[EN] D+Q Young Otaku Manga Club: Modern Day Manga
2024-09-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
The Summer edition of the Drawn and Quarterly Junior Manga Bookclub invites young people between 9 and 12 years old to read the suggested mangas and meet up to discuss the books. Whether you’ve read the first book in the series or all of them, you’re welcome to join us to discuss the world of these characters and share or learn more facts about every series. The club is hosted by Felix Mendritzki who is a 10 year old manga fan. He chose the books that he felt would spark the best conversations as well as introduce new books to seasoned manga lovers and newbies alike. It’s a very relaxed setting that will be led by the kids and what they want to discuss. It’s a great reason to pick up a book during the summer! This is a bilingual bookclub, with discussion happening in French or English, and kids are welcome to read either language version of the book.
WHEN: Tuesday September 10th, 5-6 pm
WHERE: Espace Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Rue Bernard O
BUY THE BOOKS: https://mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com/…/LwX0A09wREIHysB…
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Modern Day Manga These are mangas that are set in a contemporary Japanese world. They still border on fantasy with stories involving spies and talking pet cats.
Cat + Gamer written and illustrated by Wataru Nadatani. Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life upended when she takes in a stray cat in this adorable manga series! There are 8 books in the series.
Spy X Family written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo. The story follows a spy who has to “build a family” to execute a mission, not realizing that his adopted daughter is a telepath, and the woman he agrees to marry is a skilled assassin. There are 13 books in the series and a show that can be streamed on Netflix.
Espace Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:
– Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.
– There is one non-gendered bathroom.
♥️ Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate

EN - Crossover Comic Book Club September
2024-09-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Crossover Comics, 3560 Notre-Dame St W, Montréal, Québec, H4C 1P4, Canada
EN – Crossover Comic Book Club: Do a Power Bomb!

Graphic Novel Book Club: Ghost World
2024-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Our September Graphic Novel Book Club pick is GHOST WORLD by Daniel Clowes! Join us to discuss this modern classic at the meeting hosted by D+Q’s Marketing Manager, Francine Yulo.
WHEN: Tuesday September 24, 2024
WHERE: Espace Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Rue Bernard O
Free and no reservation required.
Buy the book here: https://mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com/ghostworld
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GHOST WORLD has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author’s name) follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost World is his magnum opus. Adapted into a major motion picture directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of the acclaimed documentary Crumb), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This graphic novel is a must for any self-respecting comics fan’s library.
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Daniel Clowes is a Harvey, Eisner, Ignatz, and PEN America Literary Award Winner whose comics and graphic novels have been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. He is also an Academy Award nominated screenwriter (for Ghost World), and retrospectives of his work have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Oakland Museum, and the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and son.
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly would like to acknowledge that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. It has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years.
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Espace Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:
– Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.
– There is one non-gendered bathroom.
– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.
♥️ Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate (for example, saving you a seat if you have mobility needs) for you to be able to enjoy our events, worry-free, and feel free to contact us for any concerns you may have ♥️

EN - Crossover Comic Book Club October
2024-10-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Crossover Comics, 3560 Notre-Dame St W, Montréal, Québec, H4C 1P4, Canada
EN – Crossover Comic Book Club: Saga of the Swamp Thing

FR - Club de lecture FBDM | Du webcomic au papier
2024-10-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Bulla Café, 4141 rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, Québec, H2W 2M7, Canada
Retrouvez-nous pour la nouvelle saison du Club de lecture FBDM qui commencera le mercredi 23 ocotbre !
Au programme deux BD qui regroupent des strips webcomics :

Salade de fruits de Cathon
False Knees : Prise de becs de Joshua Barkman

Aucune obligation d’avoir lu les 2 livres pour venir discuter BD.
Bonne lecture et au plaisir de vous y voir !

