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| Funny, charming, and packed with information, THE ADVENTURES OF HERGE is a loving tribute to Tintin and his creator. Meticulously researched with references to many of the Tintin albums and complete with a bibliography and mini-bios for each of the main "characters," the biography is appropriately drawn in the iconic clear line style as, an homage to the Tintin adventures that have commanded the attention of readers across the world and of many generations. |
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| An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see--spirited, hopeful and resilient. |
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| "[Aya] wittily delves into both the political and the pop during an enchanted era when anything seemed possible." --Vibe Vixen |
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| THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE AWARD-WINNING AYA SERIES |
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Before blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favoured by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A self-taught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her pop culture obsessions on her sleeve, professing her love for such visual icons as Princess Di, Holly Hobbie and Stevie Nicks. Focusing on found objects such as stickers, greeting cards, magazine photos collected in collage framework, complete with song lyrics hand-lettered in cursive script and heartbreaking, melancholic water colors, Ahlers explores and exposes the social construction of roles, feminine and otherwise. Beginning with incipient childhood self-awareness and traversing high school status jockeying to adult social climbing, the cultural imagery that supports and informs personal identity is given uneasy new meanings and importance in Ahlers' visual remixes.
With The Selves, the schizophrenic nature of an identity foraged from modern cultural sources is laid bare. |
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| DREAM-FILLED LANDSCAPES, PORTRAITS, AND ABSTRACTS IN BEAUTIFUL DETAIL. |
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NOVEMBER 2011 From her first comics published in the Evergeen State College school paper to her influential weekly comic strip, ERNIE POOK'S COMEEK; from her bestselling creative how-to memoir comic books, WHAT IT IS and PICTURE THIS, to her novels, graphic memoirs, plays, and awards in between, Lynda Barry has been part of the North American alternative comics scene for thirty years.
EVERYTHING collects all of the seminal Ernie Pook’s Comeek and includes her earliest books such as BOYS & GIRLS and BIG IDEAS. It also features an introduction penned by Barry, complete with photographs.
Reflective of the early 1980s before the appearance of Barry’s well-known characters Marlys and Arna, the comics in Everything Volume 1 cover the more adult subjects of bad love, bad perms, being single, Prince, and miserable break-ups ---resulting in one of the most oft-quoted Barry sayings: “Love is an exploding cigar which we all willingly smoke.”
Though Barry’s early drawing style is most often described as “scratchy”–her affinity for large swaths of text and narration; fondness for exclamation marks; angular shapes cursive penmanship: and her uncanny ability to zero in the very essence of life all within a few panels is as present as ever in this collection.
8 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches, Black-and-white illustrations throughout, 176 pages, Hardcover |
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| Lynda Barry singlehandedly created a literary genre all her own, the graphic-memoir-how-to, otherwise known as the bestselling, the acclaimed, but most importantly, the adored and the inspirational What It Is. The R.R. Donelley and Eisner Award-winning book posed, explored and answered the question "Do you think you can write?" Now with PICTURE THIS, Barry asks "Why do we stop drawing?" and "Why do we start?" It features the return of Barry's most beloved character, Marlys, and introduces a new one, the Nearsighted Monkey. Like What It Is, Picture This is an inspirational, take home extension of Barry's traveling, continually sold out, and sought after workshop, Writing The Unthinkable. |
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| THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY’S ACCLAIMED COMIC |
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| What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Each page is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process, but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary." |
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| New 2013 Kate Beaton calendars from her wildly popular website and NY Times bestselling book HARK A VAGRANT! |
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October 2011
HARK! A VAGRANT takes readers on a romp through history and literature -- with dignity for few and cookies for all -- with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Beaton’s pared-down, excitable style. This collection features favourite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she’s writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense of the absurd to every situation.
8 x 8 1/2 inches, 160 pages, Black-and-white illustrations throughout, Hardcover |
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| Hark! A Vagrant spent five months on the New York Times Bestselling Graphic Novels list and landed on Best of 2011 lists across the continent including Time Magazine, cementing Kate Beaton as one of the leading cartoonists of our time. This 2013 wall calendar features her indelibly funny and modern take on Robinson Crusoe's fashion sense, who did who wrong in Mr. Rochester's first marriage, plus new material from Beaton's wildly popular website, harkavagrant.com. This calendar will not only brighten walls, but brighten people's day with a hearty laugh. |
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| Short stories, including the adapted-to-film original "Cecil and Jordan in New York" (a.k.a. Interior Design directed by Michel Gondry). |
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| Gabrielle Bell continues her journal comics in a new volume. #1 is filled with the simple excursions and technicalities of an emerging cartoonist's lifestyle, and includes her surreal tale of unlikely love, "My Affliction." |
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Fine Ahtwerks: 2001-2008
A gifted�cartoonist� the delight of his work is in the play of free-associating and funny imagination.�� Ken Johnson, New York Times
�Boundary-destroying, wacked-out (and beautifully drawn) material from Canadian artist Marc Bell that will leave you feeling as if you have bees in your head.��Minneapolis Star Tribine
�Marc Bell is a riddle wrapped in a conundrum further wrapped in salty bacon.��LA Weekly
Marc Bell�s HOT POTATOE seamlessly combines decade-plus comics activities with a lifelong devotion to, as Bell calls it, "Fine Ahtwerks." Part art monograph, part comics collection, HOT POTATOE is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell�s most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies � Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld. Bell�s works have their roots in draftsmanship, typography and old-fashioned gags, but morph into assemblages that connect his images into real space. His comics are funny, seat-of-the pants narratives that give the characters an inner-life.
Represented by the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan, Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray Johnson and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph.
Hardcover/276 pp/9� x 11.5� |
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"Bell has a gift for incomprehensible gab, juggling a dozen language gags in complicated comic pages that, like Ulysses, could take you twenty-four hours or a lifetime to read."-Lee Henderson BORDER CROSSINGS
Pure Pajamas collects Marc Bell's best material from his syndicated weekly comic strip for the Montreal Mirror and the Halifax Coast, as well as a host of
anthologies such as Kramers Ergot, EXPO, Maow Maow and more, featuring his reoccurring characters Kevin, Ol' Simp, Chia-Man, Mr. Socks, and Shrimpy and Paul. Throughout PURE PAJAMAS, Bell creates symbiotic relationships of his fantasy ecosystems, drawn in a rubbery big-foot style. Reminiscent of the sixties comics of R. Crumb but with a kind of bemused detachment in place of Crumb's ire, Bell addresses the big issues of what it's like to live in today's world.
