Comics to Read in the Park...When You'd Rather Be at the Beach

August 15, 2019

Comics to Read in the Park...When You'd Rather Be at the Beach
For a city on an island, life in Montreal can seem far away from the water some days. Fortunately, if you add these books to your reading list, they're sure to make a splash!
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The Sea

Rikke Villadsen

Told in expressive pencil drawings, provocative symbolism, and a madness that doesn’t just bubble beneath the surface of the water, but drenches the sailor—and...

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Black Is The Color

Julia Gfrorer

Black is the Color begins with a 17th-century sailor abandoned at sea by his shipmates, and as it progresses he endures, and eventually succumbs...

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Moomin and the Sea

Tove Jansson

The Moomin family moves to a remote island for the sake of artAnother classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but...

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In Waves

AJ Dungo

A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets William Finnegan's Barbarian...

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