Washing dishes in a restaurant is among the least glamorous of occupations. But not once does Mimi Pond complain or delve into the requisite diatribe on scraping and scrubbing in a perpetual cloud of greasy mist. Time can add a rose colored tint to things, sure, but Pond knew then that she was part of a story worth telling. Thirty years later, here it is, Over Easy.
Posts Tagged ‘Drawn and Quarterly’
Over Easy
Posted: October 29, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: 1970's, Bay Area, diner, Drawn and Quarterly, Mimi Pond, Over Easy, punk, rock
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The Death Ray: Got A Light?
Posted: July 9, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: coming of age, Daniel Clowes, Drawn and Quarterly, Graphic Novel, loss of innocence, superhero, The Death Ray
Horribly Beautiful
Posted: June 18, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: bande dessinee, Beautiful Darkness, Drawn and Quarterly, Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet, Marie Pommepuy, Sebastian Cosset
What would happen if we had to start over? To rebuild and live simply, off the land, as they say? Well, according to Fabien Vehlmann and the artist collaboration known as Kerascoet, nothing good. Their new book, Beautiful Darkness, put out by Drawn and Quarterly, is a fairy tale gone demented, in which adorable and sinister prove to be inseparable.