Zoe Maeve's July Underwater is an exploration of nostalgia, loss, discovery, and growing up.
By Jack Ruttan
Graphic Novels
Chinese cartoonist Zuo Ma's Night Bus is a book made of dreams.
By Eloisa Aquino
A graphic interview with Joe Ollmann about his award-nominated graphic novel Fictional Father.
By Arizona O'Neill
Local artist Lee Lai brings alive a queer family story with complex characters and exciting illustration techniques.
By Arizona O'Neill
Julian Peters looks at the art of poetry and gifts us with his thoughtful visual translations.
By Marcela Huerta
Pascal Girard's graphic novel Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor is a poignant, uplifting, at times hilarious, and feminist Montreal mystery.
By Esinam Beckley
With her latest graphic novel, a study of how the best and worst aspects of families can be passed from generation to generation, Weng Pixin is exploring rich and timeless thematic ground, and she fully does it justice.
By Ian McGillis
The Gift is Zoe Maeve’s debut YA graphic novel about Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of the last tsar of Russia.
By Heather Leighton
My Body in Pieces is Marie-Noëlle Hébert’s first graphic memoir, which recounts her personal journey coming to terms with her own body.
By Heather Leighton
Aminder Dhaliwal’s graphic novel Cyclopedia Exotica takes place in a world where the Cyclops, an exotic subspecies of humans marked by their single eye, live alongside “two-eyed” humans.
By Esinam Beckley
The graphic novel follows the cartoonist’s mother, the plucky, fifty-something Soyeon, and her female friends.
By Heather Leighton
If you’re looking for a hard sci-fi space-colony love story featuring giant ladies, then TITAN is the book for you. But maybe that’s not specifically what you’re after – in that case read TITAN for a pointed adventure that is incredibly deep and complex, telling more story in its 500-some trichromatic panels than could be told in 500 pages of text.
By Natalia Yanchak