Sunday, October 29, 2023

Pow Pow Week: Francis Desharnais' Little Russia

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Francis Desharnais' Little Russia is the final volume I'm looking at in this series on Pow Pow Books. That publisher certainly has ...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Pow Pow Week: Éloïse Marseille's Naked: The Confessions Of A Normal Woman

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Éloïse Marseille's Naked: The Confessions Of A Normal Woman is a chronicle not just of her history of desire and sex, but also a memoir ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Pow Pow Week: Sophie Bédard's Lonely Boys

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Sophie  Bédard's Lonely Boys is a hilariously misleading title, since men barely figure into the narrative at all. Instead, it's ano...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Pow Pow Week: Sophie Bédard's Almost Summer 1

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Moving on to a different Pow Pow Press artist, Sophie  Bédard has a style that I can only call "compulsively readable." She specia...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Pow Pow Week: Zviane's Going Under

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The melancholy at the heart of Zviane's in For As Long As It Rains is magnified in her previous book, Going Under . The fleeting moment...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Pow Pow Week: Zviane's For As Long As It Rains

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There's a rich tradition of comics from Montreal that takes its shape both in a wild & unruly underground (most notably with the lat...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Brian Canini's Airbag #1

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Brian Canini's Airbag is the sort of one-person anthology series that was initially popular in the 80s and 90s and has seen a resurgenc...