The Native Trees of Canada Lauren Barnett Luke is depressed

Luke is depressed

delivered with sophisticated color

clear lines

and The New York Times recently deemed the ahead-of-their-time comic strips "as entrancing today as when George Herriman wrote and drew them

quite the toothsome thrill ride

The Native Trees of Canada Lauren Barnett Luke is depressedBy Leanne Shapton. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Softcover, 96 pages, Colour, 2024 (originally released 2010) A new edition of the artists bold reinterpretation of a century old book With a foreword by Sheila Heti, Leanne Shaptons cult art book inspired by a government textbook is back in print with a gorgeous new cover. While shopping in the used book store the Monkeys Paw in Toronto, Leanne Shapton happened upon a 1956 edition of the stalwart