what do ILC people think of drawn & quarterly? (c/d? s/d?)

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the montreal indie comix house once run from the very apartment in which i type this question?

recently i picked up a few books, all really pretty and nicely printed & bound--chester brown's "louis riel," the cancon historical saga, and "pyongyang" (artist/writer i forget right now unfortunately... it's on the tip of my tongue...)

i've only read the latter so far but it's great! very simple travel narrative of 3 or so months spent in north korea.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

-good +boring

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know this was Canadian. And actually I don't know if I've read any of these, although I'd like to read the Riel book, unsurprisingly.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

they put out dirty plotte, right? julie doucet = classic. i've read a couple of those "showcase" books and they're ok but there's something a little bland about them that i can't quite put my finger on.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Ridiculously classic. They have, by far, the best ratio of excellent comics: total comics published of any comics publisher EVER.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

I like that guy who does the french big nose stories, as well as the Paul Gets a Summer Job, Paul does this etc stuff. I LOVE the reprints of Gasoline Alley sunday pages in the Drawn and Quarterly collections but haven't read the daily strip reissue that just came out.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah dan - michael rabagliati, he's great - totally unique mixture of french 'clear line' school art whimsy w/ autobiog comix content - lotsa of other good european strips translated in the Drawn and Quarterly anthology too

Seth = SERIOUSLY overrated, tho

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

Gorgeous artist, Seth, shame he's so teeth-gratingly twee. His intro to Joe Matt's collection is great, though.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Joe Sacco: "Safe Area Gorazde" remains one of my favourite ever comics -- a noticeable missed spot on the ILC greatest comics poll, I thunk -- although "The Fixer" was noticeably worse: verwritten, too many theasaurus words, restating old themes, etc.

I'm ambivalent about Chris Ware; he's -- well, he's just boring, isn't he?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Er, no. But he does only have one setting, IE bone-crushingly grim.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

chris ware is fantgraphics, tho!

joe matt's art is great (espec his "reaction" drawings, worthy of ec segar almost), but he's got to be the most nauseating autobio writer in comics. he needs a good kicking.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

People on the Toronto scene I've met can be, um, derisory about him. Which is rare, as it's normally quite chummy. (N.b. the last sentence isn't supposed to sound sarcastic.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Safe Area Gorazde is one of the best works I have ever read, regardless of format.
Jason Lutes' Berlin is also a favorite, if only he would release vol. 2 as a trade since the single issues are expensive and difficult to track down.
I agree that Seth is overrated.
Kevin Huizenga has recently had the laurels placed upon his brow, but I'm not familiar enough with his works to know if he's deserving of them.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve is a favorite. Wish he was more prolific, as it makes a new issue something to anticipate, then gradually forget about until a thread like this brings him to mind.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I really enjoyed the Paul story that was D&Q's Free Comic Book Day Comic.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

My introduction to Seth(and I suppose many people's) was when he took over Mr. X and at first I loved it, but I thought he got too cartoony within a few issues.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I liked Drawn and Quarterly, but I've really gone full circle back to superheroes. I liked Nowhere, I think that was on D&Q, can't recall the lady's name. Yeah, like all that Seth, Joe Matt, Chester Brown stuff.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

chris ware is fantgraphics, tho!

One of his books came out through Drawn & Quarterly - The Acme Novelty Datebook.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh is Joe Sacco on/in d&q? He's good. What magazine was it that carried his Iraq coverage?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

front page of the National Post's Arts & Life section (print version features VERY NICE illos) (and page B3 has a small interview with Pekar, who's in T.O. tomorrow):
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/artslife/story.html?id=4667aa6e-052f-4f4c-a422-d882a2c98f7f

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

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