9 x 11 1/2 inches, 96 pages, Hardcover |
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| The rise and fall of a Canadian town. Blanchet's unique, streamlined, retro-inspired aesthetic draws on Art Deco and fifties Modernist design to vividly conjure up idyllic scenes of lazy summer days and crisp winter nights in White Rapids, transporting the reader back to a more innocent time. |
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INTRODUCTION BY SETH
Talking Lines is the first ever comprehensive short story collection of R. O. Blechman, one of the most prolific and influential visual artists of the twentieth century. This oeuvre of his graphic stories is, at once, jocular, wry and profound. Blechman ruminates on such various topics as nuclear weapons, war,wiretapping, Christopher Columbus, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf. The stories have appeared in the seminal magazine Humbug (edited by Harvey Kurtzman), The Nation, Nozone (edited by his son, Nicholas Blechman), The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review.
Blechman is a modern master of all things visual whose timeless intellect and stripped-down artistry propels his nonstop relevancy. He is one of the few artists who has been able to balance the commercial and the artistic in a polished and unparalleled career that heralds him as one of the great cartoonists, the author of one of the first modern graphic novels, an Emmy and Cannes Film festival award-winning animator with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a Hall of Fame Art Director and even as a blogger for the Huffington Post.
Hardcover/6.5X9 inches/272 pages
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| First published in 1913 by P. F. Volland and Co. of Chicago, IL, Oh Skin-nay! is a collaboration between Briggs and poet Wilbur D. Nesbit and portrays a year in the life of small town America through the eyes of the twelve-year-old boy. |
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| A graphic novel classic from one of the world's best-known cartoonists |
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| A LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT CLASSIC BY A MASTER OF UNDERGROUND COMICS |
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| This second issue kicks off with the infamous "The Man Who Couldn't Stop" (no descriptions given here!) and continues right through to Ed's unusual manner of breaking out of prison! |
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| The third issue of this legendary comic series introduces all the important elements that became synonymous with Ed The Happy Clown. |
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| The end of the Ed saga. Or, rather, one of the endings. |
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| What do you say when there's a secret at home? (200 p, B/W, 6x9", PB) |
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| "It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel."--Time Magazine. |
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| A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION |
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IN STORES MAY 2013
THE CRITICALLY LAUDED MEMOIR ABOUT BEING A JOHN AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Paying for It was easily the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in the New York Times, and sold out of its first print run in just six months. Chester Brown’s eloquent, spare artwork stands out in this paperback edition.
Paying for It combines the personal and sexual aspects of Brown’s autobiographical work (I Never Liked You, The Playboy) with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in, but a vocal proponent of one of the world’s most hot-button topics—prostitution. While this may appear overly sensational and just plain implausible to some, Brown’s story stands for itself. Paying for It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work—from the timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd street corners, drugs, or pimps.
Complete with a surprise ending, Paying for It continues to provide endless debate and conversation about sex work.
Paperback, 5.5” x 7.5”, 292 pages, b/w |
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| New edition! New notes! New Covers! Includes Chester Brown's first published strip that he drew when he was 12! |
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IN STORES MAY 2013
A MEMOIR OF SHOCKING HONESTY BY THE GRAPHIC NOVELIST BEHIND 2011'S ACCLAIMED COMIC, PAYING FOR IT
As with every Chester Brown book, when published in 1992 The Playboy was ahead of its time, illustrating the fearlessness and prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. The Playboy is a memoir about Brown's adolescence, sexuality, and shame that chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name. Exploring the physical form of comics to its fullest storytelling capacity, a fifteen-year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester, and the latter narrates the former's compulsion to purchase each issue of Playboy as it appears on newsstands. Even more fascinating than his obsession with the magazine is Brown's need to keep this habit secret, and the great lengths to which he goes to avoid detection by, at first, his family, and then, later, by girlfriends.
The comics that became The Playboy first appeared in issues of Brown's controversial, ground-breaking comic Yummy Fur over twenty years ago, and yet the frankness of the work makes it seem avant-garde even now. As in every work by this master cartoonist, The Playboy uses no extra words, no extra panels, no extra lines, conveying environment and emotion through perfectly chosen moments. Fans of his acclaimed and controversial memoir Paying For It are sure to be drawn in by this early autobiographical portrait of blazing honesty. The expanded reissue includes all-new appendices and notes from the author.
Paperback, 5.5" x 7.5", 176 pages, b/w |
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| The first issue in Chester Brown's surreal series, from an infant's point of view. Accurately featuring almost no English! (24p, B/W) |
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| The secret Underwater alphabet revealed! Pay close attention. (24p, B/W) |
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| FINAL ISSUE OF YUMMY FUR! ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE |
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| A first-time opportunity for fans to see the omni-talented Burns' photographs. |
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"With mesmerizing honesty Castrée resurrects the obscenely disorienting turning points of a childhood, the ones that haunt a person for a lifetime. After reading the last page I closed the book and wept a little bit about its simple, perfect ending." –Miranda July, author of It Chooses You and No One Belongs Here More Than You
Geneviève Castrée has long been beloved for her mini-comics, comics, visual art, and music. SUSCEPTIBLE is the story of Goglu, a daydreamer growing up in Quebec in the '80s and '90s with a single mother. From a skillful artist comes a moving, beautiful story about families, loss, and growing up. |
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| TORONTO’S HIDDEN PASSAGEWAYS BROUGHT TO LIGHT IN A CELEBRATION OF URBAN LIFE |
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The award-winning comic from Daniel Clowes.
