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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Guy Delisle
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.
“[Delisle’s books are] some of the most effective and fully realized travel-writing out there.”
—NPR
“Delisle knows what he is doing.”
—Joe Sacco
“Great stuff—and proof that the comics panel can be another kind of window on the world.”
—The Guardian
“[Delisle] puts everyone’s triumphs, tragedies and (especially) foibles on full display. It’s journalism the way journalism should be: readable, educational and, hopefully, transformative.”
—Chicago Sun Times
“Delisle’s reportage is appealingly brisk and casual.”
—The Onion AV Club
“Delisle navigates politics and culture shock with a keen eye and gentle humor.”
—Mother Jones
Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger in a strange land point of view that made his other books, pyongyang, shenzhen, and burma chronicles required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. In jerusalem: chronicles from the holy city, Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. He eloquently examines the impact of the conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays.
When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle’s drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything. Jerusalem showcases once more Delisle’s mastery of the travelogue.
ISBN: 9781770460713
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Ed the Happy Clown
Chester Brown
IN STORES MAY 2012
In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the much-lauded Paying For It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, Ed set the stage for Chester Brown to become a world-renowned cartoonist. Ed the Happy Clown is a hallucinatory tale that functions simultaneously as a dark roller-coaster ride of criminal activity and a scathing condemnation of religious and political charlatanism. As the world around him devolves into madness, the eponymous Ed escapes variously from a jealous boyfriend, sewer monsters, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and a janitor with a Jesus complex. Brown leaves us wondering, with every twist of the plot, just how Ed will get out of this scrape. The intimate, tangled world of Ed the Happy Clown is definitively presented here, repackaged with a new foreword by the author and an extensive notes section, and, as with every Brown book, astonishingly perceptive about the zeitgeist of its time.
Hardcover, 6� X 9�, B/W, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781770460751
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Jinchalo
Matt Forsythe
FROM THE AUTHOR OF OJINGOGO, ANOTHER TALE OF ENCHANTMENT AND ADVENTURE.
IN STORES FEBRUARY 2012
Jinchalo is Korean for "Really?" and that question (formulated variously as "What is and what isn't?" "What is real?" and "What is imagined?") is at the heart of this book. A companion to Matthew Forsythe's vastly successful Ojingogo, Jinchalo stars the same little girl as its heroine. When Jinchalo lands them in some hot water, the pair is forced to flee the safety of their home. In the course of their flight, they visit a robot garden, follow a vine into the clouds, and leave their village far, far behind.
These comics are firmly rooted in Korean folktales and stylistic conventions, with a playful, joyously drawn line. Jinchalo welcomes readers back into Forsythe's Miyazaki-tinged dreamscape, where spotted octopi fly and bears give piggyback rides, where hummingbirds are larger than people, and a sad furry monster wearing a bowler hat lurks around every corner. Forsythe uses page space innovatively in this wordless panel-less book. Both simple and intricately detailed, his storytelling is compelling for all ages.
Paperback, 5.5 x 7.5, two-colour, 120 pages
ISBN: 9781770460676
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Idyll
Amber Albrecht
DREAM-FILLED LANDSCAPES, PORTRAITS,
AND ABSTRACTS IN BEAUTIFUL DETAIL.
IN STORES APRIL 2012
Amber Albrecht's work is rooted in magic, folklore, and postfeminist neo-romanticism. The newest entry in the Petit Livre imprint of accessible art books, Idyll comprises a series of paintings, screen prints, and drawings.
Much of Albrecht's work is inspired by the dreaminess of childhood, whether expressing her cloudy recollections of the storybooks she read as a child (stories populated by strange creatures, impossible happenings, and oneiric landscapes) or the forested West Coast landscapes that surrounded her. On the pages of Idyll, a series of interconnected myths emerges fully formed, each myth articulating a sense of wistfulness for a past that never was. By turns surreal, fantastical, and absurd, Albrecht constructs these pieces with the vivid yet subtle values that are a product of her screen-printing work.
