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Oliveros' goal, he says, is to publish "the best cartooning work in the world." To achieve that, he keeps things small. Working out of a messy but colorfully decorated former dentist's office, he employs two full-time staff members and publishes only about 20 books a year. His pickiness and critical success have earned D&Q a monster reputation among the comixcenti and--with increased exposure in regular bookstores--the general public. In 2003, Oliveros says, D&Q racked up $715,000 in revenue, five times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada's Superhero | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...that was about all one could get. At age 18 he attended art school in New York City but lacked focus. After two years he returned to Montreal, earned a liberal-arts degree and held a series of odd jobs. At age 23, inspired by RAW, a comics magazine published by Art Spiegelman and Fran?oise Mouly in the 1980s, Oliveros dreamed up a forum for short stories in comic-book form that he hoped would be, he says, "like Harper's or the New Yorker." The result was the four-times-a-year anthology Drawn & Quarterly. He didn't initially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada's Superhero | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...Oliveros is hands-off. "You can't really say to a cartoonist, 'This drawing on page 3, panel 4 is a bit weak,'" he says. And the talent appreciates that. "It's a pretty simple arrangement," says Brown. "I do the work and send it to them, and they publish it." Given Oliveros' demanding taste, the D&Q roster is small and top-notch. "I have always believed that there is just not that much good work out there," says Oliveros. For that reason he expects D&Q to grow, but not much. "That," he says, "would go against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada's Superhero | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...Officers were sent to investigate a report of a large group throwing toilet paper by the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Officers reported the group was gone on arrival...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Best of the Police Log | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Plimpton’s Harvard years were dominated by his involvement in the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Memoriam | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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