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Comics

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Arts & Culture / June 2019

In This Wildly Popular Comic, Toronto Is Beautiful and Falling Apart

June 4, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Sharon Nadeem

Inside Michael DeForge’s new collection

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When Comic Fans Become Villains

March 15, 2019July 12, 2019 - by Anna Peppard

The Captain Marvel backlash shows that fandom can be cruel. And Stan Lee is partly to blame

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Marvel superheroes posing
Arts & Culture

How Marvel Created Its New Inuk Superhero

August 2, 2018July 17, 2019 - by Anna Peppard

The comic company’s efforts at diversifying have included plenty of missteps. But they may have got it right with Amka

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An Illustrated History of the Toronto Pride Parade

June 21, 2017May 21, 2020 - by Frankie Noone

From Operation Soap to present-day transphobia, the knot of power has always been tough to untie

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Illustration by Johnnie Christmas; Colours by Tamra Bonvillain
September 2016

Rescue Cat

August 24, 2016April 16, 2021 - by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood reimagines the everyday feline as a comic-book superhero

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