Helge Dascher
1) Hostage
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
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Description
In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Universally beloved cartoonist Guy Delisle showcases a career-spanning collection of his work with a sly sense of humor and warm characterization. Before Delisle became an international superstar with his globe-hopping travelogues, he was an animator experimenting with the comics form. Always aware of the elasticity of the human form and honing his keen observer's eye, young Delisle created hilarious set pieces. World Record Holders ranges from wistful...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
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Bittersweet and Compelling
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Read-Alikes for Ducks
Summer Reads: Adult
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Read-Alikes for Ducks
Summer Reads: Adult
Description
For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager,...
Author
Series
User's guide to neglectful parenting volume 3
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On loving women is a collection of stories about first love and sexual identity. Diane Obomsawin shares her friends' and lovers' personal accounts of coming into their queerness or first finding love with another woman."--page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One of the few Westerners granted access to North Korea documents his observations of the secretive society in this graphic travelogue that depicts the cultural alienation, boredom, and desires of ordinary North Koreans.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Sylvie began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, 'Melody', which Rancourt wrote, drew, and distributed, starting in 1985. Later, Rancourt collaborated with artist Jacques Boivin, who translated and...
11) The strange
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Strange follows an unnamed, undocumented immigrant who tries to forge a new life in a Western country where he doesn speak the language. Jérôme Ruillier story is deftly told through myriad viewpoints, as each narrator recounts a situation in which they crossed paths with the newly-arrived foreigner. Many of the people he meets are suspicious of his unfamiliar background, or of the unusual language they do not understand. By employing this third-person...
12) Benson's cuckoos
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Richard has just started a new job at a company that makes cuckoo clocks. That's apropos, since the boss seems at best distracted, at worse insane. He's been hired to replace a man named George, who disappeared suddenly hard tries to cope with being asked to bring his own computer and prepare presentations without supporting files, he finds himself enveloped in the growing mystery of just what happened to George.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bio-comic of Leonard Cohen's life. Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man's life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family's upscale Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn...
14) Completely bubu
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Anouk Ricard's bold and colorful comics of this quirky, grumpy gang of pals are delightfully weird yet thoroughly realistic in their honest and hilarious portrayal of friendship. Anna, Froga, Christopher the worm, Ron the cat, and Bubu the dog continue their non-adventures with bickering, needling, cajoling, and honest friendship. No white lie goes unexposed, no small embarrassment goes unrevealed, no secret is kept, everyone's foibles are fodder...
15) Poppies of Iraq
Author
Series
Free comic book day volume 2017
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein's state control, and her family's history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This Woman's Work is a powerfully raw autobiographical work that asks vital questions about femininity and the assumptions we make about gender. Julie Delporte examines cultural artifacts and sometimes traumatic memories through the lens of the woman she is today-a feminist who understands the reality of the women around her, how experiencing rape culture and sexual abuse is almost synonymous with being a woman, and the struggle of reconciling one's...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Handbook to Lazy Parenting is bestselling cartoonist Guy Delisle's final tribute to the frequently hilarious and absurd situations that any parent will find themselves in when raising young children--all told with Delisle's trademark sarcastic wit. But even as Delisle's children grow older, wiser, and less interested in their father's antics, Delisle has no shortage of bad parenting stories, only now, sometimes, the joke is on him!"--
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy...
Author
Series
Aya volume 1
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation--an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa--seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wry soap opera revolving around the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday...
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