D+Q Newsletter Volume 2004 #1: Releases, Events & Press
Updated January 30, 2004
D+Q Newsletter Volume 2004 #1
Welcome to the semi-quarterly newsletter from D+Q. Please bear with us as this is our first newsletter in over six months. We have lots to say and will try to be as concise as possible.
Here are the headlines in this newsletter, scroll down for complete information:
I. D+Q announces Spring '04 graphic novel and comic book releases from Adrian Tomine, Archer Prewitt, Dupuy & Berberian, Frank King, Jason Lutes, Harry Mayerovitch, Jeffrey Brown, Pentti Otsamo, Seth, and Sue Coe.
II. D+Q announces Fall '04 releases from David Collier, Gary Panter, Harvey Kurtzman, Jerry Moriarty, Michel Rabagliati, R. Crumb, Steve Mumford, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
III. D+Q 5 in stores!
IV. North American appearances: Adrian Tomine at NYC’s Housing Works & Berkeley’s Signal Books, Seth's Toronto book launch with Chester Brown presented by Pages Books & Magazine, Now Magazine and co-sponsored by The Beguiling!
V. Joe Sacco’s THE FIXER tops several best of 2003 lists and currently featured in Rolling Stone.
VI. Chester Brown’s LOUIS RIEL rules Canada, lands on Canadian Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list for two weeks in a row.
VII. D+Q cartoonists in the news.
VIII. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.
IX. Back to press: ACME NOVELTY DATE BOOK & LOUIS RIEL sell out of print runs and are back in print along with PEEPSHOW, new printings of MY NEW YORK DIARY and BERLIN: BOOK ONE
X. Contact Information
I. D+Q Spring 04 releases. For more information, please visit www.drawnandquarterly.com.
Adrian Tomine’s first original comic book in over two years comes out in February at a fine comic book shop near you. OPTIC NERVE #9 will be excerpted in McSweeney’s #13 and is the start of a new three issue story arc. A preview of the issue is available at :
http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/artPreviews.php?artist=a3dff7dd5641ba&type=1
Not even 30 years old and already a seasoned illustrator, Tomine presents ten years of illustration work this summer in the oversized coffee table edition SCRAPBOOK. Comics strips from Giant Robot and Pulse! and illustrations for the New Yorker, Details, Esquire, The Eels, Weezer and more. Don’t miss Adrian’s NYC & Bay Area appearances, details below.
And, the French edition of SUMMER BLONDE, "Blonde Platine" has been nominated for "best graphic album" for the 2004 Prix d'Angoulême "
Taking time off from designing a multi-volume Peanuts series for our esteemed Seattle colleagues, SETH presents a hardcover (at a softcover price of $19.95 US) PALOOKAVILLE collection of CLYDE FANS (April) and illustrates his father’s memoir in BANNOCK BEANS & BLACK TEA (April). Issue #17 of PALOOKAVILLE should also be out by this Summer, you’ll be able to see an excerpt of it in McSweeney’s issue #13. Seth has been nominated for "best art" for the 2004 Prix d'Angoulême for the French edition of CLYDE FANS, "Le Commis Voyageur."
A true renaissance man, cartoonist Harry Mayerovitch has been not only a cartoonist but a designer and architect for over seven decades. WAY TO GO (March) will be designed and have an intro by NY Times Op-Ed art Director Steven Guarnacci. His first book in twenty years, WAY TO GO will showcase different stages of Harry's cartooning career from World War Two to his recent witty musings on death.
The first North American graphic novel of the wildly popular French cartooning team Dupuy & Berberian will be GET A LIFE (April) which will collect the first three volumes of the Monsieur Jean series that sold over 120,000 units in France.
The D+Q SHOWCASE: BOOK TWO (April) features brand new short stories from three talented cartoonists Jeffrey Brown, Pentti Otsamo, and Erik De Graaf.
