All Day Breakfast

Literature & Fiction

Kalynchuk, Valerie Joy

Short Stories & Anthologies

Conundrum Pr

This beautiful perfect bound book collects together strips by the renowned underground comic artist Billy Mavreas for the first time, as well as many never before seen strips. These stories of monoliths, bunnies, and alchemical slugs have appeared in various international anthologies.

The Overlords Of Glee

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mavreas, Billy

Fantasy

Neither Either nor Or

Dubuc, Joey

History & Criticism

Maps of Our Bodies and the Borders We Have Agreed upon

Ng-Chan, Taien

Poetry

The Hero Book

Waters, Scott

Biographies & Memoirs

House of Sugar collects a two-year run of strips in Halifax's The Coast Weekly. Originally published in 2006 (by Tulip Tree) these small, four-panel episodes, with their heavy lines and slightly squashed faces, resemble high school drawings that have grown up. The collection's themes are consistent: our immediate pasts are messy and painful places, but if we look so far back that we have to squint to see, everything is strong and elegant. Autobiographical anecdotes make up the bulk of House of Sugar, detailing Kraatz' childhood in the prairies and West Coast. Recurring characters include her wise and sentimental grandfather, her unattainable peers, and her treasured brother. The book is also peppered with appearances by the various idealized men and women from the 1940s who comfort and inspire Kraatz throughout her life. The stories contain tales of Ogopogo, reasons to not become a makeup artist, Kraatz's experimentation with drugs, and the deflating realization that trapeze artists get runs in their stockings, too. House of Sugar also boasts an introduction by Canadian singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett.

House of Sugar

Comics & Graphic Novels

Kraatz, Rebecca

Graphic Novels

These 659 posters, assembled for the first time in one album, offer a veritable journey through Québec's social history and political imagination of the past four decades. This book is the result of a collaboration between the founders of the Centre de recherche en imagerie populaire (CRIP) and the publisher of Cumulus Press.This collection of union, political, community, feminist, sociocultural and anti-globalization posters brings to our collective memory the popular struggles that have marked the history of social movements in Québec. It gives a voice to those who, through the strength of their commitment and creativity, have contributed to a more humane, just and democratic world.These images taken from the streets are much more than a mirror of our combined aspirations: they are an invitation to move ever forward. The posters portray demanding, accusatory, irreverent and hopeful actions and offer as many original-sometimes radical-proposals on how to improve the lives of our society's downtrodden, mistreated, exploited and marginalized groups and individuals.

Picture This: Posters of Social Movements in Qubec (1966-2007)

Boyer, Jean-pierre

Arts & Photography

<p>Another Book About Another Broken Heart is a fast-paced monologue filtered through the consciousness of this clever, albeit self-obsessed and miserable young woman. After moving from Toronto to Montreal, Katy is forced to forge new friendships, some providing new strength, others resulting in disaster. Originally intended as a one-woman show, the voice-driven nature of this novel allows it to "perform" for the reader; Katy's cognizance of our presence disrupts the narrative and invites us to participate fully in her often hilarious take on the subject that's been done to death and then done again.</p>

Another Book About Another Broken Heart

Tausch, Julia

Genre Fiction

<p>Mac Tin Tac, a dystopic allegory of modern life told through a unique combination of myth and hard-edged realism, was originally serialized in five comics between 1990 and 1995. To illustrate their vision, Montreal authors Tessier and Oliver commissioned the emerging talent of Quebec's avant garde. Many of these artists went on to varying degrees of success publishing in French in Europe and Quebec, and in English in Cyclops: Contemporary Canadian Narrative Art, which conundrum press published to rave reviews in 2003. However, this story was left uncollected until now. Mac is a mirror maker in a world in which everyone works for the Cake Factory. When the factory is put on wheels and moved to a third world country, the citizens revolt. Concerned with anti-globilization politics long before the term became commonplace, the story is a mix of Orwell's 1984 and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magic realism. Mac's desperate attempt to create beauty in a bleak world is the overarching theme in the book. But the dazzling variety of drawing styles keeps the reader immersed in the lives of various peripheral characters as well, their desire for employment, for the taste of intoxicating bananas, for new shoes, or simply to be noticed by a populace constricted by blinders. Mac Tin Tac, which includes new material done especially for this edition, is not only an impressive cultural document from Quebec's fin-de-siecle underground but is also a chronicle of the struggle for hope in the face of corporate uncertainty.</p>

Mac Tin Tac

Tessier, Marc

Olivier, Stephane

The Great Hopeful Someday

Belliveau, Elisabeth

Individual Artists

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