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The Box Man
Imiri Sakabashira
Enter the strange world of Imiri Sakabashira whose denizens are zoomorphic creatures that emerge from one another as well as their equally bizarre environs. The Box Man follows its protagonists along a scooter trip through a complex landscape that oscillates between a dense city, a countryside simplified to near abstraction, and hybrids of the two; the theme of hybridity permeates throughout. One is unsurprised to encounter a creature that is half elderly man, half crab or a flying frog in this world where our guide apparent is an anthropomorphic, mollusk-like cat. Sakabashira weaves this absurdist tale in a seamless tapestry constructed of elements as seemingly disparate as Japanese folklore, pop culture, and surrealism. Within these panels, it becomes difficult to distinguish between the animate and the inanimate, the real and the imagined, a tension that adds a layer of complexity to this near-wordless psychedelic travelogue.
Imiri Sakabashira (real name Mochizuki Katsuhiro) was born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1964, the same year that Garo, the influential manga anthology in which he would first be published, was founded.
Black and White, 128 pages, 6.25 x 8.5 inches
ISBN: 9781897299913
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Hicksville
Dylan Horrocks
One of the best graphic novels of the past decade, back in print.
“Dylan Horrocks is clever, funny, and very, very good at making comic books. His characters grab you and haunt you and even make you worry for them. Buy this guy’s comics. He knows what he’s doing.” –Frank Miller (Dark Knight Returns)
“[Hicksville] is at once a celebration of the richness of the comics artform”¬–Detroit Metro Times
“A languid, Borgesian tale of love and theft that treats comics -- and an unabashed love of the medium's folksy energy and rhythms -- with poetic weight. [Hicksville] is a classic.”–Austin American Statesman
One of the first contemporary graphic novels is now back in print with a new cover and introduction. Considered to be a classic by many, Hicksville was named a “Book of the Year” by The Comics Journal and received nominations for two Ignatz Awards, a Harvey Award and two Alph’Art Awards (Best Album and the Critics’ Prize).
World-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earned millions and become the most powerful man in the comics industry. However, behind his rapid rise to success, there lies a dark and terrible secret, as biographer Leonard Batts discovers when he visits Burger’s hometown of Hicksville in remote New Zealand. Hicksville is where the locals treasure comics and the library stocks Action Comics #1.
ISBN: 9781770460027
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Thirteen Going on Eighteen
John Stanley
September 2009
In the early to mid-1960s, John Stanley turned his attentions to drawing and writing his own series, specifically Melvin Monster, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, Kookie, and the most interesting of these titles, Thirteen Going on Eighteen, rather than working with already established licensed characters he is most well known for such as Little Lulu. D+Q has embarked on an archival series of Stanley’s comics including Melvin Monster, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, Kookie and Thirteen Going on Eighteen.
Thirteen Going on Eighteen focuses on the friendship and rivalry of two teenage girls, Val and Judy. Each comic is a darkly hilarious look at the social maneuverings and betrayals of the teen set. Stanley’s stripped down approach perfectly captures the fever pitch of teenage years. He creates a teenage sit-com and turns it into an anguished character study.
Hardcover, 336 pages, 7.75 x 11 inches
ISBN: 978-1897299883
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Dirty Dishes
Amy Lockhart
March 2010
This PETIT LIVRE is a first class ticket into the creepy cute and totally absurd world of Straw-Baby, and the mind of its creator Amy Lockhart. It chronicles the various facets of her process/thinking from her paintings and drawings to cardboard sculpture of objects from her everyday life. Also included are stills from her animations and photos of costumes used in her videos. Amy works in a variety of mediums, including animation, film and video making, acrylic painting, drawing, costume making, comics and small press books and combines the various mediums as much as possible and let them feed into each other and out of each other.
ISBN: 9781770460041
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Hot Potatoe
Marc Bell
October 2009
Fine Ahtwerks: 2001-2008
"A gifted…cartoonist… the delight of his work is in the play of free-associating and funny imagination.”– Ken Johnson, New York Times
“Boundary-destroying, wacked-out (and beautifully drawn) material from Canadian artist Marc Bell that will leave you feeling as if you have bees in your head.”–Minneapolis Star Tribine
“Marc Bell is a riddle wrapped in a conundrum further wrapped in salty bacon.”–LA Weekly
Marc Bell’s HOT POTATOE seamlessly combines decade-plus comics activities with a lifelong devotion to, as Bell calls it, "Fine Ahtwerks." Part art monograph, part comics collection, HOT POTATOE is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell’s most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies – Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld. Bell’s works have their roots in draftsmanship, typography and old-fashioned gags, but morph into assemblages that connect his images into real space. His comics are funny, seat-of-the pants narratives that give the characters an inner-life.
Represented by the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan, Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray Johnson and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph.
Hardcover, 276 pages, 9 x 11.5 inches
ISBN: 9781897299890
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The Fixer And Other Stories
Joe Sacco
September 2009
“Sacco is one of the most astute war-zone correspondents working today”¬–Rolling Stone
“A searing and amusing look at the motley collection of reporters, war profiteers, criminals, soldiers and hapless civilians trapped in ware zone.”–New York Times
“Sacco doesn’t try to lay claim to the truth. He’s simply telling one man’s story, and it makes for an excellent book.”–Washington Post
“Sacco demonstrates that the narrative arts, including comics, can gather up complicated social truths with a gradual patience that often eludes the camera.”–Boston Globe
Using old-fashioned pen and paper, award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. THE FIXER AND OTHER STORIES is a new softcover that collects Joe Sacco’s landmark short stories on the Bosnian Ware that previously comprised the hardcover editions of THE FIXER and WARS END.
Black and White, 216 pages, 7 x 10 inches
ISBN: 9781897299906
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Red Snow
Susumu Katsumata
September 2009
Red Snow continues D+Q’s groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga in this collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the pre-modern Japanese countryside of the author’s youth, a slightly magical world where ancestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life, struggling to survive the harsh seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers and farmers. While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth, the universal fundamental emotions of the human heart prevail at the center of these tender stories.
Susumu Katsumata began publishing comic strips in the legendary avant-garde magazine Garo (which also published his contemporaries Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Yoshiharu Tsuge) in 1965 while enrolled in the faculty of Science in Tokyo. He abandoned his studies in 1971 to become a professional comics artist, alternating the short humorous strips, upon which he built his reputation, with stories of a more personal nature in which he tenderly depicted the lives of peasants and farmers from his native region. In 2006, Susumu Katsumata won the 35th Japanese Cartoonists Association Award Grand prize for Red Snow.
Black and White/232 pages/6.25X8.5 inches
ISBN: 9781897299869
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Map of My Heart
John Porcellino
October 2009
"[KING CAT COMICS] swell with passion and heart." - USA TODAY'S POP CANDY
"Since 1989, John prcellino's simple, and simpy beautiful, comics (along with letters, lists, and a few photographs) have been self published to growing acclaim." - MINNEAPOLIS CITY PAGES
"Porcellino is a master at miniature poignance." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
MAP OF MY HEART celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino's seminal and influential comics zine, KING CAT COMICS, which he started self publishing in 1989 and which has been his predominant means of expression. In this collection, while Porcellino is living in isolation and experiencing the pain of divorce he crafts a melancholic, tender graphic ballad of heartbreak and reflection. Known for his sad, quiet honesty rendered in his signature deceptively minimalist style, Porcellino has a command of graphic storytelling as sophisticated as the medium's more visually intricate masters. Few other artists are able to so expertly contemplate the sadness, beauty, and wonder of life in so few lines.
Black and White, 304 pages, 6 x 9 inches
ISBN: 9781897299937
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Walt and Skeezix: 1927-1928 (Volume Four)
Frank King
Spring 2010
In the long awaited-volume of Walt and Skeezix, the newly married Walt Wallet settles into domestic life with his wife, Phyllis, and their adopted son, Skeezix, but their family bliss is soon disrupted by a man who claims to be Skeezix’s natural father. A long custody battle erupts, raising questions as to the importance of blood ties compared to a loving environment. Later, Walt and Phyllis have to deal with all the dilemmas of a young couple’s life as their family starts to unexpectedly expand. This is the very stuff of life—paying the bills, nursing a sick child, finding the right job while spending quality time with family—expertly explored with cartoonist Frank King’s unerring fidelity to reality. In unfolding the drama of the Wallet family’s life, King displays his full mastery of long and complex narratives, which made his work a forerunner to the modern graphic novel.
Spring 2010
In his introduction to the series, Jeet Heer explores King’s storytelling prowess and links the concerns of the strip with changes in American culture in the 1920s. Lavishly illustrated with King’s family photos, the book is designed by Chris Ware, whose elegant and detail-rich books have revolutionized the graphic novel field.
ISBN: 978-1-897299-3
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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book Five
Tove Jansson
Moomin Book Five: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the London Evening News, before Lars took over both the art and the writing. The first "Moomin Winter" returns with more unwanted guests than in Book One, especially the curious and secret-spilling Nibling, sending the Moomin household into a tizzy of secrecy and closed doors. In "Moomin Under Sail," the Moomins find themselves without a new adventure until Too-Ticky's compass gives them the idea to build a boat and head to sea. Finally we meet the Fuddler's heart, and his bumbling drives her straight into the arms of Dr. Hatter, the local psychiatrist. Delightfully quirky, the Moomin family does not fare well under the gaze of someone trained in correcting odd behavior.
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Market Day
James Sturm
Spring 2010
An expectant father, Mendleman's life goes through an upheaval when he discovers he can no longer earn a living doing the work that defines him— making well-crafted rugs by hand. A proud artisan, he takes his donkey-drawn cart to the market only to be turned away when the distinctive shop he once sold to now only stocks cheaply manufactured merchandise. As the realities of the market place sink in, Mendleman unravels. Sturm draws a quiet, reflective and beautiful portrait of eastern European in the early 1900s–bringing to life the hustle and bustle of an old-world market place on the brink of the Industrial Revolution. Market Day is a timeless tale of how economic and social forces can affect a single life.
ISBN: 978-1-897299-9
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Wilson
Daniel Clowes
May 2010
Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family - a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.
ISBN: 978-1-77046-00
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Indoor Voice
Jillian Tamaki
Spring 2010
Jillian Tamaki has taken the visual world by storm. A sought-after illustrator, she has racked up accolades and awards from the Society of Illustrators and Society of Publication Designers and has a client list that includes the New York Times, The New Yorker and Esquire. Her breathtaking talent was further established with the debut of the graphic novel SKIM – selected by the New York Times as a Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2008 – which was written by her cousin Mariko Tamaki, and drawn with moody black and white nuance by Tamaki. SKIM completely reinvented the young adult graphic novel genre with an utterly original and sincere portrait of being a teenaged outsider.
INDOOR VOICE collects pen, brush, ink, watercolor, and collage experiments that show how Tamaki arrives at her illustration work, as well as more polished and personal comics work examining her relationship to her parents and their influence on her art.
ISBN: 978-1-77046-01
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Nancy Vol. 2
John Stanley
Spring 2010
The second volume of NANCY in D+Q’s John Stanley Library elegantly designed by Seth stars the beloved Brillo-headed Nancy in her own comic book series written by the greatest children's comics writer of all time, John Stanley. Stanley who is the author of MELVIN MONSTER, LITTLE LULU, 13 GOING ON 18, puts his own deft sense of humor and superior cartooning on the Ernie Bushmiller creation with spooky Oona Goosepimple, Spike, and Mr. McOnion. Nancy, along with her sidekick Sluggo, will charm readers young and old with her hilarious, scheming hijinks.
ISBN: 978-1-897299-9
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Melvin Monster Volume 2
John Stanley
March 2010
Continuing Drawn & Quarterly's John Stanley archival series, Melvin Monster Volume 2 is about the oddball monster boy who just wants to be good, go to school, and do as he is told. A satirical and funny sendup of the 1960s monster craze of the 1960s, Melvin Monster is a classic kids comic of the Silver Age.
Stanley's reputation as a great storyteller and visual comedian is richly deserved - few golden or silver-age comics stand the test of time the way these comics do. As with all volumes in the JSL (Nancy, Thirteen Going on Eighteen), covers and interiors are designed by the award-winning cartoonist Seth, who is the designer of the bestselling Peanuts archival collection.
ISBN: 9781770460034
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The Selves
Sonja Ahlers
Spring 2010
Before blogs, there were zines. Before zines, there were scrapbooks. Sometimes overlooked in the quest to produce high culture, these most direct and intimate means of communication and recording memory are the tools favoured by Sonja Ahlers in the making of her art. A self-taught artist and writer, Ahlers wears her pop culture obsessions on her sleeve, professing her love for such visual icons as Princess Di, Holly Hobbie and Stevie Nicks. Focusing on found objects such as stickers, greeting cards, magazine photos collected in collage framework, complete with song lyrics hand-lettered in cursive script and heartbreaking, melancholic water colors, Ahlers explores and exposes the social construction of roles, feminine and otherwise. Beginning with incipient childhood self-awareness and traversing high school status jockeying to adult social climbing, the cultural imagery that supports and informs personal identity is given uneasy new meanings and importance in Ahlers' visual remixes. With The Selves, the schizophrenic nature of an identity foraged from modern cultural sources is laid bare.
ISBN: 978-1-77046-01
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Stooge Pile
Seth Scriver
March 2010
Seth Scriver's work is filled with lumpy men and women plucked from rural Canada - thick mustaches, plaid shirts and winter caps exchanging non-sequiturs and one-liners. Airbrushed Garfields, packs of wild dogs, flocks of birds, and more packs of wild dogs race through Scriver's paintings and drawings. Part of a crew of Canadian doodlers (like-minded folks such as Marc Bell (HOT POTATOE, THE STACKS), Peter Thompson (LUCKY ELLO), Amy Lockhard (DIRTY DISHES) and Keith Jones (BACTER-AREA), Scriver exemplifies a modern cartoon painting aesthetic - a type of fantasy world created through a stream-of-consciousness drawing style. His drawings present a palpable view of a hectic world in which cartoon bears and hunters engage in slapstick adventures.
ISBN: 9781770460058
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Catland Empire
Keith Jones
Spring 2010
Catland Empire is like a Phillip K. Dick twisted with a Saturday morning cartoon graphic novel. There will exist a future world where “human beings have become empty husks stripped of all memory when it comes to things like how to have fun and play games” or so says Mr. Space to his associate Mr. Time. The solution? Get the cats to teach humans how to have fun again. This is all the Cat People do with their lives. They are the fun and game masters. What follows is a tangled web of psychedelic science fiction blending anti-consumerism politics and intergalactic liaisons between cats and dogs—bitter enemies kept secret from each other to avoid a planetary race war. Victor Burg is plotting to wipe out all of mankind by having his brain chip implanted drones commit genocide.
ISBN: 978-1-897299-9
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Wrong Place
Brecht Evens
March 2010
Rendered in vivid watercolor where parquet floors and patterned dresses morph together, Wrong Place revolves around oft-absent Robbie, a charismatic lothario of mysterious celebrity who has the run of a city as chaotic as it is resplendent. Robbie's sexual energy captivates the attention of men and women alike; his literal and figurative brightness is a startling foil to the dreariness of his childhood friend, Francis. With a hand as sensitive as it is exuberant, Brecht Evens's first English graphic novel captures the strange chemistry of social interaction as easily as he portrays the fragmented nature of identity. Wrong Place contrasts life as it is, angst-ridden and awkward, with life as it can be: spontaneous, uninhibited, and free.
