Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim

Co-writer and colourist of Poppies of Iraq, Brigitte Findakly was born in Mosul, Iraq, in 1959 and lived there until 1973.

Cartoonist Lewis Trondheim was born in Fontainebleau, France in 1964. They have two children and live in the south of France.

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D+Q authors at VanCAF 2018

Festival

Saturday, May 19, 2018 to Saturday, May 19, 2018

10:00am

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Tour

Saturday, May 12, 2018 to Saturday, May 19, 2018

10:00am

PAST EVENT

Festival

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 to Wednesday, July 19, 2017

05:30pm

September 7, 2018

In the opening sequence of Brigitte Findakly’s memoir, Poppies of Iraq, we meet the author as a young girl in Iraq. H...

July 6, 2018

More than 65 million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, have been fo...

May 8, 2018

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival returns to the Toronto Reference Library, the Masonic Temple and other venues on May 12 ...

April 18, 2018

Present by Leslie Stein Confessional art is given a new mode of expression by Leslie Stein in her “diary-comic�...

February 1, 2018

Poppies of Iraq, an autobiographical graphic novel written by Brigitte Findakly and illustrated by Lewis Trondheim, cont...

January 1, 2018

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December 6, 2017

The personal and political interweave in this sad yet charming memoir. Having grown up in Mosul, Iraq, 14-year-old Find...

December 3, 2017

If it were down to me, every person in Britain would get a copy of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel Driving Short Dista...