BULLY: MASTER OF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND (June) is a scathing critique of the Bush-Cheney administration by one of the best political artists of our time, Sue Coe.
D+Q is proud to present Frank King’s GASOLINE ALLEY to be designed and edited by Chris Ware. This summer, BOOK ONE will be the first of a multi-volume series and is also the first time the series has EVER been collected in book form.
HOLD STILL: D+Q has two more comic book releases in addition to OPTIC NERVE #9 & PALOOKAVILLE #17, late Spring will see the arrival of Archer Prewitt's SOF' BOY #3 and Jason Lutes' BERLIN #11. And we may add more comic book releases at any time throughout the year, perhaps even PEEPSHOW # 14, of which 5 pages are going to be included in McSweeney's issue 13!
VIII. And we have a Fall 04 list ready as well! Exact releases dates, titles and price will be announced at a later date but here’s what you can look forward to, in no particular order:
Yoshihiro Tatsumi reprint collection designed and edited by Adrian Tomine.
Gary Panter’s SATIRO-PLASTIC sketchbook.
Michel Rabagliati’s PAUL MOVES OUT.
R. Crumb's CRUMB: THE DEFINITIVE RECORD COVER COLLECTION.
Harvey Kurtzman’s JUNGLE BOOK.
Steve Mumford’s BAGHDAD JOURNAL: AN ARTIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ.
A (still untitled) retrospective from Raw alumnus Jerry Moriarty featuring his strip "Jack Survives."
And a brand new original (still untitled) graphic novel by David Collier.
IX. The latest installment of our award-winning anthology D+Q 5 arrived in stores in December right in time for the holidays. Nothing beats the deep freeze better than reading stories from Yoshirio Tatsumi, Dupuy & Berberian, R. Sikoryak, Michel Rabagliati, Rutu Modan, Harry Mayerovitch and a retrospective of Quebecois cartoonist Albert Chartier.
X. A D+Q CARTOONIST NEAR YOU.
2/4 – 7:00 PM Adrian Tomine signs OPTIC NERVE #9 at NYC’S Housing Works Used Book Café at 126 Crosby Street between Houston & Prince. Adrian will be signing as well as answering questions from Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid. All proceeds benefit Housing Works. Housing Works Inc. is a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides housing, health care, advocacy and support services to homeless men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS.
For more information on Housing Works and the event:
http://206.252.132.18:8080/usedbookcafe/UsedBookCafe_Events.jsp
2/13 – 6:00 PM Adrian Tomine signs OPTIC NERVE #9 at Berkeley’s Signal Books 1816 Euclid Ave in Berkeley, CA. Congratulations to "friend of comics" Carson Hall on the opening of his new bookstore in Berkeley!
2/21-22 D+Q with Tomine to exhibit at APE, the Alternative Press Expo, in San Francisco, CA at the Concourse at 620 7th Street. Publisher Chris Oliveros with Marketing & Publicity Director Peggy Burns will be selling all titles. Adrian Tomine will be signing on Saturday, 2/21.
3/31 – 6:30 PM Seth CLYDE FANS & BANNOCK, BEANS & BLACK TEA book launch with Chester Brown presented by PAGES Books & Magazines and NOW Magazine, co-sponsored by The Beguiling at Rivoli, 332 Queen St W, 6:30-8:30 pm (doors 6pm), no cover. Come early to get a seat at this guaranteed standing room only event where Seth will present "20 Short Stories about Cartooning" and Chester Brown will present his LOUIS RIEL slide show.
