Books published by Drawn and Quarterly

In a thoroughly modernized, constantly updating society, where can true connection be found?

One family s quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge

This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women s lives

An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award winning cartoonist

An exquisitely drawn exploration of three lost souls' emotional terrainAs night falls in the City of Belgium, three strangers in their late twenties-a most dangerous age-arrive at a popular restaurant. Jona is about to move away; he calls his wife, who's already settled in Berlin, before trying to make plans with friends for one last night on the town. No one bites-they're all busy or maybe they just don't want to party-but he's determined to make this night something to remember. Victoria is lively and energetic, but surrounded by friends and family who are buzzkills, always worrying about what is best for her. Rodolphe glumly considers his own misery and then suddenly snaps out of it, becoming the life of the party. The three careen through the city's nightlife spots and underbelly, getting ever deeper in the messiness of human existence as they chase pleasure-or at least a few distractions from their daily lives. Each has a series of misadventures that reveal them to be teetering on the edge of despair, of destruction, of becoming the people they'll be for the rest of their lives. The City of Belgium occupies a place between lucid dream and tooth-grinding nightmare.

The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villain

Jillian Tamaki brings her combined characteristic realism and humour to her first collection of short stories. Boundless explores the lives of women and how the expectations of others influence their real and virtual selves.

Eight-year-old Marlys Mullen is Lynda Barry's most famous character from her long-running and landmark comic strip Er-nie Pook's Comeek and, given her very own collection of strips, Marlys shines in all her freckled and pig-tailed groovy glory.

The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon

THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY''S ACCLAIMED COMICThe Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entriesΓÇöeach representing an episode in the life of FreddieΓÇöbring to life adolescence, pimples and all. No matter what happens, it all seems to go wrong for FreddieΓÇöhe''s set up as an arsonist, mercilessly teased in school, and bossed around by classmates. With consummate skill, Lynda Barry writes about the cruelty of children at this most vulnerable age when the friends they make and the paths they choose can forever change their lives. In The Freddie Stories every word of dialogue, every piece of narration, and every dark line evokes adolescent angst. These short, moving stories are collected from Barry''s beloved Ernie Pook''s Comeek, which was serialized across North America for two decades. Re-packaged here with a brand-new afterword from Lynda Barry, The Freddie Stories is an adult tale about just how hard it is to be a teenager, and it''s classic Barry workΓÇöpoignant, insightful, and true.

"...an aching clarity [is] evident in [Castrée''s] sombre grey tones and her dexterous, serpentine lines."-Globe & Mail Best 100 Books of 2013"With mesmerizing honesty Castrée resurrects the obscenely disorienting turning points of a childhood, the ones that haunt a person for a lifetime. After reading the last page I closed the book and wept a little bit about its simple, perfect ending."-MIRANDA JULY, author of It Chooses You and No One Belongs Here More Than YouGoglu is a daydreamer with a young working mother, a disengaged stepfather, and a father who lives five thousand miles away. Drawing, punk rock, and the promise of true independence guide Goglu to adulthood while her home''s daily chaos inevitably shapes her identity. Susceptible is a devastating graphic novel debut by Geneviève Castrée; it''s a testament to the heartbreaking loss of innocence when a child is forced to be the adult amongst grownups..

