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The Property
Rutu Modan
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
ISBN: 9781770461154
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You're All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack
Tom Gauld
IN STORES APRIL 2013
A NEW COLLECTION FROM THE GUARDIAN AND NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CARTOONIST
New York Times Magazine cartoonist Tom Gauld follows up his widely praised graphic novel Goliath with You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, a collection of cartoons made for The Guardian. Over the past eight years, Gauld has produced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain’s most well regarded newspaper. Only a handful of comics from this huge and hilarious body of work have ever been printed in North America – exclusively within the pages of the prestigious Believer magazine. You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack distils perfectly Gauld’s dark humor, impeccable timing, and distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police and fictional towns designed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior and whimsical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Tom Gauld reaffirms his position as a first rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.
Hardcover, 8" x 5.9", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770461048
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Cave~In
Brian Ralph
IN STORES JANUARY 2013
A FANTASTICAL, WORDLESS VOYAGE THROUGH SUBTERRANEAN MAZES
A rat darts across the opening pages, into a hole, and down a long tunnel, stopping under a hammock. A mole man stretches and wakes up, leading the rat and the reader deeper into the tunnel. What follows is a series of dreamlike sequences, each stranger than the last. Brian Ralph, author of the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller and American Library Association/YALSA “Great Graphic Novel for Teens” Daybreak, was a founding member of the influential Providence, Rhode Island, Fort Thunder art collective, which was renowned for the way its members’ work intermingled lowbrow and highbrow art forms–drawing inspiration from comics, video and role-playing games, and contemporary art. Fort Thunder created the alternative adventure comic and the comic book as artist’s book. Cave~In was seen as the first example of this new approach. In this wordless classic, special emphasis is placed on the power of gesture. Minimalism allows Ralph to be playful with form–Cave~In’s use of color and crosshatching speak much more clearly to narrative shifts than they could in a more conventional text, and the use of different panel shapes and sizes transform the rhythm and pacing of the story. Cave~In is an all-ages adventure story, jam-packed with monsters, bats, and all manner of unimaginable underground mystery.
Paperback, 4.75" x 6", Two Color
ISBN: 9781770460942
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Paying For It
Chester Brown
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
ISBN: 9781770461192
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The Playboy
Chester Brown
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
ISBN: 9781770461185
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Marble Season
Gilbert Hernandez
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
ISBN: 9781770460867
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Letting It Go
Miriam Katin
IN STORES MARCH 2013
A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR STRUGGLES TO LET THE PAST GO
Miriam Katin’s debut graphic novel, the 2006 memoir We Are On Our Own, was a unique portrait of how one family survived the Second World War. A companion to We Are On
Our Own, Letting It Go shows Miriam, now an adult, dealing with her son Ilan’s recent move to Berlin. As Miriam struggles to accept his decision, she realizes that her hesitations have more to do with longheld grudges than any sort of legitimate concerns. Whereas We Are On Our Own probed Miriam’s loss of faith and talked about her experiences during the War, Letting It Go examines the lasting trauma of surviving World War II from a very different vantage point, focusing on Miriam’s life as a middle-aged New Yorker. The flowing, expressive style employed in We Are On Our Own has been refined in this fullcolor masterpiece. A panel-less style lets the story flow, with wise and funny anecdotes along the way. Katin has the light hand of a master storyteller in this, an insightful, serious, but wry account of the myriad ways trauma inflects daily existence, both for survivors and for their families.
Hardcover, 6.8" x 9", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770461031
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My Dirty Dumb Eyes
Lisa Hanawalt
IN STORES MAY 2013
SHARPLY OBSERVANT, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY COMICS FROM THE BELIEVER CARTOONIST AND NEW YORK TIMES ILLUSTRATOR
My Dirty Dumb Eyes is the highly anticipated debut collection from award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. In a few short years, Hanawalt has made a name for herself: her intricately detailed, absurdly funny comics have appeared in venues as wide and varied as The Hairpin, VanityFair.com, Lucky Peach, Saveur, The New York Times, and The Believer.
My Dirty Dumb Eyes intermingles drawings, paintings, single-panel gag jokes, funny lists, and anthropomorphized animals, all in the service of satirical, startlingly observant commentary on pop culture, contemporary society, and human idiosyncrasies. Her wild sense of humor contrasts strikingly with the carefully rendered lines and flawless draftsmanship that are Hanawalt trademarks. Whether she’s revealing the secret lives of celebrity chefs or explaining that what dogs really want is a tennis-ball bride, My Dirty Dumb Eyes will have readers rolling in the aisles, as Hanawalt’s insights into human (and animal) behavior startle and delight time and again.
