Name: Joe Ollmann launches The Woodchipper
Start: 2026-02-12T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 176 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H2T 2K2

Join us at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly for the launch of The Woodchipper by Joe Ollmann, on Thursday February 12th. Jow will appear in conversation with Howard Chackowicz. Books will be available for purchase and following the presentation the author will be signing! This event is free to attend and open to all. No reservation is required.
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THE WOODCHIPPER: An award-winning cartoonist confronts anxiety and regret in this collection of short stories.
A long-time city maintenance worker keeps pulling an accident prone newbie’s fat out of the fire or maybe in this case, an arm and another arm and a leg out of the woodchipper. What happens when NOTHING HAPPENS? Can a disaster averted still be a disaster?
In “Nestled All Snug,” frazzled bookstore clerk Sasha prepares to close the store and head home to watch Hallmark Christmas specials after a fight with her boyfriend means she’s home alone for the holidays. Hmm, that stack of boxes outside the bathroom seems a little precarious. Maybe Sasha will do returns when she gets back to work post-holidays. FWUMP FWUMP FWUMP. Guess someone is going to regret leaving their phone by the register before going to the bathroom.
In The Woodchipper, Joe Ollmann, cartoonist of the groundbreaking Governor General Award finalist Fictional Father, returns with a suite of comic short stories focused on his trademark nervous wreck characters caught in a series of escalating personal disasters. Everybody’s doing their best. Everybody’s just trying to get through the day.
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JOE OLLMANN lives in Hamilton, the Riviera of Southern Ontario. His third book with Drawn & Quarterly, Fictional Father, was the first graphic novel to be shortlisted in the category of Adult Fiction at the Governor General’s Literary Awards.
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