Chris Oliveros

Nov 16, 2023 | thespec.com | Chris Oliveros |Kate Leth |Daniel Clowes |Eloise Marseille

Are You Willing To Die For The Cause? By Chris Oliveros Already a Subscriber? Sign in Drawn & Quarterly, 168 pages, $29.95 Here’s a book to get the blood pumping, especially in troubled times such as these, and it was made by exactly the right person to do it. Montreal’s own Chris Oliveros, who founded Drawn & Quarterly in 1989 and was its publisher for the next 25 years, stepped down to focus on this graphic novel.

Nov 8, 2023 | quillandquire.com | Chris Oliveros

In the first of a planned two-volume graphic history of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), Chris Oliveros, cartoonist and founder of renowned publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, brings to life the many personalities whose actions served as preamble to the October Crisis. Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? takes its title from a paper questionnaire circulated at early gatherings of what became the independence movement in Quebec.

Oct 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Michael Cherkas |Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White

Catharina Octorina and Hiikariin. Andrews McMeel, $18.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-5248-8604-2Octorina (Maid for Hire) and Hiikariin’s flighty office rom com comes with a supernatural romantasy twist: it’s set in a world where the gods and demigods of Olympus are corporate CEOs. Ordinary human woman Iris has somehow managed to land a job delivering interoffice memos at the deities’ prestigious corporation, which is located in a lofty 1,000–foot-tall office tower.

Oct 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Michael Cherkas |Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White

L. Nichols. Secret Acres, $15.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 979-8-9855863-5-0In a piercing cycle of 28 short, often anguished autobiographical meditations, Nichols (Flocks) chronicles their life story and the long uphill climb to claiming their nonbinary identity in a hostile culture.

Oct 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Chris Oliveros |Nora Krug |Kiersten White |Michael Cherkas

Josh Bayer. Uncivilized, $24.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-94125-056-3Indie comics mainstay Bayer (Theth) confronts childhood traumas while struggling to adapt his estranged father’s unfinished play in this thorny hybrid of family memoir and peek behind the artistic process. Over dense pages swelling with scratched inky lines and bruised washes of color, a discursive psychological drama plays out following the discovery of a manuscript Bayer’s father secretly worked on for decades.