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OK, let's just get this one over and done this, it's too exciting to save for later. Dan Clowes is the latest cartoonist to join the elite group of cartoonists (Spiegelman, Sikoryak, Seth, Tomine) who have done tote bags for the legendary store. Dan's bag is fabulous and is for sale now on their website, as well as in the store where Dan will be on Wednesday May 5th where he will be in conversation with the marvelous David Hajdu. How awesome is that?
Here's a close up of the art.
So as you may recall, D+Q sponsored the Strand tote bag contest a few months ago. Well, lo and behold, the store was swamped with over 800 entries.
A covert meeting was held in Manhattan between the judges Francoise Mouly, Art Spiegelman, Stephen Heller, Adrian Tomine and R. Sikoryak and they came up with a list of Grand, Second and Third prize winners and 20 finalists. So, without further ado...the winner is Zak Foster of Brooklyn. Second prize winner was Domitille Collardey of Brooklyn Third place winner is Tim Goldman of Queens And check out the 20 finalists where you'll recognize such names as Lisa Hanawalt or Jef Czakaj, (who just had an event at the D+Q librairie this past Sunday.)
And until the next tote bag! Which if all goes as planned should be equally exciting as well! Posted by Peggy Burns at 12:36 PM
Does Chris Ware have the cover to the latest issue of Fortune? No, he does not. But here is his cover that didn't make the last minute cut. Be sure to click on the above for a much bigger version (may take hours to download) so you can read it. Posted by Tom Devlin at 12:00 PM
Oh yes, finally after months of talking and waiting, the arrival of WILSON is so imminent, that the books have or are shipping to stores as I type, as the release dates, folks, is one week from today, Tuesday, April 27th. In anticipation of Dan's headlining event at TCAF, Torontoist posted an advance review last week saying that "Wilson does not disappoint. It is a masterwork that distils the existential themes touched upon in almost all of Clowes' previous work...and it's Clowes' best work to date."
I should also take this time to say that at finer stores across the country will be offering the above promotional WILSON poster, as will D+Q at all of our conventions.
Mere days after the book's release, Dan hits the road in support of it.
While working on the John Stanley Library and digging through the stacks of Nancy comics we have here, we kept coming across the occasional Peanuts strip. It had always been my understanding that these strips were not by Charles Schulz but looking at them and reading them it was clear that the artist in question did an excellent job of capturing the look and a pretty decent job of capturing the feel of Schulz' writing. Fortunately for us, Schulz' work is very well documented and it turns out that he actually did 37 pages of comics in those issues of Nancy and Tip-Top and Dell Four-Color. The rest were done by long-time Schulz friend Jim Sasseville. There's an excellent Sasseville interview and breakdown of who did what from Schulz-scholar Derrick Bang here. I highly recommend checking out this piece if you're a fan of Dell or Peanuts.
The following is a Sasseville story from Nancy #167. It's really got some of that great giddy kid spirit--a new discovery is the most important thing in the world and has to be shared with everyone.
Tomorrow night, Seattle-ites, you are in for a treat! Please join James Sturm and Peter Bagge for their respective new books at the Fantagraphics store, Saturday the 17th at 6:00 PM. The paper James co-founded, The Stranger, caught up with him this week, where Book Editor, Paul Constant, calls MARKET DAY a "sublime bit of cartooning...the book is a masterpiece of craftsmanship." I just got off the phone with James, as well, as it seems he's put together a little slide show about the early days of The Stranger. Should be a great event, especially considering James is off the internet, and Pete's new book, Other Lives, appears to be about the internet, somewhat. I have a feeling they will have A LOT to talk about.
In other Sturm news, James appeared on WNYC's The Takeaway yesterday to talk about his Slate.com column on giving up the internet. And Market Day was reviewed in the ONION's AV Club where they rave: "[Market Day is] also about the joys and pains of creation itself, and how that sometimes trumps the need to make money. A-" Posted by Peggy Burns at 12:12 PM
Here's a great video showcasing Chris Ware's Gasoline Alley memorabilia on WBEZ and some choice gems on what Chris' daughter will do with her "inheritance". Also, here is a podcast where you can listen to WBEZ's Alison Cuddy talk to Frank Lipo, the Executive Director of The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest, the neighborhood where Chris lives. Posted by Peggy Burns at 11:25 AM
Harry Mayerovitch was born in Montreal a hundred years ago today, on April 16, 1910. How can anyone even begin to properly summarize Harry's life? He was an accomplished architect, a beloved teacher and lecturer, a Depression-era painter, political cartoonist, and lithographer, a WW2 anti-Nazi propaganda machine, a late-blooming romantic (he began his relationship with the love of his life, Betty Ann Affleck, when he was over 80), an actor in a highly-praised film, an eclectic nonagenarian zine publisher (he handed out copies of his self-published pamphlet of cartoons to guests at his 90th birthday party), and, overall, a lifelong aesthete and irrepressible bon-vivant.