Hardcover, 7 x 8, full-colour, 96 pages
ISBN: 9781770460638
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Walt & Skeezix: 1929-1930 (Volume Five)
Frank King
IN STORES
"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
Hardcover, 9.5 x 7, black and white, 400 pages
ISBN: 9781770460317
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Blabber Blabber Blabber
Lynda Barry
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
ISBN: 9781770460522
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The Death-Ray
Daniel Clowes
October 2011
"It is like Holden Caulfield with his phaser set on kill. Phonies beware." Time Magazine
"The Death Ray reads as a cautionary parable and an acidic rumination on the travails of adolescence...Clowes demonstrates what the comic book can do and literary fiction can not." The Observer UK
Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious but loyal Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes, heart pounding, soaked in sweat, and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. Indeed, he can and as he learns the extent of his new powers, he discovers a terrible and seductive gadget - a hideous compliment to his seething rage - that forever changes everything.
The DEATH-RAY utilizes the classic staples of the superhero genre - origin, costume, ray-gun. sidekick, fight scene - reconfiguring them in a story that is anything but morally simplistic. With subtle comedy, deft mastery and an obvious affection for the bold Pop Art exuberance of comic book design, Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the the darkness of the human psyche.
Hardcover, 9 x 12, 48 pages, Full-color.
ISBN: 9781770460515
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Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton
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.
In just four years, Kate Beaton has taken the comics world by storm with her non sequiturs, cheeky comebacks and irreverent punch lines. With 1.2 million monthly hits on her site - 500,000 of them unique-- and comics appearing in Harpers Magazine, the National Post and The New Yorker, her caricatures of historical and fictional figures filtered through a contemporary lens display a sharp, quick wit that knows no bounds.
8 x 8 1/2 inches, 160 pages, Black-and-white illustrations throughout, Hardcover
ISBN: 9781770460607
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The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
Seth
October 2011
Whenever you're in Dominion, on Milverton Street you will stumble across an arresting array of handsome old buildings. The one with the pink stone facade with the familiar Canadian cartoon characters over the doorway is the Dominion branch of the Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, erected in 1935 and the last standing building of the once prestigious members-only organization. For years, this building, filled with art deco lamps, simple handcrafted wooden furniture, and halls and halls of black-and-white portraits of Canada's best cartoonists where the professionals of the Great White North's active comics community met -- so active that there were outposts in Montreal and Winnipeg, with headquarters in Toronto. Everyone from all branches of the industry- newspaper strips, gag cartoons, nickel-backs, comic books, political art, accordion books, graphic novels- gathered in their dark green blazers to drink cocktails, eat, dance, and discuss all things cartooning.
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
ISBN: 9781770460539
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Optic Nerve #12
Adrian Tomine
September 2011
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. These full-color stories showcase Tomine's trademark humor and observational skill, making Optic Nerve #12 a great entry point for new readers. "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture" deftly manipulates traditional comics idioms to tell a story of horticulture, patents, and misunderstood art forms, while "Amber Sweet" is a disconcertingly modern tale about a case of mistaken identity.
Full color, 40 pages
ISBN: 9781770460683
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The Adventures of Herge
Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental & Stanislas Barthelemy
"A useful introduction to one of the 20th century's most important cartoonists."-Hollywood Reporter
"[An} intriguing…curiosity…Effortless charm."–New City, Chicago
"Offers greater rewards for dedicated fans than those purely interested by the big-screen adaptation."–THE AUSTRALIAN
"Barthélémy wisely evokes Remi’s style without attempting to copy it…the book evokes an unspoken fusion between its subject and his work…One can almost imagine slipping the pages of The Adventures of Hergé between the Tintin albums themselves, filling in blanks and bridging gaps. Somewhere between this episodic but evocative comic-book bio and Tintin’s own adventures lies the story of Georges Remi, hidden in the white expanses that separate one panel from the next." –SLATE
"Delightfully drawn in a style that’s an uncanny homage to the late artist…The universal appeal and sheer volume of material, along with its consistent quality and rich cast of characters make it an appealing and rich expression of the medium and society. This graphic bio of the man behind the character is well worth the trip."–THE MIAMI HERALD
A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF TINTIN'S CREATOR
THE ADVENTURES OF HERGE is a biographical comic of the world-renowned Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Herge. 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.
Seven year-old Herge first discovers his love of drawing in 1914 when his mother gives him some crayons to stay out of trouble. He continued drawing in school when he fatefully met the editor of XXe Siecle magazine where Tintin first appeared. His popularity skyrocketed from the 1930s through post-WWII. Herge was perceived by some to have aided the Nazi government in Belgium by continuing to publish Tintin in a government-sanctioned magazine, and recounts how the artist was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the war and narrowly escaped execution. Also covered are his marriage troubles in the 1950s and his subsequent affair with Fanny Vlamynck, who went on to become his lifelong partner; his late career in the 1960s, as his interest in Tintin waned and he occasionally "disappeared" for weeks at a time as he contemplated giving up his career to become a fine-arts painter and a recounting of a humorous encounter with Andy Warhol. Funny, charming, and packed with information, THE ADVENTURES OF HERGE is a loving tribute to Tintin and his creator.
