Our contest closes August 31, 2024. Until then anyone who buys, renews, or gives a subscription to NQ gets a ticket towards winning this gorgeous prize – No Straight Lines, by Jean Claude Roy (oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 2023). You can subscribe here and we’ll also be set up at Sunday’s Coastlines event.
“I chose a grid-system rather than free-form because it was a history. To me there’s something very stable about the nine-panel grid and I wanted that feeling for it.” So said the St John’s cartoonist Wallace Ryan, explaining the page design he has chosen for The Narrow Way, a graphic memoir about his grandfather’s experiences as a soldier in World War 1.
On Thanksgiving weekend, 2020, Greg Naterer’s 25-year-old son, Jordan, was reported missing while hiking in Manning Park, BC; he was a graduate student in engineering at UBC. Called By Mother Earth…
Until yesterday, I was blissfully unaware that freezing fog is a weather condition that apparently happens on Earth, and not just on planets in the outermost reaches of our solar system.