ISBN: 9781770460010
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Wild Kingdom
Kevin Huizenga
March 2010
The new master of comics experimentalism returns with his everyman Glenn Ganges
“One of the most promising of a new generation of cartoonists, Huizenga's stories use a combination of the quotidian and the surreal to explore themes of science, nature, religion and family.”¬–Time
“With art that ranges from clear-eyed cartooning to swirly expressionism, Huizenga takes his characters through poetic explorations of the profound.”–Washington Post
Standing out amongst his contemporaries, Kevin Huizenga is the leading cartoonist of his generation whose subtle mastery of the medium has earned him countless accolades and awards. Huizenga’s comics are at once straight-forward and experimental, serious and funny. His character is the suburban everyman Glenn Glanges, a modern day Dagwood Bumstead who tackles and stumbles with such heady topics as mysticism and science.
In Wild Kingdom, Glenn Ganges blindly interacts with the nature of his suburban neighborhood: dead house plants; a recipe for grey squirrel brain; and pigeons eating discarded french fries in the parking lot of a fast food joint. Huizenga juxtaposes Glenn’s ignorance of his surroundings with television commercials highlighting society’s needs for cure-all pharmaceuticals and “hot new things” like teeth whiteners. Starting off wordless, Wild Kingdom grows more complex page-by-page, ending with encyclopedic entries, biographical excerpts, anthropologic flow charts and a cataclysmic encounter of nature and technology.
ISBN: 9781770460033
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Black Blizzard
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Spring 2010
Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of gekiga, Tatsumi documented this landmark genre of manga, and the creation of this graphic novel in his epic critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography A DRIFTING LIFE. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Yoshihiro Tatsumi returns to the dark underbelly of his working class heroes that made me him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America.
Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer. A cinematic adventure story, BLACK BLIZZARD uncovers an unlikely love story and an even unlikelier friendship.
ISBN: 978-1-77046-01
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My New York Diary (paperback)
Julie Doucet
(96 p, B/W , 6 x 9")
In 1991, Julie Doucet abruptly packed her bags and moved to New York. Trouble followed her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.
2000 Firecracker Award for Best Graphic Novel
"A dramatic roller-coaster ride...[it] lures you in like a cut in the mouth." --Chicago New City
"...ferocious female sexuality." --LA New Times
New second printing of softcover features new cover art by Julie!
ISBN: 9781896597836
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My New York Diary (Limited Edition)
Julie Doucet
(96 p, B/W , 6 x 9")
In 1991, Julie Doucet abruptly packed her bags and moved to New York. Trouble followed her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.
2000 Firecracker Award for Best Graphic Novel
"A dramatic roller-coaster ride...[it] lures you in like a cut in the mouth." --Chicago New City
"...ferocious female sexuality." --LA New Times
ISBN: 9781896597225
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Melvin Monster Volume One
John Stanley
March 2009
John Stanley is celebrated as one of the great children’s comics writers for his work on the Little Lulu series. In fact, the Lulu work is a small part of his output, he had drawn and continued to write many other comics—notably his work on the 1960s teen comics from Dell (Thirteen, Dunc and Loo, and Kookie) and his monster comedy strip Melvin Monster. D+Q is planning on launching an extensive reprinting of much of this work in discrete volumes. Our first Stanley reprint will be the three-volume Melvin Monster collection featuring all nine issues of the oddball monster boy who just wants to be good, go to school, and do as he’s told. Designed to fit nicely with our current reprinting of Tove Jansson’s Moomin series, these comics are great reading for children or comics history-minded adults. Stanley’s reputation as a great storyteller and visual comedian is richly deserved—few golden- or silver-age comics stand the test of time the way these comics do.
Hardcover, 7.75 x 11 inches, 112 pages, color.
ISBN: 9781897299630
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The Collected Doug Wright Volume One
Doug Wright
May 2009
The first of a historic two-volume set, Doug Wright: Canada�s Master Cartoonist presents the first-ever comprehensive look at the life and career of one of the most-read and best-loved cartoonists of the 1960s. Compiled in cooperation with Wright�s family, it draws from thousands of pieces of art, pictures, letters, and the artist�s own journals, to provide a fully rounded view of Doug Wright, both as a cartoonist and as an individual.
Volume One follows the artistic development of the British-born cartoonist from his earliest unpublished work to the first days of his most enduring comic strip, Nipper. First published in 1949, a full year before the debut of Peanuts, this wordless strip perfectly captured the humorous�and frustrating�side of parenting for several generations of both young and old. Remembered by many for his cartoon children�s striped shirts and bald heads, Nipper quickly grew into a Canadian phenomenon.
Designed by the acclaimed cartoonist & Peanuts designer Seth (George Sprott) and featuring a biographical essay by writer Brad Mackay, this lavish hardcover collection gives Wright�s career the recognition it has long been due. The introduction is by one of the most famous working cartoonists today, Lynn Johnston, of the syndicated heavy weight comic strip For Better or For Worse.
Harcover, 240 pages, 9 x 14 inches, color.
ISBN: 9781897299524
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Shortcomings (PB)
Adrian Tomine
April 2009
"Tomine's genius is to strip his medium of every possible type of grandiosity or indulgence, and the result is that life itself floods in. His mise-en-scene rivals Eric Rohmer's in its gentle precision, and his mastery of narrative time suggests Alice Munro. Shortcomings, as near as he'd get to a grand statement, is as deceptively relaxed and perfect as a comic book gets." --Jonathan Lethem
"One of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation, 32-year-old Adrian Tomine's [Shortcomings] centers on Asian-American protagonist Ben Tanaka, a lonely, socially constricted man, longing to make a connection and spinning in the purgatory between youth and adulthood... equal parts poignant, hilarious, and sad." --The Village Voice
Ben Tanaka has problems. In addition to being rampantly critical, sarcastic, and insensitive, his long–term relationship is awash in turmoil. His girlfriend, Miko Hayashi, suspects that Ben has a wandering eye, and more to the point, it's wandering in the direction of white women. This accusation (and its various implications) becomes the subject of heated, spiralling debate, setting in motion a story that pits California against New York, devotion against desire, and trust against truth.
By confusing their personal problems with political ones, Ben and Miko are strangely alone together and oddly alike, even as they fly apart. Being human, all too human, they fail to see that what unites them is their shared hypocrisies, their double standards. This gray zone between the personal and the political is a minefield that Tomine navigates boldly and nimbly. The charged, volatile dialogues that result are unlike anything in Tomine's previous work or, for that matter, comics in general. But Shortcomings is no mere polemic. Any issues that are raised stand on equal footing with expertly-crafted plot turns, subtle characterization, and irreverent humor, all drawn in Tomine's heart-breakingly evocative style. What Tomine ultimately offers is more provocation than pronouncement--a brutal, funny, and insightful reflection of human shortcomings.
Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine's iconic comic book series Optic Nerve (issues #9-11) and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13.
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Paperback, 112 pages, 6.5 x 9.25 inches, b/w.
ISBN: 9781897299753
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George Sprott: (1894-1975)
Seth
May 2009
Celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Seth gives us the fictional life of George Sprott. On the surface, George seems a charming, foolish old man--but who is he? And who was he? Told as a patchwork tale, we come to know George, piece by piece, in a series of "interviews", flashbacks and personal reminiscences. It is a story about time, identity, loss, and the pervasiveness of memory. Though ultimately this is the story of a man's death, Seth leavens it with humor, restraint and a light touch.
Originally serialized in the New York Times magazine, this greatly expanded and "re-mastered" version is its first publication as a complete work. Hardcover, 96 pages, 12 x 14 inches, color.
ISBN: 9781897299517
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A Drifting Life
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
April 2009
Edited and designed by Adrian Tomine
Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today’s graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II.
Spanning fifteen years from August of 1945 to June of 1960, Tatsumi’s stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father’s financial burdens and his parents’ failing marriage, his jealous brother’s deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo’s Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)—with whom Tatsumi eventually became peers and, at times, stylistic rivals.
Praise for Yoshihiro Tatsumi:
“In the hands of a talent like Tatsumi…hidden worlds are excavated and dark corners of the human condition illuminated.”—Bookforum
“His nakedly personal work, created when the medium was predominantly impersonal, made Tatsumi unique in Japan and around the world.”—Print
Paperback, 840 pages, 6.125 x 8.25 inches, b/w.
ISBN: 9781897299746
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Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories by Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell
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Gabrielle Bell splits her cartooning time between creating wry sketchbook autobiographical comics, such as those included in her 2006 graphic novel, Lucky, and working on more detailed fictional short stories. This collection represents her short comics work that has been published in various anthologies over the past five years, including Kramer's Ergot, Mome, and The D+Q Showcase Book Four. The surrealist title story, in which a young woman turns herself into a chair so as not to be too much of a bother to those around her, is being adapted into the short film, Interior Design, by director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep) as part of the forthcoming Tôkyô! trilogy set for fall 2008 release.
Hardcover, 112 pages.
ISBN: 9781897299579
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32 Stories: Special Edition Box Set
Adrian Tomine
April 2009
In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace: the artwork and writing evolved with each story, production quality improved, page counts increased, and by issue seven sales had reached 6,000. In 1994, Drawn & Quarterly took over the publishing duties on Optic Nerve, and the original seven stories were sold out and left out of print. 32 Stories presents those rare, early editions.
ISBN: 9781897299760
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Drawn & Quarterly 20th Anniversary TV on the Radio Poster
Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine created this poster to celebrate D+Q's 20th! hand silk screened poster+adrian+TV on the Radio= act now, as this is limited edition!
ISBN: DNQ906010129
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The Bun Field
Amanda Vähämäki
March 2009This collection of five short comics stories by new talent Amanda Vähämäki is drawn together with an intriguing disjointed rhythm and delicious pencil-smudged style, and infused with a sense of abbreviated adolescence and a kind of grey sky banality. On the surface the stories are characterized by a surreal ebb-and-flow, but each also possesses a deep sense of foreboding and hurt, and maintains a biting sense of humor.
The Bun Field is Vähämäki’s first graphic novel, which has been published in several languages. In this story, a young girl dreams of a dinosaur eating Donald Duck; wakes to find a bald, hulking stranger sharing her breakfast; leaves to take a car trip with a bear; falls and breaks a tooth, to have it replaced by an impatient dentist—from his dog’s mouth no less; and pays back the favor by plowing a field of buns. Likewise, young people and anthropomorphic animals commingle in dreamy landscapes throughout the other tales collected in this edition, performing mundane tasks that are skewed with an absurd and fantastic edge. What do you get when you mix fish guts, jungle gyms, stamps, barmaids, soda pop and burning cities?
Vähämäki’s unique ideas are equally matched by her tactile drawings, creating a palpable world that is fresh and compelling. The Bun Field and Other Stories comprises an introduction to the work of a new artist not to be missed.
Paperback, 8 x 8 inches, 96 pages, b/w.
ISBN: 9781897299388
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Big Questions #12: A Young Crow's Guide to Hunting
Anders Nilsen
The wounded bird Clay completes his slow crawl over the rim and into to the bomb crater. There he finds the lonely and depressed Betty. The two compare notes on the cataclysm's effects, and are shortly thereafter descended upon by three upstart crows on a lark and mission of revenge.
ISBN: 97818972999
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Fallen Angel
Nicolas Robel
A little boy is haunted by terrible dreams until he meets a man with strange powers. Nicolas Robel (Showcase One) tells an allegorical tale with broad strokes and big-eyed wonder.
August 2006
ISBN: 9781897299036
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Yummy Fur #31
Chester Brown
Features eleven page wordless, dream-like strip that was later included in "The Little Man" book. Fourteen page "Gospels of Matthew (9:31 - 10:42)" chapter. First printing. Publication date: September 1993. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
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Yummy Fur #27
Chester Brown
Part two of the "I Never Liked You" storyline. Brief three page "Gospels of Matthew (9:20)" chapter. First printing. Publication date: January 1992. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
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Ed the Happy Clown #9
Chester Brown
The end of the Ed saga. Or, rather, one of the endings.
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Ed the Happy Clown #8
Chester Brown
The penultimate chapter of this 1980s classic begins as Josie, in the form of a vampire, avenges her death by killing Chet.
Pygmies still roam the streets, and one devours the remains of Chet's body. All of this, plus previously unpublished art, new covers, and extensive commentary by Chester Brown.
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Ed the Happy Clown #6
Chester Brown
This installment of the 1980s classic begins as the professor locates President Reagan in another dimension. However, the President's hopes of ultimately being rescued are dashed when the professor is violently killed by a hail of bullets ... All of this, plus previously unpublished art, new covers and extensive commentary by Chester Brown
ISBN: ETHC#6
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Ed the Happy Clown #5
Chester Brown
This installment of the 1980s classic begins with Ronald Reagan back in the White House attempting to resolve one of the worst sewage catastrophes facing the U.S. His solution lies in another dimension... All of this, plus previously unpublished art, new covers and extensive commentary by Chester Brown.
ISBN: ETHC#5
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Ed the Happy Clown #4
Chester Brown
Chester Brown's seminal bi-monthly comic book series reaches its mid-point with this issue, just as a horde of pygmies attempt to kidnap Ed, Josie, and Ronald Reagan.
The first killing of Josie is also eerily re-interpreted in these pages, this time from the perspective of Josie's ghost.
ISBN: ETHC#4
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Ed the Happy Clown #3
Chester Brown
The third issue of this legendary comic series introduces all the important elements that became synonymous with Ed The Happy Clown: Ronald Reagan makes his first appearance here, not from the oval office; Chet kills Josie for the first time, while Ed gets punched in the face; their bodies are then taken by pygmies down into the sewers. All of this, plus previously unpublished art, new covers and extensive commentary by Chester Brown.
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Ed The Happy Clown #2
Chester Brown
One of the classic comic stories of the 1980s returns! Chester Brown's Ed The Happy Clown was one of the defining books of the original alternative comics movement and it went on to influence a generation of cartoonists and readers alike. This second issue kicks off with the infamous "The Man Who Couldn't Stop" (no descriptions given here!) and continues right through to Ed's unusual manner of breaking out of prison! Each issue comes complete with new covers and four pages of extensive commentary by Chester Brown.
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Burma Chronicles
Guy Delisle
After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle is back with Burma Chronicles. In this country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control-where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the leader of the opposition has spent twelve of the past eighteen years under house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumor is the most reliable source of current information-he turns his gaze to the everyday for a sense of the big picture.
Delisle's deft and recognizable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power outages, and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in this place where catastrophic mismanagement and iron-handed rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and nongovernmental organizations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta. Burma Chronicles is drawn with a minimal line, and interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of Delisle's distinctive slapstick humor.
Hardcover, 208 pages.
ISBN: 9781897299500
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Paul in the Country
Michel Rabagliati
(32 p, B/W, 7.5 x 9.75")
This story, his first ever published, earned Michel Rabagliati a 2001 Harvey Award for Best New Talent, as well as an Eisner nomination for Best Story.
Rabagliati tells his story through Paul, a middle-aged man disenchanted with his adult life. As he travels for a weekend holiday in the country with his four-year-old daughter, he thinks back to his own childhood, a time when everything was seemingly different.
