Drawn & Quarterly Anthology, Vol. 5

Drawn & Quarterly Anthology #5

by Chris Oliveros (Editor), Alberto Manguel (Editor)

The Annual Celebration of the Hippest & Best in the Popular Cartoon Arts. Now in its 13th year, this multiple award winning series returns in another deluxe full-color coffee-table edition. D+Q presents a mix of cartooning, illustration and art and graphic deisgn. Another wry, sophisticated story from New Yorker favorites Dupuy & Berberian join a spectacular retrospective of the work of French-Canadian Albert Chartier. Chartier brought a European style to his witty strips about life in mid-century Quebec and one can trace his legacy in the new story from D+Q fave Michel Rabagliati. Wuthering Heights gets the classic EC horror comic treatment from postmodern trickster R. Sikoryak, and Harry Mayerovitch turns his funny, classy pen to the subject of death and dying. Features an introduction from writer, scholar and critic Alberto Manguel, best-selling author of A History of Reading and Reading A History of Love and Hate .

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Anthologies, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Art

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

Reviews

[StrictlySequential ArtNarrative · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Canadian newspaper section was too long but otherwise this is RIPE with talent spanning the globe!
->France
->Japan
->Canada
->Israel
->U.S.A.
->Canada

[Drew Canole · Rating 4 out of 5]

The third volume of coffee-table anthologies by D+Q published in 2003.

Mostly work found elsewhere by Dupuy + Berberian, Tatsumi, Michel Rabagliati, R. Skioryak, and Rutu Modan. It's really nice to have some oversized Tatsumi artwork.

The book finished with a retrospective on quebecois cartoon pioneer Albert Chartier. I especially like his painted pieces.

[Conor · Rating 3 out of 5]

I left this in Milwaukee as it was loaned to me. I would pick up another volume for sure. These are well built and well presented with interesting essays and selections. Though it's now more of an annual (printing costs have to be monstrous), I would definitely subscribe.