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Blind Alley Guest Strip No. 15: Joe Ollmann

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D+Q is thrilled to be exhibiting at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) in the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4W 2G8).

This year's special guests include Guy Delisle who will be debuting Hostage, Elise Gravel who will be debuting If Found... Please Return to Elise Gravel, Seth who will be debuting Palookaville 23,  Jillian Tamaki who will be debuting Boundless. In addition, D+Q will host Joe Ollmann, who recently launched The Abominable Mr. Seabrook, R. Sikoryak who recently launched Terms and Conditions, Michael DeForge who recently launched Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, as well as legendary Toronto cartoonist Chester Brown.

TCAF takes place on Saturday, May 13th from 9am-5pm and Sunday, May 14th from 10am-5pm. Read on and check out what are authors are up to in this full programming and signing schedule. 

TCAF SIGNING AND PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE

For extended descriptions of any panel, please consult the TCAF website. Most programming takes place in the Toronto Reference Library (TRL) or Marriott Bloor-Yorkville (Marriott). All signings take place at the Drawn & Quarterly booth in the Reference Library.

Saturday, May 13th, 9am-5pm

10-12: Chester Brown signing at D+Q Booth

10:30-11:30: Joe Ollmann signing at D+Q Booth

11:30-12:30: Guy Delisle signing at D+Q Booth

12-1: Jillian Tamaki signing at D+Q booth

12:15 PM – PANEL w/ Seth: Canadian Reading Series: Alt Canada at Hinton Learning Theatre (TRL)

1-2: Joe Ollmann signing at D+Q Booth

1:00 PM – PANEL: Draw Along with Elise Gravel at The Beeton Auditorium (TRL)

1:30 PM – PANEL: Spotlight on Guy Delisle at Forest Hill Ballroom (Marriott)

1:30 PM – PANEL: Spotlight: R. Sikoryak x Gary Panter at The Pilot

1:30-2:30: Seth signing at D+Q Booth

2-3: Elise Gravel signing at D+Q Booth

2:30-3:30: Guy Delisle and R Sikoryak signing at D+Q Booth

2:45 PM – PANEL: Spotlight: Jillian Tamaki x Eleanor Davis at Forest Hill Ballroom (Marriott)

2:45 PM – PANEL w/ Michael DeForge: 21st Century Webcomics at High Park Ballroom (Marriott)

4-5: Michael DeForge and Jillian Tamaki signing at D+Q Booth

4:00 PM – PANEL w/ R. Sikoryak and Joe Ollmann: Comics Carousel at The Pilot

Sunday, May 14th, 10am-5pm

10:30 – PANEL: Make Your Own Sketchbook w/ Elise Gravel at The Beeton Auditorium (TRL)

11-12:30 Seth signing at D+Q booth

11:30-12:30: Elise Gravel signing at D+Q Booth

12:00 PM - PANEL w/ Michael DeForge: Koyama Press Spotlight at Hinton Learning Theatre (TRL)

12:30-1:30: Guy Delisle & R Sikoryak sign at D+Q Booth

1:30 PM – PANEL w/ Joe Ollmann: Telling Other People’s Stories: Comic Book Biography at Learning Centre (TRL)

1:30-2:30: Chester Brown signing at D+Q Booth

1:30-3: Jillian Tamaki signing at D+Q booth

2:30-3:30: Joe Ollmann signing at D+Q Booth

2:45 PM – PANEL w/ Guy Delisle: Canada 150 – Canada at Home and Abroad at Forest Hill Ballroom (Marriott)

3-4: Michael Deforge signing at D+Q Booth

3:30-4:30: Chester Brown signing at D+Q Booth

4-5: Guy Delisle signing at D+Q Booth

TCAF 2017 poster design by Eleanor Davis.

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Out this week: The Woodchipper (Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95): 

Joe Ollmann returns with a suite of comic short stories focused on his trademark nervous wreck characters caught in escalating personal disasters — including a city maintenance worker who keeps pulling an accident-prone newbie’s limbs out of the woodchipper.

See what else is arriving this week!

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Père fictif

Personne n’a demandé à venir au monde. Pourtant, nous voilà à déambuler à travers les méandres avec la vague impression de contrôler notre destinée. C’est un triste constat de savoir que notre conception inclut un bagage parfois lourd à porter alors que nous essayons tant bien que mal de nous extirper du moule que nos géniteurs ont inconsciemment façonné. Sommes-nous condamnés à devenir une copie…

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'Fictional Father' by Joe Ollmann – Sonny Side Up

‘Fictional Father’ by Joe Ollmann – Sonny Side Up

‘Fictional Father’, a graphic novel, by Joe Ollmann    (2021) – 192 pages   Whereas other publishers’ comics are loud and violent and repetitive with their endless stockpile of superheroes and anti-heroes, the Montreal, Canada publishing house Drawn and Quarterly produces comics and graphic novels that are subtle, moody, nuanced, and human. These are graphic novels that could actually qualify as…

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“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” - An Interview with Joe Ollmann on 'Fictional Father', Published by Drawn & Quarterly

“I Think All of Us Are Marked By Some Kind of Tragedy” – An Interview with Joe Ollmann on ‘Fictional Father’, Published by Drawn & Quarterly

Fictional Father, by legendary Canadian cartoonist Joe Ollmann, declares its intention at the outset, its ingenious cover image pointing to what lies within. This is a faux memoir, supposedly written by a mediocre cartoonist named Caleb Wyatt, about his legendary cartoonist father. The shadow of Jimmi Wyatt looms large over Caleb’s life, as he struggles to find his identity while grappling with…

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Check out:

“‘The Abominable Mr. Seabrook’ (Drawn and Quarterly), Joe Ollmann’s graphic biography of American journalist William Seabrook. Ollmann reveals a man whose pursuit of literary respectability was outpaced by his love of booze and bondage” 

Review by Nina McLaughlin in Boston Globe

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