ISBN: 9781894937436
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Eurotrash Girls
Vanessa Davis
$300.00 US / $370.00 CDN
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Xochitl
Vanessa Davis
$250.00 US / $305.00 CDN
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Vanessa
Vanessa Davis
$200.00 US / $245.00 CDN
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Slumber Party
Vanessa Davis
$300.00 US / $370.00 CDN
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Michelle
Vanessa Davis
$250.00 US / $305.00 CDN
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Megan and Lisa
Vanessa Davis
$200.00 US / $245.00 CDN
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Maureen
Vanessa Davis
$100.00 US / $120.00 CDN
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Leslie
Vanessa Davis
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Laura
Vanessa Davis
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Jessica
Vanessa Davis
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Chandra
Vanessa Davis
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Sally
Vanessa Davis
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Peepshow #05
Joe Matt
Mary turns down Joe's advances, clearly unable to appreciate his renowned romantic personality. Her loss. Mature Readers.
ISBN: 9781894937474
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Peepshow #06
Joe Matt
He's been waiting his whole life for this: our story ends with a hilarious "menage a trois" scene. 24 pages. First printing. Publication date: April 1994.
ISBN: 9781894937481
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Peepshow #11
Joe Matt
Joe hits his stride with this new issue and storyline, turning in his best work to date: a clear, simplified drawing style complimented by a second color and a well-structured, hilarious story characterized by his excellent ear for dialogue. Now, if only we didn't have to wait 18 months for each new issue, we'd be all set! 24 pages, two color printing on tinted paper. First printing. Publication date: June 1998.
ISBN: 9781894937498
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Peepshow #12
Joe Matt
Joe Matt holes himself in his room for an entire 24 pages (just how long is that in "real time"?) watching, over and over again, an endless litany of porn videos. At times humorous and without a doubt controversial, this issue explores the darker side of an obsession with no end. 24 pages; two colors (red and black) on tinted paper. Publication date: April 2000
ISBN: 9781894937504
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Peepshow #04
Joe Matt
Joe cranks up the charm in this issue as his love interests broadens to include three women. 24 pages. First printing. Publication date: April 1993. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937467
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Peepshow #13
Joe Matt
Another brutally funny issue by Rolling Stone's designated Hot Cartoonist! Joe joins fellow cartoonists Seth and Chester Brown in a diner for a full 32-page discussion of pornography, relationships, and Gasoline Alley. What more can you ask for? (February 2002, 32pages, 2 colour)
ISBN: 9781894937511
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Peepshow #14
Joe Matt
After a nearly 5 year absence from comics, Joe Matt returns with his funniest, and possibly best issue of Peepshow yet. This issue is the conclusion of a four issue story arc that documents Joe’s obsessive “editing” of porn videos. Days go by where Joe never leaves his room, so that all of his quality time can be spent creating just the right scenes, where all the guys’ faces have been deleted from the final cut to make one “flawlessly edited” compilation. This is Joe Matt at his lowest ebb, a harrowing and yet still darkly funny portrait of an artist as misanthropic porn fiend.
ISBN: 9781894937696
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Underwater #02
Chester Brown
Playpen rumblings, tumblings, and hallucinations with Kupifam. The issue also features a "flip side" Matthew cover with a 12 page chapter, "Gospels of Matthew ( 12:46 -13:58)"
ISBN: UNDER#2
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Underwater #03
Chester Brown
Surrealism, followed by a beautifully drawn rainfall scene. 12 page chapter Gospels of Matthew ( 14:1, 14:2 - 14:12 - 14:23)
ISBN: UNDER#3
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Underwater #05
Chester Brown
The secret Underwater alphabet revealed! Pay close attention. 6 page chapter Gospels of Matthew (14:32 - 15:28)
ISBN: UNDER#5
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Underwater #06
Chester Brown
Kupifam's grandmother reads a comic book and later drops dead. Is there a lesson here? 7 page chapter Gospels of Matthew (15:29 -16:12)
ISBN: UNDER#6
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Underwater #01
Chester Brown
"Accents the moody surrealism of Brown's earlier work with the tender narrative voice he has developed since then."�i-D magazine
Events are seen through the eyes of a young girl, Kupifam, and this issue opens with her birth.
ISBN: UNDER#1
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Underwater #07
Chester Brown
Kupifam falls down stairs and then proceeds to have another dream. 9 page chapter Gospels of Matthew ( 16:13 - 17:9)
ISBN: UNDER#7
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Underwater #08
Chester Brown
Kitchen antics with Kupifam. 8 page chapter Gospels of Matthew ( 17:10 - 17:27)
ISBN: UNDER#8
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Way to Go
Harry Mayerovitch
So what's so funny about death and dying? At age 93, Harry Mayerovitch penned these whimsical drawings that offer another perspective on the “way to go."
Harry Mayerovitch had a remarkable career as an architect, designer, and cartoonist for nearly seven decades. With this new book, D+Q focuses on his cartooning work spanning three very different stages in his life. It begins in 1943 with a comprehensive look at his World War Two cartoons, then moves ahead to 1973 with a major excerpt from his book The Other One, and culminates yet another 30 years later with Mayerovitch’s most recent cartoons from 2003, Way To Go. The book presents a fascinating evolution of one artist’s work, from drawings of Hitler to the final period in way to go, a humorous, yet gentle look at death and dying, as seen from the perspective of the now 94-year-old Mayerovitch. Throughout it all, Mayerovitch’s work is characterized by a playful wit, and wry artistic line full of energy and life.
With an introduction and cover design by noted illustrator and New York Times Op-Ed arts editor Steven Guarnaccia.
AVAILABLE MARCH 2004
ISBN: 9781896597829
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Walt and Skeezix: 1925-1926 (Volume Three)
Frank King
In this third volume of the much-praised Walt & Skeezix reprint series,the domestic side of Gasoline Alley receives full play. An old flame comes to visit Walt, with an eye towards marriage. Meanwhile, Walt pines for Mrs. Blossom, the neighborhood widow. Out of these entanglements, a long engagement and wedding ensue.
As with earlier volumes, this book will have a 80-page introduction featuring many private photographs of the cartoonist Frank King and his family. The introduction delves into the marketing of Gasoline Alley in the 1920s and 1930s, with many dolls and toys taken from the personal collection of Chris Ware, the series designer and award-winning cartoonist.
ISBN: 9781897299098
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Walt and Skeezix: 1923-1924 (Volume Two)
Frank King
Walt & Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 - 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern storylines. In Book Two, Baby Skeezix is kidnapped, Walt’s courtship with Phyllis heats up and cools down, and Walt makes a bet with his friend Avery to see who can cross the North American continent first.
There will be a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer exploring the strip’s Chicago background and the attraction that King and other cartoonists felt for the Grand Canyon.
ISBN: 9781896597997
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Walt and Skeezix: 1921-1922 (Volume One)
Frank King
Chris Ware has often cited Gasoline Alley as one of his favorite comics strips ever, and he has lovingly edited and designed Walt & Skeezix Book One, the first ever collection and multi-volume series of the classic newspaper strip Gasoline Alley by one of the pioneering giants of American comics strips, Frank King. Not only does this volume reprint the first two years of the strip in which Frank King’s friendly and nostalgic imagination took shape, but each book in the series features an 80-page color introduction by Jeet Heer of Canada’s National Post. Each introduction in the series will also feature never-before-seen archival photos and ephemera from the personal collection of King’s granddaughter. Walt & Skeezix is not just reprinting the classic American newspaper strip, it is the story of a great American cartoonist.
Few cartoon strips have this kind of longevity and quality; Gasoline Alley has been with us since 1919 and is a gentle mirror held up to ordinary American life in the early twentieth century. It started as a mild satire on the post-WWI "craze" for cars, but it wasn’t long before it developed into a quirky family story attracting an audience of more than thirty million readers in four hundred plus newspapers. Gasoline Alley, an affectionate portrait of modern living, is remembered for being the first strip to set itself in contemporary American history. The characters of Gasoline Alley age and go to war, and have grandchildren. The strip always reflects the kind sweet pace of life.
400+ pages. hardcover
ISBN: 9781896597645
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The Poor Bastard (PB)
Joe Matt
(168p, B/W, PB)
This sensitive memoir chronicles a young man’s quixotic search for fulfillment in a world of painful struggles and beautiful ideals—
Wait a sec! The cover says this is a book by Joe Matt!
Watch as he alienates lovers and friends in a shamelessly candid and hilarious story about his ruthless quest for a woman who understands him and meets his ridiculous standards.
"Joe Matt reveals personal details of his life with the unabashedness, and the timing of a stand-up comedian." --Globe & Mail
ISBN: 9781896597447
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The Frank Ritza Papers
David Collier
Cult cartoonist David Collier has fans such as Chris Ware, R. Crumb and Joe Sacco patiently waiting for his next comic. This new 192 page Collier trade paperback will deliver all expectations and beyond with a quirky collection of stories about his family, living life in the army and the search for information on a local artist he discovers, Frank Ritza. Along with the story, Collier provides over 100 sketch book pages from London, Los Angeles and Saskatchewan. This book is a natural companion to the entire D+Q line (especially Seth’s It’s a Good Life) and Joe Sacco’s Notes From a Defeatist.
ISBN: 9781896597911
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Pohadky
Colek & Shewchuk
As if the Grimm fairy tales were given life beyond the limitations of their text, Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek's Pohadky is an illustrated marvel. Translated as "folk tales" or "storybook", Pohadky provides a tapestry of interwoven fables and morose, allegorical iconography, bringing a harsh light to the greed, loss, and submission that marks the origins of so many cultural folk tales and legends. Heavily influenced by their respective cultural backgrounds--Colek fascinated with the artistic and narrative elements in the folklore of the Czech Republic, and Shewchuk immersed in the investigation of the symbols and pictography of pre-Christian Ukrainian decorative folk arts--the artists have created a work that balances delicate, richly detailed characters and a sharp but muted visual style, and in the process have created a title that exists as so much more than mere fairy tales.
Trade paperback, 128 pages, full-color, 6 x 7.5 inches.
ISBN: 9781897299722
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Surviving Saskatoon
David Collier
In this fascinating new comic book, David Collier documents the true story of a man who spent nearly 25 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a nurse in 1969. This gripping biography, characterized by meticulous research and Coolier's idiosyncratic approach, takes us from the cold January morning at the time of the arrest to the present day. David Milgaard continues to struggle with a life devastated by the criminal justice system.
Collier frames this story with his own observations on living in this stark prairie province and shows how people ultimately survive.
ISBN: 9781894937559
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Peepshow #02
Joe Matt
Joe's girlfriend dumps him at last, this time for good. Say it ain't so, Joe! 24 pages. First printing. Publication date: May 1992. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937450
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Peepshow #01
Joe Matt
Peepshow is a forum for Joe Matt's neurotic, compelling, and utterlyshameless account of some of some of the most personal details of his life. From the gradual disintegration of his earlier relationship to, more
recently, his detailed examination of his obsession with pornography, Matt paints a rather unflattering portrait of himself in this long running autobiographical comic book series, leaving almost no aspect of his life untouched. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937443
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The Little Man: Short Strips 1980-1995 (PB)
Chester Brown
"A note of pure genius."--Rain Taxi Review of Books
"It might seem jarring for a book to begin with "The Toilet Paper Revolt" and end with "My Mom Was a Schizophrenic", but Brown pulls it off by mixing equal parts surrealism, violence, and contemplation. As a whole it tells another story: the maturing of an artist."--Details
"Outrageous, surreal, hushed, mystical and, often, funny as hell."--Detroit Metro Times
"They universally exhibit Brown's inimitable mix of intimate and surreal."--Now
ISBN: 9781896597133
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The Awake Field
Ron Reg�, Jr.
The Awake Field is a collection of Regé’s reflections of small town life during a recent 2-year sabbatical in a coastal community in southern Rhode Island. Short stories collide and swirl together leaving visions of mysterious creatures floating through lush landscapes, pantomimed fairytales, hypnotic dances, Bible quotations, and peace comics all in Regé’s idiosyncratic abstract poetic cartoon language.
ISBN: 9781896597973
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The Summer of Love (HC)
Debbie Drechsler
Widely acknowledged as one of the great female cartoonists for her expressive and candid style, Drechsler’s GN is an achingly true portrait of life as a girl. Lili and her sister Pearl encounter all the triumphs and cruelties of teenage life when they move to a boring suburb and they search for new friends. Drechsler’s style is always arresting and surprisingly revealing. Her dialogue rings out with the subtlety and candor of teenage voices raised in anger, mockery and joy.
ISBN: 9781896597379
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The Poor Bastard (HC Limited Edition)
Joe Matt
This sensitive memoir chronicles a young man’s quixotic search for fulfillment in a world of painful struggles and beautiful ideals—
Wait a sec! The cover says this is a book by Joe Matt!
Watch as he alienates lovers and friends in a shamelessly candid and hilarious story about his ruthless quest for a woman who understands him and meets his ridiculous standards.
Signed and Numbered edition of 400.
Collects Peepshow issues #1-6.
"Joe Matt reveals personal details of his life with the unabashedness, and the timing of a stand-up comedian." --Globe & Mail
ISBN: 9781896597676
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Spent
Joe Matt
"I dug SPENT; it's funny, poignant, and solidly constructed." --Harvey Pekar
Meet the original antihero Joe Matt: a master of a domain that includes over twenty-three self-edited eight-hour-long videotapes of bootlegged pornography; a penny-pincher who never fails to make a dime off his friends; a chronic masturbator who doesn't understand why he never has a girlfriend; an obsessive collector frantically searching for the toys of his childhood; a callous son who throws out every gift his mother gives him; a man so lazy that he urinates in a bottle rather than walk to the bathroom. Everyone and everything is fodder for Matt's autobiographical comics, and his biggest target for ridicule is himself. SPENT collects the story originally serialized in issues #11 - 14 of his infamous comic book series, Peepshow.
120 pages, hardcover
Praise for Peepshow:
"Dark, self-loathing, porn-addicted and parodic..." --Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine
"It's not uncommon now for readers of literature to admire... Joe Matt with a partisan vigor formerly reserved for renegades like Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan." --Rick Moody, New York Times Book Review
"[Joe Matt] chronicles his life in hilarious, unsparing detail." --Rolling Stone
"Matt's work is a Woody Allenesque portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-pathetic-bundle-of-neuroses" --Globe & Mail
ISBN: 9781897299111
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Perfect Example
John Porcellino
"John Porcellino's comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive." --Chris Ware, author/cartoonist of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth
"John Porcellino creates some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, sympathetic and, yes, beautiful comix in America." --Time.com
"What I immediately liked about Perfect Example was the spareness of the way it was drawn. After reading it, I was pleased to find out there's much more to it than beautiful artwork. It's sublime and profound and one of my favorite graphic novels."
--Chester Brown, cartoonist-author of Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
Road trips, drunken concerts, and late-night make-out sessions all swirl together in this coming-of-age graphic novel by King Cat cartoonist John Porcellino. Tackling the pain and uncertainty of the pivotal summer before college, Porcellino's sad and beautiful story is drawn in his sincere, minimalist style. Deceptively and charmingly simple, Perfect Example is a collection of Porcellino's self-published King Cat comics that have won over thousands of readers with its honesty, empathy and sincerity.
ISBN: 9781896597751
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Paul Moves Out
Michel Rabagliati
Michel Rabagliati crafts stories that are easily accessible to both young adult and adult audiences with his semifictional protagonist, Paul. This time Paul encounters another step into adulthood by moving out of his parent’s house and into his first apartment with his girlfriend , enjoying life’s pleasures as well as confronting its challenges.