Flexicover / 7" x 9" / 120 pages, full color
ISBN: 9781770461161
$22.95 US / $22.95 CDN
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Animals With Sharpies
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber
IN STORES JUNE 2013
PAINTINGS BY TWO OF CANADA �S MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTISTS
Animals With Sharpies is a collection of paintings withhand-lettered texts. In each painting, Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber have depicted an animal holding a sharpie, ostensibly writing a message. These messages are varied in nature: they are political and religious tracts, confessions, recipes, arithmetic problems and more. Above all, these paintings are funny, but they are also startlingly poignant and jarring for the humanness of the suffering and longing depicted in these animals� simple words. Dumontier and Farber, two of the founding members of the highly influential art collective the Royal Art Lodge, have been collaborating on art projects for more than fifteen years. Their collaborative style is unique from that found in their individual works and is respected internationally: they�ve exhibited together in France, Switzerland, Canada, the USA, Belgium, Spain, England and Germany. Dumontier and Farber have a strong sense of the absurd, but are also deeply insightful about the world in which their art is created. Animals With Sharpies will be a mixture of new, previously unseen pieces, and older pieces.
Hardcover, 9" x 7", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770461062
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Moomin: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip, Book Eight
Lars Jansson
IN STORES JUNE 2013
GET SHIPWRECKED WITH MOOMIN IN THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE BELOVED MOOMIN HARDCOVER SERIES
Lars Jansson returns with the eighth volume of the classic Moomin hardcover comic series, and the whole gang is back in action. Sniff is causing trouble with another of his get-rich-quick schemes, Snorkmaiden falls in love with the inspector's bad boy nephew, and Moominmamma is offering up plum cake to whosoever should need it. As always, the experiences of the Moomin family are poignant, melancholy, and strangely wise, with just a dash of drolly funny and a pinch of slapstick. Without a doubt, Lars Jansson's Moomin Volume Eight is a treat for the whole family.
Hardcover, 8.5" x 12", 96 pages, b/w
ISBN: 9781770461215
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Moomin: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip, Book Seven
Lars Jansson
RETURN TO MOOMIN VALLEY IN THE SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE CLASSIC COMIC BY LARS JANSSON
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
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Sunday Night Movies
Leanne Shapton
IN STORES SEPTEMBER 2013
ETHEREAL ILLUSTRATIONS EXPAND ON A NEW YORK TIMES SERIES BY AN ACCLAIMED AUTHOR, ARTIST, AND ART-LOVER
Sunday Night Movies features Leanne Shapton's romantic interpretation of moments from the movies that populate her memory. She captures fragments and stills that appeared on the screen for mere seconds and, in a gorgeous deep black watercolor, re-envisions them, forging haunting images that stay with you, much like a hazy but stubborn recollection of dreams past.
What could be a simple still life or portrait of an actor in a classic scene becomes so much more when seen through Shapton’s eyes. This journey through Shapton’s film life becomes a wistful, if light-handed, celebration of the quiet moments in life, which too often slip by unnoticed. Each painting is like a love letter to the art form of cinema.
Nothing is as magical as when artist Leanne Shapton casts a dreamy eye towards classic iconography; she transforms the language of images with each grey wash and carefully chosen line. Her bestselling Petit Livre art book The Native Trees Of Canada took a century-old government catalogue and reworked it, using bold colors and stark shapes to represent the trees in all their majestic glory. The book was a sleeper hit, and went through multiple printings. With Sunday Night Movies she brings her distinctive style to bear on moments in her own life and the effect is restrained and fanciful, familiar and all new. It’s a uniquely beautiful book from an artist known for her dreamily beautiful work.
Paperback / 10" x 7" / 96 pages / Full color
ISBN: 9781770461277
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A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting
Guy Delisle
IN STORES JUNE 2013
MEDITATIONS ON FATHERHOOD FROM THE AUTHOR OF JERUSALEM: CHRONICLES FROM THE HOLY CITY
With A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, the trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle’s landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the worries and cares any young parent might have, and offer wry solutions to the petty frustrations of being a dad who works from home.
Readers familiar with Delisle’s stranger-in-a-strange-land technique for storytelling (employed in Jerusalem, Pyongyang, Burma, and Shenzhen) will recognize the titular parent in this book; Delisle’s travelogues were simultaneously portraits of complex places and times, and portraits of a stay-at-home dad’s ever-changing relationship with his children while his wife is out working for Doctors Without Borders. The relationship between young child and all-too-irony-aware parent is beautifully done here, and Delisle’s loose flowing style has been set free, creating a wonderful sense of motion throughout. A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting is an intimate, offbeat look at the joys of parenting.