Hardcover, 9 x 12, 48 pages, Full-color
October 2011 |
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| In his first all-new graphic novel, one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes, creates a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist -- outspoken and oblivious to the world around him, but who sincerely wants to find his place in the world. Working in a single-page gag format and drawn in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of Ghost World, Ice Haven and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date. |
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| Translated as "folk tales" or "storybook", Pohadky provides a tapestry of interwoven fables and morose, allegorical iconography, bringing a harsh light to the greed, loss, and submission that marks the origins of so many cultural folk tales and legends. |
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| The story of Dennis Cote, a friend of Collier's youth. Another portrait of one of the denizens of downtown life in Toronto in the early 80s. (2001, 24p, B/W) |
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| Observational and idiosyncratic, this book collects ten years of drawn essays from the inimitable pen of David Collier. |
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| The true story of a Canadian falsely convicted of a grisly murder. (24p, B/W) |
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| Collier's intriguing graphic novel/sketchbook combo! |
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| It's easy to understand why Vanessa Davis has taken the comics industry by storm and is poised to do the same with the world at large -- her comics are pure chutzpah, gorgeously illustrated in watercolors. No story is too painful to tell -- like how much she enjoyed fat camp. Nor too off-limits -- like her critique of R. Crumb. Nor too personal -- like her stories of growing up Jewish in Florida. Using her sweet but biting wit, Davis effortlessly carves out a wholly original and refreshing niche in two well-worn territories: autobio comics and the Jewish identity. Davis draws strips from her daily diary, centering on her youth, mother, relationships with men,and eventually her longtime boyfriend. Her intimacy, self-deprecation, and candor have deservedly earned her many accolades and awards. Her deft comedic touch, lush color, and immediacy will set Davis apart not only as one of the premier cartoonists, but as one of the leading humorists for her generation,too. |
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| A timely and incisive portrait of a country on the tipping point. |
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The Popular Travelogue now in Paperback
From the author of Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, is Burma Chronicles, an informative look at a country that uses concealment and isolation as social control. It is drawn with Delisle�s minimal line while interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of his distinctive slapstick humor. |
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IN STORES APRIL 2012
Acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle returns with his strongest work yet—a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in the Holy City. 2012 Fauve d’Or at the Festival Intl de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême |
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| The internationally bestselling graphic novel about the "hermit country" now in paperback. |
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| A year in the life of a world-renowned artist. |
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| First issue of Julie Doucet's legendary comic book series. |
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| From breast cancer to cannibalism in 24 pages. |
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| Doucet's messy bedroom and more. |
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| Heartbrake in the New York Subway. |
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| Julie visits a comic book store. |
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| Part one of "My New York Diary". |
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| The final issue of the classic series Dirty Plotte! |
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| Art beyond the borders of comix. (120 p. color, 5" x 8", Hardcover) |
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| My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet's most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. |
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| The 2000 Firecracker Award-Winner for Best Graphic Novel. New second printing of softcover features new cover art by Julie! |
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| Collects top material from D+Q's first 2 years, 1990-92. |
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| Second volume of award winning series begins here. |
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| Stories by Graham Chaffee, Pentti Otsamo, Maurice Vellekoop and Jacques Tardi. Covers and endpapers by J. D. King. |
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| From "Summer of Love". ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE |
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| From the graphic novel "Summer of Love". ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE |
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The New Girl in Town.
(142p, 2 colour) |
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The New Girl in Town--in a signed and numbered edition. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
(140p, 2 colour) |
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| FROM TWO OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE INFLUENTIAL COLLECTIVE, THE ROYAL ART LODGE |
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| A surprising, wry, and deeply moving reflection on despair and the way back out. |
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| Melancholic yet joyful reflections on past loves, favorite authors, marriage, and fatherhood are laid out in a breezy, comic style. |
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| An inside look at France's superstar cartooning team. Maybe Later sees Dupuy & Berberian working separately for the first time, each cartoonist taking turns to tell the behind-the-scenes "making of" their bestselling Mr. Jean series. |
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| ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD |
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| FROM THE AUTHOR OF OJINGOGO, ANOTHER TALE OF ENCHANTMENT AND ADVENTURE. |
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| A graphic novel from the author of the beloved children's classic Corduroy. |
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| A MASTER OF STRIPPED-DOWN, POWERFUL STORYTELLING REWORKS THE DAVID AND GOLIATH MYTH. |
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IN STORES APRIL 2013
A NEW COLLECTION FROM THE GUARDIAN AND NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CARTOONIST |
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| THE FIRST PRINTED PUBLICATION EDITED BY TAVI GEVINSON, THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF ROOKIE, A WEBSITE FOR TEENAGE GIRLS. |
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| The return of comic art legend, Luc Giard, whose bold, intense drawings were a regular fixture in the early issues of the D+Q anthology. This book marks his first solo collection, featuring all-new material. 2005. softcover, 5x7, 96pgs. |
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A wry take on short-lived YouTube notoriety
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A hilarious tale of the dreaded high-school reunion, including drastic weight loss, unrequited love, and shattered fantasies.
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| With Crickets, Sammy Harkham, editor of the ground-breaking anthology Kramer's Ergot begins a new regular comic book series with D+Q! |
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| A true cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s |
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IN STORES MAY 2013
THE UNTOLD COMING-OF-AGE STORY FROM A CONTEMPORARY COMICS MASTER
Marble Season is the all-new semiautobiographical novel by acclaimed cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, author of the epic masterpiece Palomar, and cocreator of the groundbreaking Love and Rockets comic book series, along with his brothers Jaime and Mario. Marble Season is his first book with D&Q and one of the most anticipated books of 2013. It tells the untold stories from the American comics legends’ youth, but also portrays the reality of life in a large family in suburban 1960s California. Pop-culture references—TV shows, comic books, and music—saturate this evocative story of a young family navigating cultural and neighborhood norms set against the golden age of the American dream and the silver age of comics.
Middle child Huey stages Captain America plays and treasures his older brother’s comic book collection almost as much as his approval. Marble Season subtly and deftly details how the innocent, joyfully creative play children engage in (shooting marbles, staging backyard plays, and organizing treasure hunts) changes as they grow older and encounter name-calling naysayers, abusive bullies, and the value judgments of other kids. An all ages story, Marble Season masterfully explores the redemptive and timeless power of storytelling and role play in childhood, making it a coming-of-age story that is as resonant with the children of today as the children of the ’60s.
Hardcover / 8.125" x 11" / 128 pages |
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Argentinean artist Pablo Holmberg creates a bucolic, medieval folktale in Eden, where nature is the protagonist, and characters are the scenery. Follow a king as he converses with the moon, a star as it is born, and many more in four-panel strips that combine the playfulness of a Sunday comic with the simplicity of a haiku. Surreal yet friendly and approachable, each strip celebrates the thrill of being alive and encourages the reader to do the same. Eden is Holmberg�s chimerical cosmos where the author�s imaginative storytelling is purposely reliant on the reader�s interpretation.