Get shipwrecked with Moomin on an abandoned island in the eighth volume of the beloved Moomin hardcover series Lars Jansson returns with the eighth volume of the classic Moomin hardcover comic series, and the whole gang is back in action. Sniff is causing trouble with another of his get-rich-quick schemes, Moominmaiden falls in love with the inspector's bad-boy nephew, and Moominmamma is offering up plum cake to whosoever should need it. As always, the experiences of the Moomin family are poignant, melancholy, and strangely wise, with just a dash of the drolly funny and a pinch of slapstick. Without a doubt, Jansson's Moomin Book Eight is a treat for the whole family. ALSO AVAILABLE The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My / 978-1-897299-95-1 / $16.95 Moomin & the Comet / 978-1-77046-122-2 / $9.95 Moomin & the Sea / 978-1-77046-123-9 / $9.95 Moomin Book One / 978-1-894937-80-1 / $19.95 Moomin Book Two / 978-1-897299-19-7 / $19.95 Moomin Book Three / 978-1-897299-55-5 / $19.95 Moomin Book Four / 978-1-897299-78-4 / $19.95 Moomin Book Five / 978-1-897299-94-4 / $19.95 Moomin Book Six / 978-1-77046-042-3 / $19.95 Moomin Book Seven / 978-1-77046-062-1 / $19.95 Moomin Builds a House / 978-1-77046-108-6 / $9.95 Moomin Every Day / 978-1-77046-043-0 / $22.95 Moomin Falls in Love / 978-1-77046-107-9 / $9.95 Moomin's Winter Follies / 978-1-77046-098-0 / $9.95 Moominvalley Turns Jungle / 978-1-77046-097-3 / $9.95Who Will Comfort Toffle? / 978-1-77046-017-1 / $16.95

Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Yoshihiro Tatsumi''s maturation as a storyteller. Many of the stories deal with the economic hardships of the time and the strained relationships between men and women, but do so by means of dark allegorical twists and turns. A young sewer cleaner''s girlfriend has a miscarriage and leaves him when he proves incapable of finding higher-paying work. When a factory worker loses his hand on the job, the parallels between him and his pet monkey prove startling and significant.

Moomin: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip, Volume 9 welcomes readers back to the beloved world of Moominvalley, where pancakes and jam are a perfectly acceptable supper and a damsel in distress can live in a pre-fabricated castle.

More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artistDrawn & Quarterly''s bestselling Moomin series, created by the legendary children''s author Tove Jansson, is now in its fourth installment. The series is the winner of the Harvey Award and has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards.

The book that brought pre-eminent Manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki to the English-speaking world.

The final, Eisner Award-winning chapter of a legendary cartoonist s history of Japan.

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of World War II s legacy in Japan.

The satirical saga of three artists seeking recognition. But there can be only one Artist.

A laugh out loud funny parable for the digital ageThere once was a lady who was very creepy. She moved about the world in seemingly normal ways, except for one tremendously bizarre tic. First she sought out kids transfixed by their screens, staring blindly and blank-faced at nearly any device, and then she would snatch something precious from them.In this picture book for grown-ups, sibling duo Keiler Roberts and Lee Sensenbrenner render a compelling-and downright creepy-modern fable about kids who are hooked on their digital devices. Creepy is the contemporary answer to the shocking tales of the Brothers Grimm and bedtime moral stories like the boy who cried wolf or the princess and the pea: in it, Roberts and Sensenbrenner provide a shrewd and comical commentary on the increasing digitization of childhood. Known for her award-winning autobiographical comics, Roberts's signature deadpan humor is on full display in these vibrantly painted pages.It's safe to say that no one tackles the peril of screen time as vividly or absurdly as this pair.

Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds.Birds roam freely around the Moon complete with fruitful trees, sophisticated fungal networks, and an enviable socialist order. The universal worm feeds all, there are no weekends, and economics is as fantastical a study as unicorn psychology. No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds. Instead, there are angsty teens who form bands to show off their best bird song and other youngsters who yearn to become clothing designers even though clothes are only necessary during war. (The truly honourable professions for most birds are historian and/or librarian.) These birds are free to crush on hot pelicans and live their best lives until a crash-landed human from Earth threatens to change everything.Michael DeForge's post-apocalyptic reality brings together the author's quintessential deadpan humour, surrealist imagination, and undeniable socio-political insight. Appearing originally as a webcomic, Birds of Maine follows DeForge's prolific trajectory of astounding graphic novels that reimagine and question the world as we know it. His latest comic captures the optimistic glow of utopian imagination with a late-capitalism sting of irony.