November 1, 2025
Reel Politik reviewed in Publishers Weekly!
An ad hoc cadre of militant cinemaniacs register their distaste for the consumer-capitalist status quo in this hilarious...
October 1, 2025
Reel Politik reviewed in Literary Journal!
Gelgud (A House in the Jungle) turns a sharp, absurdist lens on film culture, late capitalism, and the epic highs, stagg...
June 30, 2025
Michel Rabagliati appointed to the Order of Canada
New member Rabagliati is a Montreal based cartoonist best known for his recurring character Paul. He has written severa...
June 30, 2025
Elise Gravel appointed Member of the Order of Canada
“Gravel was made a member of the Order of Canada. She has written and illustrated over 50 books for children that...
December 20, 2025
Where I’m Coming From recommended by NPR
“Andrew’s Recommendation: ‘Where I’m Coming From’ by Barbara Brandon-Croft”
September 2, 2025
Do Admit featured in Los Angeles Times 30 books to read this fall!
“Seasoned TV writer and graphic novelist Pond has created a sweeping graphic novel about the six Mitford sisters, ...
November 21, 2025
Nathan Gelgud featured in the LA Times!
“Launching tonight, the UCLA Film and Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater will present a series titled ...
September 3, 2024
Paying for It selected as Top 10 movies at TIFF by Toronto Star!
“Based on Chester Brown’s graphic novel of the same name, and on the real-life uncoupling of Brown and filmmaker...
June 12, 2025
Michael Deforge recommends Milk White Steed in Toronto Star!
“Funny, cryptic short stories about community, folklore and language, and one of the most impressive comics debuts...
September 14, 2025
Mimi Pond writes for People!
“My name is Mimi Pond. If you’re of a certain age and gender, you might remember me as the woman who wrote The ...
September 14, 2025
Do Admit reviewed in Toronto Star
“In the early 20th century, six eccentric sisters grew up in splendid isolation in the English countryside, aristo...
February 11, 2025
Kate Beaton included in Globe and Mail’s favourite books by Canadian authors
“This autobiographical graphic novel, published in 2022, tells the story of the two years Beaton spent working in ...
January 7, 2026
Muybridge reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
“Getting off the ground.
Eadweard Muybridge led a cinematic life. The English photographer journeyed throughout ...
November 13, 2025
Raymond Biesinger for the Globe and Mail: “AI isn’t going to vaporize my livelihood as an illustrator”
Raymond Biesinger is an illustrator and the author of 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off: An Informal Self-Defence Guid...
December 3, 2025
Cannon reviewed in the Globe and Mail
“In the thick heat of a Montreal summer night, Cannon begins in ruin: a restaurant shattered, and at its centre, C...
December 1, 2025
Cannon selected for Booklists Editor’s Choice Best Graphic Novels of 2025!
Cannon. By Lee Lai. Art by the author. 304p. Drawn & Quarterly (9781770468023).
Evocative, deeply emotional ar...
Cannon and Do Admit named New York Times Best Graphic Novels 2025!
Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond
If Pond’s family biography dazzles with its narrative ambition and b...
November 24, 2025
Cannon, Muybridge, and The Weight named Books We Love by NPR
December 2, 2025
Four D+Q Books named to The Guardian’s Best Graphic Novels of 2025!
Lee Lai’s 2021 debut Stone Fruit gained deserved plaudits, and Cannon (Drawn & Quarterly) confirms the Montreal-b...
December 12, 2025
Cannon and Muybridge featured in CBC’s The Best Canadian Comics of 2025!
“Cannon is the latest work by Lee Lai. When titular character Cannon, a stoic and well-behaved cook, is left to c...
Five D+Q Books named Gosh! Comics Best of 2025 for Adults!
“A LAMBDA Award winner returns with a darkly funny and emotionally raw exploration of friendship, identity, and un...
November 20, 2025
Cannon named a Best Queer Book of 2025
Cannon by Lee Lai
“After Stone Fruit, I longed for Lai’s second graphic novel about Cannon, a cook, and Trish, a...
November 19, 2025
Cannon named a Best Book of 2025 by BookRiot!
“After Stone Fruit, I longed for Lai’s second graphic novel about Cannon, a cook, and Trish, a writer, from Lenn...
December 11, 2025
Four D+Q Books Named to The Comics Beat’s Best Comics of 2025!
Cannon by Lee Lai
“In her sophomore graphic novel, cartoonist Lee Lai provides yet another masterclass in characte...