A playful new collection of comic strips which were originally syndicated on his website, Holmberg reinvents the comic strip convention by emphasizing situations and natural landscapes rather than personalities and human interaction
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| The first issue and companion series to Hicksville. |
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| FORMALLY INNOVATIVE EXPLORATIONS BRING POETRY TO THE QUOTIDIAN. |
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| Stories in this pocket-sized issue include an adaptation of a Giorgio Manganelli tale about a desolate world that is stricken with religious fanaticism and violence, a "special report" on household insects, a profile of a loquacious conversationalist, and an exploration of such important questions as "How are we spending our Tuesday?" |
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| The classic 1951 woodcut graphic novel inspired by the atomic bomb testing in the South Pacific. |
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| The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip |
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| The first volume to be drawn and written by Lars Jansson. |
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| THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC NOW REFORMA TTED FOR KIDS, IN SOFTCOVER! |
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| THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC NOW REFORMATTED FOR KIDS, IN SOFTCOVER! |
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THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC IN A NEW SOFTCOVER FORMAT
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May 2010
"Charming and upbeat, filled with curiosity and warmth" -Newsarama
"It's like watching someone write with her art but then also put in bold moments of decoration around that writing." -The Comics Reporter
"Moomin remains a wistful paean to the joyos of relaxing and enjoying life and the importance of play...It's wish fulfillment at its finest" -Christ Mautner (Comic Book Resources)
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| More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artist |
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The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin B/W, 8.5" x 12", 96 pages
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| More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artist |
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| THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC IN A NEW SOFTCOVER FORMAT |
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THE TREASURED CHILDREN'S CLASSIC, LOVINGLY BACK IN PRINT
"My favourite is THE BOOK A BOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND MY, by Tove Jansson. [I] discovered it when [I was ] in Finland. It's just an awful lot of fun." - James Billington, NEWSWEEK
"For those wanting more gentle escapism, Tove Jansson's THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND LITTLE MY is a joy...teases and beguiles at every turn." - THE OBSERVER
"THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE N DLITTLE MY is a what-happens-next? tale with cut-outs. It is charmingly dated but delightful, and has an oddenss to which modern illustrators might aspire." - SUNDAY TIMES (UK)
In a delightful, curious game of what come next, Moomintroll travels through the woods to get home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moomintroll meets Mymble who has lost her sister Little My. Along the way, they endue the hijinks of all teh charming characterse of the Moomin world including the Fillijonks and Hattifatteners. Will Moomin ever make it home safe and sound? A beautiful and boisterous story by internationally acclaimed children's author Tove Jansson, this picture book is sure to tickle the fancies of parents and kids as well as Moomintroll fans everywhere!
Hardcover/colour/20 pages/8.2X11.25 |
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'Who Will Comfort Toffle?' is the timeless, magical tale of the wistful wallflower, Toffle -- too shy to speak to anyone and too fearful of the world he is watching from afar. Lonely and sad, Toffle runs away from home and watches the magical cast of Moominvalley -- Mymble, My, Snufkin, the merry whompses and the Fillyjonk -- celebrate and enjoy life. His insecurity continues to only serve his isolation until he has the courage to overcome his fears by reaching out to another frightened introvert, the mesmerizing Miffle. 'Who Will Comfort Toffle?' is an endearing, introspective story that will speak to readers of all ages who have only needed a friend to pull them out of their shell.
Joining Drawn & Quarterly's archival series of 'Moomin The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip', 'Moomin, Mymble and Little My' and the Moomintroll chapter books is the glorious reprinting of the Tove Jansson classic children's book 'Who Will Comfort Toffle?' with a loving translation by British poet Sophie Hannah.
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| Keith Jones comes from a doodle world tradition that belongs to underground giants like Marc Bell and Ron Rege, Jr. A "Petits Livres" art book. (December 2005) |
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| Catland Empire is like a Phillip K. Dick twisted with a Saturday morning cartoon graphic novel. There will exist a future world where human beings have become empty husks stripped of all memory when it comes to things like how to have fun and play games or so says Mr. Space to his associate Mr. Time. The solution? Get the cats to teach humans how to have fun again. This is all the Cat People do with their lives. They are the fun and game masters. What follows is a tangled web of psychedelic science fiction blending anti-consumerism politics and intergalactic liaisons between cats and dogs, bitter enemies kept secret from each other to avoid a planetary race war. Victor Burg is plotting to wipe out all of mankind by having his brain chip implanted drones commit genocide. |
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IN STORES MARCH 2013
A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR STRUGGLES TO LET THE PAST GO |
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| A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith. |
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AN AWARD-WINNING BOOK FROM A LEGENDARY MANGA-KA AUTHOR
Red Snow continues D+Q's groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga in this collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the pre-modern Japanese countryside of the author's youth, a slightly magical world where ancestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life, struggling to survive the harsh seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers and farmers. While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth, the universal fundamental emotions of the human heart prevail at the center of these tender stories.
Susumu Katsumata began publishing comic strips in the legendary avant-garde magazine Garo (which also published his contemporaries Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Yoshiharu Tsuge) in 1965 while enrolled in the faculty of Science in Tokyo. He abandoned his studies in 1971 to become a professional comics artist, alternating the short humorous strips, upon which he built his reputation, with stories of a more personal nature in which he tenderly depicted the lives of peasants and farmers from his native region. In 2006, Susumu Katsumata won the 35th Japanese Cartoonists Association Award Grand prize for Red Snow.
