Twenty-five years ago, Chris Oliveros, a Montreal-based cartoonist, became a dedicated micro-publisher and launched Drawn & Quarterly. Over the years, D+Q grew into a major force. Chris Oliveros is retiring, but his imprint continues—now headed by his long-time second in command, Peggy Burns, and Tom Devlin. True to their self-avowed mandate of publishing “the world’s best cartoonists,” D+Q has just issued “Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels,” a magnum opus of nearly eight hundred pages. All week, we are featuring excerpts from the volume.

Here is “Keeper o’ the Comics,” by Gilbert Hernandez.:



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See here for yesterday’s excerpt, “Song of Myself!,” a strip about Walt Whitman drawn in the style of Jack Kirby, by R. Sikoryak, and tune in tomorrow for “Development Hell,” by Michael DeForge.

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