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WHAT IT IS
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
The New York Times has posted their profile of Lynda from tomorrow's Arts & Leisure section, they also have an awesome online component.
Gentle Reminder: Book! goes! on! sale! this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Peggy Burns at 7:23 AM
Friday, May 09, 2008
In addition to his recent 700 page book with PictureBox, he recently had an exhibition at Clementine Gallery in New York (featured above), and has another major exhibition up at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Daydream Trap. Anyone in or near Ridgefield, CT should definitely check it out!
Gary will be doing a book signing tomorrow (Saturday, May 10th) evening (6-8) at the PictureBox storefront in New York, for those unable to make it out to Ridgefield.
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 5:11 PM
 I just wanted to point out to all readers in Philadelphia and Chicago that D+Q will be making two new festival appearances this year with both events being overseen by the "Chief Oliveros" and "Controller Salomon" with signings by local authors....
Next weekend, May 17th and 18th, D+Q will be at the Philadelphia Book Festival at the Free Library with the Charles Burns signing from 1:00-3:00 both days.
For all the Chicago-ites who don't make a pilgrimage to NYC for MoCCA (where Lynda Barry, Gabrielle Bell and Adrian Tomine will be but more on that later!), on June 7th and 8th you can visit the D+Q booth at the Chicago Tribune Printer's Row Festival and even see a panel at 1 PM on Saturday with Chief Oliveros, Chris Ware and Ivan Brunetti who will also be signing. The panel is even moderated by Eric Kirsammer of Chicago Comics! It doesn't stop there, Archer Prewitt of Sof Boy fame will be signing on Sunday.
So if you can't make it, send your friends who can because if all goes well, D+Q plans to do more regional book festivals in 2009.
Posted by Peggy Burns at 1:03 PM
Posted by Tom Devlin at 11:13 AM
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Sunday, May 11th, to Thursday, May 15th, an International Writers Festival takes place at the leading cultural centre Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem, with renowned writers from Israel and abroad in attendance, participating in an array of events. The festival will be a fascinating venue for encounters between the comic book and prose books, between prose writers and comic writers.
Rutu Modan will be exhibiting 40 pages of artwork from the first chapter of Exit Wounds in the Dwek gallery at Mishkenot Sha'ananim as part of the festival.
The centre's programme department has initiated and conducted cultural activities in diverse spheres -- from art and architecture, design and music, to literature and poetry. It holds conferences festivals, seminars, workshops and encounters with renowned creators, scholars and artists from the cultural and intellectual spheres in Israel and from abroad.
Posted by Jamie Q at 6:11 PM
Attention, Vancouver comics fans:
The Vancouver Art Gallery is opening a new exhibiton next week that focuses on comics, animation and video games. Each section is curated by specialists in its domain, with comics curated by Art Spiegelman and D+Q's Seth. The entire exhibition loosely revolves around George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" and its influence, and features works ranging from Herriman and Winsor McCay cartoons to contemporary video game stills.
The VAG describes the show as "the first exhibition of its kind, a groundbreaking project that offers unique and dynamic insight into the world of comics,animated cartoons, anime, manga, graphic novels, computer/video games and visual art," but it seems to me that collecting so many disparate elements of popular culture and showing them as a unified body is problematic. As this article in the Georgia Straight puts it, "Seth admits feeling some ambivalence about the idea of his time-tested, beloved Krazy Kat rubbing figurative shoulders with the commercially based newbie Pac-Man."
I mean, come on! Pac-Man and Krazy Kat?! That's pushing it.
I will, however, say that Art Spiegelman and Seth's choices for the comics section (Lynda Barry, Harvey Kurtzman, Jerry Moriarty, Justin Green) sound like they will make the entire exhibit worthwhile!
Krazy! opens on May 17th and runs until the 7th of September.
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 11:39 AM
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
 (Christian Hansen for The New York Times)
Was I the only who thought of Lucky when I read this article in the New York Times about the living conditions in artists' lofts in New York?
The article is interesting, but I'll say that one thing that Lucky has that this article could use more of, however, is Green Card star Gerard Depardieu.
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 12:35 PM
Man, the Fifties were awesome.
Posted by Tom Devlin at 9:56 AM
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The Eisners are having online voting this year, with a very easy write in section to each category so you and your favorites can be recognized! All of the industry awards are different, but the Eisners nominations are selected by that year's particular panel of judges while the voting itself is open to almost all segments of the comic book industry including artists, publishers, and retailers. I just did it myself and it took about three minutes. All votes are due June 13th!
http://www.eisnervote.com/
A gentle reminder of the books D+Q published in 2007...