“In this intimate account of fatherhood, the Quebecois author casts a funny and self-deprecating eye on his own approach to parenting through a series of sharply-observed vignettes.”—Direct Matin
“Unapologetic and totally disingenuous, the User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting is a guilty pleasure that ought to be savored.”—Elle France
Paperback / 6" x 8.5" / Black and white / 192 pages
ISBN: 9781770461178
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Moomin Builds A House
Tove Jansson
THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC NOW REFORMATTED FOR KIDS, IN SOFTCOVER!
After Mymble’s family comes to visit the Moomins, her littlest and most badly behaved sister, Little My, is left behind. She promises to behave if she is given Moomin’s bedroom; Moomin, tired of being forced out of his room, decides to build a house where all the rooms will belong to him. With Little My helping out, things are sure to go awry, but in the end, Moomin’s house-building misadventures teach him the value of a home.
Flexicover, 8"x 6.5", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770461086
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Moomin Falls In Love
Tove Jansson
THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC NOW REFORMATTED FOR KIDS, IN SOFTCOVER!
Moominvalley is flooded, so Snorkmaiden and Moomin head out to rescue anyone stranded in the deluge. They bring home Miss La Goona, the leading lady of the visiting circus, who turns out to be quite a demanding houseguest. Nonetheless, Moomin, having read a few too many romantic novels, falls head over heels in love with her, and chaos ensues. Tove Jansson’s flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!
Flexicover, 8" x 6.5", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770461079
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The Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Peter Bagge
THE ALTERNATIVE COMICS MASTER OFFERS AN INDELIBLE AND IDIOSYNCRATIC TAKE ON THE PROTOFEMINIST
Cartoonist Peter Bagge is famous for his slacker character Buddy Bradley and more recently for his contributions to the libertarian magazine Reason. Margaret Sanger was a noted nineteenth century birth control activist, as well as an educator, a nurse, a mother, and a founder of Planned Parenthood. The Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge would seem to be an improbable pairing in content and in form, but Sanger’s life takes on a whole new vivacity as Bagge creates an adoring, fast-paced biography of this trailblazing woman whose legacy is still incredibly relevant and inspiring.
Drawn in full color with an extensive bibliography and introduction by journalist Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter, The Woman Rebel showcases Bagge's signature cartoony, rubbery style and potent sense of humor, as well as his respect for the precedent-setting political and social maverick. In a style jam-packed with fact and fun, Bagge charts Sanger’s life, from her impoverished childhood in rural New York to her brief formal education, from her work in the Lower East Side tenements to her involvement with the burgeoning birth control movement. Bagge has created the most accessible Margaret Sanger biography ever; The Woman Rebel is perfect for introducing this vanguard of the women’s rights movement to a whole new generation of readers.
September / $21.95 / 8.125 x 11 / 80 pages / full color / hardcover
ISBN: 9781770461260
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Beautiful Darkness
Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet
A DARK FAIRY TALE ABOUT SURVIVING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Aurora’s having a tea party with Hector, the prince she’s been dreaming about, when a sudden deluge forces them to take shelter elsewhere. They emerge from the skull of a dead girl into the woods at night, and find themselves amongst a crowd of tiny people, all of whom are milling about. Aurora quickly takes charge of the situation, and at first things seem to be going well for most of her friends. Despite a few injuries and deaths and a lot of hunger, they forage successfully, and befriend a mouse that lives in the neighborhood. But as time goes by, more and more of the little people begin to lose hope, turning against one another in brutal ways.
Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look at the human psyche and the darkness that hides behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoet’s joyful watercolors only serve to highlight the evil which dwells beneath, as characters allow their pettiness, greed, and jealousy to take over. Beautiful Darkness presents a bleak allegory on the human condition; Kerascoet and Vehlman’s work is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny.
September / $22.95 / 8.125 x 11 / 96 pages / full color / hardcover
ISBN: 9781770461291
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Louis Riel: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Chester Brown
Louis Riel: a Comic-Strip Biography tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth century Metis leader, whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nation’s western frontier. Chester Brown’s carefully researched, exquisitely illustrated, and much-lauded biography goes deep into the myths and the facts about this man whose place in Canadian history is troubled: Riel has been alternately vilified as a murderer and mourned as a martyr. His involvement in the Red River Rebellion and the subsequent North-West Rebellion are brilliantly and dispassionately laid out in a finely etched style, as are the Canadian government’s responses to the Metis people’s demands. Brown’s even-handed approach makes these disastrous events all the more moving.
When the collected book appeared in 2003, Chester Brown won widespread critical and industry acclaim for Louis Riel, including two Harvey Awards, and inclusion on countless best-of lists. Beyond that, it singlehandedly revitalized the biography genre of comics, paving the way for a new generation of artists. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Louis Riel’s publication, Drawn & Quarterly is reissuing the book as a deluxe paperback, with a new introduction contextualizing the work’s importance and the original pamphlet covers collected and reproduced in full color.
