Esinam Beckley

Jul 4, 2024 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Esinam Beckley

Gentrification, displacement, immigration, alienation, addiction, police brutality, and Montreal: these are the consistent themes throughout Keenan Poloncsak’s work. The newly released Complete Pro-Canthology is the collected works of his early comic PRO-CAN (short for pro-cannibalism), the full series collected into one book.

Nov 1, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Esinam Beckley |Ian McGillis |Nadia Trudel |Alexandra Trnka

Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward is a journey through friendship, identity, and the power of zine culture. The story opens with a glimpse into the lives of four friends, each navigating their morning routines, setting the stage for their zine-making adventures.

Mar 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Esinam Beckley |Taylor C. Noakes |Malcolm Fraser

A review of Where I'm Coming From by Barbara Brandon-Croft Published on March 16, 2023 Barbara Brandon-Croft’s compilation of her Where I’m Coming From comics, which ran in newspapers from 1989 to 2004, is a prime example of the calibre of book treasure I painstakingly hunt for in my free time.

Mar 16, 2023 | mtlreviewofbooks.ca | Meaghan Thurston |Esinam Beckley |Connor Harrison |Yara El-Soueidi

Recently, my young nephew visited Montreal from his rural home. Driving north on Parc Avenue, we marvelled at the sights through his eyes. “What is a block?” he asked. Simple as it was to explain the parameters of this basic urban element, I couldn’t help but wax poetic about one of my favourite Montreal blocks: that special stretch of pavement on Fairmount between Clark and Saint-Urbain, where the air is thick with the iconic smell of Montreal’s wood-fired bagels.