His WW2 posters were featured in a large-size volume of Drawn & Quarterly a decade ago and his 2002-03 drawings on the subject of death were collected in a book, appropriately titled Way To Go, and launched just days before his 94th birthday. It was a big affair, with what seemed like over 200 people in attendance and two giant birthday cakes (courtesy of Cantors Bakery's Tony Medeiros) both featuring the cover of his latest book embedded in the icing. Sadly, Harry died in his sleep only two weeks later - on the morning of his actual 94th birthday.
For anyone living in or near Montreal, I'd recommend a visit to The McCord Museum where over a dozen of Harry's paintings, posters, and lithographs are currently on display (through May 2nd) as part of the Jewish Painters of Montreal exhibition.
Happy 100th birthday Harry, I really miss you.
Above: Harry at left with John Grierson at The National Film Board of Canada circa 1944. Posted by Chris Oliveros at 5:49 AM
Check out BOOK BY ITS COVER'S report on last night's opening of the Garo Manga, 1964-1973 exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in NYC. The show is up until June 26th, and it's worth stopping by to see D+Q cartoonists Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Seiichi Hayashi's work in its original incarnation. Another D+Q/Garo contributor who should be mentioned here is Imiri Sakabashira, though his work appeared considerably later than what is being shown in this exhibition. Posted by Jessica Campbell at 9:56 AM
I admit that seeing this car outside of the Armory on Saturday morning got me VERY excited and in a good mood. Tom says it belonged to Ben Marra.
Oh yes, I know if Jessica was writing this blog post, you would already be splitting your sides in laughter, but she's not here right now and Tom is on me to get my MoCCA report up. Special thanks to Randy of Bodega (who is taking a year off from cons) for keeping us fed, caffeinated and hydrated behind the booth.
I got to meet the marvelous Jacq Cohen of Fantagraphics. Jacq is pronounced Jack. All this time, I was pronouncing it like 227.
Here starts my photoblog of THE MEN OF MOCCA. How did I end up with 50 photos of men and very few of women? Does that say something about me? MoCCA? Comics? Anyway, this is Brian Heater of the Daily Crosshatch. This man worked very hard this weekend and it showed with thoughtful programming, an even temperament and always congenial. I must admit when I saw him escorting Gahan Wilson and Al Jaffee, I got "my fangirl on" {GROAN, I have been in comics too long! But I did, I must admit}
This is Mr. Wolk. I think he said he was there for pleasure. I'm not sure what that means.
I have known these boys, I mean, men for a long time now, and, yes, I feel like Bill and Austin's Mom, especially when I attend their dirty-art-boy-after-party-in-a-Brooklyn-loft. I kid, (sorta) I love you guys. Now go clean your room. And the living room. And the bathroom. And the kitchen. And the stairs.
FINALLY! I met the man--Frankie Santoro. Retire from the con circuit for a few years to birth some babies and some tour de force of a personality makes the scene. Unfortunately, Frankie thinks I am some sort of Veruca Salt of comics, could be worse, I suppose, better than that gum smacking Violet Beauregarde.
Now here are some old pals of mine, Barry and Leon of Secret Acres. They are having a great year, congrats on the Eisner nom.
I spied Todd Hignite and Adrian Tomine shopping at the booth of the "competition" I'm looking forward to reading The Art of Jaime Hernandez and was extra excited to see Jaime making the scene. Who doesn't love seeing one of Los Bros.?
I think someone needs to tell Kim the definition of a "sketch".
This is Mike Lorah of Newsarama fame. Mike in person is just like Mike the comics writer, solid, steady and friendly.
Do you ever walk to into Jim Hanley's and marvel at the fact that they have every single D+Q book EVER including all issues that are in print of Underwater, well you have this man to thank, Mr. Tony Shenton, our special agent to the comic book market.