EN - Graphic Novel Book Club: Paying For It
2024-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Join Librairie D+Q and host Francine Yulo to discuss PAYING FOR IT by Chester Brown for our next Graphic Novel Book Club. The event is free and open to all, no reservation needed.
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Paying for It was the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in The New York Times. Chester Brown’s eloquent, spare artwork stands out in this new paperback edition, tied to the release of the film adaptation co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee, Brown’s longtime friend and the director of Year of the Carnivore and Octavio is Dead!
Paying for It offers an entirely unvarnished exploration of sex work through Brown’s own life story, showing him as a timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice. The book demystifies an experience that is so often sensationalized, revealing a world of online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd street corners, drugs, or pimps. In it, Brown combines the personal and sexual aspects of his autobiographical work (I Never Liked You, The Playboy) with the polemical drive of Louis Riel, as he explores one of the most hotly debated issues in the world and advocates for the importance of legalizing sex work.
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Espace Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:
– Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.
– There is one non-gendered bathroom.
– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.
♥️ Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate (for example, saving you a seat if you have mobility needs) for you to be able to enjoy our events, worry-free, and feel free to contact us for any concerns you may have ♥️

EN - Crossover Comics Book Club : The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
2024-11-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Crossover Comics, 3560 Notre-Dame St W, Montréal, Québec, H4C 1P4, Canada
EN – Crossover Comics Book Club: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, d’Alison Bechdel

FR | Club de lecture BD féministe
2025-04-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-06-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Bibliothèque Henri-Bourassa, 5400, boulevard Henri-Bourassa Est, Montréal, Québec, H1G 2S9, Canada
L’objectif de ce club organisé et animé par Fatima Gabriela Salazar Gomez est d’aborder des sujets d’actualité à travers la bande dessinée d’après une perspective féministe. Le club est un espace de discussion bienveillant, sans préjugés, basé sur le respect et l’ouverture aux autres.

Graphic Novel Book Club: Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy
2025-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday April 29th at 7 pm we will be discussing MILK WHITE STEED by MICHAEL D. KENNEDY, published by Drawn & Quarterly.
Buy the book: https://mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com/milkwhite
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MILK WHITE STEED: A series of individuals leave the West Indies and attempt to find their footing in the damp dinge of England’s counties. A child on his daily trike ride is stalked by a sinister, shape-shifting ligahoo. A blues singer’s wife hallucinates untoward revelations in the grips of high yellow fever when she inhales spores from psychedelic mushrooms growing unchecked in their apartment. A man dwells on his absent father, paints the man into a duppy myth, and bears the consequences of this fantastical undertaking.
Inspired by the folk tales and oral traditions of his Caribbean roots, Milk White Steed is a dreamlike venture into the messy truths of everyday West Indian lives: the abiding pursuit of the familiar and the vicious appraisal of their own otherness, all at once. Phantom desires, unchecked reveries, and surreal visions of the future flood the page in full-color. Kennedy’s decisive woodcut-inspired brush-strokes draw a striking portrait of the Black diaspora as it sees itself, always searching and yet forever seeing.
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Michael D. Kennedy is a cartoonist and illustrator from the English midlands. Influenced by old British children?s comics and annuals, his stories seek to present the lives of overlooked folk and and the lower classes. Notably, he is the author of the small press series Mint, a collection titled Mr Hardee and most recently Biffa. He has had comics work published by McSweeney?s Quarterly and The Believer. Working as an illustrator since 2020, Michael has been published by the likes of The New Yorker, New York Times and The Atlantic. He has lived in Tamworth, Aston, Olton and currently lives in Balsall Heath with his wife Carli. When the weather agrees with it, he can be found at their allotment in Highbury Park.
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:– Our store uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.– There is one non-gendered bathroom.– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.– Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.

Rencontre avec Catherin, autrice de la bande dessinée Momm
2025-05-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Bibliothèque Henri-Bourassa, 5400, boulevard Henri-Bourassa Est, Montréal, Québec, H1G 2S9, Canada
Venez rencontrer Catherin, autrice de bandes dessinées!

Vous discuterez avec elle, entre autres de sa bande dessinée Momm, une histoire sur la résilience, l’amour et le lien mère-fille.

