The 2017 edition of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival is right around the corner, and Pow Pow Press will be debuting a couple of new titles during the event – including the first volume of Sophie Bédard’s Almost Summer. Sophie Bédard was only nineteen years old when she first started Almost Summer as a webcomic. […]
Our first English release for 2017 is the translation of Michel Hellman’s Nunavik – a sequel of sorts to his hit graphic novel Mile End. Part autobiography and part documentary, Nunavik is an honest and often funny account of Hellman’s trek through Northern Quebec – where he meets members of the First Nations, various activists […]
Or course, we might be a little biased about this. But we think books make for great gifts. Did we say “great”? What we really meant to say was “best”, as in “books make for the best of gifts.” Especially comics. Everybody loves comics. What we’re really trying to say is that people around you […]
Montreal people! Expozine 2016 is happening this weekend and it is also known as one of the best weekends of the year. Of course, Pow Pow Press will be there and its entire catalogue will be available for your perusing and purchasing pleasure. Discover brand new books such as Earthbound, Art Wars or Going Under! […]
Pow Pow Press will be launching Art Wars, Earthbound and Going Under at the very elegant Drawn and Quarterly bookstore (211 Rue Bernard Ouest) on October 20th. Join us for an evening of fine comics, reasonable wine drinking, public readings and book signing. Authors Francis Desharnais, Blonk and Zviane will proudly present the new brand […]
Pow Pow Press is launching its second Kickstarter campaign. Translating Pow Pow Press made it possible for us to translate For As Long As It Rains, Mile End, Vampire Cousins as well as Vile and Miserable. Next up on our list are the English versions of Blonk’s colorful zombie story Earthbound, Francis Desharnais’ science-fiction comedy Arts […]
Everybody loves TCAF. And just like absolutely everyone else, everybody at Pow Pow Press loves TCAF. In fact, it’s one of our favorite events of the year – every year. We are very happy to announce that we will back in Toronto on May 14th and May 15th for this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival. […]
Zviane, Cathon, Samuel Cantin, Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Luc Bossé will be in Sudbury, Ontario from May 4th to May 7th 2016 – just in time for the Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury. On Friday May 6th, the Pow Pow crew will be talking about comics (and stuff) as part of Kapow!, an event […]
We are proud to announce that Pow Pow Press has joined the Literary Press Group of Canada. Through this relationship, Pow Pow Press will be represented in Canada by the Canadian Manda Group and in the US by the Literary Press Group, with distribution in both Canada and the US by LitDistCo. Zviane’s award-winning For […]
We’ve been busy publishing a few new books in French, so we’ve been quiet during the last few months. But here we are, back with fresh news. First things first : we are planning a second Kickstarter campaign in order to translate Earthbound by Blonk, which was recently nominated for a Joe Shuster Award. We […]