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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Je préfère habituellement la BD anglophone mais dans les dernières semaines, j'ai eu envie de faire changement et de me taper quelques nouveautés françaises. Voici donc trois recommandations franco, des histoires légères et amusantes parfaites pour un après-midi d'été...
BIENVENUE À BOBOLAND
Le nouvel album des stars de la BD française Dupuy et Berberian est une collection de vignettes satiriques décrivant la vie quotidienne des Bobo (bougeois bohémiens), ces yuppies nouveau genre pour qui l'alimentation bio, le design scandinave et le commerce équitable font office de religion. Une critique sociale mordante truffée de clin d'oeils rigolos.
LES AMIS
Ce petit livre au design noir et blanc ultra-simple jette un coup d'oeil quasi-névrosé sur l'amitié entre hommes. Une étude sociologique brutale et cinglante mais hilarante. J'en riait en pleine librairie!
ANTTI BRYSSELISSA
Antti, un étudiant finlandais, débarque à Bruxelles pour un stage de 4 mois dans une boite de publicité. Les ados en quête d'évasion et les fans du film L'Auberge espagnole vont adorer.
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 10:00 AM
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Attention Julie Doucet fans and rare book collectors! We now have about 10 copies of the first paperback edition of My New York Diary for sale. This edition has a different cover design from the one available in most stores and online. It has been out of print for years (even Julie's official website doesn't mention it) but we just found a secret stash in a dark corner of the D+Q headquarters. Get it while you still can!
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 3:10 PM
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
211's Claudia has been jet-setting around the US, and style.com has taken notice. Way to wow those New Yorkers with your je ne sais quoi, Claudia! She even made the home page.
Posted by Peggy Burns at 11:39 AM
Friday, July 18, 2008
Ron Regé, Jr. is in town for a few weeks and he has taken over the store with his beautiful, uplifting artwork! (psst, it's pronounced REE-gee)
 Here's Ron, all smiles as he hangs the new drawings from his "Cartoon Utopia" series around the store. You can see pictures of all the drawings here. They're for sale at very reasonable prices...
 Ron also created this impromptu cabinet of curiosities to showcase his ultra-cute hand-painted buttons...
 ...and here's our unofficial store mascot, Sof' Boy, unable to contain his glee as he surveys a selection of Ron's books, postcards and little pocketfuls of drawings.
 We'll be having a vernissage for the exhibition and launch Ron's new book, Against Pain at the store on July 30th. Hope to see you there!
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 10:00 AM
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Our new operations director, Kit, participated in last night's Greasy Goose event. Here's her account of the night...
Drawn and Quarterly were honoured to have the marvelous monthly event, The Greasy Goose, usually held at the Cagibi, at our very own space last night. The turnout was amazing, and 4 great talks/performances held the audience captive (figuratively) despite the summer's heat.
Jesse Staniforth presented some riveting thoughts about poetry during WWI...
Clement Yeh showed us some of his mind-boggling sculptures...
Sylvia Marques talked about the Gumps and colonialism...
 ...and Sean Michaels did some lying and truthing while myself and Julien Ceccaldi took his words and spun them back out, live-drawing style.
Speaking of the live-drawing bit, I promised people I would post a link to the program we were using last night, as so many folks afterwards seemed interested in it. It's called Lopart Duo, it was designed by a team of creators in the Mile End, and you can get it for free (!) right here:
www.lopartduo.net/index_en.php
Thanks to all the Greasy Goose people for putting on such a wonderful event!
Posted by Claudia-Eve Beauchesne at 5:11 PM
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16th, 7:00 PM
MERCREDI, LE 16 JUILLET, 19H
at the D&Q store (211 Bernard O.)
THE GREASY GOOSE SALON PRESENTS: DEPICTION
The Greasy Goose Salon is a monthly community lecture series in Montreal's Mile End that aims to provide a forum for people to present their work in a friendly, community-minded atmosphere. Each event is based around a broad theme and features four speakers who approach the topic from a variety of perspectives: academic presentations, artist talks, literature readings, political lectures, public speaking, short workshops, etc.This event takes place outside of the regular Greasy Goose venue, Cagibi, at the Librairie Drawn & Quarterly with the site-inspired theme DEPICTION.
Featuring lectures by:
CLEMENT YEH -- Clement Yeh: sketchbooks and animation sculptures
JESSE B. STANIFORTH -- "Each Person a Picture": the Rise of the Human Individual in the Poetry of the First World War
SYLVIA MARQUES -- Lost in the Forest Primeval: Invoking Imperialism in 1920s Comic Strips
and our very own..
KIT MALO & SEAN MICHAELS -- Lyings and Drawings and Truthings
Contact greasygoose@thearchive.ca
Visit http://thearchive.ca/greasygoose
Posted by Matt Shane at 5:43 PM
Come on out for the launch of Vida Simon's new artist book: Boreal Borscht or The Malina Miniature!
She'll do a better job describing her work than I would:
I spend all day making books, each one the size of a crumb.
There is immense satisfaction in seeing them piled on a shelf.
All these little objects are like inhaling -- even holding one's breath.
This artist's book was made following my residency at Boreal Art/Nature in 2006-2007. Part archive, part storybook, part wandering/wondering, this work interweaves drawings, written reflections, and photographs of Malinas, the performance-installation I presented in the Boreal cabin in the spring of 2007. Intimate in scale, the book foregrounds the miniature, the detail, while encompassing larger themes such as war and escape. During my time on the Boreal land, I often had the sense that the forest, the cabin, could be in another country, another time, and it was this displacement/bridging that was my point of departure.
Vida Simon has presented her work in a wide range of contexts -- galleries, performance festivals, residencies, and site-responsive projects in public and private spaces -- throughout North America, Europe, and soon in Chile. Her work often takes the form of installations and performances, combining drawing, writing, hand-crafted objects, sound, and movement. While her work is visually-based, she tries to create situations that undo representation, through integrating the viewer's participation, obscuring visibility, or revealing processes that are normally kept "behind the scenes." An integral part of Vida's practice includes collaborating with others and teaching art classes for all ages. She lives in Montreal.
Check out her website to see more:
And we'll see you next Friday!
Posted by Matt Shane at 5:22 PM
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