October / $21.95 / 6 x 9 / 296 pages / b&w, with full color signature / paperback
ISBN: 9781770461307
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Rage of Poseidon
Anders Nilsen
A WISE AND FUNNY COLLECTION OF MODERN-DAY PARABLES ABOUT THE TIES BETWEEN HUMANS AND THEIR GODS
Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don't don't need you anymore. What do you do? Perhaps, seeking answers, you go exploring. Maybe you end up in Wisconsin and discover the pleasures of the iced latte. And then, perhaps, everything goes wrong.
Anders Nilsen, author of Big Questions and Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow, explores questions like these in his newest work, a darkly funny meditation on religion and faith with a modern twist. Rage of Poseidon brings all of the philosophical depth of Nilsen’s earlier work to bear on contemporary society, asking how a twenty-first century child might respond to being sacrificed on a mountaintop, and probing the role gods like Venus and Bacchus might have in the world of today. Nilsen works in a unique style for these short stories, distilling individual moments in black silhouette on a spare white background. Above all, though, he immerses us seamlessly in a world where gods and humans are more alike than not, forcing us to recognize the humor in our (and their) desperation.
Rage of Poseidon is devastating, insightful, and beautiful hewn; it’s a wry triumph in an all-new style from a masterful artist.
October / $29.95 / 8 x 10.5 / 80 pages / b&w / accordion hardcover
ISBN: 9781770461284
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Reggie-12
Brian Ralph
IN STORES OCTOBER
HANG OUT WITH A YOUNG ROBOT HERO IN HIS FORTRESS OF NOT-SO-SOLITARY SOLITUDE
What if Osamu Tezuka’s beloved hero Astro Boy were a young robot with endless enthusiasm who lived with a bumbling sad sack robot friend, a self-centered wise-cracking cat, and a well-meaning but forgetful inventor? Why, then he’d be Reggie-12! Reggie-12 is classic Japanese adventure manga cartooning reworked in Brian Ralph’s trademark style and told with the episodic wit and structure of the contemporary American sitcom. Laughs explode from the page (and the reader’s belly) as mishap follows caper follows disaster.
Brian Ralph (Daybreak, Cave~In) first presented this hilarious pop culture send-up of the infallible boy hero in the back pages of seminal Asian culture magazine Giant Robot, and it instantly become one of the magazine's most popular and enduring features. Come along for a wild ride with Reggie-12, Casper, and Professor Tinkerton as they eat pizza, play video games, and get dissed by bad guys.
November / $22.95 / 8.125 x 11 / 96 pages / two color / hardcover
ISBN: 9781770461321
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Showa: A history of Japan 1926-1939
Shigeru Mizuki
IN STORES IN OCTOBER
Showa: a History of Japan, 1926-1939 is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki’s photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease.
When the Showa Era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the Era. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers. As he describes the militarization that leads up to World War II, Mizuki’s stance toward war is thoughtful and often downright critical – his portrayal of the Nanjing Massacre clearly paints the incident (a disputed topic within Japan) as an atrocity. Mizuki’s Showa is a beautifully told history that tracks how technological developments and the country’s shifting economic stability had a role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy in the early twentieth century.
October / $24.95 / 6.45 x 8.765 / 560 pages / b&w / paperback
ISBN: 9781770461352
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Pippi Fixes Everything
Astrid Lindgren & Ingrid Vang Nyman
IN STORES SEPT 2013: Pippi Longstocking returns to fix everything in the second volume of comics written by series creator Astrid Lindgren and illustrated by original Pippi artist Ingrid Vang Nyman. It’s Pippi’s birthday, which means there is a lot of fun to be had! Join Pippi, Annika, and Tommy in their adventures on board a ship, hosting farewell parties, and visiting with Pippi’s father, the island king.
Bright colors and zany illustrations, and of course, an irrepressibly joyful, strong-willed heroine: Lindgren and Vang Nyman’s brilliant work guarantees Pippi Fixes Everything will become an instant classic for young and old.
October / $14.95 / 7.5 x 9.5 / 56 pages / full color / hardcover
ISBN: 9781770461314
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Moomin and the Golden Tail
Tove Jansson
Moomin’s tail gets its fifteen minutes of fame
Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format.
One day Moomin notices that his tail seems to be thinning. Worried that Snorkmaiden will no longer love him if his tail goes bald, he consults the family doctor and several tail specialists, and even gets an X-ray. Nothing helps! Finally Moominmamma cooks up a magic potion, and it works like a charm, but now Moomin’s lustrous new tail is, well, solid gold! Moomin becomes the toast of society, and the target of numerous journalists and money-making schemes. Moomin and the Golden Tail takes a long hard look at the consequences of fame.
