PAST EVENT
Tillie Walden, Lee Lai and more join D&Q at TCAF from June 6 to 7 in Toronto, ON
Friday, June 5, 2026 to Sunday, June 7, 2026
12:00am
Joe Ollmann
Joe Ollmann lives in Hamilton, the Riviera of Southern Ontario. His third book with Drawn & Quarterly, Fictional Father, was the first graphic novel to be shortlisted in the category of Adult Fiction at the Governor General’s Literary Awards.
PAST EVENT
Joe Ollmann speaks at gritLIT in Hamilton, ON on April 19th
Sunday, April 19, 2026
03:30pm
PAST EVENT
Joe Ollmann tours The Woodchipper!
Tour
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 to Saturday, February 21, 2026
06:00pm
PAST EVENT
Joe Ollmann Gives a Talk at McMaster University
Saturday, April 6, 2024 to Saturday, April 6, 2024
07:30pm
PAST EVENT
Seth and Joe Ollmann in Conversation at Hamilton Public Library
Thursday, January 25, 2024 to Thursday, January 25, 2024
06:30pm
PAST EVENT
D+Q at Montreal Comic Arts Festival (MCAF/FBDM) 2023!
Friday, May 26, 2023 to Sunday, May 28, 2023
12:00pm
PAST EVENT
D+Q at Toronto Comic Arts Festival June
Friday, June 17, 2022 to Sunday, June 19, 2022
06:30pm
December 23, 2021
Fictional Father is the Best Canadian Comic of 2021 on CBC Books
Fictional Father is the story of a washed-up middle-aged painter named Caleb. Now that he’s sober, he must face...
December 16, 2021
7 D+Q titles on the CBC’s Best of 2021 list
Fictional Father is the story of a washed-up middle-aged painter named Caleb. Now that he’s sober, he must face...
December 15, 2021
Cyclopedia Exotica, My Begging Chart, Fictional Father runners up on PW’s best graphic novel
Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
“The lives of ten characters in the same city intertwi...
December 10, 2021
D+Q books fill 7 out of 10 spots on the London Free Press Best of 2021 list
Fictional Father : Hamilton’s Joe Ollmann topped himself again with this story of the bitter scion of a beloved carto...
December 6, 2021
Joe Ollmann interviews Philippe Girard about Leonard Cohen
Philippe Girard (Leonard Cohen: On a Wire, translated by Helge Dascher and Karen Houle) and Joe Ollmann (Fictional Fat...
December 5, 2021
Fictional Father and Tunnels two of the Guardian’s Best Of 2021
I’ve read some crazily good graphic novels this year: sad comics, funny comics, exquisitely drawn comics. But it was ...
November 29, 2021
Fictional Father on the Globe 100 list
One of two graphic novels up for Governor-General’s Awards (the other, Michel Rabagliati’s Paul at Home, came out i...
November 15, 2021
A review of The Abominable Mr. Seabrook in Paradoxa
Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly has become the preeminent publisher of “literary” comics in North America. Sta...
Joe Ollmann on TV!
Joe Ollmann, a Doug Wright Award-winning cartoonist, plays himself live and in his cheekily sketched world to expose the fish-out-of-water comedic…
D+Q’s 2021 Fiction Round Up Pt. 1
Immerse yourself in our 2021 fiction, starting with Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge, Fictional Father by Joe Ollmann, Cyclopedia Exotica by…
2021 Press Round-Up!
As we close out 2021 we wanted to look back on some of the amazing writing about comics that was published…