Graphic Novel Book Club: Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi
2025-08-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday August 26th at 7 pm we will be discussing BLACK COHOSH by EAGLE VALIANT BROSI, published by Drawn & Quarterly. This meeting will be hosted by D+Q’s Executive Editor, Tom DevlinBuy the book: https://mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com/cohosh/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////BLACK COHOSH: A heartfelt, comedic coming-of-age debut from a bright new talent
When we meet Eagle Valiant Brosi, he is a long-haired commune kid, bullied by other kids, teachers, and his neighbors. And because of his speech impediment, Eagle observes silently and often. Mom—a classic earthy, free spirit prone to discursive lectures on natural medicine and the efficacy of certain plants—is the only one who really cares. So Eagle lets others talk and talk and talk, revealing their true natures and selfish (sometimes even selfless) motivations.
In Black Cohosh, Eagle pieces together the puzzling and hurtful things he has been told as he takes his first, tragic steps into adulthood. While things may seem grim, Brosi’s drawings are loose and limber, stretching and falling across each page. His cast of hippie archetypes come with iconic thatches of hair, bushy beards, and scrawny, gesticulating arms. Black Cohosh is a captivating debut from a natural storyteller with the expert timing of a veteran comedian and the soothing empathy of a death doula./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////EAGLE VALIANT BROSI was raised in an unconventional, back-to-the-land hippie lifestyle in the Appalachian foothills. Despite his non-traditional beginnings, Eagle conformed to the standard life of an American capitalist. He works from home, making a computer sigh and groan.In this routine, days pass by without much human interaction. His garden, however, provides a contrast to the quiet work life. Among rows of tomatoes, beans, zucchini, summer squash, he enjoys the good company of slugs, mosquitoes, and bumblebees. If he closes his eyes hard enough, he forgets about the life he was supposed to lead and who he was supposed to be./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:– Our store uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.– There is one non-gendered bathroom.– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.– Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.

Graphic Novel Book Club: Cannon by Lee Lai
2025-09-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday November 4th at 7 pm we will be discussing CANNON by LEE LAI, published by Drawn & Quarterly. This meeting will be hosted by D+Q’s VP Editorial, Tracy Hurren. The Graphic Novel Book Club is free to attend and no reservation is required.
Buy the book: https://mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com/cannon
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CANNON: A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife
We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape—not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. Cooking dinner and digging into deep cuts of Australian horror films on their scheduled weekly hangs has become the glue in their rote relationship. In high school, they were each other’s lifeline—two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down.
Yet, when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself—very uncharacteristically—surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her the hell outta there.
In Cannon, Lee Lai’s much anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a slice of what Lai has on offer. As Cannon’s shoulders bend under the weight of an aging Gung-gung and an avoidant mother, Lai’s sharp sense of humor and sensitive eye produce a story that will hit readers with a smash.
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LEE LAI is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal, Canada). In 2021, she was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, which went on to win several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel, the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and two Ignatz Awards. Her comics have appeared on the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, Granta Magazine, and the Museum of Modern Art Magazine.
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:– Our store uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.– There is one non-gendered bathroom.– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.– Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.

FR Ces mémoires archivées en BD : L'année du lièvre v.1 de Tian
2025-09-25 17:30 - 18:45 | Bibliothèque Maisonneuve, 4120 Ontario, Montréal, Québec, H1V 1J9, Canada
Et si les bandes dessinées étaient avant tout des vaisseaux de mémoire et d’archives ? Ce club de lecture propose un nouveau regard sur la transmission orale et écrite des histoires grâce à la bande dessinée. Un livre par mois à lire, et une rencontre pour échanger en petit groupe.
Inscrivez-vous aux séances de votre choix.