Praise for Michel Rabagliati:
"Both funny and touching, Michel Rabagliati's Paul Has a Summer Job, has an authenticity sorely lacking in most forms of entertainment, not least of all comix…it reminds you of what you really enjoy literature for – the chance to connect to others and what's real – and get away from superficiality and irony."–TIME.COM
"Rabagliati's confessional writing is free of self-loathing, and his black-and-white panels eschew half-tones for a spirited line that adeptly conveys the messiness and joy of youth." –ED PARK, THE VILLAGE VOICE
This book won the Doug Wright Award for Best book of 2005 and is a Golden Oak Award nominee.
ISBN: 9781896597874
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Sof Boy #3
Archer Prewitt
Everyone's favorite comic book character is back after six long years! Archer Prewitt delivers his third issue of SOF BOY! Another riotous, rollicking adventure through the streets of Chicago.
ISBN: SOFBOY#3
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Wimbledon Green
Seth
Taking a break from the serialization of his saga Clyde Fans and the design of The Complete Peanuts, critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Seth creates a farcical world of the people whose passion lies in the need to own comic books and only in pristine, mint condition.
Meet Wimbledon Green, the self-proclaimed world’s greatest comic book collector who brokered the world’s best comic book deal in the history of collecting. Comic book retailers, auctioneers, and conventioneers from around North America, as well as Green’s collecting rivals, weigh in on the man and his vast collection of comic books. Are Green’s intentions honorable? Does he truly love comics or is he driven by the need to conquer? Lastly, is he really even Wimbledon Green?
A charming and amusing caper where comic book collecting is a world of intrigue and high finance. Part riotous chase, part whimsical character sketch, Wimbledon Green looks at the need to collect and the need to reinvent oneself.
ISBN: 9781896597935
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The Summer of Love (Limited Edition)
Debbie Drechsler
Widely acknowledged as one of the great female cartoonists for her expressive and candid style, Drechsler’s GN is an achingly true portrait of life as a girl. Lili and her sister Pearl encounter all the triumphs and cruelties of teenage life when they move to a boring suburb and they search for new friends. Drechsler’s style is always arresting and surprisingly revealing. Her dialogue rings out with the subtlety and candor of teenage voices raised in anger, mockery and joy.
ISBN: 9781896597362
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Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt (PB)
Joe Matt
The first incarnation of Peepshow was these one-page strips in which Joe shows off virtuosity for shocking self-revelation. He is an immature, womanizing, cowardly, cheap, porn freak. He also has crack comic timing and a remarkable gift for (self) caricature.
The books of Joe Matt provokes this type of confession from guys over beer: Oh my god, he’s just like me. I think those things but I never say them because my girlfriend would leave me.
This diary collection made Joe Matt the antihero he is today.
ISBN: 9781896597270
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Southern Cross
Laurence Hyde
Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas is a stunning wordless novel told in 118 wood engravings about the atomic bomb testing by the United States in the South Pacific following World War II. This new hardcover edition is a facsimile of the original edition, published in 1951. Laurence Hyde was infuriated with the United States, who continued testing in the Bikini Atoll, following the mass destruction and unthinkable horrors resulting from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Hyde's graphic novel involves a Polynesian island and the islanders' idyllic and secure life that is forever lost after American sailors arrive on the island and evacuate the islanders from their homes. During the evacuation, an island fisherman kills a sailor who assaults and attempts to rape his wife. The couple flees with their child into the jungle to avoid capture, unaware of the danger they are risking by keeping themselves hidden. After the other islanders have evacuated, the Americans detonate an atom bomb on the ocean floor. The island receives the brunt of the bomb's destructive force, annihilating all flora and fauna. The fisherman and his family are subjected to horrific suffering and pain before dying from the resulting blast and radiation.
Southern Cross includes the original introduction by Rockwell Kent and two essays by Hyde where he provides the idea for his book, a detailed description of the process of wood engraving and a short history of the woodcut novel. A new introduction is provided by the woodcut novel historian, David A. Beronä.
ISBN: 9781897299104
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Red Colored Elegy
Seiichi Hayashi
Seiichi Hayashi produced Red Colored Elegy between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of sparse line work and visual codes borrowed from animation and film, the quiet melancholy lives of a young couple struggling to make ends meet are beautifully captured in this poetic masterpiece.
Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping--together and at times with others. While Ichiro attempts to make a living from his comics, Sachiko's parents are eager to arrange a marriage for her, but Ichiro doesn't seem interested. Both in their relationship and at work, Ichiro and Sachiko are unable to say the things they need to say, and like any couple, at times say things to each other that they do not mean, ultimately communicating as much with their body language and what remains unsaid as with words.
Red Colored Elegy is informed as much by underground Japanese comics of the time as it is by the French Nouvelle Vague, and its cultural referents range from James Dean to Ken Takakura. Its influence in Japan was so large that Morio Agata, a prominent Japanese folk musician and singer songwriter, debuted with a love song written and named after it.
"I wanted to live like Sachiko and Ichiro; to have aspirations even while living stoically and humbly." --Morio Agata
ISBN: 9781897299401
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Paul Has a Summer Job
Michel Rabagliati
(152p, 7x10" PB)
Roughing it in your teens
This sweet and funny coming-of-age story marks a high-water mark in great old-fashioned storytelling in graphic novels. This book tells the story of Paul, a Montreal teenager who, against the backdrop of Quebec in the 1970s, tastes the freedom and responsibilities of adulthood for the first time. Thanks to plummeting grades, Paul defiantly quits high school and takes a job at factory. A year later, tired and depressed, Paul accepts a strange job offer to go be a counselor at a summer camp in the mountains run by a freewheeling Catholic priest. Paul finds himself guiding a motley band of kids-- misfits, loners, and troublemakers—through the rough terrain of growing up.
ISBN: 9781896597546
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Paul Goes Fishing
Michel Rabagliati
This fourth installment in Michel Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical series finds Paul settling comfortably into adult life, occasional twinges of anxiety aside. His graphic design business has taken off, his partner Lucie is pregnant, it's mid-July and time to leave behind the city to go fishing. Long lazy days stretch out while Paul's thoughts wander from the colorful characters at the fish-and-game camp to the lurking depths of childhood, a Holden Caulfield-esque adolescence, and the encounters that have shaped his sense of family thus far. But the golden glow soon lifts off his vacation, with the realization that the lake isn't as idyllic as it would seem, and neither is pregnancy.
Elegant composition and spare, condensed drawing crystallize emotion and atmosphere in this wistful and engaging account of everyday hopes and hardships, told with a keen and playful sense of iconic detail. Even the mundane holds beauty and meaning in this compassionate story of expectation, disappointment and wonder.
Praise for Michel Rabagliati:
"His stories are personally revealing but gentle, full of kind people with common problems... Rabagliati employs a light, curvy drawing style and episodic plotting that overtly recalls Hergé's Tintin adventures, or Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian's Monsieur Jean stories." --The Onion
ISBN: 9781897299289
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Palooka-Ville #16
Seth
(24p, 2 colour) The first single issue continuing the story from Clyde Fans: Book One.
ISBN: 9781894937597
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Palooka-Ville #14
Seth
The year is 1957: After one more disastrous attempt at being a travelling salesman, Simon Matchcard returns to the office defeated and unsure of what he'll do next. Simon is pensive and soft-spoken, and even after studying manuals on the art of selling, he still can't seem to clinch that final deal. In the eyes of his brother Abraham, he is a failure. Here, Seth continues to explore the complex and fascinating relationship of the two brothers behind "Clyde Fans". 24 pages; two colors. Publication date: May 2000
ISBN: 9781894937412
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Palooka-Ville #13
Seth
Seth shifts the time and focus of his story. It is now 1957 and Simon, the younger brother, endures a journey to a small town to sell his company's line of fans. The pressure he feels from his older brother is almost unbearable and the results of his salesmanship are, predictably, disastrous. 24 pages, 2 color. First printing: July 1999.
ISBN: 9781894937405
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Skitzy: The Story of Floyd W. Skitafroid
Don Freeman
Published in the centennial year of Don Freeman's birth, Skitzy follows a day in the life of a man literally divided between life as an office worker and as an artist. Without the use of dialogue, his fluid and economical illustrations create an engrossing and fully believable environment, seducing the reader into a familiar world where expressive, gestural drawings explore the possibility of striking a perfect balance between work and play.
Floyd W. Skitzafroid’s wife worries that he is culture-starved and overworked, but she is only half right. Shortly after he leaves the house, Floyd splits into two: one a carefree artist, and the other a grumpy worker with no time to spare. The contented Floyd quickly evades his morose counterpart in favor of a trip to his studio, sporting a broad grin throughout the day. But while this half paints and walks around pleasantly greeting those he meets, the other Floyd is confined to a desk, interacting only with paperwork, a looming boss and his own disrupting thoughts. When the two halves of Skitzafroid are reunited after the workday, an unexpected eye-opener gives Floyd the push he needs to find a solution that will allow him to enjoy his passions without compromising his financial freedom.
ISBN: 9781897299586
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Skibber Bee~Bye
Ron Reg�, Jr.
Ron Regé Jr. creates his own visual poetry that sets him apart from other cartoonists as one of the most original artists to enter the medium in the past decade. His storytelling is neither linear nor altogether accessible, however, his recognizable thin line and cute characters draw you into a dreamlike, sensitive, fantasy world that, as odd as it seems, is entirely realistic.
"Ron Rege is one of a handful of cartoonists in the history of the medium to not only reinvent comics to suit his own idiosyncratic impulses and inspirations as an artist, but to also imbue it with his own peculiar, ever-changing emotional energy. To me, he is unquestionably one of "the greats."
--Chris Ware
"Reducing the world to an arcane iconography of shapes, Skibber Bee~Bye creator Regé has developed an odd, childlike language of drawing that verges on pictorial calligraphy."
--The Face [UK]
"Skibber Bee~Bye is the product of a remarkable and articulate new cartoon style for which the only context is the sensibility that created it."--Print Magazine
ISBN: 9781896597966
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Yummy Fur #28
Chester Brown
Part three of the "I Never Liked You" storyline in its original published format! (May 1992, 24p, B/W) ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: 9781897299425
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We Are On Our Own
Miriam Katin
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter’s survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong struggle with faith
In this captivating and elegantly illustrated graphic memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of her and her Mother’s escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. With her father off fighting for the Hungarian army and the German troops quickly approaching, Katin and her mother are forced to flee to the countryside after faking their deaths. Leaving behind all of their belongings and loved ones, and unable to tell anyone of their whereabouts, they disguise themselves as a peasant woman and her illegitimate child, while literally staying a few steps ahead of the German soldiers.
We Are on Our Own is a woman’s attempt to rebuild her earliest childhood trauma in order to come to an understanding of her lifelong questioning of faith. Katin’s faith is shaken as she wonders how God could create and tolerate such a wretched world, a world of fear and hiding, bargaining and theft, betrayal and abuse. The complex and horrific experiences on the run are difficult for a child to understand, and as a child, Katin sees them with the simple longing, sadness, and curiosity she feels when her dog disappears or a stranger makes her mother cry.
Katin’s ensuing lifelong struggle with faith is depicted throughout the book in beautiful full-color sequences.
We Are on Our Own is her first full-length graphic novel at the age of sixty-three.
ISBN: 9781896597201
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Vellevision: A Cocktail of Comics and Pictures
Maurice Vellekoop
Gayer than a day in May. (112p, 4 colour PB) Short stories, strips, portraits on subjects like guilt/fear, music, fabulous babes, working, life and the story of Gloria Badcock!
ISBN: 9781896597102
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Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China
Guy Delisle
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in a cold urban city in southern China that is sealed off by electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country. 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 is quick to find the humor and point out the differences between Western and Eastern cultures. Yet he never forgets to relay his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues by virtue of living in a Communist state.
ISBN: 9781894937795
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Palooka-Ville #07
Seth
Part 4 of "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken". A walk amidst heavy, snow-covered trees and Seth's meeting with Annie, an eccentric artist living in a hotel, are some of the highlights in this beautifully drawn issue. 24 pages, b/w. First printing: April 1995.
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One Eye
Charles Burns
"[Burns' images] show a remarkably colorful range of feeling and a curious compositional acumen... [The] 'internal perspectives' that they suggest... are refreshingly approachable and unassuming. I find it amazing that although they originated simply as an exercise, they ended up both uncertainly poetic and certainly lucid, with a visual clarity that is characteristically Charles' own."
--Chris Ware, Virginia Quarterly Review
One Eye is a collection of paired photographs by Charles Burns that captures the strange undertones of a staggering range of objects and locales. From urban and pristine landscapes to flesh and food, the visual combinations are at the same time ambiguously uneasy and starkly coherent. Sandwiched together without room to breathe, the images are given distinctive symbiotic relationships. In some cases they initially appear as a single picture, while in others the shots are drastically dissimilar; regardless, the results are always complimentary. "Random Selection" for example, juxtaposes the small orange square of a color selector card with an appropriately matched peeling sunburn. Random though they may be, Burns' choices are clearly the product of his unique rationale, carefully arranged into revealing couples. One Eye is his world digested through a lens, and evidence of the scope of his visual language.
Charles Burns' work ranges from his contributions to Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine in the early 80s, to his story Black Hole, recently collected in book form after a decade of production, as well as illustration and set design. D+Q presents One Eye as part of its Petits Livres series: affordable art books dedicated to acknowledging the wide variety of talent within the comics community and beyond.
ISBN: 9781897299043
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Oh Skin-nay!
Clare Briggs
A grittier and less sentimental predecessor to Norman Rockwell, Clare Briggs exemplified the larger journey of American society from small town innocence to urbane sophistication. The son of a farm machinery salesman, Briggs left his rural home as a young man to forge a career as an illustrator and cartoonist, earning success in such big city papers as the Chicago Examiner, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune. Within a few years, he became one of the most popular and imitated cartoonists in America: Frank King, Milton Caniff, and the first generation of New Yorker cartoonists all emulated Briggs. Eschewing the roughneck humor of early comic strips, Briggs drew low-keyed strips in two modes: nostalgic reveries focused on memories of small town boyhood and satirical strips about the squabbles inherent in married life.
First published in 1913 by P. F. Volland and Co. of Chicago, IL, Oh Skin-Nay! is a collaboration between Briggs and poet Wilbur D. Nesbit and portrays a year in the life of small town America through the eyes of the twelve-year-old boy—woodgathering, sleigh rides, games of post-office, swimming holes and sandlot ballgames.
This book is presented as a facsimile edition of double-page spreads containing short poems and a full-page cartoons with an expanded afterword by Jeet Heer on the life of Briggs.
ISBN: 9781894937924
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Nowhere #3
Debbie Drechsler
Lily meets Keith Dunham, the local smooth operator, who is looking to add her to his list of conquests. 24 pages. First printing. Publication date: October 1997. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE From "Summer of Love"
ISBN: 9781894937948
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Nicolas
Pascal Girard
“A touching memoir that's as heartfelt as anything I've read.”–Jeffrey Brown, Cartoonist of Clumsy, Unlikely and Big Head.
“No trick layouts or dazzling technique get in the way of what [Girard] wants to tell you: What he has learned about coming to grips with loss, sometimes with selfishness and arrogance, and sometimes with silence and, finally, wisdom.”–Comic Book Galaxy
Nicolas is a moving debut work by Quebecois cartoonist Pascal Girard. The book is presented as a series of short autobiographical vignettes that take place after the childhood death of his younger brother, Nicolas, who passed away in 1990. Each episode taken from Girard's childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood offers a glimpse into his multifaceted and ongoing process of reckoning, as he struggles to reconcile the magnitude of this tragedy with the minutiae of his daily experience of loss. Deftly sidestepping the cloying sentimentality and abject self-pity that might seem endemic to such a personal project, Girard treats his subject with a spare line and a refreshingly matter-of-fact tone that prove to be all the more moving in their honest simplicity. Ultimately, Nicolas unfolds as a delicate portrait of the many faces of mourning, identified with surprising humor and pathos by an artist who knows them intimately.
