In today’s National Post I talk to artist Matt Kish about his project, Moby-Dick in Pictures. Yesterday, I hosted a live chat with Margaret Atwood to talk about her new book, In Other Worlds.
To commemorate Remembrance Day, I talk to the authors of a new illustrated book about the First World War, And The Soldiers Sang.
Lisa Occhipinti turns books into art. She’s written a book about it, too, called The Repurposed Library. I talk to her in today’s paper.
In today’s paper I talk to Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier, founding members of the Royal Art Lodge, about their new book Constructive Abandonment.
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival takes place this weekend; I preview it in Saturday’s National Post. Also: I sit down with South Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin to talk about her new book Please Look After Mom.
Essex County was the first book voted-off Canada Reads last week; in this week’s Culture Club, I ask our distinguished panel what that means.
Canada’s largest book distributor, H.B. Fenn and Company, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. The move caught most everyone in the Canadian publishing industry off-guard. I also spoke to members of the Toronto-based illustration collective Sketchkrieg! about their latest project, Paper Trail.
I last interviewed David Collier in August, when he drew the liner notes for Luke Doucet’s Steel City Trawler. This time, I spoke to Collier about his own project, Chimo, a graphic memoir that chronicles his second tour-of-duty in the Canadian Forces.
You don’t have to be a regular reader of MAD magazine to recognize the work of Sergio Aragonés: he’s contributed more cartoons and comics to the satirical magazine than just about any other artist in the world. His work is collected in a new book, Sergio Aragonés: Five Decades of His Finest Work, and I recently spoke to him about it.
In Friday’s National Post I chat with Charles Burns about his new graphic novel, X’ed Out.