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Learning an Asian language ups your enjoyment of Vancouver and the world

In honour of Asian Heritage Month, why not learn an Asian language? As anyone who’s ever studied a second language knows, taking up a new language changes your understanding of...

A pair of Adrian Tomine reissues to tickle your Optic Nerve

At the recent Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly released two publications by one of its best-loved authors.

A Drifting Life paints dramatic pictures

Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life is a tome. Its heft feels appropriate: a thick paperback reminiscent of phone-book-style anthologies like Shonen Jump, this manga memoir...

Freedom to Read Week: We must remain vigilant

Freedom to Read–a Canadian event that takes place from February 22-28–is there to remind us that our access to words and ideas shouldn't be taken for granted.

From Aucoin to Zidlicky, hockey names impress

As a fan of names, I take great joy in the often hilarious names of hockey players.

Japanese cellphones, from the high-tech to the Simple Phone

I’m planning a trip to Japan, and am particularly excited about renting a cellphone. The cellphones there are different from what we have here, and I’m eager to try one out.

A pleasant winter walk in Deer Lake Park

Being an overly Vancouver-centric person without a car, I was skeptical about going for a walk in Deer Lake Park.

Cuteness comes to Lucky's

Matthew Forsythe will be launching his graphic novel Ojingogo, the latest in Drawn & Quarterly's Petits Livres art-book series, at Lucky's (3972 Main Street) on November 22 at...

I Live Here puts human face on oppression

I Live Here makes a strong attempt to bring to life the world’s oppressed in a way the news media cannot in this set of four books focusing on the displacement of peoples around...

Graphic novels still a mystery to awards judges

Some of the graphic novel world’s leading lights have come together to pen an open letter in response to the nomination of Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki for a Governor...