Comics & Graphic Novels Humorous
Pastimes
- Publisher
- Pow Pow Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2025
- Category
- Humorous, Slice of Life, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9782925114543
- Publish Date
- Sep 2025
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
A collection of wry and wonderful diary comics that capture modern life in all its cringe-inducing glory!
Social worker in a hospital by day, internationally-acclaimed cartoonist by night, Pascal Girard (Petty Theft) seems to be a magnet for awkward situations. Why can't he manage to walk his dog, hit the gym, or even push a shopping cart down the grocery aisle without having yet another weird encounter? Or, just maybe, is he the one who provokes them? Even with those closest to him, Pascal has a knack for getting into trouble, especially when his young daughter Lucie starts to ask him profound questions about life, death, and the universe that he doesn't quite know how to answer.
From encounters with would-be swingers at the dog park to ferocious felines at the local cat cafe, in these short, snappy comic strips Pascal Girard delivers snippets inspired by his daily life, with a bittersweet humor that's sometimes mocking, sometimes tender, but always deeply observant. Pastimes is a funny and surprisingly moving portrait of passing time in the modern world, one comic at a time.
About the authors
Most of Pascal Girard's bios state that he's been drawing "since forever". That's a lie. No one has been drawing "since forever". That's impossible and illogical. Pascal Girard isn't able to remember the exact moment when he started drawing. But he knows everything has to start somewhere, and he is most certain that before that single instant where he started drawing he obviously did not draw. That's always how it goes. He is pretty sure, however, that his first book was published in 2006 and that ever since then he has written a few more : Bigfoot, Reunion andPetty Theft, just to name a few. When he isn't working on a specific project, Pascal keeps on drawing. Dessins offers us a peek into his day-to-day work. It's his first book for Pow Pow Press.
Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, a finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for translation; Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall; as well as numerous graphic novels including This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle, The Great Beyond by Léa Murawiec, and many others. She is also the co-founder of Writers Bloc, a community of translators centered around continued learning and knowledge exchange.
Editorial Reviews
"Pow Pow's new collection of cartoonists' notebooks is a marvel of ideas, and Pascal Girard's tone is perfect."
—Anthony Lacroix, Les Libraires
"The brilliant Pascal Girard has struck again [with] a collection of comic strips about everyday life, fatherhood, and his day job as a social worker [that's full of] embarrassment, missteps, and clumsiness."
—Annick Lavogiez, Page by Page
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