Twenty-five years ago, Chris Oliveros, a Montreal-based cartoonist, launched the micro-publishing company Drawn & Quarterly. Over the years, D+Q, as it's known, grew into a major force. Oliveros has announced that he is retiring soon, but his imprint continues—now headed by his long-time second-in-command, Peggy Burns, and by Tom Devlin. True to its self-imposed mandate to publish “the world’s best cartoonists,” D+Q has just issued “Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels,” a seven-hundred-and-seventy-six-page magnum opus featuring new work by the likes of Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Michael DeForge, Tom Gauld, Miriam Katin, Rutu Modan, James Sturm, Jillian Tamaki, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi alongside previously unpublished work from Guy Delisle, Debbie Drechsler, Julie Doucet, John Porcellino, Art Spiegelman, and Adrian Tomine.

Here is “Development Hell,” by Michael DeForge:





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See here for yesterday’s strip, “Keeper o’ the Comics,” by Gilbert Hernandez, and tune in tomorrow for “Callisto,” by Diane Obomsawin.

© Michael DeForge. Excerpted from “Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics and Graphic Novels.”