No problem. Want to make bagfuls of money? Send your cartoons to Chris Oliveros of Drawn and Quarterly. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read every message personally and, with your permission, […]
A good time to be a Moomin. The amazing comeback of Finland’s favorite creatures. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read every message personally and, with your permission, may feature your […]
Drawn and Quarterly has gone where no graphic novel publisher has gone, they are publishing books geared towards teenage girls. As a father of a teenage girl, Rookie Yearbook One, should be the graduate series to the Wimpy Kid diaries. Tavi Gevinson is just about to fling the doors even more with this collection of […]
A sample drawing from Drawn and Quarterly’s Adrian Tomine New York Drawings, a decade of covers, comics, illustrations and sketches from the pages of The New Yorker and beyond. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an […]
Drawn and Quarterly’s Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant fame is a cat lover. She has a few drawings of cats and especially a farting cat. It’s lethal. No wonder Pepé Le Pew liked cats. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to […]
Back alleys were hubs where kids gathered and played together. Sheltered from traffic, kids built their own fantasies in back lanes. Suburbia has no back alleys and less imagination. Michael Cho finds beauty in these forgotten city arteries with his collected illustrations. Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes is a celebration hidden treasures in cities such […]
R. Sikoryak notorious illustrator of Masterpiece Comics (Drawn & Quarterly) gives us Popysseus. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read every message personally and, with your permission, may feature your thoughts […]
Famous cartoonist Seth (Gregory Gallant) is a time traveler or he has dipped into the fountain of youth. This ad from 1931 tells of a plot robot who thinks up plots. He must work for the movie industry today. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something […]
Clowes’ Wilson is being adapted into a screenplay for Fox Searchlight. This is a big coupe for the imprint Drawn and Quarterly, the publisher of Daniel Clowes’ book Wilson. The likes of Paul Giametti, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rainn Wilson are circulating as possible actors to play Wilson. Tony M.If this article made you think, […]
Autumn is the best time of the year to admire the majestic trees of Canada. New York City native Leanne Shapton is an illustrator of the latest Drawn And Quarterly book simply called, Native Trees of Canada. The book of paintings examines some of Canada’s well known trees. Preview>> Tony M.If this article made you […]
The Moomins are breaking out with their latest movie. What could be best described as a Viewmaster reel come to life is not turning many heads. Björk lends her singing voice to the movie with very mixed results. There are two camps of Björk, either you like her or hate her. This is not her […]
Every country at one time had their own Charles M. Schulz, Canada is no exception to this. Doug Wright and his Nipper creation is a Drawn and Quarterly favorite that is getting a respected collected reprinting. The new annual series will be craftily designed by Seth by putting together for the first time the series […]