Drawn and Quarterly is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 publishing company, headed by Chris Oliveros, and based in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. Its focus is on graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

s and underground

Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...

 or alternative comics

Alternative comics

Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...

. Drawn and Quarterly was also the title of the company's flagship quarterly anthology

Comics anthology

Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for standalone publication.- U.S. :- UK :British comics have a long tradition publishing comics anthologies, often weekly...

 during the 1990s. The name of the company is a pun on "drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

," "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

DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...

 and Tom Devlin as his Creative Director, formerly of Highwater Books

Highwater Books

Highwater Books was a small but influential independent comic book publisher based in Somerville, Massachusetts, noted for its arty editorial direction and production values under publisher Tom Devlin...

.

It is currently the most successful and prominent comics publisher in Canada, publishing well-known comic artists such as Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author. One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the...

, Kate Beaton

Kate Beaton

Kate Beaton is a Canadian webcomic artist. Originally from Mabou, Cape Breton, she has a degree in history and anthropology from Mount Allison University. She began drawing comics for the university newspaper, the Argosy, during her third and fourth years at school. Previously she worked in the...

, Marc Bell

Marc Bell

Marc Bell is a Canadian cartoonist and artist. First known for creating comic strips , Bell has also created several exhibitions of his mixed media work and watercoloured drawings. Hot Potatoe [sic], a monograph of his work, was released in 2009...

, Chester Brown

Chester Brown

Chester William David Brown , is an award-winning, best-selling Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada....

, Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes

Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....

, Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle is a comic book author from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal...

, Julie Doucet

Julie Doucet

Julie Doucet is a Canadian former underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary...

, Joe Matt

Joe Matt

Joe Matt is an American cartoonist. He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work, Peepshow. In addition to his cartooning career, he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. Matt lived in Canada from 1988 to 2002...

, Shigeru Mizuki

Shigeru Mizuki

is a Japanese manga author, most known for his Japanese horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro . A specialist in stories of yōkai, he is considered a master of the genre...

, Rutu Modan

Rutu Modan

-Biography:Rutu Modan was born in Tel Hashomer, Israel, in 1966. Her father was Prof. Baruch Modan, a cancer researcher who served as director general of the Israeli Health Ministry in the 1980s. Her mother was Prof. Michaela Modan, an epidemiologist specializing in diabetes research. Her sister...

, Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine, and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde.- Biography :...

, Seth

Seth (cartoonist)

Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant , a Canadian comic book artist and writer. He is best known for comics such as Palookaville.Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto...

, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

is a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957....

, Adrian Tomine

Adrian Tomine

Adrian Tomine , a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.- Biography :...

 and Chris Ware

Chris Ware

Franklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois...

. In 2006, Drawn and Quarterly began publishing the Moomin comic strips

Moomin comic strips

Moomin is a comic strip created by Tove Jansson, and followed up by Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters....

 of Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson

Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...

, in book format, in the series Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. Drawn & Quarterly has a strong reputation in the comics community and its anthologies have won a number of Harvey Awards.

Periodicals

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

• • Drawn & Quarterly (anthology, multiple authors)
• Atlas
  Atlas (comic series)
  Atlas is the name of a comic book series by cartoonist Dylan Horrocks. It is published by Drawn & Quarterly.-External links:** at the Grand Comics Database...
  
  by Dylan Horrocks
• Berlin
  Berlin (comics)
  Berlin is the title of a comic book series created by Jason Lutes and published by Black Eye Productions and then Drawn and Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines, it describes life in Berlin from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the Weimar Republic...
  
  by Jason Lutes
  Jason Lutes
  Jason Lutes is an American comics creator. His work is mainly historical fiction, but he also works in traditional fiction...
  
  
• Dirty Plotte by Julie Doucet
  Julie Doucet
  Julie Doucet is a Canadian former underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary...
  
   (semi-autobiographical)
• Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine
  Adrian Tomine
  Adrian Tomine , a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.- Biography :...
  
   (semi-autobiographical)
• Or Else by Kevin Huizenga
  Kevin Huizenga
  Kevin Huizenga is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comics character Glenn Ganges, who appears in most of his work.-Biography:...
  
  
• Palookaville
  Palookaville (comics)
  Palookaville is a comic book written and drawn by cartoonist Gregory Gallant, better known as Seth, and published by Drawn & Quarterly. The first issue appeared in April 1991 and it has been irregularly published ever since...
  
  by Seth
  Seth (cartoonist)
  Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant , a Canadian comic book artist and writer. He is best known for comics such as Palookaville.Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto...
  
  
• Peepshow by Joe Matt
  Joe Matt
  Joe Matt is an American cartoonist. He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work, Peepshow. In addition to his cartooning career, he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. Matt lived in Canada from 1988 to 2002...
  
