Drawn and Quarterly

Drawn and Quarterly

Founded	1991
Founder	Chris Oliveros
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Montreal, Quebec
Distribution	Macmillan
Publication types	Books, Comic books
Official website	www.DrawnAndQuarterly.com

Drawn and Quarterly is a Canadian comic book publishing company, headed by Chris Oliveros,^[1] and based in Montreal, Quebec. Its focus is on graphic novels and underground or alternative comics. Drawn and Quarterly was also the title of the company's flagship quarterly anthology during the 1990s. The name of the company is a pun on "drawing," "quarterly," and the practice of hanging, drawing and quartering. Oliveros helmed the company by himself for 13 years and then hired Peggy Burns as his associate publisher, formerly of DC Comics and Tom Devlin as his Creative Director, formerly of Highwater Books.

It is currently the most successful and prominent comics publisher in Canada, publishing well-known comic artists such as Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Marc Bell, Chester Brown, Daniel Clowes, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Joe Matt, Shigeru Mizuki, Rutu Modan, Joe Sacco, Seth, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware. In 2006, Drawn and Quarterly began publishing the Moomin comic strips of Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson, in book format, in the series Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. Drawn & Quarterly has a strong reputation in the comics community^[2] and its anthologies have won a number of Harvey Awards.^[3]

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Periodicals

Some periodical comic books have also been published in omnibus format.

• • Drawn & Quarterly (anthology, multiple authors)
• Atlas by Dylan Horrocks
• Berlin by Jason Lutes
• Dirty Plotte by Julie Doucet (semi-autobiographical)
• Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine (semi-autobiographical)
• Or Else by Kevin Huizenga
• Palookaville by Seth
• Peepshow by Joe Matt (autobiographical)
• Underwater by Chester Brown
• Yummy Fur by Chester Brown

Omnibus volumes

• Acme Novelty Date Book Vol. 1: 1986-1995 by Chris Ware
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Graphic novels

• Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Aya of Yopougon by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
• The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes
• Wilson by Daniel Clowes

Comic strip compilations

• Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson (reprints of Moomin comic strips)
• Walt & Skeezix by Frank King (reprints of Gasoline Alley comic strips)
• The John Stanley Library (reprints of the works of John Stanley, original illustrator of the Little Lulu comic books)

Other works

• The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (journalism)
• Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist designed by Seth (monograph/retrospective)
• The Fixer by Joe Sacco (journalism)
• The Frank Ritza Papers, David Collier (2004), ISBN 9781896597911 (nonfiction)
• Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown (biography)
• Make Me a Woman, Vanessa Davis (autobiographical sketches & vignettes)
• Paying For It by Chester Brown (memoir)
• Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (journalism)
• Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle (journalism)
• Vernacular Drawings by Seth (sketchbooks)
• What It Is by Lynda Barry (memoir, workbook)
• Albert and the Others by Guy Delisle
• Aline and the Others by Guy Delisle
• Babel by David B.
• Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
• Crickets by Sammy Harkham
• Curses by Kevin Huizenga
• A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Fabulous Babes (anthology, 1995)
• Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• The Klondike by Zach Worton
• Mid-Life by Joe Ollmann
• Nowhere by Debbie Dreschsler
• Paul Has a Summer Job by Michel Rabagliati
• The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Road to America by Baru
• Sof'Boy by Archer Prewitt
• Surviving Saskatoon by David Collier
• Vellevision: A Cocktail of Comics and Pictures by Maurice Vellekoop

Showcase

For four years, Drawn and Quarterly published Showcase, an anthology magazine which offered greater visibility to lesser known authors. The magazine presented up to 3 authors in each issue.

1. 2003 : Kevin Huizenga, Nicolas Robel
2. 2004 : Jeffrey Brown, Pentti Otsamo, Erik De Graaf
3. 2005 : Genevieve Elverum, Sammy Harkham, Matt Broersma
4. 2006 : Dan Zettwoch, Gabrielle Bell, Martin Cendreda

Petit livre

Drawn and Quarterly publishes an art book imprint, with some of the artists being cartoonists. Artists include Sonja Ahlers, Charles Burns, Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber, Keith Jones, Amy Lockhart, Julie Morstad, Christian Northeast, Peter Thompson, Jillian Tamaki and Leanne Shapton.

Enfant

Drawn and Quarterly has published two Tove Jansson books in its children's imprint Enfant.

Store

In the fall of 2007, Drawn and Quarterly opened a shop devoted to graphic novels, literature and art books in Montreal's Mile End district. [1]

References

1. ^ Canada's Superhero - TIME
2. ^ Bookslut | Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Two
3. ^ The Harvey Awards

External links

• Drawn and Quarterly homepage
• File Under: Graphic Lit Drawn & Quarterly is spotlighted in CBC Radio 3 Magazine