Tove Jansson’s flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!
October / $9.95 / 8 x 6.5 / 56 pages / full color / flexicover (pb)
ISBN: 9781770461338
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Moomin's Desert Island
Tove Jansson
IN STORES OCTOBER 2013: The Moomins picnic with their ancestors, a pair of pirates, and, best of all, Mymble
Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format.
After a disastrous helicopter ride through a thunderstorm, the entire Moomin family is stranded on a desert island—the very island their ancestors came from! They make the best of it, hunting for their supper, exploring mysterious tunnels, and salvaging items from a wrecked pirate ship (including the Mymble!), but their ancestors don’t let them live in peace and quiet for too long. Soon the whole island will have to deal with the explosive consequences of their ancestors’ misbehavior.
Tove Jansson’s flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!
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Susceptible
Geneviève Castrée
"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. There is a unique quality to all of her artistic endeavors-- quiet, serene, depressing.
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. Whether she's discussing nature versus nurture or the story of her birth, Castrée imbues her storytelling with a quiet power and a confidence in the strength of imagery.
ISBN: 9781770460881
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Nipper 1967-1968
Doug Wright
A FAITHFULLY RENDERED PAEAN TO MID-CENTURY FAMILY LIFE
In the late 1960s, things are still
fun, innocent, and wholesome in the suburbs, but the pantomime strip does reference contemporary life with the entire Wright family making an excursion to downtown Montreal for the 1967 World’s Fair. As always, Wright’s stellar draftsmanship, fond eye for detail, and brilliant sense of comic timing shines throughout this volume of the Nipper series.
Paperback, 8" x 5.25", Two Color
ISBN: 9781770460935
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Moomin and The Sea
Tove Jansson
IN STORES JUNE 2013
THE MOOMIN FAMILY MOVES TO A REMOTE ISLAND FOR THE SAKE OF ART
Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format.
Moominpappa has committed to writing a Great Novel About the Sea, and so the whole family moves to a desolate island where Moominpappa becomes the lighthouse keeper. It soon becomes apparent that there are a few problems with the island: it’s haunted, there’s nowhere to enjoy a good cup of tea, and the rat family living in the transistor radio has strictly forbidden the Moomins from using the radio until the children have all grown up and moved out. Determined, the Moomins set about planting a rose garden, painting the beacon cheery colors, and finding other ways to make the lonely place their own. In the end though, is a bleak lighthouse any place for a Moomin?
Tove Jansson’s flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!
Flexicover, 8.5” x 6”, 40 pages, full color
ISBN: 9781770461239
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Moomin and The Comet
Tove Jansson
IN STORES JUNE 2013
HOW WILL THE BELOVED RESIDENTS OF MOOMINVALLEY SURVIVE A COMET?
Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format.
It’s getting hotter and hotter in Moominvalley, and all the creatures have taken note of the troubling weather. After a mysterious cloud appears in the sky one day, an exodus begins. The Hattifatteners, the Nibling, Mrs. Fillyjonk (and all her children), and even Mymble pack up to leave the valley. When they realize the mysterious cloud is a comet headed straight for Moominhouse, Moomin, Little My, and Snorkmaiden decide to depart their home too. As the clock ticks down, and the comet nears Moominvalley, the plot thickens. Between a tidal wave and a comet-struck Moomin, the end does seem nigh, but the day may yet be saved.
Tove Jansson’s flawless cartooning is brought to life in a whole new way within these pages. A delight for the whole family!
Flexicover, 8.5” x 6”, 40 pages, full color
ISBN: 9781770461222
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Aya: Life in Yop City
Abouet & Oubrerie
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
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Anna and Froga: I Dunno, What Do You Want to Do?
Anouk Ricard
IN STORES JUNE 2013
GET LOST IN THE VIBRANTLY COLORFUL, HYSTERICALLY FUNNY WORLD OF ANNA AND HER ANIMAL PALS
Embark on a fresh set of adventures with the hilariously snarky and mischievous heroes of Anna & Froga. In each short episode, Anouk Ricard’s deceptively simple illustrations harmonize perfectly with the characters’ petty, silly, and downright slapstick pranks. Bright colors, astutely observed details, and minimalist linework combine to present a world that is shockingly lively and joyous. Anna, Froga, Ron, Bubu, and Christopher have adventures that rival the best in classic comics.
Ricard hits her stride in this second volume of the Anna & Froga books, which have found a loving home amongst classic comics connoisseurs, alternative comics fans, and children in North America and Europe alike.