Hardcover/232 pages/6.25 x 8.5 inches |
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Fall 2011 “Frank King's Gasoline Alley may be the best syndicated comic strip ever. Walt & Skeezix lovingly collects two year’s worth of the strip.”–Playboy
“There is a lovely, often wrenching gravity to the strip. King knows how humans as well as cars work, especially toddlers. His unsentimental understanding of their moods and games, matched by Walt's sudden and unquestioned devotion to his adopted son, make this about as affecting a portrait of fatherhood as I've seen, not least because Skeezix grows. This is the great innovation and dark curse of ‘Gasoline Alley’: the characters age.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This Chris Ware-designed collection…caught even hardcore comics devotees flatfooted with its boundless wonders”–The Onion
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| Introduction by Jeet Heer, Walt & Skeezix is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip Gasoline Alley. BOOK ONE is the beginning of a handsome multi-volume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris Ware. |
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| Collects Gasoline Alley from 1923 - 1924 |
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| The third volume of the much-praised Walt & Skeezix reprint series, collecting years 1925-1926. |
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| In the long awaited-volume of Walt and Skeezix, the newly married Walt Wallet settles into domestic life with his wife, Phyllis, and their adopted son, Skeezix, but their family bliss is soon disrupted by a man who claims to be Skeezix's natural father. A long custody battle erupts, raising questions as to the importance of blood ties compared to a loving environment. Later, Walt and Phyllis have to deal with all the dilemmas of a young couple's life as their family starts to unexpectedly expand. This is the very stuff of life -- paying the bills, nursing a sick child, finding the right job while spending quality time with family -- expertly explored with cartoonist Frank King's unerring fidelity to reality. In unfolding the drama of the Wallet family's life, King displays his full mastery of long and complex narratives, which made his work a forerunner to the modern graphic novel. In his introduction to the series, Jeet Heer explores King's storytelling prowess and links the concerns of the strip with changes in American culture in the 1920s. Lavishly illustrated with King's family photos, the book is designed by Chris Ware, whose elegant and detail-rich books have revolutionized the graphic novel field. |
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Translated by Tiina Nunnally
IN STORES SEPTEMBER 2012
ASTRID LINDGREN'S LOST MASTERPIECE |
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| A bird's eye view of the city of Berlin. The first issue. |
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| Conflict between fascists and communists circa 1928. |
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| The rise of the National Socialists. |
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| Last weeks of the winter of 1929. |
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The first issue of the second volume Berlin: City of Smoke. |
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| The penultimate chapter to Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume in Jason Lutes' trilogy about the decline of the Weimar Republic, finds its broad cast of characters searching for solid footing in a chaotic cityscape. |
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| Blood spatters the street, a life's work goes up in flames, and lovers take flight in the final chapter of Berlin: City of Smoke. |
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| The beginning of the third book of the acclaimed historical trilogy. |
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| The second installment of the third book of the acclaimed historical trilogy. |
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| The first volume in the ambitious Berlin Trilogy collecting issues #1-8. |
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| The second installment of the epic historical trilogy. |
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| Is there a magic trick for mending broken hearts? (Rev. ed.,152 p, B/W, 6x9") New printing with Sherman Alexie introduction |
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| Some things you should know about Joe Matt�s Graphic Novel (128p, B/W 6x9) |
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| Joe Matt's younger years, collected from Peepshow issues #7-10. |
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| The first issue of the long running comic book series. |
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| Joe's girlfriend dumps him at last. |
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| (October 1993, 24 p) Joe gets turned down. Again. |
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| Final chapter of The Poor Bastard. |
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| Beginning of new storyline by Joe, his best yet. |
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| Joe, Seth & Chester have lunch. (February 2002, 32p, 2 colour) |
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| After a nearly 5 year absence from comics, Joe Matt returns with his funniest, and possibly best issue of Peepshow yet. |
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| Everything is fodder for Matt's autobiographical comics, and his biggest target for ridicule is himself. SPENT collects the story originally serialized in issues #11 - 14 of his infamous comic book series, Peepshow. |
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| Signed and Number Cloth Edition, collects Peepshow issues #1-6. (168 p, B/W, 6x9") |
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| (168p, B/W, paperback) The first Peepshow graphic novel. |
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| THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MIZUKI’S BEST-LOVED WORK |
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| A LANDMARK PUBLISHING EVENT OF ONE OF JAPAN'S MOST FAMOUS CARTOONISTS. |
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| NOW IN PAPERBACKRutu Modan's debut graphic novel that won the Eisner Award! New edition with interview by Joe Sacco! |
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| A collection of short stories from the cartoonist of Exit Wounds. |
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IN STORES JUNE 2013
THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EXIT WOUNDS RETURNS WITH A STORY ABOUT FAMILIES, SECRETS, AND THE COMPLEX BONDS OF LOVE
The Property is a work that will inspire, fascinate, and delight readers and critics alike. Savvy and insightful, elegant and subtle, Modan’s second full-length graphic novel is a triumph of storytelling and fine lines. After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren’t a little different than her grandmother led her to believe.
Rutu Modan offers up a world populated by prickly seniors, smart-alecky public servants, and stubborn women – a world whose realism is expressed alternately in the absurdity of people’s behavior, and in the complex consequences of their sacrifices. Modan’s ever-present wit is articulated perfectly in her clear-line style, while a subtle, almost muted color palette complements the true-to-life nuances of her characterization. Exit Wounds made a huge splash for this signature combination of wit, style, and realism, and The Property will cement Modan’s status as one of the foremost cartoonists working today.
Hardcover / 6.5" x 9" / 232 pages, full color |
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| Collection of illustrations, by Vancouver artist Julie Morstad, in D+Q's Petits Livres series. |
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| ALL NEW DRAWINGS FROM A NOTED ILLUSTRATOR |
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| October 2007. Night fall at the crash site. Tensions flare among the birds while the crows watch, amused, and make way for wild dogs. |
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| Acclaimed cartoonist Anders Nilsen continues his surrealist trek through the queries and conundrums of life that plague the minds of reptile, fowl, and mammal alike. |
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The long-awaited conclusion of Anders Nilsen's epic series
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| A signed and numbered limited-hardcover edition of an existentialist masterpiece ten years in the making |
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| An existentialist masterpiece ten years in the making |
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A STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS INSCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, LETTERS, AND BEDSIDE SKETCHES
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| Fine art crossed with incisive humour from a noted artist. |
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| A sad and cautionary tale of mystery, fame, murder and innocence. |
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WHEN THE BODY SAGS AND THE HONESTY LAGS
Mid-Life is the story of a 40-year-old man, John, who becomes a father again with his much-younger second wife which results in a slow, painful attack by flowered baby bags and front facing baby carriers on his former virility and self identity. John always believed that age is a state of mind, however, his adult daughters, baby son, energetic wife, stressful job, house full of cats, and flabby body complete with bloated stomach and sagging bosom all lead John reluctantly to admit that he is having a midlife crisis. The crisis drives John to yell at his wife, pick fights with his daughters and miss deadlines at work that put his job on the line. John takes solace from the stress of everyday life with a seemingly harmless infatuation with the pretty children's performer Sherry Smalls who sings adoringly to him directly from his son's DVD.