   (autobiographical)
• Underwater
  Underwater (comics)
  Underwater was an alternative comic book by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown that was published from 1994 until 1997, when the ambitious project was abandoned unfinished by its creator....
  
  by Chester Brown
  Chester Brown
  Chester William David Brown , is an award-winning, best-selling Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada....
  
  
• Yummy Fur by Chester Brown

Omnibus volumes

• Acme Novelty Date Book Vol. 1: 1986-1995 by Chris Ware
  Chris Ware
  Franklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois...
  
  
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
  Kate Beaton
  Kate Beaton is a Canadian webcomic artist. Originally from Mabou, Cape Breton, she has a degree in history and anthropology from Mount Allison University. She began drawing comics for the university newspaper, the Argosy, during her third and fourth years at school. Previously she worked in the...
  
  

Graphic novels

• Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  is a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957....
  
  
• Aya of Yopougon by Marguerite Abouet
  Marguerite Abouet
  Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1971. She is best known for her graphic novel series Aya.-Biography:At the age of twelve, Abouet and her brother moved to France with their great uncle. She currently resides in Romainville, a suburb just outside of Paris, with her husband,...
  
   and Clément Oubrerie
• The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
  
  
• Wilson by Daniel Clowes

Comic strip compilations

• Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip by Tove Jansson
  Tove Jansson
  Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
  
   and Lars Jansson
  Lars Jansson
  Lars Jansson was a Finnish author and cartoonist. A native of Helsinki, Jansson was the son of the sculptor, Viktor Jansson, and the illustrator, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson. His siblings included an older sister, writer Tove Jansson, and an older brother, Per Olof Jansson...
  
   (reprints of Moomin comic strips
  Moomin comic strips
  Moomin is a comic strip created by Tove Jansson, and followed up by Lars Jansson, featuring their Moomin family of characters....
  
  )
• Walt & Skeezix by Frank King (reprints of Gasoline Alley
  Gasoline Alley
  Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second longest running comic strip in the US and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations...
  
  comic strips)
• The John Stanley Library (reprints of the works of John Stanley
  John Stanley (comics)
  John Stanley was a comic book creator, best known for writing Little Lulu from 1945 to 1959. While mostly known for scripting, Stanley also was an accomplished artist who drew many of his stories, including the earliest Little Lulu issues. His specialty was humorous stories, both with licensed...
  
  , original illustrator of the Little Lulu
  Little Lulu
  "Little Lulu" is the nickname for Lulu Moppett, a comic strip character created in the mid-1930s by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and strewing the aisle with banana peels...
  
   comic books)

Other works

• The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle is a comic book author from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal...
  
   (journalism)
• Doug Wright
  Doug Wright (cartoonist)
  Douglas Austin Wright was an English-born Canadian cartoonist. Creator of the long-running comic strip Doug Wright's Family, or Nipper, he is the namesake for the Canadian Wright Awards....
  
  : Canada's Master Cartoonist designed by Seth
  Seth (cartoonist)
  Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant , a Canadian comic book artist and writer. He is best known for comics such as Palookaville.Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto...
  
   (monograph/retrospective)
• The Fixer by Joe Sacco
  Joe Sacco
  Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine, and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde.- Biography :...
  
   (journalism)
• The Frank Ritza Papers, David Collier
  David Collier (cartoonist)
  David Collier is a Canadian alternative cartoonist best known for his fact-based "comic strip essays."- Biography :As a child, Collier was introduced to the work of Robert Crumb, whose work has been a significant influence...
  
   (2004), ISBN 9781896597911 (nonfiction)
• Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
  Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
  Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is a highly acclaimed comic book biography of the Métis rebel leader, Louis Riel, by Chester Brown and published by Drawn and Quarterly...
  
  by Chester Brown (biography)
• Make Me a Woman, Vanessa Davis (autobiographical sketches & vignettes)
• Paying For It
  Paying For It
  Paying for It, "a comic strip memoir about being a john", is a 2011 bestselling graphic novel by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, released by Drawn and Quarterly....
  
  by Chester Brown
  Chester Brown
  Chester William David Brown , is an award-winning, best-selling Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada....
  
   (memoir)
• Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle is a comic book author from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal...
  
   (journalism)
• Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle (journalism)
• Vernacular Drawings by Seth (sketchbooks)
• What It Is by Lynda Barry
  Lynda Barry
  Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author. One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the...
  
   (memoir, workbook)
• Albert and the Others by Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle is a comic book author from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal...
  
  
• Aline and the Others by Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle
  Guy Delisle is a comic book author from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal...
  
  
• Babel by David B.
  David Beauchard
  Pierre-François "David" Beauchard , who uses the pen name David B., is a French comic book artist and writer, and one of the founders of L'Association.-Biography:...
  
