Comics

Against a yellow-orange background an illustration of a mouth with a jagged, comic-style speech bubble saying "Gasp!"

Arts & Culture / July/August 2024

My Guilty Pleasure: I’m a Gen Xer Reading Comic Books Once Again

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Jason Guriel

Superheroes have acquired respectability, but I miss their childish, outlaw history

In-Between Days

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023 - by Teva Harrison

First in a series of comics about living with metastatic cancer

Somebody resting a paper map in their lap with their legs on the window of a car.

Books

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki on the Cost of Roaming

September 15, 2023September 19, 2023 - by Gabrielle Drolet

The duo’s previous book was banned extensively. But their latest graphic novel is their freest tale yet

Illustration of a nervous man in glasses, transforming into a confident man in a suit, then into Superman in his costume.

Arts & Culture / June 2023

Life Lessons from Superman

June 23, 2023June 23, 2023 - by Jillian Tamaki

The Christopher Reeve movies were shot in Calgary. I can barely recognize my hometown

Illustration of Kate Beaton standing on the stairs of a large truck, looking back at the landscape.

Books / November 2022

Kate Beaton’s Ducks Grapples with the Human Cost of the Oil Sands

September 13, 2022March 30, 2023 - by Gabrielle Drolet

The book showcases how disorienting and vast the industry can be—and the trauma it inflicts on its workers

A comic of a small green hill with a Hollywood-style sign that says Garbage Hill

Arts & Culture / July/August 2022

The Surprising Appeal of Winnipeg’s Garbage Hill

June 21, 2022June 30, 2022 - by Jonathan Dyck

How I developed an appreciation for a green space with a past life as a municipal dump

A black-and-white comic book style illustration of two people facing one another, holding glasses of wine and awkwardly not speaking. The figure on the right wears a black beret and turtleneck.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Life of an Artist

January 27, 2021September 13, 2022 - by Chris Hampton

Walter Scott’s newest Wendy comic offers an inside look at the creative class

A screen shot from the Batwoman TV show in which Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) and Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy) hold hands and look into one another's eyes.

Arts & Culture

The Undeniable Queerness of Superhero Stories

January 17, 2020May 31, 2023 - by Anna Peppard

The genre is built on themes of transformation, disguise, and duality—a reality that LGBTQ folks live every day

A black and white comics panel titled "World's Toughest Milkman." The cover features a crowd of men standing around two people prepared to fight.

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How to Make It as an Indie Cartoonist

December 9, 2019September 13, 2022 - by Jeet Heer

The new generation of Canadian cartoonists is diverse, innovative, and unapologetically weird

A comic book panel depicting a conversation between the prime minister and a superhero, in a room full of technological equipment

Arts & Culture

The Secret Lives of Canadian Superheroes

October 11, 2019October 15, 2019 - by Corey Mintz

Marvel’s Alpha Flight made Canada cool in the 1980s. Following the Raptors’ championship win, the comic is back

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In-Between Days

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki on the Cost of Roaming

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Life of an Artist

The Undeniable Queerness of Superhero Stories

How to Make It as an Indie Cartoonist

The Secret Lives of Canadian Superheroes

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