Jose-Louis Bocquet is a French novelist, journalist, and essayist. He has written over 20 books, including biographies of other cartooning legends such as Rene Goscinny (Asterix) and Yves Chaland.
Jean-Luc Fromental is the author of over 30 French graphic novels. He has collaborated with many key figures in French comics, including Yves Chaland and Blexbolex.
Stanislas Barthelemy has drawn graphic novels and children's books in France since 1986. He is one of the founding members of the French seminal publishing house, L'Association.
ISBN: 9781770460591
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Pure Pajamas
Marc Bell
September 2011
"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
ISBN: 9781770460546
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Nancy Volume 3
John Stanley
September 2011
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
ISBN: 9781770460508
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Nipper 1965-1966
Doug Wright
September 2011
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
ISBN: 9781770460560
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Big Questions (limited edition signed and numbered hardcover)
Anders Nilsen
August 2011
A haunting postmodern fable, BIG QUESTIONS is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. A downed plane is thought to be a bird and the unexploded bomb that came from it is mistaken for a giant egg by the group of birds whose lives the story follows. The indifferent and stranded pilot is of great interest to the birds- some doggedly seek his approval, while others do quite the opposite, leading to tensions in the group.Nilsen seamlessly moves from humor to heartbreak. His distinctive, detailed line work is paired with plentiful white space and large, often frameless panels, conveying an ineffable sense of vulnerability and openness.
BIG QUESTIONS has roots in classic fable- the story's birds and snakes have more to say than their human counterparts and there are hints of the classic hero's journey, but the easy moral that closes most fables is left here as open and ambiguous. Rather than lending its world meaning, Nilsen's parable lets the questions wander out to go where they will.
Limited edition signed and numbered hardcover, 7.25 x 9.25, colour, 658 pages
ISBN: 9781770460447
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Big Questions (paperback)
Anders Nilsen
August 2011
A haunting postmodern fable, BIG QUESTIONS is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful and minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and over 600 pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. A downed plane is thought to be a bird and the unexploded bomb that came from it is mistaken for a giant egg by the group of birds whose lives the story follows. The indifferent and stranded pilot is of great interest to the birds- some doggedly seek his approval, while others do quite the opposite, leading to tensions in the group. Nilsen seamlessly moves from humor to heartbreak. His distinctive, detailed line work is paired with plentiful white space and large, often frameless panels, conveying an ineffable sense of vulnerability and openness.
BIG QUESTIONS has roots in classic fable- the story's birds and snakes have more to say than their human counterparts and there are hints of the classic hero's journey, but the easy moral that closes most fables is left here as open and ambiguous. Rather than lending its world meaning, Nilsen's parable lets the questions wander out to go where they will.
Paperback, 7.25 x 9.25, colour, 658 pages
ISBN: 9781770460478
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Daybreak
Brian Ralph
AUGUST 2011
You wake up in the rubble and see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep. And then announces that he'll take the first watch. It's not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector and is scratching at the door. What transpires is a moment-to-moment struggle for survival-The Road meets Dawn of the Dead. Daybreak is seen through the eyes of a silent observer as he follows his protector and runs from the shadows of the imminent zombie threat. Brian Ralph slowly builds the tension of the zombies on the periphery, letting the threat-rather than the actual carnage-be the driving force. The postapocalyptic backdrop features tangles of rocks, lumber, I beams, and overturned cars that are characters in and of themselves.
Ralph's stunning debut was the wordless graphic novel Cave-In, created while he was one of the founding members of the influential Fort Thunder art collective. Drawing inspiration from zombies, horror movies, television, and first-person shooter video games, Daybreak departs from zombie genre in both content and format, achieving a living-dead masterwork of literary proportions.
"Brian Ralph's comics present more than meets the eye, but they're eye candy, too, and work well as fantasy stories that cover a specific landscape over a period of time roughly equivalent to the experience of seeing how they unfold. I find them immensely pleasurable."
-Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter
"Brian Ralph's adventure stories combine the hand-crafted charm of indie comics with the well-thought-out thrills of good pulp. A-"
-The Onion, The A.V. Club
Hardcover, 6" x 8.5", Two-color illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781770460553
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Nogoodniks
Adrian Norvid
FINE ART CROSSED WITH INCISIVE HUMOUR FROM A NOTED ARTIST.
August 2011
Nogoodniks collects a ragtag group of images that draw from popular brand slogans, tropes of 1970s counterculture, bad puns, and the sardonic wit of Adrian Norvid. Pages alternate between cartoonish caricatures, parodies of commercial products, and tongue-in-cheek self-congratulatory affirmations that the author has written to himself. Nogoodniks follows in the tradition of other D+Q Petit Livres, but is notable largely in its humour, which is dry and pointed but also often extremely crude. Norvid's images disarm us; their appealing colours and lines draw us in and then their inappropriate language and sometimes vulgar meanings make us blush. By pairing childish, crude imagery or messages with a refined and appealing drawing style, Norvid confronts us with our own attitudes about culture and what is appropriate, and points out the fun in doing and saying things your mom told you not to.
Hardcover, 11.5 x 7.5 inches, full color, 104 pages
ISBN: 9781770460409
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Paying For It
Chester Brown
A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION.
May 2011
Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. As the cartoonist of the autobiographical The Playboy and the biography Louis Riel, Paying For It is a natural progression for Brown as it combines the personal and sexual aspects of his autobiographical work with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet 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 cliches street corners, drugs, or primps.
Paying For It is a book that stands for itself and will be the most talked about graphic novel of 2011.
Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5, Black & White, 272 pages
ISBN: 9781770460485
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Lynda Barry Tote Bag
Lynda Barry
100 % cotton tote bag, designed by Lynda Barry exclusively for Libraire Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: DNQ1109270113
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Adrian Tomine Tote Bag
Adrian Tomine
100 % cotton tote bag, designed by Adrian Tomine exclusively for Libraire Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: DNQ1111300421
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D+Q Winter 2012 Catalogue!
D+Q Catalogue
Check out our Winter 2012 list!
Artists include:
Juhani Tolvanen, Moomin Every Day
Seth, Palookaville 21
Dan Zettwoch, Birdseye Bristoe
Matt Forsythe, Jinchalo
Tom Gauld, Goliath
Kevin Huizenga, Gloriana
Amber Albrecht, Idyll
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D+Q Spring 2012 Catalogue!
D+Q Catalogue
Check out our Spring 2012 list!
Artists include:
Guy Delisle, Jerusalem
Shigeru Mizuki, NonNonBa
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Fallen Words
Chester Brown, Ed the Happy Clown
Brecht Evens, The Making Of
Michael Cho, Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes
Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie, Aya: Life in Yop CityAnouk Ricard, Anna & FrogaLars Jansson, Moomin Book 7 Yoshihiro Tatsumi, The Pushman, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Good-Bye paperbacks, Guy Delisle Shenzhen paperback
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Berlin #18
Jason Lutes
**IN STORES IN FEBRUARY 2012**
A new chapter of Berlin: City of Light, the final volume of Jason Lutes' epic trilogy. Confronted by the hatred and fear that has begun to seep through the cracks in the Weimar Republic, Kurt Severing retreats into drink and despondency. His friends, alarmed by this self-destructive turn, make plans to intervene. Across the city, Silvia Braun has fallen in with a gang of young Communists, who are dumbstruck when she single-handedly attacks two Nazis in the street. Meanwhile, the idyllic nocturnal escapades of Marthe Muller and Anna Albrecht are shattered by a police raid on one of their favorite nightclubs, which leaves their relationship in ruins.
ISBN: 9781770460812
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Goliath
Tom Gauld
A MASTER OF STRIPPED-DOWN, POWERFUL STORYTELLING REWORKS THE DAVID AND GOLIATH MYTH.
IN STORES FEBRUARY 2012
Goliath of Gath isn’t much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he’d pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice-daily challenge to the Israelites: "Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he be able to kill me, then we shall be your servants. But if I kill him, then you shall be our servants."
From one of Britain’s most popular cartoonists, Goliath displays a sensitive wit, a bold line, and a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized.
Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.75, two-colour, 96 pages
ISBN: 9781770460652
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Gloriana
Kevin Huizenga
FORMALLY INNOVATIVE EXPLORATIONS
BRING POETRY TO THE QUOTIDIAN.