Graphic Novel Book Club: Misery of Love by Yvan Alagbé
2025-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday September 30th at 7 pm we will be discussing MISERY OF LOVE by YVAN ALAGBÉ, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, and published by New York Review of Comics. This meeting will be hosted by D+Q’s Sales & Marketing Manager, Francine Yulo. The Graphic Novel Book Club is free to attend and no reservation is required.
Buy the book: https://mtlshop.drawnandquarterly.com/misery
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MISERY OF LOVE: Colonial history haunts this stunning, spectral-looking graphic novel, a spiritual sequel to the author’s Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures.
In Misery of Love, a spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures, Yvan Alagbé continues his unflinching interrogation of race and family in modern France.
The book focuses on the dream-like memories of a woman named Clare, who is reluctantly spending time with her relatives for a funeral. Alagbé seamlessly glides between narratives of the family’s past and present, all haunted by the legacy of France’s colonial subjugation of Africa.
Alagbé works in stormy grayscale washes, using comics, as he puts it, as “a sacred dimension which celebrates, questions and perpetuates life…. I believe that life is not damnation but grace.”
Told through time shifts that echo Richard McGuire’s Here, Misery of Love is another ambitious, devastating masterpiece from one of France’s best contemporary graphic novelists.
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YVAN ALAGBÉ was born in Paris and spent three years of his youth in West Africa. He is a cofounder of the publishing house Amok, which later merged with the Belgian publishing group Fréon to become Frémok, now a major European graphic novels publisher. He is the author of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. He teaches at Haute école des arts du Rhin in Strasbourg.
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:– Our store uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.– There is one non-gendered bathroom.– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.– Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.

FR Ces mémoires archivées en BD : Baume du tigre de Lucie Queléméner
2025-10-23 17:15 - 18:45 | Bibliothèque Maisonneuve, 4120 Ontario, Montréal, Québec, H1V 1J9, Canada

FR Ces mémoires archivées en BD : Une éducation orientale
2025-11-20 17:15 - 18:45 | Bibliothèque Maisonneuve, 4120 Ontario, Montréal, Québec, H1V 1J9, Canada

FR Club BD Lecture de novembre
2025-11-20 17:30 | Bibliothèque Maisonneuve, 4120 Ontario, Montréal, Québec, H1V 1J9, Canada
Notre amour des clubs de lecture est grand !
Soyez au rendez-vous ce jeudi à la Bibliothèque Maisonneuve pour découvrir Une éducation orientale de Charles Berberian en compagnie de l’animatrice Ravy Puth.
Bonne discussion bédéesque !

Club de lecture - I Once Was Who I Am - Sara Hini (Public Ado)
2026-03-03 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-03-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Centre Sanaaq, 1200 Rue du Sussex, Montréal, Québec, H3H 0E3
Attention l’inscription se fait pour les deux ateliers.
Littérature | Ados et adultes | 2h
Notre identité, la manière dont nous nous positionnons dans le monde, influence profondément notre perception de nous-mêmes. C’est le prisme à travers lequel nous vivons, interprétons et comprenons nos expériences. Lorsque cette base identitaire se fissure, se perd ou semble ne plus correspondre à ce que nous sommes, l’impact sur la santé mentale peut être immense.
Le club lecture propose un espace sécuritaire pour ouvrir un dialogue, partager, réfléchir et explorer ces questions en profondeur. Il invite les participant(e)s à entreprendre un exercice introspectif similaire à celui vécu par les huit personnes qui ont participé au projet photographique.
Lecture : Sélection Coup de poing
La collection coup de poing c’est des albums qui parlent d’identité, de santé mentale et de ce qu’on vit pour vrai. Parfaits pour réfléchir et se sentir moins seul.
«J’ai mal et pourtant ça ne se voit pas» de Lucile de Pesloüan
Un album qui montre que la souffrance n’est pas toujours visible, surtout quand elle est intérieure.
«Racine» de Lou Lubie
Une exploration sensible des origines, de ce qui nous construit et de comment on trouve sa place.
«Migrasyon» de Jimmy Suzan
Le parcours d’une migration : quitter, arriver, s’adapter… et comprendre qui on devient en chemin.
«La fin du commencement» de Fadi Malek
Un regard sur l’adolescence, les transitions et tout ce qui commence quand quelque chose se termine.
«C’est grand comment l’amour» de Zeno Sworder
Un album tendre qui questionne l’amour, sa forme, sa force, et comment il nous fait grandir.
// Nouvelle dates //

3 mars 17h à 19h | Salle 3
11 mars 17h à 19h | Salle 3

Attention l’inscription se fait pour les deux ateliers.
Une carte de bibliothèque en cours de validité est requise pour participer au club de lecture.