Paperback, 5 x 8 inches, 64 pages, b/w.
ISBN: 9781897299715
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Maybe Later
Dupuy & Berberian
An inside look at France’s superstar cartooning team
Maybe Later sees Dupuy & Berberian working separately for the first time, each cartoonist taking turns to tell the behind-the-scenes “making of” their bestselling Mr. Jean series. In fluid black-and- white, with hilariously paranoid digressions and surreal dream sequences, Maybe Later is a record of their unique artistic partnership, midlife and its demons, the stress of deadlines, and the friends and colleagues who help and goad along the way. Above all, it's about the creative process, with aliens, pawns, and deflated superheroes battling procrastination and self-doubt in defense of the simple pleasure of telling stories through pictures.
Maybe Later is a rare opportunity to discover each of the artists in his own right. And for newcomers, it's a superb introduction to the quiet wit, brilliant narrative style, and refined visual language of the Mr .Jean stories, the first three short stories are collected in D+Q’s Get a Life.
ISBN: 9781896597218
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Madame Paul Affair
Julie Doucet
(56 p, B/W, 7x10")
Julie Doucet and her boyfriend find a new apartment with cheap rent and a string of nutty neighbors. One ex-con "breaks out" of his apartment by smashing his own window. Another man attempts to kill himself by stuffing his head in a gas oven. But perhaps the oddest person of all is the landlady herself, Madame Paul, who one day mysteriously disappears...
"Spunky and smart, Doucet stands out for her engaging combination of a cartoonish style and frank realism."
--Kirkus Reviews
ISBN: 9781896597348
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Lucky, Volume 2 #1
Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell continues the journal comics begun in her recent hardcover collection, Lucky, chronicling her life as an emerging professional cartoonist. Volume 2 #1 is filled with the simple excursions and technicalities of the lifestyle: guerilla photocopy runs, trips to comic conventions, slide presentations and panels, art shows, after-parties and poetry readings.
Bell tells of her experiences performing her tale of unlikely love, "My Affliction," a surreal adventure story also included here. This self-referential combination gives the sensation of a hallway of mirrors in which one strange reality is reflected infinitely back upon itself. In the world of Lucky, this space is drawn out in the uniquely deliberate and urgent illustrations that fuse Bell's pleasantly scattered scenarios.
ISBN: 9781897299333
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Lucky (hardcover)
Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum wage, twenty-something existence in Brooklyn, NY with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy narration and biting wit chronicles transient roommates who communicate only through post-it notes; aspiring artists who sublet tiny rooms in leaky, greasy broken-down border-house loft apartments crawling with bugs, cats and bad art. Bell tackles a string of forgettable, unrelated jobs including nude modeling, artist’s assistant, art teacher, and jewelry maker that only serve to bolster her despair, boredom and discomfort in her own skin. Bell’s self-scrutiny leads her to dream sequences that allow her to rise above her banal actuality and hyper-awareness. Bell fantasizes about her vision of a perfect world as she becomes the accomplished artist and world traveler she longs to be. Bell’s daily comics allow her to escape the harsh, judgmental gaze of the world and the monotony of daily life. Her unpolished art speaks to a desire to record all the messy details while the pain and confusion is still fresh.
Coming of age amidst the zine revolution, cartoonist Gabrielle Bell has been creating her comics to much acclaim, even winning an Ignatz Award for the self-published serialization of Lucky.
"[Bell's] fantasy life is gently romantic and easy to enter. Her stories should appeal to pleased readers of Daniel Clowes or Adrian Tomine. They are palpably real and eloquently understated, with neither a wasted word nor an extra line." --Booklist
"...a series of some of today's most sharp yet subtle vignettes of 20-something urban ennui." --Dazed & Confused
ISBN: 9781897299012
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Louis Riel #08
Chester Brown
(24 p, B/W)
ISBN: 9781894937566
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Louis Riel #09
Chester Brown
(24 p, B/W)
The penultimate issue of Louis Riel! The last issue saw the brave Metis and their leader locked in a losing battle with the superior numbers of the Royal Canadian Army. Louis and his right-hand man Gabriel Dumont flee the scene to regroup with the surviving rebels and plot their next move against the government.
But Fortune has abandoned the Metis cause and soon Louis is in chains--brought to trial for treason. Louis is a passionate and inspired leader but his erratic behaviour makes everyone, even his own people, believe he is vainglorious and mad. Louis is not just on trial for his life--treason is punishable by death--but he must defend himself against the verdict of history.
ISBN: 9781894937573
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Louis Riel #05
Chester Brown
(24 p, B/W)
In this issue, Chester Brown documents the emotional and psychological downfall of Louis Riel. Fearful for his life, Riel is forced into exile in the United States. At this point, Riel begins to have vivid hallucinations and when he secretly returns to Montreal, he is thrown into an insane asylum against his will...
ISBN: 9781894937283
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Louis Riel #02
Chester Brown
(24p, B/W)
A provisional government is formed with Riel as president; the violence simmering under the surface of events finally takes a casualty.
ISBN: 9781894937252
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King-Cat Classix
John Porcellino
John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early '90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuses on the smallest of details revealing a wealth of meaning and emotion in everyday events that most of us overlook in our daily hustle and bustle. Since 1989, he has released over 65 issues of his self-published comic King-Cat Comics and Stories.
This large collection focuses on the first fifty issues with extensive endnotes and an index along with selections of all the extra ephemera that makes an individual issue of K-C it's own unique experience: essays, articles, stories, and letters from friends. Included are over 250 pages of comics ranging from John's earliest scrawls to his later perfectly minimalist delineations. The comics range through all of Porcellino's concerns--family, family pets, the natural world, work, music, romance. This book presents an artist who always knew what he wanted to do. King-Cat Classix shows Porcellino's confidence and skill as it grows steadily through the past fifteen years.
ISBN: 9781894937917
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Kaspar
Diane Obomsawin
February 2009
On May 28, 1828, began the official life of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared mysteriously in the streets of Nuremberg and died of knife wounds five years later under equally mysterious circumstances. “Europe’s child”, as pamphleteers referred to him, captured the imagination of salon society. Allegedly raised in a dark cellar and deprived of human contact until the age of sixteen, he became proof of concept for theories about natural man, original sin, and the civilizing mission of culture. Rightful heir to the throne of Baden or a fraud? Redeemer of man’s sins or “ambulatory automatist”? The curious circumstances and significance of his life have been disputed ever since.
In Kaspar, Quebec cartoonist Obom draws on Hauser’s own writings, and contemporary accounts, to tell the foundling’s strange story. Minimalist grayscale panels and the simplest of line work register the wonder and bewilderment of a trusting and sensitive soul emerging into a fickle society. Gentle and poetic, naïve and profound, Obom’s first book to appear in English translation is a quiet and compelling charm.
“[Caspar] presented an opportunity for observation of the highest interest to the philosopher, the moralist, the religious teacher, the physiologist, and the physician — an opportunity which must be as rare as the crime which has afforded it.” -Francis Lieber, 1832, preface to Caspar Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon
Paperback, 6 x 8.25 inches, 96 pages, b/w.
ISBN: 9781897299678
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Long Time Relationship
Julie Doucet
(120 p, 2-color, 5 x 8"
"A depth of humanity and deadpan humor." --Publishers Weekly
"Doucet is finding fresh ways to channel her creative eruptions onto paper." --Village Voice
Legendary cartoonist Julie Doucet spent two years in her Montreal studio producing a series of bold lino-cut prints and they are collected here in this stunning cloth edition. Doucet deftly explores themes ranging from female sexuality to fortune cookies (go figure!) and everything inbetween, all encompassed in this sharply-designed art book.
ISBN: 9781896597461
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Lady Pep
Julie Doucet
Wildly popular Julie Doucet returns! Drawn & Quarterly launches the new limited edition series "Petits Livres" art book series which inexpensively, but with D+Q's signature design and production values, showcases groundbreaking artwork by cartoonists and artists from around the globe. "Petits Livres" makes art books affordable, and therefore accessible to all fans. Similar to Julie's Long Time Relationship, Lady Pep collects Julie’s post-comics career illustrations, lino-cut and collage work from various projects including her obscure Sophie Punt handmade-magazine.
ISBN: 9781894937832
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Just the Facts: A Decade of Comics Essays
David Collier
"[An] assortment of excellent, often memoirish graphic shorts..."
— Spin
"I'm grateful that a collection of David Collier's stuff has been published. His wildly unpredictable range of interests always make fertile ground for a rich crop of real art."
— Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library
"...a humorous and nostalgic look at life."
— Le Devoir
With his inimitably idiosyncratic approach, David Collier tackles a broad range of subject matter in his first collection, from Thomas Edison's bygone phonograph machines to the lost art of hand-lettered display ads. These strips have been culled from numerous publications, including Drawn & Quarterly, The Comics Journal, and Zero Zero, and they serve as an excellent introduction to the work of this quirky and unusual talent. Features new introduction by the author.
Softcover; 96 pages; First edition. Publication date: October 1998.
ISBN: 9781896597256
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Jamilti and Other Stories
Rutu Modan
Exit Wounds—a tale at once mystery and romance—introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly's "best of" lists.
Jamilti and Other Stories collects the cartoonist's short works that lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual character portraits. Some are darkly fantastical and unsettling, such as the unraveling of a serial-killer murder mystery, or her accounts of an infatuated plastic surgeon and his sanitarium, and a mother back from the dead with dubious healing powers. Others are more attuned to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity, as in the story of a tragic past that lies within a family’s theme hotel, or that of a struggling musician who hopes an upcoming gig will be his big break. In "Jamilti," Modan addresses political violence with a suicide bombing that shakes up a day in the lives of a young couple.
Hardcover, 120 pages.
ISBN: 9781897299548
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James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems
James Sturm
An American trilogy of religious fervor, greed, and entertainment through the eras
"Sturm's prose is as elegantly understated as his line work. And every now and then he throws the heater: 'They've been waiting for their Messiah a thousand years,' says one opponent. 'So they know how to wait on a curveball.' A-." --Entertainment Weekly
"Luminous... The revival, as Sturm gleaned through careful research, offered an oasis of companionship, entertainment and brief salvation from the land itself. One can see how Americans...would have yearned for a message that this dangerous, lonely place was actually part of some divine plan." --New York Times Book Review
"Sturm is a master of nuance, whose economical drawings effectively evoke the era, while his thoughtful compositions impressively capture action and atmosphere." --Booklist
Focusing on less sensational times in U.S. history (non-war and pre-Depression) James Sturm's America draws a portrait of the people and their dreams that make up this country. Comprised of three chapters--The Revival, Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight, and The Golem's Mighty Swing--the story grows as the country grows; from pioneers searching for a place to call home, to ghost towns gutted by greed and racism, to the distractions and fantasies of popular entertainment.
ISBN: 9781897299050
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Against Pain
Ron Reg�, Jr.
Against Pain is the first collection of multipage anthology pieces by Ron Regé, Jr. The storytelling side of his expressive work is featured in these comic strips gathered from McSweeney's, The New York Times, Kramers Ergot, NON, Rosetta, Arthur, The Comics Journal, and Drawn & Quarterly's anthology. Suicide bombers, art appreciation, and a Lynda Barry "cover" are brought together under the theme of suffering and how people cope with it. Against Pain also includes the alt-comics zine classic Boys: a 22-page collaborative comic--considered by many to be Regé’s finest work--illustrating the "lust life" of a friend in explicitly honest and hilarious detail.
"Ron Regé is one of a handful of cartoonists not only to reinvent comics to suit his own idiosyncratic impulses and inspirations, but also to imbue them with his own peculiar, ever-changing emotional energy. To me, he is unquestionably one of 'the greats.'" --Chris Ware
ISBN: 9781897299296
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Jar of Fools
Jason Lutes
(Rev. ed.,152 p, B/W, 6x9")
Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother’s suicide, and he’s hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with him in the present and by his side to guide Ernie through these difficult days. These two magicians have run out of escape tricks but they can’t stop running.
Esther is still numb with grief for Ernie’s brother. She works at a coffee shop and has allowed her heart to simply atrophy while a torrent of rage builds slowly inside her. Nathan Lender is a small time grifter living on his wits and in a car with his twelve-year-old daughter, Claire. He’s running out of time to fix the past and make things right for his daughter. One morning Nathan Lender makes the mistake of trying to con Esther at the coffee counter. Circumstance will bring a desperate group of people together, all at the end of their rope. An unlikely kind of love grows from these broken people who discover the act of self-sacrifice can perform miracles.
“A lovely, short ‘picture novel’ exploring the tenacious bond between an alcoholic stage magician and his cranky mentor.”
—New York Times Book Review
"Jar of Fools is full of people trying to stop things they care about from melting away, like estranged lovers and old-fashioned jobs…all the main characters—the magician, a coffee-shop cashier, a small time con-man—are in danger of ending up beaten down and swallowed up by the silences of life which Lutes’ well-paced art evokes so effectively" —Details
"The story itself is so masterfully told that it could stand alone as a novella in Harper’s. When combined with lutes’ spare black-and-white line drawings and creative use of the comic book medium, it becomes something transcendent—a piece of literature that speaks to the emotional core." –Wired
"Employing the lost skills of mood, sparseness, and language, Lutes' stunning comic Jar of Fools transcends the usually mealy-mouthed limits of graphic novels and, in the process, winds up being a damn good read."—Spin Magazine
"Reading Jar of Fools is like getting a slow motion punch in the face. There’s plenty of time to get out of the way, but something compels you to wait and find out of it’s actually going to hurt as much when it hits. And, of course, it does." –Chris Ware, author of Jimmy Corrigan
ISBN: 9781896597720
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Or Else #5
Kevin Huizenga
Kevin Huizenga, acclaimed author of Curses and Ganges, is back with his fifth installment of Or Else. Stories in this pocket-sized issue include an adaptation of a Giorgio Manganelli tale about a desolate world that is stricken with religious fanaticism and violence, a "special report" on household insects, a profile of a loquacious conversationalist, and an exploration of such important questions as "How are we spending our Tuesday?" Touted as one of the best new talents of his generation, Huizenga is renowned for his bursting creativity and incisive investigations of both the quotidian and the surreal.
ISBN: 9781897299814
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Yummy Fur #32
Chester Brown
This final issue of Yummy Fur is devoted to a 26 page "Gospels of Matthew ( 11:2 - 12:45, 14:2 - 14:12)" chapter. First printing. Publication date: January 1994. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
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Underwater #09
Chester Brown
Trouble at school on the first day. 9 page chapter Gospels of Matthew (18:1 - 19:1)
ISBN: UNDER#9
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What It Is
Lynda Barry
What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursting with full-color drawings, comics, and collages, autobiographical sections and gentle creative guidance, each page is an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary." Lynda Barry explores the depths of the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination, where play can be serious, monsters have purpose, and not knowing is an answer unto itself.
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? These types of questions permeate the pages of What It Is, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. Her insight and sincerity will tackle the most persistent of inhibitions, calling back every kid who quit drawing to again feel alive at the experiential level. Comprised of completely new material, this is her first Drawn & Quarterly book.
208 pages, hardcover
ISBN: 9781897299357
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The Push Man & Other Stories
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the US by thirty years, Tatsumi created a library of literary comics that draws parallels with modern prose fiction and today’s alternative comics.