Hardcover, 7.75” x 9.875”, 40 pages, full-color
ISBN: 9781770461208
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Kitaro
Shigeru Mizuki
IN STORES APRIL 2013
MEET ONE OF JAPAN'S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME--THE ONE-EYED MONSTER BOY
Meet Kitaro. He's just like any other boy, except for a few small differences: he only has one eye, his hair is as an antenna that senses paranormal activity, his geta sandals are jet-powered, and he can blend in to his surroundings like a chameleon. Oh, and he's a three hundred and fifty year old yokai (spirit monster). With all the offbeat humor of an Addams Family story, Kitaro is a light-hearted romp where the bad guys always get what's coming to them. Kitaro is bestselling manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki's most famous creation. The Kitaro series was inspired by a kamishibai or paper theatre entitled Kitaro of the Graveyard. Mizuki's series was created in 1959, and first appeared in Shonen comics magazine for boys, but quickly became a cultural landmark for young and old alike. Kitaro inspired half a dozen TV shows, plus numerous video games and films, and its cultural importance cannot be overstated. Presented to North American audiences for the first time in this lavish format, Mizuki's photo-realist landscapes and cartoony characters blend the eerie with the comic.
Paperback, 6.44" x 8.75", Partial Color
ISBN: 9781770461109
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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
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Aya: Love in Yop City
Abouet & Oubrerie
THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE AWARD-WINNING AYA SERIES
Aya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Aya is a lighthearted story about life on the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's history. While the stories found in Aya: Love in Yop City maintain their familiar tone, quick pace, and joyfulness, we see Aya and her friends beginning to make serious decisions about their future. When a professor tries to take advantage of Aya, her plans to become a doctor are seriously shaken, and she vows to take revenge on the lecherous man. With a little help from the tight-knit community of Yopougon, Aya comes through these trials stronger than ever.
This second volume of the complete Aya includes unique appendices, recipes, guides to understanding Ivorian slang, street sketches, and concluding remarks from Marguerite Abouet explaining history and social milieu. Inspired by Abouet's childhood, the series has received praise for offering relief from the disaster-struck focus of most stories set in Africa. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival; was nominated for the YALSA's Great Graphic Novels list; and was included on "best of" lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
Paperback, 6.75" x 9.5", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770460928
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Anna & Froga: Want a Gumball?
Anouk Ricard
THE MISADVENTURES OF FIVE CHARMING TROUBLEMAKERS
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-Color
ISBN: 9781770460706
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The Freddie Stories
Lynda Barry
THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY’S ACCLAIMED COMIC
The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries–each representing an episode in the life of Freddie–bring to life adolescence, pimples and all. No matter what happens, it all seems to go wrong for Freddie–he’s set up as an arsonist, mercilessly teased in school, and bossed around by classmates. With consummate skill, Lynda Barry writes about the cruelty of children at this most vulnerable age when the friends they make and the paths they choose can forever change their lives. In The Freddie Stories every word of dialogue, every piece of narration, and every dark line evokes adolescent angst.
These short, moving stories are collected from Barry’s beloved Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized across North America for two decades. Re-packaged here with a brand-new introduction from Lynda Barry, The Freddie Stories is an adult tale about just how hard it is to be a teenager–a classic Barry work alongside her cult masterpiece novel Cruddy–poignant, insightful, and true.
Hardcover, 8.375" x 10.875", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770460904
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Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Anders Nilsen
A STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS INSCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, LETTERS, AND BEDSIDE SKETCHES
In this collection of letters, drawings, and photos, Anders Nilsen chronicles a six-year relationship and the illness that brought it to an end.
Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is an eloquent appreciation of the time the author shared with his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver. The story is told using artifacts of the couple’s life together, including early love notes, simple and poetic postcards, tales of their travels in written and comics form, journal entries and drawings done in the hospital during her final days. It concludes with a beautifully rendered account of Weaver’s memorial that Glen David Gold, writing in the L.A. Times, called “16 panels of beauty and grace.” Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is a deeply personal romance, and a universal reminder of our mortality and the significance of the relationships we build.
Originally published as a limited edition in 2006, this collection includes a new afterword written by Nilsen, the author of the New York Times Notable Book and Lynd Ward Prize winning graphic novel Big Questions.
Hardcover, 9.75" X 7.5", Full-Color
ISBN: 9781770460911
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Beethoven Birthday Party: A 2013 Hark! A Vagrant Calendar
Kate Beaton
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 12 of Beaton's funniest comics including "Strong Female Characters," "Sexy Batman," Liszt’s rivalry with Chopin, and new material from her 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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There She Blows: A 2013 Hark! A Vagrant Literary Calendar
Kate Beaton
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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Moomin's Winter Follies
Tove Jansson
THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC IN A NEW SOFTCOVER FORMAT
Due to the resounding success of the hardcover Moomin comics by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, D+Q is reissuing this classic comic in an all-new format. Available in an affordable kid-proof but kid-friendly flexicover, and in full color for the first time, these books are slimmer versions of the hardcovers, with one story in each volume while previous editions collected four.
