Vampire Cousins

Comics & Graphic Novels

Rousseau, Alexandre Fontaine

Graphic Novels

Editions Pow Pow

The strange, sordid and hilarious tale of a sexually-repressed demon working as a used books salesman in an automobile dealership, Vile and Miserable is an edgy, definitely NSFW sitcom which was a huge hit when it was originally released in French in 2013.

Vile and Miserable: A Story Adventure of Lucius Vile

Cantin, Samuel

Phil wakes up in the middle of a cemetery, only to discover he's been dead for a few months. He is now what you would normally call a "zombie", although the term does feel slightly derogatory to him. And now that he's back among the living, everyone seems to have gotten on with their own lives - including his now ex-girlfriend, who has recently started dating someone else. Phil's best friend ____ lets him sleep, unaware that Phil had an affair with his girlfriend while he was still alive. Earthbound starts out as a comedy, as its zombie protagonist tries to make sense of his strange predicament. But it gradually turns to darker territories, exploring themes such as friendship, trust and infidelity through the prism of its original premise. Nominated for the ACBD Québec Award and the Marc-Olivier Lavertu Award. Winner of the Réal-Fillion Award.

Earthbound

Blonk

In order to wage intergalactic warfare, aliens abduct all of Earth's artists : it turns out that the most powerful weapon in the universe is the violent, transcending beauty of poetry. Back on Earth, people don't really seem to care about the disappearance of painters, sculptors and other such creators - until they discover art inspires industrial design which, in turn, makes it possible to create elegant new kitchen counters. While artists master the deadly potential of their craft, earthlings are learning the hard way that art isn't as useless as it seems... while listening to old CCR hits on repeat. An imaginative and dead-on satire of the place culture occupies in contemporary societies, Arts Wars is constructed using only ten different panels - making it a bold and clever experiment in comic minimalism, inspired by both the avant-garde work of OuBaPo and the author's own background in animation.

Art Wars

Desharnais, Francis

Depression feels like drowning from the inside. Welcome to the aftermath of a mental breakdown. Sophie is trying to mend the pieces of her broken life. The people around her think she is "cured", but she knows she still has a long way to go before she truly feels "better". Apnea is not a story as much as a process, fragments of a personal journey collected in order to make as much sense as possible of an experience which still feels impossible to describe. A sober portrait drawn in a minimal, almost self-erased style, Zviane's award-winning graphic novel showcases both her interest in classical music and her remarkable talent for intelligent, poignant character studies. Through this second-person account, she achieves a state of dissociation which mirrors the feelings of her protagonist - centering her narrative around emotions and the way images can convey them when words otherwise fail to do so.

Going Under

Zviane

Author Michel Hellman meets with his editor Luc Bosse and casually promises to write a sequel to his best-selling book Mile End. But the Montreal neighborhood, with its trendy cafes and gluten-free bakeries, doesn't seem half as inspiring as it used to be. Part memoir and part documentary, Nunavik follows Hellman on a trek through Northern Quebec as he travels to Kuujjuaq, Puvirnituk, Kangiqsujuaq and Kangirsurk, meeting members of the First Nations, activists, hunters and drug dealers along the way. An honest and often funny account of this trip, Nunavik truly feels personal, with the author acknowledging (and challenging) his own prejudices. While the North has had a profound influence on our collective identity as Canadians, it remains an idea - myth rather than reality. Empirical rather than theoretical, Nunavik reflects on the way our relationship to the North has shaped our own cultural landscape.

Nunavik

Hellman, Michel

Anthony's in love with Emily who's got a crush on Raph and Matthew has a thing for Jennifer while Michelle's head over heels for... well, we're pretty sure you can guess where this is going. Almost Summer is high school at its finest, which means it's high school at its worst. It's all there and it's just as bad as you remember it: awkward romance, boring jobs, nosy parents, exams and homework. Sophie Bedard's tale of teenage mischief and courtship is the real deal, with none of the usual "best years of our lives" drivel which often comes with the territory. There is no heavy-handed, forced drama here - but rather an honest, often funny account of what high school life feels like when you're in the middle of it. It's an engaging, entertaining read - wether you're a teenager who can relate or an adult who likes to remember just how bad high school sucked.

Almost Summer 1

Teen & Young Adult

Bédard, Sophie

Literature & Fiction

Almost Summer 2

Bdard, Sophie

The whole Almost Summer gang is back to take on the biggest challenge it has ever faced: the final year of high school. The third chapter in this four parts series features such dramatic events as Matthew refusing to take off his hat for the graduation picture, washing his hair for the first time in forever and finally asking Naomi out! Otherwise, it's business as usual for Emily, Anthony and Michelle - which means they are bored, don't really know what they want out of life and don't really care either. They're still typical teenagers and nothing, not even the fact that their lives are about to change forever, is ever going to change that.

Almost Summer 3

The last chapter of the Almost Summer saga features Emily and Anthony looking for an apartment and Michelle trying to find the perfect dress for prom night. And then the next thing you know school's out for summer, high school is over and the gang celebrates by going to a cabin in the woods: barbecue, campfire singalongs, occult rituals... wait what?! Things do get a little weird, after everyone eats the "special brownies" prepared by Michelle's mother. This fourth and final volume of Sophie Bédard's coming of age tale is the most sincere, poignant one yet... but also the funniest.

Almost Summer 4

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