IN STORES APRIL 2012
In Gloriana, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of mundane interactions and existential dissections of the units that construct our lives. Huizenga has an understated, quiet approach to story writing that allows his characters (and his readers) the self-awareness to recognize the humor and tragedy of every moment.
Huizenga's much-lauded work is finely detailed, and in its innovative use of form, it explores the boundaries of the comic medium, deconstructing and reconstructing panels to express temporality and lived experience more fully. Presented in this expanded edition, Gloriana employs familiar settings and thorough, sometimes scientific explanations to reach thoughtful conclusions.
Hardcover, 5 x 6.5, full-colour, 96 pages
ISBN: 9781770460614
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Shenzhen (paperback)
Guy Delisle
IN STORES APRIL 2012
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle skillfully notes the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, while also conveying his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues in the Communist state.
Paperback, B/W
ISBN: 9781770460799
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NonNonBa
Shigeru Mizuki
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MIZUKI’S BEST-LOVED WORK
IN STORES APRIL 2012
NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki’s childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre; he is now known as the forefather of yokai manga. His spring 2011 book, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, was featured on PRI’s The World, where Marco Werman scored a coveted interview with one of the most famous visual artists working in Japan today.
Within the pages of NonNonBa, Mizuki explores the legacy left him by his childhood explorations of the spirit world, explorations encouraged by his grandmother, a grumpy old woman named NonNonBa. NonNonBa is a touching work about childhood and growing up, as well as a fascinating portrayal of Japan in a moment of transition. NonNonBa was the first manga to win the Angouleme Prize for Best Album. Much like its namesake, NonNonBa is at once funny and nostalgic, firmly grounded in a sociohistorical context and floating in the world of the supernatural.
Paperback • B/W • 6.45” X 8.75” • 432 PAGES
ISBN: 9781770460720
$26.95 US / $26.95 CDN
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Fallen Words
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
IN STORES APRIL 2012
In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword,the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can�t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi�s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.
EDITED AND DESIGNED BY ADRIAN TOMINE
Paperback, 7.25� X 9.25�, B/W, 264 pages
ISBN: 9781770460744
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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The Pushman (paperback)
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
IN STORES APRIL 2012
Thirty years before the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, Yoshihiro Tatsumi created a library of comics that draws parallels to modern prose fiction and today’s alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. The lives of two men become intertwined when one hires the other to observe his sexual escapades through a telescope. An auto mechanic’s obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two.
Paperback, B/W
ISBN: 9781770460768
$16.95 US / $16.95 CDN
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Abandon the Old in Tokyo (paperback)
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
IN STORES APRIL 2012
Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s maturation as a storywriter. Many of the stories deal with the economic hardships of the time and the strained relationships between men and women, but do so by means of dark allegorical twists and turns.
Paperback, B/W
ISBN: 9781770460775
$16.95 US / $16.95 CDN
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Good-Bye (paperback)
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
IN STORES APRIL 2012
Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan. Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt as a result of World War II, and, yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, as always, it is Tatsumi’s characters that bear his hallmark, muddling through isolated despair and fleeting pleasure to live out their darkly nuanced lives.
Paperback, B/W
ISBN: 9781770460782
$16.95 US / $16.95 CDN
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Anna & Froga
Anouk Ricard
IN STORES MAY 2012
Anouk Ricard’s Anna and Froga features the adventures of a little girl named Anna and her gang of animal friends. Anna’s best friend is the titular Froga, and they often hang out with Bubu the dog (an aspiring artist), Christopher the gourmand earthworm, and Ron (a practical joker of a cat). With a sly humor, Ricard spins yarns that will delight and entertain the whole family. Whether the conflict is driven by eating too many French fries, bossing around Johnny the Tuna, or trying to beat a difficult video game, you know that Anna, Froga, Bubu, Ron and Christopher will come out all right in the end, which makes the layers of confusion they pile on one another all the funnier. Ricard’s characters are sweet without ever veering into preciousness, as they constantly find opportunities for a laugh at one another’s expense. Anouk Ricard works in a fanciful and childlike style, with vibrant colors and simple storylines. The illustrations in Anna and Froga are inviting and the stories well told, employing short, snappy dialogue. Without sacrificing quality, intelligence, or humor, Angouleme Festival-nominated author Ricard is able to write from childhood effectively and charmingly.