Designed and edited by one of today’s most popular cartoonists, Adrian Tomine, The Push Man and Other Stories is the debut volume in a groundbreaking new series that collects Tatsumi’s short stories about Japanese urban life. Tatsumi’s stories are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous, commenting on the interplay between an overwhelming, bustling, crowded, modern society and the troubled emotional and sexual life of the individual.
A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. A medical student lives a secret life as a sperm donor, and finds his world turned upside down when his donations are rejected by the fertility clinic. A young couple's marriage is irrevocably affected when a sewer rat takes up residence in their home. 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.
"What a revelation this book is. I'd no idea that long before writers like Haruki Murakami and Kenzo Kitakata, the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi had so expertly peeled away the laquered layers of Japanese social and sexual surfaces to reveal the elemental heart beneath, and with such fearless depth of feeling. Decades ahead of its time and long overdue for US publication."
–Chip Kidd
"From the moment I read Tatsumi , he shot to the top of my short list of favorite cartoonists for adults. His direct story telling style is bracing and raises the bar pretty high for those of us trying to entertain intelligent grown ups."
–Gilbert Hernandez
"Tatsumi's comics are clean and straightforward without pretentious tricks. Storytelling at its best." –Jaime Hernandez
ISBN: 9781896597850
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Sleepwalk and Other Stories
Adrian Tomine
Collecting the first four issues of Adrian Tomine's acclaimed comic series optic nerve, this book offers sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper into their lives, subtly examining their struggle to connect with friends and lovers.
“Tomine is a master of pseudorealistic stories in the tradition of raymond carver. This understated, black-and-white collection should satisfy fiction aficionados in any medium.”— Library Journal
Brilliant... we know we’re in the hands of a major young comics artist—visually gripping and emotionally challenging." — Kirkus Reviews
NEW FOURTH PRINTING (2007)!
ISBN: 9781896597126
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Palooka-Ville #01
Seth
DELUXE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION D+Q published this special deluxe edition of the long-out-of-print Palooka-Ville # 1. Here, for the first time ever, the interiors are published in two colors on fine ivory tinted paper (unlike the original edition, which was published in b/w on newsprint). The self-contained, one-issue story presented here, called "I Shoulda' Ran", relates a terrifying encounter with a gang of gay-bashers on a subway train. A rare glimpse of Seth's early cartooning work! 24 two color pages.
ISBN: 9781894937399
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My Most Secret Desire New Edition
Julie Doucet
Considered by many to be one of the most influential cartoonists ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing comic-book series Dirty Plotte. Her comics are densely inked and detailed with a pulsating neurosis from a decidedly female point of view that set the comic-book world on its head when the series debuted. Doucet returns to comics after a 5-year hiatus with a reworked edition of her dream journal My Most Secret Desire, complete with never-before-published material.
My Most Secret Desire is considered to be Doucet’s most innovative work, exploring the longings, pressures, and exploits of the feminine subconscious. Nightmarish tales of pregnancy, menstruation, sex changes, and boyfriends haunt Doucet’s nocturnal psyche with a feverish and surreal pitch.
ISBN: 9781896597959
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Louis Riel #04
Chester Brown
(24p, B/W)
It's high drama on the Canadian frontier after Thomas Scott is executed for "treason" by Louis Riel's forces. Riel's hopes of forming a provisional government in a peaceful manner are dashed as outrage grows amongst the English settlers over the killing of Scott. Fearing for his own life, Riel is forced to flee to the USA in exile.
ISBN: 9781894937276
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Vernacular Drawings
Seth
(212p, 4-color, 9x12”)
This monumental artbook collects a decade’s worth of drawings by top cartoonist and New Yorker illustrator Seth. Ranging from portraits of show girls to jazz musicians to failed businessmen, the subjects here all somehow harken back to the lost world of the early 20th century.
“Seth's artwork envelops you like a sweet fog.” —Boston Phoenix
“Enormous, lusciously produced... a definite asset to any book collection.”— Quill & Quire
“Opening this oversized volume — heavy, somewhat bulky, covered with thick gray linen, embossed and stamped — feels nostalgic in itself...Most of the illustrations in this sketchbook are purely anonymous people and places. seth has used them to create his own alternate reality: an oddly beautiful, wistful world, perfectly preserved, cobbled from our collective pasts." — Detroit Metro Times
ISBN: 9781896597416
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Exit Wounds
Rutu Modan
NOW IN PAPERBACK“The real glory of Exit Wounds is Modan’s artwork. Her characters’ body language and facial expressions...are so precisely observed, they practically tell the story by themselves.” –The New York Times Book Review
"EXIT WOUNDS EW PICK Modan's elegantly simple line drawings match her dialogue, resulting in a heart-piercing, tough-minded love story. A-" -Entertainment Weekly
Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, A young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father’s death, he finds himself not only piecing together the last few months of his father’s life, but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.
Exit Wounds is the North American graphic novel debut from one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists, Rutu Modan.
She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children's Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times, Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture and is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.
Exit Wounds was the winner of the 2008 Eisner award for Best Graphic Album -New and was nominated for the televised 2007 Quill Awards in the graphic novel category
ISBN: 9781897299838
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War's End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96
Joe Sacco
"[Christmas With Karadzic is] a searing and amusing look at the motley collection of reporters, war profiteers, criminals, soldiers, and hapless civilians trapped in a war zone."
�The New York Times
"Sacco is one of the most astute war-zone correspondents working today." �Rolling Stone
How does an artist reconcile being forced to go to the front line of a brutal conflict that will change his life and homeland forever? What happens when a reporter finally comes face to face with an evil war criminal? Before his groundbreaking graphic novels Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer, Palestine author Joe Sacco created two short stories of the characters from each side of the crossfire. Collected together for the first time in Wars� End: Profiles from Bosnia 1996-1996 are the acclaimed Soba and Christmas with Karadzic. In Soba, Joe Sacco captures the internal torment of the romanticized Sarajevo artist-warrior who captivated the western media with his guitar and hard partying ways. In Christmas with Karadzic, Sacco gives the reader an inside peek of the darkly humorous news process that doesn�t make the headlines back home as he chases after one of the most hated and sought-after Bosnian Serb leaders and war criminals.
ISBN: 9781896597928
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Dogs & Water (hardcover edition)
Anders Nilsen
"Nilsen creates an epic landscape of desolation and doubt" --New City Chicago
"Nilsen's sparse, thinly rendered line work adds to the level of existential discomfort that the artist seems to excel at... 'Dogs and Water' stays with you a lot longer than most recent comics, easily marking it as one of the best of the year." --Harrisburg Patriot News
"Nilsen's art is filled with amazing white space showing a true sense of human loneliness. Above all else, the work echoes our need to be heard, even if only by ourselves." --Punk Planet
Dogs & Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with instinct, the drive for survival, and human ethics concerning the killed and injured. He finds acceptance with a pack of dogs, though their nature is wild and their potential threat is as unsettling as the sudden presence of a massive pipeline on the horizon. In a dreamlike state, the endless land becomes a vast body of water where his boat is destroyed and his body floats in a subconscious space. On land, the road disappears and only blind circumstance remains. All is uncertain and all can be lost, but he continues on regardless.
Dogs & Water received an Ignatz award for "Outstanding Story" and has been translated into several languages.
This hardcover edition features a few new pages and panels not included in the original saddle-stitched comic.
ISBN: 9781897299081
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Optic Nerve #5
Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine's first full-length story is featured here. In "Alter Ago" (25 pages), a successful young writer becomes obsessed with finding the girl he had a crush on in high school; things become more complicated when he has to hide his strange obsession from his current girlfriend. 24 pages. First Printing: February 1998
ISBN: 9781894937351
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Optic Nerve #6
Adrian Tomine
With eight bonus pages, this extra-long issue features "Hawaiian Getaway", a single story comprised of thirteen chapters. Inventive in structure, the story details the events in a woman's life as circumstances turn her previously complacent existence upside-down, and her behavior grows more eccentric and erratic. 32 pages. First Printing: February 1999. Second Printing: October 2001
ISBN: 9781894937368
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Optic Nerve #4
Adrian Tomine
Three stories are featured here: in Six Day Cold (11 pages), a man spends a tense, awkward evening with his ex-girlfriend after she comes over to his apartment to help nurse his sickness; "Fourth of July" (7 pages) recounts the story of a young boy who isolates himself as his parents are being separated; in "Hazel Eyes" (6 pages), a young woman tries to recreate her life after she realizes she has nothing in common with her friends. 24 pages. First Printing: April 1997. Second Printing: October 2001.
ISBN: 9781894937344
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Optic Nerve #3
Adrian Tomine
"Dylan & Donovan" (11 pages), the first of four stories, recounts the difficult adolescence of two twin sisters and their life with an aging hippie father; in "Supermarket" (6 pages), a blind man attempts to befriend a young woman at the checkout counter; "Hostage Situation" (3 pages) is an account of a miserable bus ride with two unruly passengers; in "Unfaded" (3 pages), a young man ponders a life gone by after his grandfather is admitted to a senior's home. 24 pages. First Printing: August 1996. Second Printing: October 2001
ISBN: 9781894937337
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Optic Nerve #2
Adrian Tomine
Tomine offers four stories in this second issue: A lonely woman tries to find the man leaving cryptic messages for her in the Personals section of the newspaper in "The Connecting Thread" (4 pages); in "Summer Job" (15 pages), a teenager reluctantly applies for a job at a photocopy shop and then proceeds to waste the following two months; "Pink Frosting" (2 pages) provides a vivid and unsettling glimpse at the suggestion of violence murmuring beneath the surface during a traffic altercation; in "Layover" (4 pages), a missed flight forces a man to ponder his strained relationships with his lover and friends as he discreetly walks through his neighborhood waiting, afraid to announce to anyone that he has not left yet. 24 pages. First Printing: November 1995; Second Printing: February 1997. Third Printing: October 2001.
ISBN: 9781894937320
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Optic Nerve #11
Adrian Tomine
In this long-awaited conclusion to Adrian Tomine's three-part epic, the story leaps across the country, taking place entirely in New York. All of protagonist Ben Tanaka's worst (and most amusing) traits are brought to the fore as his obsessive quest reaches a fever pitch. His best friend, Alice Kim, finds herself at an unexpected crossroads in her life, forcing her to make several life-altering decisions. But whatever happened to Ben's girlfriend, Miko Hayashi? That and many other answers are revealed as our protagonists walk and talk their way through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, all delineated in Tomine's evocatively pristine style.
ISBN: 9781897299227
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Optic Nerve #7
Adrian Tomine
At the center of the story is Nessa, a beautiful young woman who finds herself besieged by the attention of three obsessive, lustful men. This complex "misanthropic soap opera" is told without narration, cutting back and forth between several concurrent plots that ultimately converge in a compelling conclusion. First Printing: July 2000.
ISBN: 9781894937375
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Optic Nerve #8
Adrian Tomine
In this issue Tomine tells the story of two outcast teenagers and of the tense undercurrents that exist between them and the more popular group of students at school. This is the story that Dave Eggers chose to be included in the book "The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002" (Houghton Mifflin).
ISBN: 9781894937382
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Optic Nerve #10
Adrian Tomine
This new issue of Optic Nerve, the second of a three part series, begins with our protagonist Ben Tanaka diving head-first into the world of dating, only days after his unwitting, long-term girlfriend has left for an internship in New York. We follow his awkward and often humiliating attempts at connecting with several young women, all of whom happen to have blonde hair and blue eyes. We also watch the life of Ben's best friend, Alice Kim, take several dramatic turns for the worse. The issue closes with another cliffhanger of sorts, setting the stage for a major shift in Ben's life and the story itself. This is Tomine's most ambitious work to date: funny, compelling, and compulsively readable.
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Optic Nerve #9
Adrian Tomine
Optic Nerve #8 was selected for inclusion in the literary anthology "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002" and Optic Nerve #9 will be excerpted in an upcoming issue of McSweeney's, edited by Chris Ware.
After a lengthy period of writing and planning, Tomine returns with his longest, most ambitious work to date. With a projected length of over 100 pages, this fictional story examines the troubled sex-life of a confused, obsessive, Japanese-American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for the perfect girl. This issue is the first of three chapters.
ISBN: 9781894937641
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Optic Nerve #1
Adrian Tomine
"Great art and a soft, smooth page that's slick to the touch...reading Optic Nerve is like peeking into someone's diary or flipping through your favorite photo album." — New York Daily News
After self-publishing seven mini comics as a teenager, Optic Nerve became a regular comic book series when Adrian Tomine was only 20. His work developed steadily over the years, from the rough, sketchy drawings of his early mini-comics to the stark, crisp graphic approach of his D&Q series. Although his work is no longer strictly autobiographical, his contemporary stories are still deeply personal. Tomine creates a new cast of characters for each story, and he has become a master of penetrating their fragile exteriors.
This first D+Q issue features five stories: "Sleepwalk" (11 pages), an account of a young man's attempts to cling to an old, fading relationship; "Echo Avenue" (5 pages), where voyeurism is the pastime of choice as a couple peers into their neighbor's bedroom window; "Long Distance" (2 pages), a brief, powerful story about a woman's cold, distant conversations with her boyfriend; "Drop" (1 page), an account of an unfortunate incident by the author's father; and "Lunch Break" (5 pages), where a solitary elderly woman thinks back to happier times in the 1950's. 24 pages. First Printing: April 1995; Second Printing: February 1997. Third Printing: October 2001.
ISBN: 9781894937313
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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book One
Tove Jansson
The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin
Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of world’s largest newspaper the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in 40 countries. Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century.
The Moomins are a tight-knit family – hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson’s Nordic roots. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson’s observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.
B/W, 8.5” x 12”, 96 pages
ISBN: 9781894937801
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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book Three
Tove Jansson
Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Jansson's observations of everyday life—whimsical but with biting undertones—easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.
This third volume returns to Moominvalley, where its beloved inhabitants get tangled up in five new stories. Moomin falls in love with a damsel in distress, an unseasonably warm spell turns the valley into a tropical rainforest, and a flying saucer crashes into Moominmamma’s garden. Moominpappa decides to live out his dream of occupying a lighthouse and writing a great seaside novel, only to discover that he hates the sea so close up and has no interest in writing about it, and a variety of curious clubs spring up in the valley. Moomin and Moominmamma do their level best to avoid the whole mess but, of course, get drawn into the muddle.
Hardcover, 104 pages.
"[Jansson’s] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive…Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, a liberating force." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
ISBN: 9781897299555
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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Book Two
Tove Jansson
"A lost treasure now rediscovered--one of the sweetest, strangest comics strips ever drawn or written. A surrealist masterpiece. Honest." --Neil Gaiman
"[Jansson's] work soars with lightness and speed, and her drawings only echo her writing: delicate but precise, observant yet suggestive... Jansson was exceptional, an exuberant explorer of emotional independence and interdependence, a liberating force." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, childrearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moomin Mamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family’s doorstep with her 17 new children. Finally, A prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.
Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated Moomin chapter books. The D+Q reprint series collects, for the first time in North America, Jansson's internationally syndicated Moomin comic strip that debuted in the London Evening News in 1954.
ISBN: 9781897299197
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (paperback)
Guy Delisle
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Guy Delisle's internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novel about the "hermit country", was named among the best of the year by Amazon.com, TIME.com, CBC Radio One Talking Books, San Antonio Current, Vancouver Courier, Edmonton Journal, The Comics Journal, Young Adult Library Services Association and the Pennsylvania School Librarian's Association.
