Lee Lai chats about ‘Cannon’ and award nominations

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On this episode, I chat with Lee Lai about the graphic novel Cannon published by Drawn & Quarterly.

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Originally from Australia, Lee Lai currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. Over the past 10 plus years, Lee been active working as an illustrator and cartoonist. Lee is a LAMBDA award winner and is currently nominated for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the 27th Bédélys Awards. Lee published Stone Fruit in 2021 with Fantagraphics. In our discussion, Lee chats about Cannon published by Drawn & Quarterly.

The story of Cannon begins like this: “We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it.”

You can discover more about Lee Lai online at Lee-Lai.cargo.site and on Instagram at @_leelai

You can discover more about Cannon on Drawn & Quarterly.

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