  
• Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
  Anders Nilsen
  Anders Nilsen is a popular artist and graphic novelist who grew up in Minneapolis and lives in Chicago, IL.He works on an ongoing comic series, Big Questions , which has been nominated several times for the Ignatz Award. In addition, his comics have appeared in the anthologies Kramers Ergot and Mome...
  
  
• Crickets by Sammy Harkham
  Sammy Harkham
  Sammy Harkham is an American cartoonist and editor, best known for editing the influential Kramer's Ergot alternative comics anthology....
  
  
• Curses by Kevin Huizenga
  Kevin Huizenga
  Kevin Huizenga is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comics character Glenn Ganges, who appears in most of his work.-Biography:...
  
  
• A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  is a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957....
  
  
• Fabulous Babes (anthology, 1995)
• Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  is a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957....
  
  
• The Klondike by Zach Worton
• Mid-Life by Joe Ollmann
• Nowhere by Debbie Dreschsler
• Paul Has a Summer Job by Michel Rabagliati
  Michel Rabagliati
  Michel Rabagliati is a Canadian cartoonist born and based in Montreal. He is published by Drawn and Quarterly in English, and La Pastèque in French....
  
  
• The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  is a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957....
  
  
• Road to America by Baru
  Baru
  Baru was an extinct genus of Australian mekosuchine crocodilian. It was semi-aquatic, around 4 m in length. Being semi-aquatic its habitat was around fresh pools of water in wet forests, ambushing their prey, much like modern species...
  
  
• Sof'Boy by Archer Prewitt
  Archer Prewitt
  Archer Prewitt is an American musician and cartoonist associated with the independent music scene in Chicago, Illinois.- Music :...
  
  
• Surviving Saskatoon by David Collier
  David Collier (cartoonist)
  David Collier is a Canadian alternative cartoonist best known for his fact-based "comic strip essays."- Biography :As a child, Collier was introduced to the work of Robert Crumb, whose work has been a significant influence...
  
  
• Vellevision: A Cocktail of Comics and Pictures by Maurice Vellekoop
  Maurice Vellekoop
  Maurice Vellekoop is a Canadian artist and illustrator. His work has appeared in publications such as Drawn and Quarterly, Time, GQ, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Wallpaper, as well as in the books ABC Book: A Homoerotic Primer, Sex Tips from a Dominatrix, Mensroom Reader and Vellevision.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
   Kevin Huizenga
   Kevin Huizenga is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comics character Glenn Ganges, who appears in most of his work.-Biography:...
   
   , Nicolas Robel
2. 2004 : Jeffrey Brown
   Jeffrey Brown
   Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.-Biography:After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned...
   
   , Pentti Otsamo, Erik De Graaf
3. 2005 : Genevieve Elverum, Sammy Harkham
   Sammy Harkham
   Sammy Harkham is an American cartoonist and editor, best known for editing the influential Kramer's Ergot alternative comics anthology....
   
   , Matt Broersma
4. 2006 : Dan Zettwoch, Gabrielle Bell
   Gabrielle Bell
   Gabrielle Bell is an American alternative cartoonist known for her surrealist, melancholy semi-autobiographical stories.-Biography:...
   
   , 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

Charles Burns

Charles Burns may refer to:* Charles Burns , American cartoonist and illustrator* Mr. Burns, full name Charles Montgomery Burns, fictional character from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons...

, Michael Dumontier

Michael Dumontier

Michael Dumontier is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg. His work has been exhibited internationally including in New York City, Boston, and Padova, Italy. He is known in particular his minimal paintings and collages...

, Neil Farber

Neil Farber

Neil Farber is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg. His work has been exhibited internationally including in London, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf and New York City. He is known in particular his ink and watercolor drawings...

, Keith Jones

Keith Jones

Keith Jones may refer to:*Keith Jones , former American football running back*Keith Jones , English former footballer...

, Amy Lockhart, Julie Morstad, Christian Northeast, Peter Thompson, Jillian Tamaki and Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton is a Canadian artist and graphic novelist, now living in New York. Her second work, Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, has been optioned for a film slated to star Brad Pitt and...

.

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

Mile End (Montreal)

Mile End is a neighbourhood and municipal electoral district in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Mile End is part of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough in terms of Montreal's municipal politics...

 district. http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2007/10/drawn-quarterly-bookstore.php

External links

• Drawn and Quarterly homepage
• File Under: Graphic Lit Drawn & Quarterly is spotlighted in CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3
  CBC Radio 3 is a radio station that consists of two parts devoted to Canadian arts and music: a radio service which is available on Sirius Satellite Radio and streaming audio, and several daily and weekly podcasts from the CBC Radio 3 website...
  
  Magazine