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| Since 1989, John Porcellino has released over 65 issues of his self-published comic King-Cat Comics and Stories. This large collection focuses on the first fifty issues with extensive endnotes and an index along with selections of all the extra ephemera that makes an individual issue of K-C it's own unique experience -- essays, articles, stories, and letters from friends. |
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CELEBRATING THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KING CAT ZINE
"[KING CAT COMICS] swell with passion and heart." - USA TODAY'S POP CANDY
"Since 1989, John prcellino's simple, and simpy beautiful, comics (along with letters, lists, and a few photographs) have been self published to growing acclaim." - MINNEAPOLIS CITY PAGES
"Porcellino is a master at miniature poignance." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
MAP OF MY HEART celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino's seminal and influential comics zine, KING CAT COMICS, which he started self publishing in 1989 and which has been his predominant means of expression. In this collection, while Porcellino is living in isolation and experiencing the pain of divorce he crafts a melancholic, tender graphic ballad of heartbreak and reflection. Known for his sad, quiet honesty rendered in his signature deceptively minimalist style, Porcellino has a command of graphic storytelling as sophisticated as the medium's more visually intricate masters. Few other artists are able to so expertly contemplate the sadness, beauty, and wonder of life in so few lines.
Black and White/304 pages/6X9
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| Road trips, drunken concerts, and late-night make-out sessions all swirl together in this coming-of-age graphic novel by King Cat cartoonist John Porcellino. |
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| Everyone's favorite comic book character is back after six long years! Archer Prewitt delivers his third issue of SOF BOY! |
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| This fourth installment in Michel Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical series finds Paul settling comfortably into adult life, occasional twinges of anxiety aside. |
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| Rabagliati's thinly veiled autobiography tells a geniunely moving coming-of-age story of a summer as a camp counsellor. Charmingly illustrated, the book follows Paul as he moves from self-pity to self-confidence, learning to live outside himself through falling in love and helping others." -The Ottawa Citizen |
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| (32 p, B/W, 7.5 x 9.75") 2001 Harvey Award for Best New Talent |
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| Michel Rabagliati delivers another charming, thinly veiled memoir, this book won the Doug Wright Award for Best book of 2005 and is a Golden Oak Award nominee. |
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| A FANTASTICAL, WORDLESS VOYAGE THROUGH SUBTERRANEAN MAZES |
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| The first collection of short stories from the radiant 'cute-brut' world of a truly remarkable artist. |
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| Ron Rege, Jr.'s epic in a new edition. |
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| Ron Rege Jr;s Yeast Hoist #13 |
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| THE MISADVENTURES OF FIVE CHARMING TROUBLEMAKERS |
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| A little boy is haunted by terrible dreams until he meets a man with strange powers. |
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THE COMPLETE SOFTCOVER COLLECTION OF BOSNIAN WAR SHORT STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF PALESTINE AND SAFE AREA GORAZDE
"Sacco is one of the most astute war-zone correspondents working today" --Rolling Stone
"A searing and amusing look at the motley collection of reporters, war profiteers, criminals, soldiers and hapless civilians trapped in war zone." --New York Times
"Sacco doesn't try to lay claim to the truth. He's simply telling one man's story, and it makes for an excellent book." --Washington Post
"Sacco demonstrates that the narrative arts, including comics, can gather up complicated social truths with a gradual patience that often eludes the camera." --Boston Globe
Using old-fashioned pen and paper, award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. THE FIXER AND OTHER STORIES is a new softcover that collects Joe Sacco's landmark short stories on the Bosnian Ware that previously comprised the hardcover editions of THE FIXER and WARS END.
Black and White/216 pages/7 x 10 inches
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| THE FIRST STORY TO BE TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH FROM THE SURREALIST AND ALTERNATIVE MANGA-KA |
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| Palooka-Ville #10-15 collected in one beautiful hardcover volume |
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| On the surface, George seems a charming, foolish old man--but who is he? And who was he? |
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| Collects Palookaville issues #4 - 9 in paperback. A classic! |
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| The classic first issue in a new deluxe 10th Anniversary edition. |
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| Part 4 of "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken". |
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| The Clyde Fans story contines... |
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| After one more disastrous attempt at being a travelling salesman, Simon Matchcard returns to the office defeated and unsure of what he'll do next. |
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| (24p, 2 colour) The first single issue continuing the story from Clyde Fans: Book One. |
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Palookaville #20 is the first volume of the seminal comic book series to be published in book form. The expansion into hardcover from pamphlet is a parallel that illustrates Seth's growth into an award-winning cartoonist, book designer, hobbyist, editor, essayist, and installation artist. The annual visual compendium will showcase Seth's varied creative passions. #20 is part comic book with the ongoing serialization of Clyde Fans, part sketchbook, and part documentation of Seth's fictional town of Dominion City.
Seth's first autobiographical comics since Palookaville #2 and #3 will be featured in #20. Drawn in his loose sketchbook style similar to his book Wimbledon Green, Seth details his trip to a book festival and his awkward struggle to overcome isolation and communicate with the people around him. Seth continues the serialization of his acclaimed Clyde Fans storyline that the New York Times Book review aptly noted, "Seth truly believes in his wares -- the little meanings of regular lives." This is, perhaps, nowhere more apparent than in the cartoonist's ongoing three-dimensional rendering of his fictional Dominion City, most recently featured in his book George Sprott. Complete with sketches, photographs and an essay, the cartoonist explains why the need to conceptualize the fictional city in sculptures was a natural extension from comics storytelling, and how if he had his way, it would have stayed in his basement forever.
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October 2011
Seth opens up his sketchbook to an unseen world of Canadian comics, sometimes fictional and sometimes not, sometimes humourous and sometimes bittersweet, but always fascinating in its creative exploration of Canadian comics history. Whereas WIMBLEDON GREEN celebrated the comics collectors, THE GREAT NORTHERN BROTHERHOOD OF CANADIAN CARTOONISTS celebrates the cartoonists the comics collectors love.