This is Mr. and Mrs. Nicole Rudick, with their adorable son, Grover. The last time I saw Nicole was when we got Grover and Dagwood together in Park Slope when they were tiny babies in 2007 and told them how they would one day RUN publishing. Thanks iPad for killing that dream.
Oh yes, this belongs in our comics as tattoo art series. Pretty awesome.
Now here's a meeting of the minds. Mr. Mazzucchelli, Mr. Madden, Mr. Sturm and introducing Jasper Abel-Madden. David was telling me how much he adores publicists.
Who is this clean cut J-Crew model you ask? Mr. Brendan Burford.
We had a new location this year, and we were very, very happy with it.
The new location helped us to sell out of ALL signing books. Adrian and Gabrielle sold out of their books in Saturday, Sturm by 1:00 PM on Sunday and Sikoryak's lasted right through his Sunday signing.
This is Karen Green graphic novel librarian extraordinaire with an equally exceptional fellow, Nick Pupura of Hanley's.
And how awesome is Sara Varon? She is a sweetie, and my kids adore her Robot Dreams book. Seriously, they really love it. Do you have this book? What is wrong with you? And apparently, Sara adores our Aya Books!
OK, here's the deal only the strongest and toughest can survive an interview with Paul Karasik. He acted out a page from every comic that James has ever created! Paul was great, and it was great for the audience, though I think when James saw the first slide of Down and Out Dawg, he was a wee bit nervous.
But I am being too hard on Paul, he was fabulous. I'm pretty sure James answered that comics did not help him get laid.
Don't tell the students of CCS, but I think recall James saying no. I KID! I KID! He actually said something very poignant, that I would only butcher when paraphrasing.
I do say that after spending two days in the Armory, the experience makes me miss windows and makes San Diego seem bright and airy. Though this is not a knock on MoCCA, the show was impeccably run this year and I have no complaints or sardonic remarks. You know, just that, well, I miss seeing the blue sky. Oh, and also, that you really lucked out if you are in the National Guard and you have Comic-con duty, cuz that is one cush job and you can easily take any one of the people who act up. Posted by Peggy Burns at 2:40 PM
Here's a peek at our advance copies of YOW!: The John Stanley Library Grab-Bag, Drawn & Quarterly's Free Comic Book Day comic.
This year's free comic features an exciting assortment of stories written and (mostly) drawn by the stellar Stanley. They're all pretty great, but my favorite out of this bunch is a story from Choo-Choo Charlie #1 (and only!) Choo-Choo was the mascot for Good & Plenty licorice, and this story certainly IS plenty of good! But was Stanley responsible for drawing as well as writing this comic? Well, a side-by-side comparison of the alligator that hijacks Charlie's locomotive (seriously, it's a great story!) and Melvin's pet crocodile Cleopatra would certainly seem to confirm that these two critters were drawn by the same hand. What do you think, sharp-eyed Stanley fans?
Remember to visit your local comics retailer on May 1st to pick up this little gem and all the other free comics... and to pledge your solidarity with the workers of the comic book industry! Avanti popolo! Posted by Rebecca at 12:08 PM
Sturm blasted through his copies of Market Day at MoCCA this past weekend. And today, NPR's BOOKS WE LIKE spotlights Market Day, offering a nice lengthy overview, ending with "Sturm's prose is straightforward, his art spare and deceptively simple; together, however, his words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale, the fable." Posted by Peggy Burns at 4:34 PM
Peggy and Jessica are in NYC for the MoCCA Arts Festival with some of your favorite D+Q authors. Please come down this weekend and say hey! It takes place this Saturday (11-6) and Sunday (10:30-6) at the 69th Regiment Armory (68 Lexington Avenue, New York City) Jessica put together this handy map so you can find D+Q. And here is our signing and programming schedule, all signings take place at the D+Q table.
Saturday, April 10 12-2 Adrian Tomine 2-3 R. Sikoryak 3-4 James Sturm 4-5 Gabrielle Bell 5:15 Gabrielle Bell and R. Sikoryak programming "The MoCCA Live Strip Show: Actors Perform Indie Funnies" 5-6 James Sturm
Sunday, April 11 11:30 James Sturm programming "James Sturm and Paul Karasik in Conversation" 11:30-12:30 Gabrielle Bell signing 12:30-2:30 James Sturm signing 2:30-4:30 R. Sikoryak signing Posted by Tom Devlin at 11:25 AM
