Drawn and Quarterly 2022 Books

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Not too sure how good this picture will look but check out @drawnandquaterly 's latest Instagram post for their 2022 D&Q book post. 

What did you think of their releases this year? 

I used to be a big D&Q reader but now I'm more Fantagraphics (The big 2 in Indie comics world I guess). I picked up The Peanut Butter Sisters and enjoyed the first story a lot, kind of hoped the first story was just the entire book's page count, it felt like it had another material to go on a fair bit.  I have The Con Artists but haven't read it yet and haven't picked up Acting Class yet but I plan on checking it out. 

What did you like from D&Q this year? 



See pic here:
drawnandquarterly.com/news/for-your-consideration-2/

[grubcubman]

Jeez, I've read very little of this. What I can say for the moment is: the collected Genevieve Castree is an achievement. It's gigantic and gorgeous, and I find it to be an awesome testament to an awesome artist.

[arecomicsevengood]

Time Zone J is obviously really cool and good. Sorta interesting how the other stuff I'd ride for or tentatively endorse - Birds Of Maine and Mr. Colostomy being books I read, and the Lynda Barry books stuff I believe to be good without having read - are all strip collections. While a book of strips can be unsatisfying in its own right (I love to see how a comic reads across pages!) in the context of this year's D+Q output that's the formal spot where my tastes and those of their editorial staff don't diverge too intensely. Not saying that means anything.

[mikesheawright]

Extremely hyped to get my hands on the Castree book. Wow otherwise I didn't read any of this stuff except for Time Zone J, which I liked but maybe not as much as I was expecting to? It's one of those things that I think is incredible and inspiring and cool but didn't totally enjoy the experience of reading it. Every time I picked it up I was like holy shit this rules but then after like 15-20 pages it started to drone for me. I'm looking forward to future readings though, feels like there's lots to discover still.

[bayls171]

I thought Time Zone J and Talk To My Back were both spectacular. I also liked reading the Lynda Barry reprints - really fun material and my first exposure to her

Artist and Birds Of Maine were also pretty good, and I bought the Roberts book but haven’t read it yet. I didn’t know it was a “best of” of her first five books and given that I’ve just finished reading three of them I’ll probably give it a while until I crack that one open.

The only other one I read was Acting Class, which I didn’t care for at all.

[GHO]

I'm excited to read the new Tom Gauld book I looked through it quickly and got a giggle so the rest is probably great too. love the production of that book and the Deforge book.

[BubblesZine]

I read a good amount of these, I'd like to check out the Peanut Butter Sisters.

Ducks was one I took a chance on, I hadn't really read Beaton before nor read much auto-bio these days, but it was actually really good. Definitely recommend. Full spectrum of emotion in there.

Talk To My Back, Acting Class and Artists are some real stand outs for me.

[manoopuesta]

Looking at the pic, I've read more D&Q comics this year than I had realized. For me the big thing was Castree's book (as you can imagine after talking about it over several posts), but I also enjoyed other books like Time Zone J, and especially Ducks. Maybe this last one because I was skeptical of the book at first. Beaton is so good with humor that I was wondering if she could pull this off. The beginning of the book felt a little bland, and I was fearing it would continue like that, but then the story goes into the core, with the oil sands part, and it was really good. Left me reflecting about the book for many days after reading it.