V. Joe Sacco’s original D+Q hardcover THE FIXER has been generating headlines across North America since its October Toronto launch presented by the Beguiling. In stores since November, about 95% of the print run is out the door. So get your copy now and read about Joe in the fine publications that have interviewed Joe, reviewed or spotlighted THE FIXER including the 1/22 issue of Rolling Stone; on the best of 2003 lists of Time.com, Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly and Booklist; profiled for Salon.com, Publishers Weekly, Boston Globe, Globe & Mail, National Post, CBC’s The Arts Today, The Toronto Star, The Oregonian, LA Weekly, Dallas Observer; and reviewed/featured in Toronto’s Eye. The Onion, Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Willamette Weekly, Eastbay Express, Montreal Hour, Portland Mercury, Now Magazine and the Montreal Gazette. THE FIXER will also be excerpted in the McSweeney’s issue #13.
XIII. Chester Brown’s new classic LOUIS RIEL is a bona fide best-seller, having been on the Quill & Quire hardcover non-fiction bestseller list for two weeks running! LOUIS RIEL also made "the best of 2003" lists for Time.com and Quill & Quire and has been the subject of numerous feature stories and reviews across North America including The National Post, Quill & Quire, The Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, The Onion, Boston Phoenix, Montreal Hour, Montreal Review of Books, The Coast, Halifax Chronicle Herald, The Vue Weekly, Exclaim!, Prairie Dog, The Manitoban, Montreal Mirror, Fast Forward Weekly and The Georgia Straight. Chester has been interviewed on several CBC radio shows including The Arts Today, Brave New Waves and Definitely Not The Opera as well as the television show Imprint. Oh, and LOUIS RIEL will also be excerpted in McSweeney’s issue #13.
XIV. D+Q Cartoonists in the News. Do you want to know what is going on with D+Q or one of our cartoonists? Well, make the D+Q news page one of your favorites.
http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/newsHome.php
Here you’ll find out about all of our events, signings, new releases and press hits. For instance, did you know that SUMMER BLONDE was in the NY Times Book Review not once, but twice? The UK glossy Dazed & Confused featured Michel Rabagliati’s PAUL HAS A SUMMER JOB? Entertainment Weekly recently reviewed THE GOLEM’S MIGHTY SWING? And Publishers Weekly raved about the D+Q SHOWCASE BOOK ONE? We have too many headlines to list, so please visit our site to find out more!
We would like to congratulate Igort as 5 IS THE PERFECT NUMBER swept a number of European comic book awards including Winner of the "book of the year" award in Frankfurt Bookfair 2003, Winner of the Coccobill award as best author 2003 (Milano comics festival Cartoomics), Winner of the special award A.N.A.F.I. 2003 (Associazione Nazionale Amici Fumetto Italiano), Winner of grand prix in Romics comic festival (Rome 2003) and nominated for the best volume 2003 at the Angoulême Comics festival, best artist 2003 in Naples Comics Festival (Comicon), and best artist 2003 in Milano Comics Festival (Cartoomics).
XI. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue #13, edited by Chris Ware. What is all this excerpting business with issue #13 of McSweeney’s you ask? Why it’s the comics issue edited by Chris Ware! In this issue you will find the following cartoonists who have been or will be published by D+Q: R. Crumb, Seth, Joe Matt, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, David Collier, Debbie Drechsler, Jeffrey Brown, Ron Rege Jr., Gary Panter, Archer Prewitt, and Charles Burns. You can get a copy for yourself here:
http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/F7E4B8C1-8110-4016-82FE-06CEC77A88AA/McSweeneysSubscriptionbrBeginningwithIssue13.cfm
New printings & reprintings: D+Q sells out of LOUIS RIEL and ACME NOVELTY DATE BOOK first printings in less than two months, but don’t worry new print runs are now in the warehouse and ready to go out. Joe Matt’s classic PEEPSHOW recently came back into print as will Julie Doucet’s MY NEW YORK DIARY and Jason Lutes’ BERLIN: BOOK ONE this Spring.
CONTACT INFORMATION: For all requests, please email peggy@drawnandquarterly.com
Peggy Burns
Drawn & Quarterly
Marketing & Publicity Director
PO Box 48056
Montreal, QC H2V 4S8
514 279 0691
peggy@drawnanquarterly.com
Happy New Year!
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