Awards

• Short-listed for Doug Wright Awards - Best Book 2023 (Canada)
• Winner of Doug Wright Awards - The Nipper 2023 (Canada)
• Winner of Manitoba Book Awards - Best Book Award 2023 (Canada)
• Winner of Manitoba Book Awards - Best First Book 2023 (Canada)

Overview

Winner of Best Book and Best First Book at the Manitoba Book Awards Fractures form in a tight-knit Mennonite community, echoing the struggles experienced in small towns across North America When a non-denominational megachurch opens on the edges of a rural Mennonite community, a quiet-but longstanding-battle begins to reveal itself. For years, the traditionalists in the community have held fast to the values and beliefs they grew up with, while other community members have begun raising important questions about LGBTQ+ inclusion, Indigenous land rights, and the Mennonite legacy of pacifism. Through a series of vignettes, Shelterbelts explores the perspectives, experiences and limitations of a wide range of characters who find themselves increasingly at odds with their surroundings. A pastor and his queer daughter learn that a family has left their church because of the ""LGBT issue."" Young activists butt heads with a farmer over the construction of a pipeline happening on his fields. A librarian leaves suggestive notes for readers inside popular library books. By pulling these threads together, artist Jonathan Dyck has woven a rich tapestry-one that depicts a close-knit community in the midst of defining its future as it reckons with its past.

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A vivid portrayal of people trapped by culture, geography, and history, and yet liberated by these forces at the same time. Jonathan Dyck shatters stereotypes about rural Mennonite life, providing complexity instead of caricature and nuance rather than simple answers. -Andrew Unger, author of Once Removed Shelterbelts is not just a graphic novel for Mennonites, but it belongs on a shelf next to Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many. Like Wiebe, Jonathan Dyck has cleared a new space for play-a Spielraum where others may now join him in playing with words and images in new ways. -Magdalene Redekop, author of Making Believe

""I rarely encounter a debut graphic novel that is as ambitious, as clearly told, and as deeply felt as Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts. Here is a cartoonist to watch.""— Seth, creator of Clyde Fans ""A beautiful depiction of a rural community grappling with its roots, and a meditation on what happens when we open ourselves to the possibility that things we have long believed may not always be the whole or true story.""—Sophie Yanow, creator of The Contradictions ""A vivid portrayal of people trapped by culture, geography, and history, and yet liberated by these forces at the same time. Jonathan Dyck shatters stereotypes about rural Mennonite life, providing complexity instead of caricature and nuance rather than simple answers."" —Andrew Unger, author of Once Removed Shelterbelts is not just a graphic novel for Mennonites, but it belongs on a shelf next to Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many. Like Wiebe, Jonathan Dyck has cleared a new space for play—a Spielraum where others may now join him in playing with words and images in new ways."" —Magdalene Redekop, author of Making Believe ""Shelterbelts may be Jonathan Dyck’s debut graphic novel, but don’t let that fool you. This is a powerful piece of work by a comic creator who is already firing on all cylinders. —Calgary Herald ""Shelterbelts is an understated but forceful debut — a modern prairie drama with its own distinct visual language and memorable cast of characters, an impressive work that leaves one wanting more in the best way possible."" —Broken Pencil  ""Dyck has... built an engrossing exploration of the fraught intersection of history, conviction, and action."" --Jessica Baldanzi, Commons Comics

A vivid portrayal of people trapped by culture, geography, and history, and yet liberated by these forces at the same time. Jonathan Dyck shatters stereotypes about rural Mennonite life, providing complexity instead of caricature and nuance rather than simple answers. -Andrew Unger, author of Once Removed. Shelterbelts is not just a graphic novel for Mennonites, but it belongs on a shelf next to Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many. Like Wiebe, Jonathan Dyck has cleared a new space for play-a Spielraumwhere others may now join him in playing with words and images in new ways.-Magdalene Redekop, author of Making Believe I rarely encounter a debut graphic novel that is as ambitious, as clearly told, and as deeply felt as Jonathan Dyck's Shelterbelts. Here is a cartoonist to watch. - Seth, Clyde Fans

Author Information

Jonathan Dyck is an illustrator and cartoonist from Winnipeg, Manitoba - Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Metis Nation.

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