Comics with a spine:
365 Days/Julie Doucet
Albert & The Others /Guy Delisle
Aya/Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie
Dogs & Water/Anders Nilsen
Exit Wounds/Rutu Modan
James Sturm's America /James Sturm
Joseph/Nicolas Robel
King-Cat Classix/John Porcellino
Moomin Book 2/Tove Jansson
Oh Skin-Nay!/Clare Briggs
Pyongyang PB /Guy Delisle
Shortcomings/Adrian Tomine
Southern Cross/Laurence Hyde
Spent /Joe Matt
Walt & Skeezix 3/Frank King
White Rapids/Pascal Blanchet
Comics without a spine:
Berlin 13/Jason Lutes
Berlin 14/Jason Lutes
Big Questions 10/Anders Nilsen
Lucky Vol 2 #1/Gabrielle Bell
Optic Nerve 11/Adrian Tomine
Art books:
ACME Novelty Datebook Volume Two/Chris Ware
Fire Away/C. Von Szombathy
Milk Teeth/Julie Morstad
One Eye/Charles Burns
And distributed:
ACME Novelty Library #18/Chris Ware
Posted by Peggy Burns at 4:41 PM
What It Is is in stores next week, yes, next week! And one of the first reviews are in, the Austin Chronicle weighs in:
"This is the artist Lynda Barry at her enthusiastic best, her most sincerely encouraging, urging readers toward journeys of self-discovery and the joy of making, of appreciating, art. And how does she do this? How does she communicate such ideas, all the while documenting her own travels through those vivid realms? With artwork. With page after page of collaged images and words, with original cartoons and paintings and notes lovingly delivered via sumi-e handwriting and calligraphy. The beauty here, the sheer complexity, is almost overwhelming. It's like, um, seeing a dozen simultaneous sunrises on acid while a redheaded life coach whispers in your ear that you never have to let go of the parts of childhood that are eternally worthwhile. So of course every single page of this volume from Drawn & Quarterly is in full, gorgeous color on good thick paper. So of course, because you're alive, we recommend this book to you."
Check out the rest of the review as I admire how the reviewer recognizes that Lynda has written the how-to book that puts all the other how-to books to shame. You'll see, What It Is is a singularity of creative genius.
And, guess what? Lynda will be pretty much touring for the rest of the year for the book. This spring and summer, you can catch Lynda in NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Diego. And next Fall, you'll be able to catch her in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, DC, Providence, Toronto and Montreal. All events are or will be listed on our events page. Bookmark it.
My sister saw Lynda in Rochester NY last night and emailed me with this: "She was genius. I laughed so hard I snorted and cried real full tears." So if you want to catch an icon of not only American Comics, but an icon of comics worldwide in person don't miss one of these events.
Just how frickin' awesome is Lynda? Well, this pic was taken last month in Pittsburgh where Lynda was doing one of her creative workshops and she made the time to stop by the Mister Rogers Museum (Warhol, who?).
Posted by Peggy Burns at 11:15 AM
I knew John was working on this but didn't realize it was so close to being released. As you may or may not know, John is one of my all-time favorite cartoonists and part of the reason for that is John's firm belief in his art and his convictions. Series editor James Sturm brilliantly chose John to do a book on Henry David Thoreau. I can't think of a book I am more looking forward to this year that is not being released by my primary employer. Here's a sample:
Posted by Tom Devlin at 9:00 AM
Monday, May 05, 2008
Andrew Wheeler of ComicMix devoted his Manga Friday column to Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, in stores this July:
"Good-Bye as a whole is a stunning achievement, a collection of dark, realistic stories from a side of the world we rarely see. Tatsumi is one of the greats of world comics, a creator with a fearless, unblinking focus on the sadness and pain of ordinary life."
Posted by Jamie Q at 4:27 PM
Oh, sure the new offices look swanky but there are drawbacks. The elevators always seemed a little makeshift (they respond to the opposite call buttons, floor buttons mysteriously turn off) so it wasn't a real surprise yesterday morning when I climbed aboard the refurbished freight elevator with our new fridge and my life became something out of a New Yorker article when the doors closed and the car lurched and I knew I was trapped. Fortunately there was actually a pretty good emergency phone service (I don't have a cell phone) in the elevator and a service guy was there in 2 hours.
But why did I drink that extra cup of coffee yesterday morning? A word of advice--wait at least three hours before drinking your own urine to prevent dehydration. I really feel like I jumped the gun on that one.
Posted by Tom Devlin at 10:26 AM
Friday, May 02, 2008
Don't forget to stop by your local comic book retailer for tomorrow's FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! You can read up on the various titles available at Salon, where they've been reviewed. Remember to look for D+Q's free comic, Gekiga!
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 3:20 PM
Thursday, May 01, 2008
John P. will be participating in a couple events being held in conjunction with this year's famed Free Comic Book Day, this Saturday, May 3rd:
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM in Boulder, CO:
signing comics and chitchatting at Time Warp Comics
3105 28th Street; phone 303-443-4500
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM in Colorado Springs, CO:
hands-on Mini-Comics Workshop at Pikes Peak Library, East Branch
5550 North Union Blvd; phone 719-531-6333
Posted by Jamie Q at 5:02 PM
Yes it's true, we've spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks packing, unpacking, and generally getting things re-organized to meet all of your production, publicity and web-order needs.
Here's what things looked like in here on Tuesday...
... while D+Q Controller, Jamie Salomon, and the Chief, Chris Oliveros, were getting back to work asap amid the boxes.
...and Jessica and Rory check out a pie that came by Purolator over in the publicity department.
That's right, I said a pie came by Purolator. It was Jessica's birthday, and home-made all the way from Victoria, BC. Thanks Mom! It was delicious!
p.s. Yes, that is a train whistle, ping-pong balls, and a Chinese finger-trap that were also in the pie package.
Posted by Jamie Q at 4:02 PM
Dearest blogosphere,
We're really sorry, but, due to an office move this week, web orders made after April 18th are going out now. Rest assured that your books and goodies are on their way.
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 3:58 PM
Application deadline is May 15th, so apply now! Details here.
(poster by Julia Rothman, design superstar and author of one of our favorite book blogs, Book By Its Cover.)
Posted by Jessica Campbell at 3:24 PM
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