Every year we get the honour of working with some of the most amazing cartoonists in the world. My colleague Julia and I also get the honour of working with some of the most amazing journalists and writers in the world. For instance!
With Julie Doucet’s return to inked comics in the year she won the prestigious Angoulême Grand Prix, she received not one but two write-ups in the New York Times, the profile “It’s Julie Doucet’s World” by Yevgeniya Traps, and a review by Etelka Lehoczky. Kate Beaton was also profiled by Robert Ito around the release of Ducks—which was named a Notable Book of 2022—and Lynda Barry appeared in David Marchese’s New York Times Magazine Talk column to talk about play and depression and being the ultimate godmother.
That wasn’t all the New York Times covered this year. Eight(!) of our books were written up in the paper of record: Putin’s Russia by Darryl Cunningham, the aforementioned Time Zone J and Ducks, The Joy of Quitting by Keiler Roberts, Come Over Come Over by Lynda Barry, Artist by Yeong-shin Ma (translated by Janet Hong), and Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki (translated by Ryan Holmberg). We especially want to shout out Etelka Lehoczky’s standalone review of Birds of Maine, analyzing it in context of Michael DeForge’s other work. Plus, Kate Beaton and Tom Gauld (Revenge of the Librarians) both created original comics for the Book Review’s Sketchbook pages.
There were some truly phenomenal interviews this year: Kathryn VanArendonk’s Vulture profile of Kate Beaton, Cassandra Kislenko speaking to Emma Grove (The Third Person) for xtra!, and Shelby Shaw’s Artforum interview with Nick Drnaso about Acting Class.
And on the airwaves, we can’t forget CBC Radio Q’s interviews with Jessica Campbell about Rave and Phil Elverum about Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works 1981-2016 (transl. Elverum and Aleshia Jensen), Andrew Limbong’s Morning Edition conversation with Kate Beaton, and CBC Writers and Company’s feature interview with Nick Drnaso about Acting Class.
Truly, that is just cracking the surface of the fantastic pieces you’ll find below. Thank you to all the journalists who thoughtfully covered our books. Congratulations to all our authors for these press hits!
You can stay up to date on D+Q coverage by visiting the press page on our website.
We loved these reviews, profiles, and interviews from 2022:
- Artforum’s Shelby Shaw interviews Nick Drnaso about Acting Class
- CBC Radio Q interviews Jessica Campbell about Rave
- CBC Radio Q interviews Phil Elverum on the Geneviève Castrée monograph
- CBC Writers and Company interviews Nick Drnaso about Acting Class
- Creative Review’s Emily Gosling features The Peanutbutter Sisters & Other American Stories by Rumi Hara
- Gawker’s Alexandra Tanner reviews Acting Class by Nick Drnaso
- Graphic Medicine’s KC Councilor reviews The Third Person by Emma Grove
- Graphic Medicine’s Kevin Wolf reviews The Joy of Quitting, Creepy, & My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts
- Hyperallergic’s Coco Picard reviews Rave by Jessica Campbell
- Literary Hub’s Maris Review interviews Nick Drnaso about Acting Class
- Soapberry Review’s Essa Rasheed features The Peanutbutter Sisters & Other American Stories by Rumi Hara
- The Comics Journal’s Nicholas Burman reviews Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge
- The Comics Journal’s Eleanor Davis reviews Ducks by Kate Beaton
- The Comics Journal’s Helen Chazan reviews Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki, transl. Ryan Holmberg
- Them’s Ilana Masad interviews Emma Grove about The Third Person
- The Guardian’s Rachel Cooke reviews The Con Artists by Luke Healy
- The Guardian’s Rachel Cooke reviews Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark, transl. Hanna Strömberg
- The Irish Times’s Derek O’Connor reviews The Con Artists by Luke Healy
- The New York Times’s Yevgeniya Traps profiles Julie Doucet about Time Zone J
- The New York Times’s Robert Ito profiles Kate Beaton about Ducks
- New York Times Magazine’s David Marchese profiles Lynda Barry (Come Over, Come Over)
- The New York Times’ Etelka Lehoczky reviews Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge
- The New York Times’ Etelka Lehoczky reviews Doucet’s Time Zone J
- The Southern California News Group’s Erik Pedersen interviews Tom Gauld about Revenge of the Librarians
- The Toronto Star’s Mike Donachie interviews Tom Gauld about Revenge of the Librarians
- Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk profiles Kate Beaton about Ducks
- Xtra’s Cassandra Kislenko reviews The Third Person by Emma Grove
Illustration by Rumi Hara (The Peanutbutter Sisters & Other American Stories)