Moomin wakes up one morning to find the pond frozen over, and rather than hibernate, the family decides to brave the winter weather. At first, their wintry adventure seems to be going swimmingly, until Mr. Brisk of the Great Outdoors Club takes over and forces everyone to embrace the winter sports, whether they want to or not.
Paperback, 8"x 6.5". Full Color
ISBN: 9781770460980
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Moominvalley Turns Jungle
Tove Jansson
THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC IN A NEW SOFTCOVER FORMAT
Due to the resounding success of the hardcover Moomin comics by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, D+Q is reissuing this classic comic in an all-new format. Available in an affordable kid-proof but kid-friendly flexicover, and in full color for the first time, these books are slimmer versions of the hardcovers, with one story in each volume while previous editions collected four.
A crate filled with tropical seeds washes ashore, and when Moominmamma plants the seeds, a lush rainforest erupts in Moominvalley. When Stinky liberates some exotic animals from the zoo, chaos ensues, and the Moomins are forced to prove once and for all whether or not they’re related to hippopotamuses.
Paperback, 8"x 6.5", Full Color
ISBN: 9781770460973
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D+Q Winter 2013 Catalogue!
D+Q Catalogue
Drawn & Quarterly is proud to present our Winter 2013 Catalogue!
Here's what we have in store:
LETTING IT GO Miriam Katin
KITARO Shigeru Mizuki
YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK Tom Gauld
BURDEN Joe Ollmann
ANIMALS WITH SHARPIES Dumontier & Farber
NANCY VOLUME 4 John Stanley
MOOMIN FALLS IN LOVE Tove Jansson
MOOMIN BUILDS A HOUSE Tove Jansson
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The Wayside
Julie Morstad
ALL NEW DRAWINGS FROM A NOTED ILLUSTRATOR
Julie Morstad has long excelled at illustration, often working in tandem with children’s writers, but in The Wayside, the storytelling potential of her fantastical pictures is fully realized. Within these pages, Morstad’s worlds unite, maintaining their ethereal, almost fairy-tale beauty while also achieving a loose overarching synthesis through thematic and visual commonalities.
The work found herein combines the delicate line of Edward Gorey with the color palette of Marcel Dzama, and emerges as something utterly unique: a combination of the two with the spirit of Virginia Woolf. Similar to her first D+Q book, Milk Teeth, Morstad’s drawings—dramatic, poetic, and heavy with symbolism—speak for themselves, exploring femininity, identity, and personal mythologies.
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Pippi Moves In
Astrid Lindgren & Ingrid Vang Nyman
ASTRID LINDGREN'S LOST MASTERPIECE
Pippi Moves In marks the first time that the legendary Pippi Longstocking comics by famed children’s author and creator Astrid Lindgren and Danish illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman will be published outside of Scandinavia in thirty years, as well as their first ever publication in English.
The outspoken strong-girl with the carrot-colored pigtails and the mismatched socks has enthralled generations of children the world over with her fabulous exploits at Villa Villekulla, where she lives with her horse and monkey. Countless translations of the chapter books are available in over sixty languages. Pippi is Sweden’s best-known children’s export, making it all the more remarkable that Drawn & Quarterly has discovered what will be a three volume series.
The comics are re-imaginings of the classic chapter book stories and were originally published in the Swedish magazine Humpty Dumpty in 1957–1959, a decade after the original books. The comics spotlight both Lindgren’s brilliant writing and Vang Nyman’s bold, bright colors that seem presciently and eerily modern. The original illustrator for the chapter books, Vang Nyman was a very talented children’s book illustrator and an avant-garde champion of the importance of children’s literature, insisting that art in children’s books needed to meet the same esthetic standards as art in any other medium. Vang Nyman died in 1959, while Lindgren went on to become one of the world’s best loved writers with over 145 million books sold worldwide.
