A comic equivalent of the New Yorker

The way Tom Devlin tells it, they were the loud ones, the brash American pair parachuted in to the small independent comics publisher in Montreal, Canada.

It was late 2003, and Devlin’s wife Peggy Burns had been hired by D+Q as publicist. For most of its life up to that point, D+Q had operated out of the apartment of its founder Chris Oliveros and only that summer, after 13 years in existence, had hired its very first intern.

The story of the now-legendary company is recounted in Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, a 776-page monument to publishing vision, creative endeavour, and comic book innovation.