Hardcover, 7.75” X 9.875”, full colour, 40 pages
ISBN: 9781770460706
$14.95 US / $14.95 CDN
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Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes
Michael Cho
IN STORES MAY 2012
Michael Cho began creating drawings of the back alleys near his Toronto home in 2008. With this book, he has amassed a collection that speaks to the beauty of the urban landscape: sometimes grittily citified, sometimes unexpectedly pastoral, and always bewitching. Cho is a skilled draftsman, and Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes shines with lovingly rendered details, from expletive-filled graffiti splayed across backyard fences to the graceful twists of power lines over a bend in the road.
Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes meanders through the city, functioning as a sort of caught on-paper psychogeographical Jane’s Walk. With each season’s change, different color schemes become dominant, and a whole range of moods and moments are articulated. Cho lets the reader visit his city as a virtual flaneur, lingering equally over dilapidated sheds and well-groomed gardens in a dazzling tribute to the urban environs.
Paperback, 9.75” X 7.5”, full colour, 80 pages
ISBN: 9781770460805
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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FCBD: Marble Season
Gilbert Hernandez
MAY 5, 2012
Drawn & Quarterly continues its FCBD tradition of offering the best free comic in the industry by publishing an exclusive excerpt of its lead Fall 2012 book by legendary alternative cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez of Love & Rockets fame. Marble Season is a semiautobiographical epic about a group of kids growing up in suburban California of the 1960's. Seen through the eyes of a young boy, comics and popular culture of the day dominate the proceedings and tell the untold story of one of the medium's greatest and most respected artists. This FCBD has no nudity and no swearing and it will serve as a great preview for the upcoming book of the same name, which will be one of D+Q"s lead titles of 2012.
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Birdseye Bristoe
Dan Zettwoch
IN STORES JUNE 2012
A NOT-SO-CLASSIC YARN ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER IN A SMALL MIDWESTERN TOWN.
COVER NOT FINAL
It's a story line we know all too well: "A mysterious stranger comes to town." Only the town is not really a town and the stranger is a gigantic cell-phone tower. The town is Birdseye Bristoe—a portmanteau created from an interstate sign that points to two real towns—and it has only one real permanent resident, an old-timer known only as Uncle. A confirmed bachelor and World War II veteran, he owns most of the real estate in town. His teenaged great-niece and -nephew visit occasionally, though the town doesn't have much to offer apart from an adult superstore, a gas station, and a tackle shop.
Uncle reluctantly agrees to lease his land to a conglomerate of telecommunications carriers, and sets the somewhat random condition that the tower be built with a huge crossbar set horizontally into the mast, making it also the world's largest cross. Birdseye Bristoe begins with the destruction of the cell tower and works backward to unravel the story of its fall.
Hardcover, 7.5 x 10, full-colour, 64 pages
ISBN: 9781770460669
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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Moomin Every Day
Juhani Tolvanen
IN STORES JUNE 2012
Translated by Jill G. Timbers
A LOVING LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED MOOMIN STRIP AND ITS CREATOR, TOVE JANSSON
Moomin Every Day details the genesis of the beloved Moomin comic strip. The strip originally appeared in the world's largest newspaper, the Evening News, and was syndicated in more than forty newspapers around the world between 1953 and 1975. The comics were revived in 2005 by Drawn & Quarterly and published as a hardcover series, sparking an international resurgence of the strip and recognition of Tove Jansson as one of the great twentieth-century cartoonists. The book features unseen drawings, rare comics, and photos of the Jansson family. Perhaps, most surprising of all a never-before-published-in-English short story by Tove called The Comic Strip Artist.
Carefully researched and written in an engaging, clear voice, Moomin Every Day is all the more appealing for Juhani Tolvanen's clear affection for the Moomins as fictional characters and appreciation of the power of the Moomin stories to appeal to readers of all ages. Tolvanen explains how Jansson came to publish her comic in England, why she eventually quit working on the strip, and how her brother Lars came to replace her as author and illustrator without any previous artistic experience.