Graphic Novel Book Club: Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen
2026-03-03 19:00 | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montréal, Québec, H2T 2K5, Canada
Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (176 Rue Bernard Ouest) for our Graphic Novel Book Club! On Tuesday March 3rd at 7 pm we will be discussing SUNDAY by OLIVIER SCHRAUWEN, published by Fantagraphics. This meeting will be hosted by D+Q’s Executive Editor, Tom Devlin. The Graphic Novel Book Club is free to attend and no reservation is required.Buy the book: https://mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/sunday/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////SUNDAY follows, over the course of one day, the stream of consciousness of a fictionalized version of the author’s cousin, Thibault. On the day of his girlfriend’s return from an extended trip, Thibault wakes up, does nothing, gets James Brown stuck in his head, drinks and smokes, grows paranoid about his relationship, struggles to compose text messages, and watches The Da Vinci Code, all the while avoiding anyone and everyone, descending deeper into his own thoughts and fears. Meanwhile, a former crush and another cousin of Thibault’s plan a surprise birthday for him, sending the external and internal on a collision course.Schrauwen’s brilliant comic timing and formal mastery transcends the quotidian nature of the plot. Through use of color, flashback and the dissonance between text and image, the ways in which Schrauwen layers a depiction of human consciousness as lines on paper are infused heavily with slapstick and white-knuckle tension and make for an exhilarating read and breathtaking use of the comics medium./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////OLIVIER SCHRAUWEN was born in Belgium in 1977 and studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, and comics at ESA Saint-Luc in Brussels. He currently lives in Berlin. He is the author of the books The Man Who Grew His Beard (2011), Arsène Schrauwen (2014), Parallel Lives (2018), and Sunday (2024)./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:– Our store uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.– There is one non-gendered bathroom.– It is not a sober space, our events sometimes offer alcohol.– Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate.

FR Mange, lis, aime - Persepolis & Femme, vie, liberté de Marjane Satrapi
2026-04-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Bibliothèque Maisonneuve, 4120 Ontario, Montréal, Québec, H1V 1J9, Canada
COMPLET
Avec Emmanuela Mouberi
Pour les adultes

Description

Découvrez la culture d’un pays ou d’un peuple grâce à la lecture d’un livre et la dégustation de mets traditionnels !

15 février : Chronique de la dérive douce de Dany Laferrière (présenté dans le cadre du mois de l’histoire des Noirs)
29 mars : L’inventaire des rêves de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
26 avril : Jacaranda de Gaël Faye
24 mai : Persepolis & Femme, vie, liberté de Marjane Satrapi
7 juin : Eka ashate : ne flanche pas de Naomi Fontaine

FR Club de lecture de BD féministe
2026-05-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Bibliothèque Henri-Bourassa, 5400, boulevard Henri-Bourassa Est, Montréal, Québec, H1G 2S9, Canada
Les participant.es abordent des sujets féminins d’actualité en bande dessinée. Espace bienveillant sans préjugés.

Description

Titres discutés pour l’hiver-printemps 2026:

Le ciel dans la tête – Antonio Altarriba
D’or et d’oreillers – Mayalen Goust
Suivra le néant – Mireille St-Pierre
Passages secrets T.01: Trompe l’œil – Axelle Lenoir
Clémence en colère – Mirion Malle

Le club de lecture est animé par Fatima Salazar Gomez.