6 x 8 inches, 136 pages, Hardcover |
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(212p, 4-color, 9x12") The Sketchbooks of Seth
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| Seth's gorgeous graphic novel tale, pulled from the pages of his sketchbook. A comic about collecting comics! |
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| Renowned artist and designer Leanne Shapton has taken a century-old book and reinterpreted it in a series of bold, painted images. Shapton takes the otherwise complex objects of trees and strips them down into stark, almost abstract shapes and colors. She distills each subject into its simplest form, using vivid colors in lush gouache paint. Her passion is evident in each painting: the waterbirch is represented as two pulsating red bulbs contrasted against a grey backdrop; the eastern white pine is represented by a close up of its leaves against a radiant summer sky. |
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HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC
COMICS
"A provocative collision." --Entertainment Weekly
"A brilliant parable about literature, history and what telling stories tells us about ourselves." --Toronto Star
"Disconcerting and fascinating... a canny fusion of overlapping fictional legacies" --Globe and Mail
HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC COMICS
Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In "Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is reimagined as a foppish Little Nemo; and Camus's Stranger becomes a brooding, chain-smoking Golden Age Superman. Other source material includes Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, bubblegum wrappers, superhero comics, kid cartoons, and more.
Sikoryak's classics have appeared in landmark anthologies such as RAW and Drawn & Quarterly, all of which are collected in Masterpiece Comics, along with brilliant new graphic literary satires. His drawings have appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as in The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad, and Nickelodeon Magazine.
64 pages,Hardcover
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| A kids' comic classic, designed by Seth! |
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| The classic children's comic strip in a handsome new archival series, designed by Seth |
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In the third volume in the Nancy series drawn by journeyman writer John Stanley, he continues to put his strange but fascinating stamp on the iconic character. Nancy declares poverty and battles yoyos on Oona’s house, but the book also features her pal Sluggo, who Nancy complains is too dirty.
7 3/4 x 11 inches, Full-color illustrations throughout, 120 pages, Hardcover |
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| Precious classic comics from the writer of Melvin Monster and Little Lulu. |
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| The second volume of NANCY in D+Q's John Stanley Library elegantly designed by Seth stars the beloved Brillo-headed Nancy in her own comic book series written by the greatest children's comics writer of all time, John Stanley. Stanley who is the author of MELVIN MONSTER, LITTLE LULU, 13 GOING ON 18, puts his own deft sense of humor and superior cartooning on the Ernie Bushmiller creation with spooky Oona Goosepimple, Spike, and Mr. McOnion. Nancy, along with her sidekick Sluggo, will charm readers young and old with her hilarious, scheming hijinks. |
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In the early to mid-1960s, John Stanley turned his attentions to drawing and writing his own series, specifically Melvin Monster, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, Kookie, and the most interesting of these titles, Thirteen Going on Eighteen, rather than working with already established licensed characters he is most well known for such as Little Lulu. D+Q has embarked on an archival series of Stanley's comics including Melvin Monster, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, Kookie and Thirteen Going on Eighteen.
Thirteen Going on Eighteen focuses on the friendship and rivalry of two teenage girls, Val and Judy. Each comic is a darkly hilarious look at the social maneuverings and betrayals of the teen set. Stanley's stripped down approach perfectly captures the fever pitch of teenage years. He creates a teenage sit-com and turns it into an anguished character study.
Hardcover/336 pages/7.75" x 11" |
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Meet Tubby Tomkins, a mischievous gourmand, rabble rouser and schemer who, along with neighborhood buddies The Fellers, is continually at odds with the belligerent and thwarting West Side Boys headed by Wilbur Van Snobbe, the rich trickster who always gets the girl Tubby likes, Gloria Darling. From clubhouse standoffs to pogo stick time machines, the day is rarely long enough for the hilarious escapades and witty shenanigans that divert and preoccupy the epicurean Tubby and his pals. Consistently humorous and engaging, Tubby is a spirited voyage through the prototypal works of a preeminent storyteller.
TUBBY is the latest title in Drawn & Quarterly's extensive reprinting of the work of 1960s cartoonist John Stanley and elegantly designed by Canadian cartoonist Seth. TUBBY collects issues 9-12 of the classic strip chronicling the tales of its namesake protagonist and is an offshoot from the wildly popular Little Lulu, Stanley's career-defining work.
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| A deluxe comic book collecting two out of print stories "The Revival" and "Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight." |
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| Sturm's stories The Revival, Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight, and The Golem's Mighty Swing are collected in this American trilogy of religious fervor, greed, and entertainment through the eras. |
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| An expectant father, Mendleman's life goes through an upheaval when he discovers he can no longer earn a living doing the work that defines him -- making well-crafted rugs by hand. A proud artisan, he takes his donkey-drawn cart to the market only to be turned away when the distinctive shop he once sold to now only stocks cheaply manufactured merchandise. As the realities of the market place sink in, Mendleman unravels. Sturm draws a quiet, reflective and beautiful portrait of eastern European in the early 1900s, bringing to life the hustle and bustle of an old-world market place on the brink of the Industrial Revolution. Market Day is a timeless tale of how economic and social forces can affect a single life. |
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In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn�t have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that drifts through memories of faces and places, before settling back on the traveling salesman and the boy pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head--discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.
Although he touches on many of the same themes as his contemporaries in the field of post-war alternative manga, Yoshihiro Tsuge (L'Homme Sans Talent) and Seiichi Hayashi (Red Coloured Elegy), Suzuki's ever-shifting narrative approach and dashes of surrealist humor distinguish his work from his peers.
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INDOOR VOICE collects pen, brush, ink, watercolor, and collage experiments that show how Tamaki arrives at her illustration work, as well as more polished and personal comics work examining her relationship to her parents and their influence on her art.
