Drawn & Quarterly presents the premier comics event of the season with a trio of critically acclaimed, award-winning cartoonists: Tom Gauld, Lee Lai, and Mimi Pond. Join us for three evenings of presentations and book signings across Toronto, New York, and Chicago.

Tom Gauld reads from Physics for Cats, an uproariously funny collection of science-based cartoons as seen in the New Scientist. Gauld has weekly comic strips in The Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in The New York Times, The Believer, and on the cover of The New Yorker. In addition to his graphic novels Baking with Kafka, Goliath, Mooncop, Revenge of the Librarians, and You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.

Lee Lai presents Cannon, a darkly funny work of fiction about queer friendship and navigating challenging family dynamics in the Asian diaspora. Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal, Canada). In 2021, she was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, which went on to win the Lambda Literary Award, the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and two Ignatz Awards. Her comics have been published by The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Granta Magazine, and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine.

Mimi Pond presents Do Admit: the Mitford Sisters and Me, a lovingly crafted and gorgeously cartooned biography of the controversial – and beloved! – socialites whose lives spanned the highs and lows of the 20th century. Pond is the author of many books including two fictionalized memoirs about her life as a waitress in late-1970s Oakland, California: Over Easy and The Customer is Always Wrong. She is the recipient of an Eisner Award, Inkpot Award, and the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work. Very long ago, Pond also write the first ever episode of The Simpsons. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the artist Wayne White.

TOUR DATES

September 16, Toronto, ON
5:00pm at Lillian H. Smith Branch – TPL
239 College St. Toronto
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September 17, New York:
6:30pm at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - NYPL
455 5th Ave, New York
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September 18, Chicago
6:30pm at Color Club with Howling Pages
4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
This event is free thanks to the support of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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