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After Mymble's family comes to visit the Moomins, her littlest and most badly behaved sister, Little My, is left behind. She promises to behave if she is given Moomin's bedroom, Moomin, tired of being forced out of his room, decides to build a house where all the rooms will belong to him. With Little My helping out, things are sure to go awry, but in the end, Moomin's house-building misadventures teach him the value of a home.

Another classic Moomin story, reworked into a picture book for younger children.

Collects 7 of Shigeru Mizuki's early and beloved Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, format.

Concludes Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, picking up in the wake of Japan's defeat in World War II.

With familiar jabs at Moomin leg length and somewhat less familiar ones aimed at capitalism and colonial politics (!), Jansson's comics are timeless treasures for the whole family. Lars Jansson was a published author at 16 before he taught himself to be a cartoonist in order to replace his sister, Tove, on the Moomin strip.

The story begins with a mother's confession...sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean WarKeum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story-the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's stor...

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the legacy of WWII in Japan.

The first graphic novel ever nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize!Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth's magnus opus Clyde Fans, two decades in the making, appeared on twenty best of 2019 lists, including those from The New York Times, The Guardian, and Washington Post, and was nominated for an Eisner Award and the Giller Prize. Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism, showing the rituals, hopes, and delusions...

This critique of the art world will have you crying with laughterIn Wendy's Revenge, Scott's titular heroine returns with a fresh set of awkward misadventures and messy nights out. When the book opens, aspiring artist Wendy has decided to move to the west coast to clear her head.She plans on getting some quality time with her collaborator and friend Winona, only to find Winona packing up to leave, having decided to move back in with her mom on...

The outrageously funny and painfully relatable satire of an aspiring artist and millennial cultureWalter Scott's Wendy comics have become a critical sensation, with rave reviews in The New Yorker and The Guardian, and an appearance in the Best American Comics anthology. Learn Wendy's origin story as Scott hilariously plumbs millennial culture, creative ennui, and the nepotism of the art world's institutions. Wendy's an aspiring artist in a par...

In his latest graphic novel, the author of "The Playboy" and "Louis Riel" tackles another controversial subject with this contemporary defense of the world's oldest profession: prostitution.

A story about political organizing and the power of communityValérie Plante stood up to the patriarchal power system of her city, took down an incumbent, and became the first woman elected Mayor of Montreal. Her origin story comes alive in Okay, Universe. This captivating graphic novel-created in a true collaboration with Governor-General Award-winner Delphie Côté-Lacroix-follows her journey from community organizer and volunteer to municipal ...

A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the international antiquity tradeWhen a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archaeological expedition begun decades earlier-a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to re...

Journey through the countryside in this magical realist debut from an underground Chinese cartoonistIn Night Bus, a young woman wearing round glasses finds herself on an adventurous late night bus ride that constantly makes detours through increasingly fantastical landscapes. Meanwhile a young cartoonist returns home after art school and tries his hand at becoming a working artist while watching over his aging grandmother whose memory is deter...

A maternity leave murder mystery, complete with postpartum physiotherapy and suspicious grocery store footageRebecca's got an eight-month-old baby and a mystery to investigate! Late one summer night as she's breastfeeding Lucie, she spots two men carrying something heavy into a white minivan. It's probably nothing serious, but when Rebecca hears that a home health care provider named Eduardo Morales disappeared from the neighbourhood that very...

A dysfunctional family lives in the shadow of a world famous comic strip and its tyrannical creatorCaleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career. He also happens to be the only child of one of the world's most famous cartoonists, Jimmi Wyatt. Known for the internationally beloved father and son comic Sonny Side Up, Jimmi made millions drawing saccharine family stories while neglecting his own son.Now sober, Caleb is haunted by his w...

A five-generation family history told through what is seen and heard, if not saidLet's Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin's family, each at age fifteen. Her lineage is full of breakages-her great grandmother Kuan is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother, Bing, is heartbroken by her father's estrangement. Pixin's own s...

The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer jobFor three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a bo...

One of comics' preeminent humorists." -The AV ClubKeiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own.When Roberts considers whether or not to dust the ceiling fan, it's ...

The hijinks of a bold and brash little girl make these timeless comics laugh-out-loud funnyForget trying to break into the boys club, Lulu Moppet would rather tear it down! In this volume of Drawn & Quarterly's landmark reprints of Marge's Little Lulu, our heroine plays pranks on her male counterparts, beating them at their own game and having a lot more fun because of it. Many of the strips in Little Lulu: The Girl Who Talked to Trees are far...