"Delisle has drawn an unforgettable picture of Pyongyang."--Time Magazine
"[Delisle] cloaks his tale with a compassionate cynicism that cushions the bleak horrors of this totalitarian Lost In Translation. A-"--Entertainment Weekly
"A graphic novel that is a fascinating and hilarious sketch of [Delisle's] time in the country."--Time
"Books like Persepolis--as well as Sacco's Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde and Guy Delisle's Pyongyang--are held up not only as great literature but also as instructive guides to global combat zones."--Newsweek
"Full of wry detail, humour and pathos..."--Maclean's
"Pyongyang is a fascinating, even important document. Its simple yet highly evocative artwork brings us a kind of photo-reportage from a country where photography is restricted, journalists are barred and visitors in general are discouraged...Prevented from being a travelogue in the traditional sense, Pyongyang instead functions as a portrait of society in denial."--The Guardian [UK]
ISBN: 9781897299210
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography softcover
Chester Brown
Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader. Brown cooly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.
"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel."--Time Magazine
"If you love to read a gripping story, if you are awed by the talent of an artist, then look no further: Chester Brown's Louis Riel is comix history in the making, and with it, history never looked so good."--The Globe and Mail Book Review
"The starkly told story of a crucial figure in Canada's history--yet one whom most Americans have probably never heard of. It's a credit to Brown's plainspoken artistry and flair for narrative that it's a page-turner till the end."--The Boston Phoenix
"This is an ingenious comic and a major achievement." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS:
If you received a paperback copy of Louis Riel from the first printing that has a defective binding, please tear the cover off, mail it to us, and we will send you a replacement.
ISBN: 9781894937894
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Scrapbook
Adrian Tomine
The ultimate collection by one of the most recognized talents in graphic novels and includes over a decade of comics and illustrations by the still-under-30 Adrian Tomine, from Pulse to The New Yorker and Esquire, collected together for the first time in one sharply-designed book.
“Tomine is at the forefront of the younger generation of alternative-comics artists.” — Booklist
“Adrian Tomine captures the pathos of young adulthood with vignettes exquisitely rendered in a sharp, comic-noir style.” — Vibe Magazine
Scrapbook is the first comprehensive Adrian Tomine collection. Here you’ll find the complete run of strips which was originally published in Tower Records’ Pulse Magazine which Adrian started when he was only 17, along with comics originally published in Details and a host of other magazines of the past decade. A large section of scrapbook is dedicated to Tomine’s extensive illustration and design work, featuring his best material over the years from virtually every major publication in America including The New Yorker, Details, Esquire, and the late JFK Jr.-edited George. Tomine’s art has also graced popular album covers and posters for bands such as The Eels and Weezer and posters and it’s all included here in this beautifuly packaged book
ISBN: 9781896597775
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Shortcomings
Adrian Tomine
"Tomine's genius is to strip his medium of every possible type of grandiosity or indulgence, and the result is that life itself floods in. His mise-en-scene rivals Eric Rohmer's in its gentle precision, and his mastery of narrative time suggests Alice Munro. Shortcomings, as near as he'd get to a grand statement, is as deceptively relaxed and perfect as a comic book gets." --Jonathan Lethem
"One of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation, 32-year-old Adrian Tomine's [Shortcomings] centers on Asian-American protagonist Ben Tanaka, a lonely, socially constricted man, longing to make a connection and spinning in the purgatory between youth and adulthood... equal parts poignant, hilarious, and sad." --The Village Voice
Ben Tanaka has problems. In addition to being rampantly critical, sarcastic, and insensitive, his long–term relationship is awash in turmoil. His girlfriend, Miko Hayashi, suspects that Ben has a wandering eye, and more to the point, it's wandering in the direction of white women. This accusation (and its various implications) becomes the subject of heated, spiralling debate, setting in motion a story that pits California against New York, devotion against desire, and trust against truth.
By confusing their personal problems with political ones, Ben and Miko are strangely alone together and oddly alike, even as they fly apart. Being human, all too human, they fail to see that what unites them is their shared hypocrisies, their double standards. This gray zone between the personal and the political is a minefield that Tomine navigates boldly and nimbly. The charged, volatile dialogues that result are unlike anything in Tomine's previous work or, for that matter, comics in general. But Shortcomings is no mere polemic. Any issues that are raised stand on equal footing with expertly-crafted plot turns, subtle characterization, and irreverent humor, all drawn in Tomine's heart-breakingly evocative style. What Tomine ultimately offers is more provocation than pronouncement--a brutal, funny, and insightful reflection of human shortcomings.
Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine's iconic comic book series Optic Nerve (issues #9-11) and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13.
Click here to enter the Shortcomings mini-site!
ISBN: 9781897299166
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Summer Blonde (PB)
Adrian Tomine
The critic Dan Raeburn describes this book best, "Ten years from now, when respectable Gotham magazines are publishing Tomine's comics as short stories in their own right, you will have this book to prove that you were here first."
With a deft and romantic touch, Tomine portrays the emotional ambivalence of drifting, urban twenty-somethings in stunning black and white. His stories are appealingly naturalistic, stylishly cinematic, and emotionally rich. His fans accuse him of eavesdropping on their most intimate moments, exhibiting their insecurities with both forensic detachment and surprising compassion.
COLLECTS STORIES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN OPTIC NERVE #'s 5, 6, 7, and 8.
ISBN: 9781896597577
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I Never Liked You: The New Definitive Edition
Chester Brown
(200 p, B/W, 6x9")
A harrowing memoir of loss and the struggle to connect, Brown's story is told with a spare poetic elegance. A self-absorbed teenager, Chester Brown strays into the difficult territory of friendship and early love while at home there is a slowly building crisis over his mother's mental health. Emotionally intense, the story veers unsteadily between the extremes of eerie detachment and sudden desperate outbursts of need. A complex and disturbing true story told with a nuanced, queasy visual style that lingers in the mind long after the book has been put away.
"A minimalist, but haunting memoir of the artist's troubled adolescence." --New York Times Book Review
"Despite his Canadian citizenship, Chester Brown should be declared a national treasure." --The Onion
"A study in adolescent socialization and the peculiar combination of budding sexuality, self-obsessed dreaminess and downright mean-spiritedness that epitomizes the teenage years." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
ISBN: 9781896597140
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Get a Life
Dupuy & Berberian
A celebration of the sophistication, wit, and charm found only in the singular collaboration of a French cartooning team.
For twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian
have collaborated on every aspect –sharing both the writing and drawing– of their highly acclaimed Mr. Jean short stories, creating one of the most endearing, clever, and readable series in contemporary French comics. Their award-winning, critically acclaimed series has sold more than120,000 copies in France and has won one of comics’ most coveted awards, the prestigious Angoulême Alph-Art Award for the Best Book of the Year.
Get a Life is a collection of the early Mr. Jean stories where the reader is introduced to the life of the titular character, a laconic, single Parisian male struggling through the usual calamities of life: bachelorhood in his twenties and early thirties and the impending responsibilities of marriage, kids, and deadlines for his publisher. Mr. Jean is a typical everyman – a scholar who fancies himself a man of letters, a nostalgist whose memories carry a weight few can understand, a lover whose heart knows the greatest of burdens. Melancholic yet joyful reflections on past loves, favorite authors, marriage, and fatherhood are laid out in a breezy, comic style.
ISBN: 9781896597799
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Crickets #1
Sammy Harkham
With Crickets, Sammy Harkham begins a new regular comic book series with D+Q. This debut issue features Black Death, a new ongoing serial about a man shot full of arrows who is curiously not dead. With this first chapter, he finds himself lost in the woods, and becomes bound to a mysterious Golem. Together they encounter a father and son engaged in a grim task.
Sammy Harkham is one of the most exciting new talents to have emerged in recent years, listed among "L.A.'s hottest names in comics" by the L.A. Times, as well as one of Utne's "comic book artists to watch out for." Crickets is being published simultaneously in several languages.
See also D+Q Showcase #3 for Sammy Harkham's Somersaulting, a dense 21-page strip in 3 colors.
ISBN: CRICKETS1
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Good-Bye
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual "top 10" lists, including those compiled by Amazon and Time.com. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the prolific artist'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 directly as a result of World War II: a prostitute loses all hope when American GIs go home to their wives; a man devotes twenty years of his life to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, it is hardly the overriding theme. A philanthropic foot fetishist, a rash-ridden retiree and a lonely public onanist are but a few of the characters etching out darkly nuanced lives in the midst of isolated despair and fleeting pleasure.
Praise for Yoshihiro Tatsumi:
"Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing..." --Los Angeles Times
"Abandon the Old in Tokyo is a revealing time capsule and a strangely moving portrait of survival in a land where everything is changing." --Time
"Tatsumi's stories have an artistic expressiveness, philosophical coherence and dark, emotional weight that is undeniable." --The Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
"These stories...reveal an artist who was making comics that weren't just adult, but truly mature." --The Village Voice
ISBN: 9781897299371
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Gentleman Jim
Raymond Briggs
Gentleman Jim is the story of Jim Bloggs, an imaginative toilet cleaner who, dissatisfied with his station in life, devotes his time to envisioning a world beyond it. His walls are lined with books like Out in the Silver West, The Boys Book of Pirates and Executive Opportunities, which provide fodder for his ruminations on career change. Encouraged by his wife, also eager to incorporate more adventure into her life, Jim sets out to bring these dreams to fruition by accumulating various accoutrements, only to discover that the life of an executive, an artist, or a cowboy is more complicated and costly than it appears.
Jim's childlike understanding of the world that surrounds him is enhanced by Raymond Briggs' subtle and inventive illustration. Fantasies are portrayed as organic clouds that move between and overlap outlined panels of his reality, and myopic Jim is drawn smaller and softer than the policemen and bureaucrats interested in impeding upon his search for adventure. As he begins to infringe more seriously on the law, the city workers and their speech boxes become increasingly angular, much like the rigid rules and regulations restricting his sincere quest. With this playful style, Briggs expertly transforms common feelings of inadequacy into an endearing and enjoyable experience that speaks across generations, concluding with an optimistic implication that even a misfortunate outcome can be better than no change at all.
ISBN: 9781897299364
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Fire Away
Chris von Szombathy
Chris Von Szombathy’s surreal illustrations explore the bold juxtaposition of color and use of iconic imagery characteristic of modern underground screenprinting as practiced by sub-cultural icons such as The Little Friends of Printmaking. Von Szombathy breaks new ground in the aesthetic by simultaneously emphasizing the repetition of shape and the subversion of expectations with jarring intersections of organic, inorganic and purely abstract elements. Swirling fractals of curves and angles erupt from and entangle his subjects, invading the void space of his backgrounds with injections and infections of form and light. Fire Away is Von Szombathy’s first published collection.
ISBN: 9781897299494
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Hamilton Sketchbook
David Collier
"A glimpse into one person's vulnerable and unpretentious attempt to transcend his personal limitations." --Quill & Quire
Compared to what he left behind he thinks it is a land of opportunity. And his pens don’t freeze outside in winter any more. But David Collier finds he has more worries and concerns now. The urban landscapes filling his sketchbooks make him feel even more remote as an artist then he did on the prairies. The sketchbooks were supposed to document and affirm his new life! Instead their pages become a space where his anxieties wrestle with his desire for a home.
As eccentric, diverting, curious, wry and compassionate in life as in his work, David Collier has distilled 20 years of criss-crossing Canada into his books. Fascinated by forgotten people and kooky stories, his work reflects a uniquely Canadian mix of wide-eyed whimsy and prairie-frozen wit.
ISBN: 9781896597485
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Haunted
Philippe Dupuy
A surprising, wry, and deeply moving reflection on despair and the way back out.
Ten years after finishing the original French edition of Maybe Later--the book in which the French superstar cartooning duo Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian worked separately for the first time--Dupuy set out on his own again with Haunted. Here, entirely independent, gone are the tightly constructed narratives and urbane, elegant graphics of his projects with Berberian. In their place, roughed-in drawings give an urgent, spontaneous feeling to a series of hallucinatory stories and dreamlike sequences that register the raw distress of solitude and self-doubt--the dark core of the material held in balance by Dupuy's acid humor and lyrical sensibility.
A jogging Dupuy runs around and sometimes through the stories of the misfit characters that haunt him: a self-amputating dog, a Left Bank artist in search of emptiness, an art-collecting duck, Lucha Libre wrestlers, and a group of single guys at the watering hole imagined as the anthropomorphic "Forest Friends." Heart pumping, gaze turned inward, the ground occasionally giving way beneath his feet, this alter ego concludes that sometimes you need to cross the line to figure out where it is.
The original French edition of Haunted was nominated for the 2006 award for Best Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian were awarded the prestigious Angoulême Grand Prize in 2008.
ISBN: 9781897299265
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Fair Weather (PB)
Joe Matt
For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly unabashed and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist’s enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.
In his graphic novel, Fair Weather, Joe examines his 1970s suburban childhood. In a surprisingly tasteful and thoughtful memoir young Joe Matt is a selfish child who steals from stores, takes advantage of his friends, threatens to burn his mother’s house down, teases those weaker than himself, and reveals himself to be a fairly normal child. Completely unsentimental and strangely kind of endearing, Fair Weather continues the American tradition of hilarious self-exhibitionism.
Collected from Peepshow issues #7-10.
ISBN: 9781896597744
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Fair Weather (HC)
Joe Matt
(128p, B/W 6x9)For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing personality and lifestyle. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist’s enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.
In his new graphic novel, Fair Weather, Joe examines his 1970s suburban childhood. In a surprisingly tasteful and thoughtful memoir young Joe Matt is a selfish child who steals from stores, takes advantage of his friends, threatens to burn his mother’s house down, teases those weaker than himself, and reveals himself to be a fairly normal child. Completely unsentimental and strangely kind of endearing, Fair Weather continues the American tradition of hilarious self-exhibitionism.
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.2 #3
Drawn & Quarterly
This edition includes "Johnny and Babe" by Graham Chaffee (7 pages b/w, 3 pages full color), "Bicycle Thief" by Pentti Otsamo (6 pages full color), "Side Door Lover" by Maurice Vellekoop (4 pages full color), and "It Was the War of the Trenches" by Jacques Tardi (15 pages b/w). Featuring cover and end pages by J. D. King. First Printing. Published May 1995.
ISBN: DQV2#03
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Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Four
The D&Q Showcase Series
The D+Q Showcase is where you find tomorrow's critically acclaimed graphic novelists today.
Book Four features three North American cartoonists, Dan Zettwoch ("The Ghost of Dragon Canoe") of St. Louis, Gabrielle Bell (When I'm Old) of Brooklyn and Martin Cendreda (Dang!) of Los Angeles. Zettwoch and Bell have both contributed to the award-winning anthology Kramers Ergot. Cendreda is a frequent contributor to Giant Robot magazine.
ISBN: 9781896597980
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.2 #1
Drawn & Quarterly
This edition leads off with a chapter of Jacques Tardi's brutal masterpiece, "It Was The War of The Trenches" (14 pages, b/w), a harrowing, realistic portrayal of the First World War from the perspective of the individual soldiers; Maurice Vellekoop muses about the rise and fall of a once-famous maestro in "The Same Old Story" (3 pages, full-color); Carol Tyler recounts the tragic history of the death of her sister in the Eisner Award-nominated "The Hannah Story" (12 pages, full-color); French cartoonists Avril & Petit-Roulet contribute their clever, silent strip, "63, rue de la Grange aux Belles" (10 pages, full-color) and New Yorker illustrator Marcellus Hall delivers a hilarious look romance in the classified ads in "Personals" (1 page, b/w). Covers and endpapers by Seth. 48 pages. First printing.
