Club de lecture BD féministe
2025-04-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-05-15 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-06-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

AN 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
Événement en anglais seulement
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.

AN 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.

AN 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.

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.

AN 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.

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

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

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 !