Hardcover, 8.25 x 9.75, black and white, 136 pages
ISBN: 9781770460430
$22.95 US / $22.95 CDN
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The Making Of
Brecht Evens
IN STORES JUNE 2012
The Making Of is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens�s Eisner-nominated debut, The Wrong Place. With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is invited to a small town as an honored guest. From the moment he arrives, things start going wrong, and since no one seems ready to step in, Pieterjan takes over the show. He decides to build a giant garden gnome as a symbol of Flemish identity, but the construction process brings buried tensions to the surface as the other artists become jealous of Pieterjan�s authority. In The Making Of, Evens delves deep into the petty tensions, small misunderstandings, and deadpan humor that pervade modern relationships. With a keen eye for the subtleties of body language, Evens�s The Making Of builds on the iconic visual style showcased in the Eisner award nominated The Wrong Place, which was published around the world. Sweeping watercolors jump off the page, surrealist scenery intermingles with crowds of people, and small suburban plot homes have never looked so lovely.
Paperback, 6.75� X 8.75�, full colour, 160 pages
ISBN: 9781770460737
$24.95 US / $24.95 CDN
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Moomin Book 7
Lars Jansson
IN STORES JUNE 2012
In this volume of the Complete Lars Jansson comic strip, Lars’s work, already quite polished, takes on a joie de vivre heretofore unseen. The Moomins rebel once more against hibernation, receive an inheritance they’re unprepared for, find colonization a bit of a bore, and decide once and for all that seashells are much prettier than gold nuggets. With familiar jabs aimed at Moomin leg length and somewhat less familiar ones aimed at capitalism and colonial politics, Jansson’s comics are timeless treasures for the whole family.
Hardcover, 8.5” X 12”, B/W, 112 pages
ISBN: 9781770460621
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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Aya: Life in Yop City
Abouet & Oubrerie
IN STORES JULY 2012
Ivory Coast, 1978. It’s a golden time, and the nation, too--an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa--seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.
Clément Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in the lively world of Aya and her friends, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. Drawn & Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Children’s Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award; was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award; and was included on “best of” lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
Paperback, 6” X 8.5”, full colour, 382 pages
ISBN: 9781770460829
$24.95 US / $24.95 CDN
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Palookaville 21
Seth
IN STORES AUGUST 2012
Cover not final
Continuing the new hardcover semi-annual format for Palookaville in volume 21, Seth concludes part four of his ongoing Clyde Fans serial with fifty new pages. He presents a selection of sketchbook pages and pieces from his comic-strip diary, employing a mixture of hand-drawn panels and rubber stamps of his own work. Nothing from this diary has ever been published before. The inclusion of autobiographical comics will appeal to longtime readers of Seth’s work (with a style reminiscent of Wimbledon Green and content similar to the earliest issues of Palookaville and It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken), and reinforces this volume’s status as a stand-alone work, a collection of individual stories comprising an anthology of the different types of cartooning done by Seth. Palookaville 21 features an in-depth biographical profile of Jacques Gagnier, one of Canada’s cartooning giants. Seth’s loving gaze promises to save Gagnier’s work from obscurity, with reproductions of his clear-line cartooning appearing in the profile.
Hardcover, 6 1/4” X 8 1/2”, Two colour, 88 pages
ISBN: 9781770460645
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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Marble Season
Gilbert Hernandez
FALL 2012
THE UNTOLD SEMIAUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMING-OF-AGE STORY FROM A CONTEMPORARY COMICS MASTER
Meet Huey. He plays marbles, writes plays about Captain America, and hangs out with the other kids in the neighborhood. Marble Season is an all-new graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez, the co-creator of the groundbreaking Love and Rockets comic book series with his brothers Jaime and Mario. Love and Rockets—considered the first contemporary alternative comic—celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2012. Hernandez’s seminal contribution to the series is the generation spanning cross-cultural literary soap-opera masterpiece about a tight-knit Central American town, Palomar. From one of the most acclaimed and successful series ever, the epic 500-page Palomar story line is considered one of the pinnacles of the graphic novel medium.
Marble Season follows a group of children and teenagers growing up in suburban Southern California in the early 1960s, and tells the untold stories from the youth of an American comics legend. Pop-culture references—TV shows, comic books, and music—saturate this evocative story, giving Marble Season the distinctive narrative depth and attention to detail fans have come to expect from the acclaimed cartoonist's work. Hernandez has won numerous awards for his stories, including the Kirby Award, Inkpot Award, Harvey Award, and the United States Artists Literature Fellowship. Marble Season is Hernandez’s first book with Drawn & Quarterly, and is one of the most highly anticipated books of 2012.
ISBN: 9781770460867
$19.95 US / $19.95 CDN
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