April 15, 2024

Two novellas, commissioned illustrations for a novel, and a don’t-skip interview comprise Japanese comics creator Yama...

April 12, 2024

When Randall Park’s comedy “Shortcomings” was released on Netflix earlier this year, Bay Area viewers not only got...

April 12, 2024

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month’s diverse offerings. ...

April 2, 2024

Malle’s latest (after This Is How I Disappear) stands out for its fresh dialogue, unique character design, and realist...

March 23, 2024

A young witch whose magic has been burned away undertakes healing journeys both physical and metaphorical in this graphi...

February 17, 2024

No public-domain tomfoolery here; this adaptation is an act of love. An innocent, shirtless bear wanders through a fore...

February 16, 2024

A talented visual producer, Toronto-based CBC Books producer Ashly July has always had an appreciation for the impact of...

February 15, 2024

In four new graphic novels, the world is changing, and our heroes are making changes of their own. The German cartoonis...

February 13, 2024

In 2006, American cartoonist Kevin Huizenga’s Curses was included on Time Magazine’s list of the Top Ten comics of t...

February 10, 2024

One of the most successful African comics has no super heroes, and certainly no supernatural powers. Instead, “Aya,�...

February 9, 2024

Berlin cartoonist Bulling’s scintillating English-language debut features a queer couple navigating transitions. Hard...

January 29, 2024

You’re about to enter another dimension. A dimension delicately woven together to show you the deepest parts of yours...

January 29, 2024

The Aya story began two decades ago, when Marguerite Abouet, a Parisian legal assistant with roots in Ivory Coast, got t...

December 29, 2023

Picture a scene of crushing silence. The drawing depicts a familiar corner of the kitchen, her kitchen, in low light, w...

December 26, 2023

Good graphic novels tend to appear in bookstores seemingly out of nowhere after years of rumors, scattershot serializati...

December 3, 2023

This hasn’t been a vintage year for comics; a certain grimness clung to many of those that came my way. But still, I ...

December 4, 2023

Comics have always been interested in the strangeness that lurks beneath everyday life, and many of 2023’s best graphi...

December 4, 2023

The Naked Tree illustrated by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, written by Park Wan-suh, and translated by Janet Hong. In 1951 Seoul...

November 6, 2023

Take two girls. Charlie, dark and scowling, is a scrappy preteen whose single mother has no idea how to deal with her e...

September 7, 2023

‘Everything feels different, like there’s this curtain of fog between me and reality,’ explains the eponymous prot...

October 25, 2023

In this month’s Drawn to MoMA, the renowned cartoonist looks back on how her journey in comics started with her fathe...

September 28, 2023

Quebecois cartoonist Oliveros (The Envelope Manufacturer), founder of Drawn & Quarterly, takes his provocative title...

September 18, 2023

Imagine New York City, 2009. It’s spring break and you’re exploring the big city for the first time with fr...

September 18, 2023

It’s 2009 and at Newark airport in New Jersey, a young woman called Zoe, her hair cut newly and severely short, waits ...

The Tamaki cousins (This One Summer), winners of Eisner and Caldecott awards, reunite for a shrewd and wistful coming-of...

August 31, 2023

A big book full of small, meaningful moments, the latest collaboration between the Tamaki cousins (after Skim and Thi...

August 17, 2023

The beauty of Roaming is that it captures its characters at a potent moment of change, one that holds possibilities an...

August 28, 2023

Roaming offers a primer on precisely that, bestowing agency on its characters without sentimentality or gloss. In part...

September 11, 2023

When cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki start talking and laughing together on our call, it feels like a privilege to be ...

September 8, 2023

Roaming, a graphic novel about three friends (some closer than others) taking a spring break trip to New York City in 20...

September 10, 2023

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to authors Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki about their new graphic novel, “Roami...

August 30, 2023

“Roaming,” which Drawn & Quarterly will publish on Sept. 12, tells the story of Dani and Zoe’s adventures in...

August 3, 2023

Rina Ayuyang’s graphic novel The Man in the McIntosh Suit is a noir replete with mistaken identities, vanishing para...

August 4, 2023

For fans of Tomine’s work, the most mesmerizing thing may be the near-seamless way the book becomes a meticulous story...

August 7, 2023

Woshibai’s cartooning can best be described as a blank, simplified cartoon-realism, which is to say an unvarying concr...

August 5, 2023

Despite its melodramatic alternate title, Camille Jourdy’s “Juliette” may be the most sedate comic of the summer. ...

July 27, 2023

For over a decade, cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki have held reverent places within the comics world. Their novels ha...

August 1, 2023

Pulling out the 24th edition of Seth’s Palookaville from its mailing wrapper, it’s hard not to feel like a kid at ...

July 14, 2023

OFFSHORE LIGHTNING, by Saito Nazuna. Translated by Alexa Frank.   The solitude and anguish of life in postwar Japan ar...

August 1, 2023

The founder of Drawn & Quarterly offers presents the first of a two-part graphic chronicle of the ill-fated efforts ...

August 1, 2023

The latest comics-to-film adaptation, “Shortcomings,” Randall Park’s directorial début, will be released on Augus...

July 20, 2023

Newspaper funny pages feel anachronistic these days, in a world where so much news content has moved out of newsprint an...

July 23, 2023

The Man in the McIntosh Suit by Rina Ayuyang. Bobot was a lawyer back in the Philippines, but now he’s a migrant farm...

July 17, 2023

Long after my moth­er and I left Budapest near the end of World War II, I tried to recre­ate the grandeur of that c...

July 17, 2023

I’m absolutely mad about this book, the best graphic novel I’ve read so far this year (its translator is Aleshia Je...

July 12, 2023

She was, of course, right. Luckily, I no longer considered being a school counselor my dream job. Dreams change. We g...

July 7, 2023

The formula for fun is feminine as [redacted] in Benji Nate’s newest hit, Girl Juice. Born from the 2021 pandemic w...