FR Lisez la littérature wallone !
2026-05-15 17:30 | Mix’heure, 4282 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal, Québec, H2J 2K8, Canada
Présenté par Lisez l’Europe
Notre prochain cercle de lecture met en vedette une BD de la littérature wallonne, et aura lieu le vendredi 15 mai à 17h30 au Mix’heure, dans le cadre du Festival BD de Montréal. Profitez-en pour explorer le festival qui se déroule sur la rue St-Denis, avant ou après le cercle !
La BD dont nous discuterons sera « Ils brûlent 1 : Cendre et rivière » de Aniss El Hamouri. La discussion sera animée en français par Marie-Josée Gonthier.
Veuillez confirmer votre présence avant le 14 mai à l’adresse suivante: lisezleurope-mtl@goethe.de .
À propos de la BD :
On peut laver ce qui a été sali.
On peut réparer ce qui a été rompu.
On peut soigner ce qui a été blessé.
Mais tout ce qui a brûlé,
Restera à jamais en cendres.
Dans un monde médiéval hostile où sévit une implacable chasse aux sorcières, le jeune Georg aide Ongle et Pluie, deux étranges jeunes filles au passé traumatique, à fuir le Sanctuaire, une prison de l’inquisition. Dotées de pouvoirs effrayants pour le commun des mortels et bien incapables d’expliquer leurs origines, ni même qui elles sont, Ongle et Pluie, accompagnées de Georg, se lancent dans une errance désespérée à travers le pays. Georg découvre peu à peu la profondeur des séquelles que les maltraitances physiques et psychiques ont laissées à Ongle et Pluie et à quel point il s’est engagé dans une quête qui le dépasse. Armé de sa bienveillance et de sa candeur, il tente de les aider, pas-à-pas, à guérir.
Où trouver cependant un lieu sûr, dans ce monde qui veut leur mort ? D’autant qu’un implacable inquisiteur, surnommé Le Mage, est sur leurs traces et semble capable de les trouver jusque dans leurs rêves. Recevront-iels l’aide de cette étrange voix venue des tréfonds de la forêt dans laquelle iels s’enfoncent inexorablement ? Ils brûlent est un récit mystique et poétique sur l’identité, le traumatisme, la difficulté de guérir ainsi que sur l’amitié.
Premier volume d’une série de 3.
(6pieds-sous-terre.com)
À propos de l’auteur :
Né au Maroc en 1989, Aniss El Hamouri possède la double nationalité marocaine et belge. Il s’installe en Belgique en 2007 où il obtient un bachelier en bande dessinée à l’ESA Saint-Luc Liège, puis un master en illustration à l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège.
Il vit actuellement à Bruxelles et se consacre à la bande dessinée, à l’illustration et à l’autoédition. En 2017, il cofonde la structure de microédition Brumeville avec ses acolytes Thomas Vermeire et Docteur Lunet.
Il trace son chemin créatif, marqué tant par le genre Dark Fantasy que par des séries comme Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon) ou Neon Genesis Evangelion (Hideaki Anno). La luxuriance brutale de son approche graphique se double d’une densité narrative épatante qui fait de lui l’un des jeunes auteurs à suivre de cette décennie.
En 2018 il reçoit le prix révélation ADAGP/Quai des bulles pour son premier livre Comme un frisson (paru initialement chez Vide Cocagne). (6pieds-sous-terre.com)
Pour vous préparer à la discussion, des exemplaires du livre sont disponibles aux endroits suivants :
Librairie Gallimard : (rabais de 10% aux membres de Lisez l’Europe)
librairie@gallimardmontreal.com
514 499-2012
Librairie du Square au Carré St-Louis : (rabais de 10% aux membres de Lisez l’Europe)
librairiedusquare@librairiedusquare.com
514 845-7617
Librairie du Square – Outremont : (rabais de 10% aux membres de Lisez l’Europe)
outremont@librairiedusquare.com
514 303-0612
Quelques exemplaires (livre) sont disponibles à la Grande Bibliothèque ainsi que dans le réseau des bibliothèques publiques de la Ville de Montréal.

FR Cercle de lecture : Bandes dessinées
2026-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Bibliothèque L’Octogone, 1080 Av. Dollard, Montréal, Québec, H8N 2T9, Canada
Venez discuter des livres que vous aurez lus selon la thématique du mois avant la rencontre.

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APÉRILIVRES DANS LE PARC
2026-05-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Parc La Fontaine, 3819 Av. Calixa-Lavallée, Montréal, Québec, H2H 1P4, Canada
Le Liseur Public et le FBDM vous invitent à un Apérilivres spécial pour célébrer les 15 ans du Festival!
Rendez-vous au Parc La Fontaine juste devant l’Espace La Fontaine à partir de 17h.
Une seule consigne, choisir et apporter une BD à lire!
Des collations + des suggestions = la perfection
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Le Liseur Public and MCAF invite you to a special reading gathering to celebrate the Festival’s 15th anniversary!
Meet at La Fontaine Park, right in front of Espace La Fontaine, starting at 5 p.m.
There’s just one rule: choose and bring a comic book to read!
Snacks + Books = Happiness
