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Relatable and nostalgic: Set in the 1970s, this memoir provides a glimpse into a world where children make the rules and narrowly avoid terrible consequences on a day-to-day basis. The town is universally familiar--it could be anywhere in North America. Relevant and timely themes: The Field skewers the nostalgic idea of the past as "a better time" by highlighting a loss of childhood innocence, set against the backdrop of suburban development. ...

A companion piece to Drop-in, Lapp's critically-acclaimed account of working in inner city Toronto drop-in centres, but People Around Here takes it to the streets! Always the consummate observer, Lapp's ability to crystallize everyday moments of street life and overheard conversations into short visual vignettes is remarkable. These strips are taken from Lapp's regular column in Taddle Creek magazine and the Annex Gleaner, but many more are in...

Similar in tone to the legendary comic series Duplex Planet, Lapp's first graphic novel is a collection of stories about his work as an art teacher in an inner city Toronto youth drop-in centre. His students are full of stories which they are eager to share. These include a family who picks worms at night on their knees, Vietnamese refugees, rope-jumping girls, Venus flytraps, bullies and tamagotchis. With a warmth of line and a uniquely charm...

From the artist behind the critically acclaimed Drop-in comes an earlier comic strip project, collected here for the first time in its entirety. Originally serialized in Western University's The Gazette, then weekly in Vancouver's Georgia Straight newspaper from 1996-2001, Children of the Atom is like a Samuel Beckett play in comic strip form. The two characters Franklin Boy and Jim Jam Girl live in an absurdist world of their own making, exch...