The Comics Reporter

May 9, 2015

FFF Results Post #417—Chris Oliveros Special

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Specific Drawn And Quarterly Publications You Enjoy." This is how they responded.

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Louis Riel, Chester Brown
2. Exit Wounds, Rutu Modan
3. Hicksville, Dylan Horrocks
4. The Fixer, Joe Sacco
5. The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, Seth

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Dave Knott

1. The Golem's Mighty Swing, James Sturm
2. The Poor Bastard, Joe Matt
3. Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 3
4. Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak
5. It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Seth

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Oliver Ristau

1. The Playboy, Chester Brown
2. The Poor Bastard, Joe Matt
3. Wimbledon Green, Seth
4. Exit Wounds, Rutu Modan
5. Market Day, James Sturm

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Michael Grabowski

1. Or Else #2, Kevin Huizenga
2. Get A Life, Dupuy & Berberian
3. The Little Man, Chester Brown
4. Picture This, Lynda Barry
5. Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 1, #1, Chris Oliveros, ed.

I feel very fortunate to have been the right age & sensibility to latch onto D & Q's publications right when it started. I don't have the money or time to keep up nowadays but in the early 1990s I bought anything they published that showed up at my LCS.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. George Sprott: 1894-1975, Seth
2. Walt Before Skeezix, Frank King
3. You're All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack, Tom Gauld
4. Humphry Osmond: Psychedelic Pioneer and the Doors of Perception, Dave Collier
5. My New York Diary, Julie Doucet

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Douglas Wolk

1. The Wild Kingdom, Kevin Huizenga
2. Big Questions, Anders Nilsen
3. Cecil and Jordan in New York, Gabrielle Bell
4. The Extended Dream of Mr. D. #1, Max
5. Underwater #4, Chester Brown

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Philippe Leblanc

1- Everywhere Antennas, Julie Delporte
2- Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoet
3- Red Colored Elegy, Seiichi Hayashi
4- Petty Theft, Pascal Girard
5- Palookavile #4-9 (It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken), Seth

Those choices are among some of my favorite, but I picked them because they reflect some of the best aspect of Drawn & Quarterly. A commitmment to excellence and showcasing new and emerging talents, their high quality reprints of international books and their investment in Canadian comics creator.

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Michael Dooley

1. Talking Lines: The Graphic Stories of R.O. Blechman
2. Beautiful Darkness, Kerascoet and Fabien Vehlmann
3. Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, Art Spiegelman
4. Pure Pajamas, Marc Bell
5. Just the Facts: A Decade of Comic Essays, David Collier

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William Burns

1. Wimbledon Green, Seth
2. Get a Life, Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian
3. Waiting For Food No. 3, R. Crumb
4. Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine
5. Soba: Stories from Bosnia, Joe Sacco

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Eric Yockey

1. Walt & Skeezix: Book Three, Frank King
2. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle
3. Palookaville, Seth
4. Optic Nerve, Adrian Tomine
5. Dirty Plotte, Julie Doucet

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Chris Duffy

1. I Never Liked You, Chester Brown
2. It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Seth
3. Dirty Plotte #1, Julie Doucet
4. Super Mutant Magic Academy, Jillian Tamaki
5. Kitaro, Shigero Mizuki

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John Platt

1. Berlin # 1, Jason Lutes
2. The Golem's Mighty Swing, James Sturm
3. Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World!, Seth
4. King-Cat Classix, John Porcellino
5. Big Questions, Anders Nilsen

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Danny Ceballos

1. Lucky Volume Two, Number Two, Gabrielle Bell
2. Yummy Fur #32, Chester Brown
3. Drawn & Quarterly #4, Various
4. Dirty Plotte #1, Julie Doucet
5. Picture This, Lynda Barry

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