near catastrophic health issues many years ago. I've been lucky enough to read the pages in batches as John finishes them and the image above is one of my favourites. As you might expect from John, we...

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Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston's WORDLESS at the Brooklyn Academy of Music--Saturday Janurary 18th!!

Oh what I would do to be able to teleport to Brooklyn next Saturday night to see Art Spiegelman's live performance with jazz composer Phillip Johnston. The performance is WORDLESS, and it already took Autralia by storm this past Fall when it debuted at the Sydney Opera House. You can buy the BAM tickets here and you can visit the official WORDLESS...

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Mimi Pond's OVER EASY is in!

Rock 'n' roll, drugs, and Californ-eye-ay in the ‘70s! That’s right, Mimi Pond’s excellent debut graphic novel OVER EASY has made it to our office. To be clear, this is just an unbound copy, but boy does it look spiffy! Look at that beautiful wash! I had the pleasure of working on this book, and let me tell ya, Mimi is one funny lady. In this...

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