ISBN: 9781770460997
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Rookie Yearbook One
Tavi Gevinson
Tavi Gevinson started her personal blog, STYLE ROOKIE in 2008, when she was 11 years old. It was a place where, from the confines of her bedroom in the suburbs, she could write about personal style and chronicle the development of her own. Within two years, the blog was averaging 50,000 hits per day. Soon fashion designers were flying her around the world to attend, and write about, fashion shows, and to be a guest of honor at their parties. Soon Tavi's interests grew beyond fashion, into culture and art and, especially, feminism. In September 2011, when she was 15, she launched ROOKIE a website for girls like her: teenagers who are interested in fashion and beauty but also in dissecting the culture around them through a uniquely teen-girl lens. ROOKIE broke 1 million page views within its first six days. ROOKIE YEARBOOK ONE will collect articles, interviews, photo editorials, and illustrations from the highly praised and hugely popular online magazine. In its first year, ROOKIE has established a large, inclusive, international community of avid readers. In addition to its 50-plus regular writers, photographers, and illustrators (many of whom are teenage girls themselves), ROOKIE's contributors and interviewees have included prominent makers of popular culture such as Lena Dunham, Miranda July, Joss Whedon, Jon Hamm, Zooey Deschanel, David Sedaris, Elle Fanning, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, John Waters, Chloe Sevigny, Liz Phair, Dan Savage, JD Samson, Ira Glass, Aubrey Plaza, Daniel Clowes, Carrie Brownstein, Paul Feig, Bethany Cosentino, Kimya Dawson, Fred Armisen, and Winnie Holzman.
As a young teenager, Tavi couldn't find what she was looking for in a teen magazine; ROOKIE is the one she created herself to fill that void. Her cool-headed intellect shines in ROOKIE, arguably the most intelligent magazine ever made for a teen-girl audience. Tavi writes with a humble but keen authority on such serious topics as body image, self-esteem, and first encounters with street harassment. She's equally deft at doling out useful advice like how to do a two-minute beehive, or how to deliver an effective bitchface. ROOKIE's passionate staffers and faithful readers have helped make ROOKIE the strong community that it is. To date, Tavi has written for Harper's Bazaar, Jezebel, Lula, and Pop, and is a contributing editor for GARAGE magazine. She has been profiled in the New York Times and The New Yorker, and has been on the cover of POP, L'Officiel, Zeit Magazin, and BUST. As a speaker, she has made numerous presentations at venues such as IdeaCity, TEDxTeen, L2 Forum, and the Economist World in 2012 Festival. Last year Lady Gaga called her "the future of journalism."
BIO: Tavi Gevinson is the editor and founder of ROOKIE. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with her family and many piles of candy-bar wrappers.
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New York Drawings
Adrian Tomine
A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE NEW YORKER COVER ARTIST AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass.
Adrian Tomine’s illustrations and comics have appeared for more than a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of the New Yorker. Instantly recognizable for their deceptively simple and evocative style, these images have garnered the attention of the New Yorker’s readership and the approbation of such venerable institutions as the Art Directors Club and American Illustration.
New York Drawings is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past seven years. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that he has produced for the New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches inspired by the city. Complete with notes and annotations by the author, New York Drawings will also feature a new introductory comic focusing on Tomine’s experiences as a New York illustrator.
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ISBN: 9781770460874
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D+Q Spring 2013 Catalogue!
D+Q Catalogue
Drawn & Quarterly is proud to present our Spring 2012 Catalogue!
Here's what we have in store:
Marble Season by Gilbert Hernandez
Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps by Art Spiegelman
The Property by Rutu Modan
My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle
The Playboy by Chester Brown (Back in Print!)
Paying For It by Chester Brown (New Paperback Edition!)
Moomin Volume 8 by Lars Jansson
And from our Enfant imprint:
I Dunno…What Do You Want to Do? by Anouk Richard
Moomin and the Comet by Tove Jansson (Now in Color!)
Moomin and the Sea by Tove Jansson (Now in Color!)
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Nancy Volume Four
John Stanley
IN STORES MARCH 2013
THE IRRESISTIBLE ADVENTURES OF NANCY AND SLUGGO
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In the fourth and final volume of the John Stanley Library’s Nancy comics, the gang is back. Readers are treated to still more uproarious antics from Nancy, Sluggo, Spike, Aunt Fritzi, and Mr. & Mrs. McOnions. In these stories, Nancy has a dream that seems a little too real, Sluggo’s moth cupboard turns out to be pretty profitable, and Rollo Haveall takes rhubarb and blackberry pie revenge on an ungrateful Nancy. John Stanley drew these comics as a journeyman on the stories. He tended towards absurdist punchlines, but also mimicked the logic of children very well. John Stanley’s work is incredibly fresh and funny half a century later. Pudgy, irritable, and always trying to find ways to have fun, Sluggo and Nancy’s hijinks are laugh-a-minute.
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ISBN: 9781770461093
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D+Q Fall 2012 Catalogue!
D+Q Catalogue
Artists include:
Adrian Tomine, New York Drawings
Lynda Barry, The Freddie Stories
Julie Morstad, The Wayside
Genevieve Castree, Susceptible
Anders Nilsen,Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie, Aya:Love In Yop City
Doug Wright, Nipper 1967-1968
Brian Ralph, Cave~In
Tove Jansson, Moominvalley Turns Jungle, Moomin's Winter Follies
Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman, Pippi Moves In
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