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| Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi�s remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and hardboiled crime novels led him to create this landmark genre of manga in his epic critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography, A DRIFTING LIFE. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five deacdes later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America.to an abandoned ranger station where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer. A cinematic adventure story, BLACK BLIZZARD uncovers an unlikely love story and an even unlikelier friendship |
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| A NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM THE FOREFATHER OF THE JAPANESE LITERARY COMICS MOVEMENT |
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| Book Five features Anneli Furmark (Sweden), Amanda V�h�m�ki (Finland), and T. Edward Bak (United States), with cover art by V�h�m�ki. |
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| Book Four features three North American cartoonists, Dan Zettwoch ("The Ghost of Dragon Canoe") of St. Louis, Gabrielle Bell (When I�m Old) of Brooklyn and Martin Cendreda (Dang!) of Los Angeles. |
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| The complete Optic Nerve mini-comics |
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| Adrian Tomine created this poster to celebrate D+Q's 20th! hand silk screened poster+adrian+TV on the Radio= act now, as this is limited edition! |
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| A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE NEW YORKER COVER ARTIST AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST |
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| "Optic Nerve is less your traditional comic than a combination of great minimalist art and literature." --Jane magazine |
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| The final issue in the three-part Shortcomings epic. |
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| In the new, long-awaited Optic Nerve #12, award-winning Shortcomings cartoonist Adrian Tomine returns to the multiple short story format familiar from early issues of the iconic series. |
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| Features 4 stories, including the Eisner Award-nominated "Pink Frosting". |
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| Four stories including "Dylan & Donovan". |
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| Three stories featured here, including "Hazel Eyes". |
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| A successful young writer becomes obsessed with finding the girl he had a crush on in high school. |
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| Hilary the retail customer service agent spins out of control. |
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| A beautiful young woman finds herself besieged by the attention of three obsessive, lustful men. |
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| Part 1 of 3. A Japanese-American male searches for the perfect girl. |
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| 18 x 24 " ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE |
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| Making light of nuptial narcissism. |
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| The ultimate collection by one of the most recognized talents in graphic novels and includes over a decade of comics and illustrations by Adrian Tomine. |
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| Originally serialized in his series Optic Nerve, Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings is his first long-form story, and the most anticipated graphic novel of 2007. |
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| Paperback edition of Adrian Tomine's critically acclaimed Shortcomings |
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| The first four Optic Nerve comics collected in one book. Paperback |
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| Collects Optic Nerve #5-8 in paperback. |
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| 18 x 24" ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE |
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| Von Szombathy's surreal illustrations explore the bold juxtaposition of color and use of iconic imagery characteristic of modern underground screenprinting. |
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| Straggling behind the mild 2003 success of cartoonist Chris Ware's first facsimile collection of his miscellaneous sketches, notes, and adolescent fantasies arrives this second volume, updating weary readers with the last ten years of Ware's clich�d and outmoded insights. |
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Jordan Wellington Lint, 51, is Chief Executive Officer of Lint Financial Products, a company he began serving in 1985 as assistant and advisor before working his way up its corporate ladder to record-setting innovation in the fields of finance and high-yield investment. In his seven years as the head of Lint, Jordan has grown the company from a business lender and real estate speculator to a leading provider of network financial infrastructure services, all the while positioning Lint as a model of corporate integrity and high-yield, low-risk product. Lint's vision has made him one of the most influential and widely sought-after leaders in the complex Omaha securities industry, and his fresh approach to an understanding of local problems, leadership and determination have enabled Lint to grow, outdistance and outpace its competitors.
Lint graduated from UNL in 1981 with a BA in Business and briefly studied music and recording in Los Angeles before returning to his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, where he has continued his life journey ever since. In his ongoing role as Chief Executive Officer and his dual roles as public servant and father, Lint continues to put his creative leadership and vision to work in a variety of challenging settings. He is married and is the father of two boys.
The ACME Novelty Library Number 20 comprises a contributing chapter to cartoonist Chris Ware's gradual accretion of the ongoing graphic novel experiment "Rusty Brown."
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After cartoonist, educator and editor James Sturm discovered the vintage book, Mopey Dick and the Duke, he set off to find more about the author, the deceased and unknown cartoonist Denys Wortman. Sturm immediately took note of the masterful drawings � casual, confident, and brimming with personality and wondered how this cartoonist escaped his radar. After some online sleuthing, Sturm connected with Wortman�s son, Denys Wortman VIII, who relayed that an archive of over 5000 illustrations literally was sitting in his shed in dire need of rescuing. For over 35 years, the illustrations had been fighting such elements as hungry rodents, rusty paperclips and even a blizzard. Wortman VIIII also had drawers full of his father�s correspondences including letters and holiday cards from William Steig and Walt Disney. Original artwork by artists and personal friends including Peggy Bacon, Milt Gross, Isabel Bishop, and Reginald Marsh were also saved. Considering that Wortman�s luminary peers held him in the highest regard coupled with his artistic prowess, makes his absence from both fine art and comics history puzzling. So, Sturm and Brandon Elston set out to create a beautiful tribute to the forgotten master.
Denys Wortman's New York is not only a tribute to Wortman, but it is a tribute to New York, the city that sparked Wortman�s voracious creative output. From coal cellars to roof tops, from opera houses to boarding houses, Wortman recorded the sailors, dish washers, con artists, entertainers, pushcart peddlers, construction workers, musicians, hobos, society matrons, young mothers, secretaries, and students who collectively make New York the city it is.
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| The history of the gold rush brought to life. |
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| The Collected Doug Wright: Canada's Master Cartoonist introduced the world to the charms of Canada's mischievous little kid, Nipper, who appeared in newspapers across the country in the mid 20th century. Nipper 1963-64 is the first in a series of paperback annuals that will collect two years worth of Doug Wright's ingenious and enduring comic strip. This volume covers a peak period in Wright's four-decade career as he comes into his own as an iconic cartoonist capable of documenting middle-class suburban existence in all its minute joys and indignities. Packed with period details and loaded with charm, these collections of sublime wordless strips will feature designs by acclaimed cartoonist Seth and a brief introduction by writer Brad Mackay. |
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Doug Wright’s pantomime strip about the life of a suburban family moves into the mid-1960s, and the pop culture of the time begins to seep in. Wright showcases the domestic mayhem that parents and their kids experience throughout the year. The endless play of kids is prevalent, from skateboarding to snowball fights, from the guilty pleasure of making prank phone calls to the daily roughhousing of siblings.
8 x 5 1/4 inches, Two-color illustrations throughout, 112 pages, Paperback |
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| A FAITHFULLY RENDERED PAEAN TO MID-CENTURY FAMILY LIFE |
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| A career-spanning retrospective of one of the masters of North American cartooning |
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A NOT-SO-CLASSIC YARN ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER IN A SMALL MIDWESTERN TOWN.
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