November 28, 2025
Cannon and Physics for Cats Recommended by the Orange Country Register
Cannon by Lee Lai”This graphic novel for adults offers a moving story about a gifted but overworked restaurant wor...
December 5, 2025
Cannon recommended in The Tyee’s 2025 Holiday Reads!
“For folks who love Montreal and their best friend (in equal measure): Cannon By Lee Lai
Australian author and Mon...
December 5, 2025
Cannon mentioned in The Tyee’s “Everyone Went Running This Year”
“I was among the many readers excited to read Lee Lai’s latest graphic novel, Cannon, out this fall through Draw...
November 22, 2025
Cornelius and Do Admit named Best Graphic Novels of 2025 by Washington Post!
Cornelius by Marc Torices: “Cornelius, a humanoid dog in a world of anthropomorphic animals, is a sad-sack custodi...
December 11, 2025
Cornelius staff-picked at Secret Headquarters!
“This book is pure cartooning elegance, weaving disparate art styles into a fever dream, dark-as-a-bottomless-pit ...
Publishers Weekly names Black Cohosh and Do Admit Among Best of 2025!
Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi: “Casually brutal, in the manner of a child’s perfectly unsentimental gaze, ...
November 17, 2025
Do Admit named a Best Non-fiction Book of 2025 by Kirkus Reviews!
“Six insouciant sisters captivate the author.
Cartoonist Pond (Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong) weaves gl...
December 3, 2025
Do Admit named one of 10 Best Books of 2025 by the Chicago Tribune!
“A sprawling, virtuosic group-biography of the six infamous sisters who escaped their country estate, then tumbled...
December 16, 2025
Do Admit selected as one of The A.V. Club’s Best Comics of 2025!
“After two engaging graphic memoirs about her experience working as a diner waitress, cartoonist Mimi Pond signifi...
December 10, 2025
Holy Lacrimony reccomended in the Globe and Mail’s Reader’s Best Books of 2025!
“Holy Lacrimony is one of the best books in recent years by Toronto artist Michael DeForge. It starts as a man is abd...
October 3, 2025
Land of Mirrors one of NYPL’s Top Ten Comics and Graphic Novels of 2025!
“Antonia, a longtime resident of an abandoned town, makes the difficult decision to leave so that she may find som...
December 15, 2025
Land of Mirrors named Top 25 Illustrations of 2025 by Its Nice That!
“Bathed in saturated colours, the book is a welcome respite from reality, as we sink into the illustrator’s ench...
Eight D+Q Books Named Best New Comics for Adults by The New York Public Library!
Cannon By Lee Lai
Balancing a stressful job and the declining health of her aging grandfather, Cannon is in desperate ne...
October 29, 2025
The Legend of Kamui named a Must-Read Manga of 2025 by Publishers Weekly
“Shirato’s politically aware ninja manga, which ran from 1964 to 1971, makes its English-language debut in this ...
December 12, 2025
The Legend of Kamui Named a K-Comics Beat’s Best Manga & Manhwa of 2025!
“Weasel eats mouse. Bird of prey eats weasel. A flap of its wings spread seeds eaten by the dear chased by the b...
December 12, 2025
Preparing to Bite Named a Best Reads of 2025 by WBEZ Chicago
“Evanston artist Keiler Roberts’ latest collection of one-page comics finds big laughs in the minutiae of everyd...
August 21, 2025
Physics For Cats reviewed in Broken Frontier!
“There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he put...
December 17, 2025
Cannon reviewed in The New Yorker!
“The magpies appear in the first scene of “Cannon,” in a darkened restaurant littered with broken furniture an...
December 9, 2025
Five D+Q Books Voted Best Graphic Novels of 2025 by Publishers Weekly Critics Poll!
The acrobatic graphic history and, intermittently, memoir Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond (Drawn &...
May 23, 2025
Preparing to Bite reviewed by Shelf Awareness
“Keiler Roberts creates “more of the same” in the deliciously sardonic Preparing to Bite, an autobiogr...
June 23, 2025
Cannon named a New & Noteworthy Queer Comics by NYPL!
“Cannon’s resourcefulness and stoicism is the basis of her reputation as a dependable person. Her family, f...
September 6, 2025
Cannon reviewed in the New York Times!
“There’s no pressure quite like working in a kitchen. In Lee Lai’s new graphic novel, “Cannon,” the title...