Publication date: August 1994.
ISBN: 9781894937184
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Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Five
The D&Q Showcase Series
October 2008
The Drawn & Quarterly Showcase is a new talent anthology and the only annual collection to have the focused visual acumen of D+Q editor-in-chief Chris Oliveros, who scours the globe for three cartoonists to spotlight and introduce to North American readers. More often than not, it is the first time the cartoonists have had the chance to work in full-color with twenty-five pages, and on such a wide-reaching visual platform. The series is hailed for its consistent quality and for the superior editorial vision of its short stories, volume after volume.
Book Five features Anneli Furmark (Sweden), Amanda Vähämäki (Finland), and T. Edward Bak (United States), with cover art by Vähämäki.
Praise for Book Four:
"At a time when there's a very healthy field of good anthologies being published, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase continues to stand out, here in its fourth volume presenting three stories that are each something special and deeply enjoyable...This here is another strong Showcase, spotlighting some truly notable creative talent."--Nashville City Paper
"Together these three short stories manage to flesh out another issue of a collection that, if not the best of its kind, may perhaps be the sturdiest currently being published."--The Comics Journal
ISBN: 9781897299302
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Dirty Plotte #12 (Purty Plotte)
Julie Doucet
The grand finale of Dirty Plotte features the conclusion of "My New York Diary", in which Julie finally takes care of her blubbering boyfriend. Also in this issue: "Alone Again With Julie Doucet", the hilarious two-pager that was deemed too risque for Details magazine.
24 pages. First printing: August 1998. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937535
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Dirty Plotte #10 (Purity Plotte)
Julie Doucet
Part one of "My New York Diary" is featured in this issue. Julie arrives in Manhattan on the train and is wooed by her new boyfriend. How sweet it is. Plus: two stories that have not been reprinted in book form: a dream about Nick Cave and Julie as a cowboy shooting up a saloon.
24 pages. First printing: December 1996. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937528
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Dirty Plotte #07
Julie Doucet
This issue's highlight is the 8 page story "The First Time", a frank and harrowing account of Julie's first sexual experience (it has since been reprinted in the book "My New York Diary"). Also: Julie visits a comic book store to use their bathroom facilities, and more bad dreams.
24 pages. First printing: September 1993. Mature Readers.
ISBN: 9781894937177
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Dirty Plotte #05
Julie Doucet
The New York Subway is the setting for the lead story in this issue, which deals with heartache, misunderstood phone conversations, mysterious corpses, and lost friends. Each panel in this story is painted in intricate tones of black, white, and grey. Also: Julie finds new uses for motorcycle seats.
24 pages. First printing: May 1992. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937153
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Dirty Plotte #04
Julie Doucet
The forces of grime and spotlessness clash in what may be the most unusual showdown in comics, as Julie takes on "Super Clean Plotte". Also: life in New York City; very particular lessons in hygiene; and an unconventional idea for a new lunchtime snack. 24 pages. First printing: October 1991; Second printing: November 1994. Mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894837146
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Dirty Plotte #02
Julie Doucet
In this issue, Julie gives her views on breast cancer, cannibalism, "man's best friend", and her very first english lesson. Also: terrifying nightmares, attempted suicides, and painful self-portraits. 24 pages. First printing: March 1991; Second printing: July 1992. For mature readers.
ISBN: 9781894937122
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Dirty Plotte #01
Julie Doucet
Perhaps one of the only books to have received a tip of the hat from publications as diverse as "Ms." and "Screw", Dirty Plotte was for eight years a forum for Julie Doucet's irrepressible comics. These intensely-drawn strips explore some of Doucet's deepest and most bizarre fantasies: from masturbation with cookies (given to her by her mother, of course!), to various unlikely scenarios of her life as a man. In later issues, Doucet explored more complex themes: these stories of love, passion, and seemingly endless cycles of bad relationships are told with an unflinching candor and honesty and drawn with Doucet's characteristic eye for obsessive detail.
ISBN: 9781894937115
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Collier's Vol.2 #2
David Collier
The weirdest member of the D&Q family David Collier has a knack for telling the strange-but-true stories of people. This is pure Collier, wandering through old memories and the filthy downtown streets, in the latest in his series of biographical sketches. Collier takes us back 20 years to his downtown Toronto punk days when he was drawing comics, washing dishes and hanging out with a Brit punker and fellow cartoonist named Brat X. Features their old comics and Collier's first letter from R. Crumb.
ISBN: 9781894937634
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Collier's Vol.2 #1
David Collier
On the heels of his recent book collection, Portraits From Life, David Collier returns with Volume 2 of his eponymous comic book series! In this feature-length story, "Dennis Was Good and Bad", Collier writes about the tragic life of an old friend. Find out why people like Chris Ware and Joe Sacco consider Collier one of the best cartoonists working today!
24 b/w pages. First printing: January 2002.
ISBN: COLLIERSV2#1
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Clyde Fans; Book One
Seth
Clyde Fans promises to be one of the major graphic novel achievements of recent years. Seth is fast becoming one of the most recognized talents in the field since Chris Ware. Book One of this trilogy focuses on the lives of two brothers and their fan manufacturing company. After one more disastrous attempt at selling, Simon returns to the office defeated and unsure of what he’ll do next. Even after studying manuals on the art of selling, he still can’t seem to clinch that final deal. In the eyes of his brother Abraham, he is a failure. Here, Seth brilliantly explores the complex and fascinating relationship of the two brothers behind Clyde Fans.
Palooka-Ville #10-15 collected in one beautiful hardcover volume.
ISBN: 9781896597843
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Clyde Fans: Part One
Seth
Palooka-Ville #10-12 collected in one combo edition.
“A poetic story of a business as it moves through the crumbling modern world." — National Post
A bittersweet tale of two Canadian brothers who sold electric fans in the 1950s. Part One takes us into the Clyde Fans storefront in the grey city of Toronto. Here Seth introduces us to Abe, elderly and regretful.
These installments were originally serialized in Palooka-ville and will be released as a graphic novel.
ISBN: 9781894937092
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Curses
Kevin Huizenga
Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality, Kevin Huizenga’s short stories are based in the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes peculiar ways. Huizenga fuses the most banal aspects of modern culture with its most looming questions in a consistently genial style. Light-hearted, but with a healthy dose of 19th century spine-tingling, the narratives presented in Curses are insightful portrayals of reality. Huizenga’s central character in his comics is Glenn Ganges, a seemingly middle class man living in the suburbs whose blank-eyed wonderment at everyday experiences brings together such diverse aspects of our world as golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees and hallucinatory vision, into a complete experience as multifaceted as our own lives.
Huizenga is regarded by many as one of the most promising young cartoonists of his generation, whose artistic talent, singular writing and studied substance prove the versatility of his skill. Curses collects Huizenga's work from Kramer’s Ergot and The Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, his award-winning and nominated comic book series Or Else, and Time Magazine; it is the most extensive selection of his comics to date in a single volume.
ISBN: 9781894937863
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Best of Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly
Collects top material from D+Q's first 2 years, 1990-92.
As the title suggests, this book collects the top material from the magazine's initial ten issue run, with stories by Seth, Maurice Vellekoop, Julie Doucet, Peter Kuper, Joe Matt, and more. One of the highlights, however, is actually not a reprint: Debbie Drechsler wrote and drew the dark, almost mesmerizing 5 page full color story "Constellations" especially for this edition and it does not appear in any other book. Other "exclusives" include new illustrations by Santiago Cohen, Joe Matt's "Darkest Secret" and J.D. King's "Beastniks" colored exclusively for this edition, and a breathtaking, award-winning wraparound cover and endpapers (complete with dustjacket flaps) by Maurice Vellekoop. Introduction by Peter Bagge.
Softcover; 64 pages. First edition.
Publication date: December 1993.
ISBN: 9780969670148
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Berlin #07
Jason Lutes
In the last weeks of the winter of 1929, tensions escalate between the Communists, National Socialists, and Berlin police. Gudrun Braun becomes more deeply involved with Otto the Communist and agrees to march in the upcoming May Day demonstration. Having overcome his writers' block, Kurt returns to the typewriter with renewed energy and intent. Meanwhile, Marthe learns the truth about Anna's romantic interest in her and must confront her own conflicted feelings, which are complicated by her entanglement in the life of Pola, the artists' model.
24 b/w pages.
Publication date: April 2000
ISBN: 9781894937061
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Berlin #06
Jason Lutes
The two burgeoning movements of the time are examined here: the National Socialists continue their expansion "underground" and on the opposite side, thousands gather to hear a fiery speech by the Bolshevik leader. 24 pages. First printing: August 1999.
ISBN: 9781894837054
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Berlin #09
Jason Lutes
The first chapter is finally here from the second Berlin volume City of Smoke.
Nervous confrontations mark the first few days after the stunning, violent climax of Berlin Book One. In the streets, the clubs, the committee halls, and in the press, people are looking for reasons why the police opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of socialist workers. Some are just looking for someone to blame. It is a dark and tense city that the American Jazz band the Cocoa Nut Kids enter for their first European tour.
(June 2002, 24 p, B/W)
ISBN: 9781894937085
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Berlin #10
Jason Lutes
The demonstration has left the streets of Berlin running with accusations, paranoia and blood. Some people withdraw into the shadows and others become martyrs. Kurt begins investigating the massacre while the unsuspecting American jazz band the Cocoa Kids begin making a name for themselves among the cabarets and dancing girls that made the glittering city famous.
ISBN: 9781894937627
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Berlin #13
Jason Lutes
Tensions mount as the stock market crash of 1929 takes a devastating toll of the people of Berlin. Marthe and Anna are oblivious, drinking and dancing until dawn to the sounds of the Cocoa Kids, but a surprise visitor from Marthe's past provides a rude awakening. Meanwhile, Kurt grapples with the complications of the political situation and finds himself sliding deeper into despair.
ISBN: 9781897299326
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Berlin #15
Jason Lutes
The penultimate chapter to Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume in Jason Lutes' trilogy about the decline of the Weimar Republic, finds its broad cast of characters searching for solid footing in a chaotic cityscape. The relationship between Pavel the scavenger and the orphaned Silvia Braun comes to a painful end, while tensions rise between the Cocoa Kids and their German manager. Meanwhile, Kurt and Marthe struggle to come to peace with their failed romance and the different ways they view changing world.
ISBN: 9781897299609
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Berlin #16
Jason Lutes
Blood spatters the street, a life's work goes up in flames, and lovers take flight in the final chapter of Berlin: City of Smoke, the second volume of the epic trilogy. Against the backdrop of the 1930 Reichstag elections, in which the National Socialists gain unprecedented political power, those citizens who have not yet chosen sides are forced to walk the knife's edge of history as it cuts irreversibly through their lives. Nazi assaults Communist, black confronts white, and Kurt Severing struggles with the futility of using language itself to strike at the dark heart of human nature.
ISBN: 9781897299616
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Berlin #05
Jason Lutes
It is now December: in a scene foreshadowing a greater tragedy, a Jewish family openly celebrates Hanukkah. Elseware throughout the city, Christmas carols are sung in the streets and Kurt and Marthe spend their first night together. 24 pages. First issue published by Drawn & Quarterly; First printing: December 1998
ISBN: 9781894937047
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Berlin #03
Jason Lutes
The time is October 1928, and Kurt Severing is witness to an event where the seething animosity between the fascists and the "reds" violently erupts. 24 pages. Published by Black Eye Books; First printing: February 1997.
ISBN: 9781894937030
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Berlin #01
Jason Lutes
The first serialized installment in a critically-acclaimed graphic novel trilogy spanning the brilliant and dangerous years of the Weimar Republic of Germany. Artists, journalists, communists, fascists, police, poets, lovers and workers cross paths while they dance the decadent city of Berlin into the arms of growing fascism. Life is not a cabaret for the denizens of Europe's fascinating city of stones. (1998, rev. ed. February 1999, 24 p, B/W)
ISBN: 9781894937023
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Berlin, Book Two: City of Smoke
Jason Lutes
The second volume of Jason Lutes's historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American Jazz band Cocoa Kids arrives and quickly becomes a fixture. The lives of the characters within Lutes's epic weave together to create a seamless portrait of this transitory city. Marthe Muller follows lover Kurt Severing as he interviews participants in the May Day demonstration, but moonlights in the city’s lesbian nightlife. Severing acts as a window through which the political shifts within the city and its participants can be seen. As with Berlin Book One: City of Stones, Lutes creates a sense of anxiety, of the doom to come.
Paperback original, 200 pages.
ISBN: 9781897299531
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Berlin, Book One: City of Stones
Jason Lutes
The first volume in the ambitious Berlin Trilogy collecting issues #1-8.
A novel with cinematic sweep, the lives of Weimar Berlin's glamourous and downtrodden denizens criss-cross in the cold city streets and change the city's destiny forever. One of the most ambitious graphic novels ever.
"It will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in comics...this book has the density of the best novels." --Time
"A book of impressive scope... full of novel combinations of text and pictures." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
(2001, 212 p, B/W, 7x 10")
ISBN: 9781896597294
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Baloney
Pascal Blanchet
February 2009
Following White Rapids—named “Best Comic of 2007” by The Onion—Pascal Blanchet brings us Baloney. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor, in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town.
Curvy, retro lines and atmospheric, full-page panels evoke plaintive melodies, staccato passages and soaring solos. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and 40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia’s great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red and black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read Baloney as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich: a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant rates charged by utilities.
Praise for White Rapids:
“It's rare to find a book as formally innovative and profoundly lovely as [White Rapids].” –The Onion
“Blanchet's drawings are like sheet music, too, each flowing naturally into the other as they tell the story not only of a singular place and time, but also deliver a subtle treatise about the toll progress takes on human scale.” –The Montreal Gazette
Paperback, 80 pages, 7 x 8.75 inches, color.
ISBN: 9781897299661
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Bacter-Area
Keith Jones
Remarkable new talent Keith Jones joins the ranks of Julie Doucet and Marc Bell with this new "Petits Livres" book. Keith Jones once wrote, "People and Birds talk to each other and spend time doing it." This is as reasonable a description as you'll get for Keith's dense, cartoon-y people/animal-scapes. Arms twist and flail and behinds slip to the front. Keith comes from a doodle world tradition that belongs to underground giants like the aforementioned Marc Bell and Ron Rege, Jr. Another installment in Drawn & Quarterly's Petits Livres series tiny affordable art books with a comics bent.
ISBN: 9781894937856
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Babel #1
David B.
The first installment of a breathtaking series by French cartoonist David B., a remarkable follow-up to Epileptic. A boy's world is shattered by his brother's epileptic seizures and his growing awareness of turmoil in warring countries. The stunning two-color artwork evokes an extraordinary range of influences, from the boldness of primitive art to the myricism of Winsor McCay.
ISBN: 9781894937788
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Aya of Yop City
Abouet & Oubrerie
The original D+Q volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomination, and praise for its accessibility and for the rare portrait of a warm and vibrant Africa it presented. This continuation of the dynamic story by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie returns to Africa's Ivory Coast in the late 1970s, where life in Yop City is as dramatic as ever. Oubrerie's artwork synchronizes perfectly to Abouet's funny and lighthearted writing, which together create a spirited atmosphere and scenarios that, however unique to the bygone setting, remain entirely contemporary in their effect.
The original cast of characters is back in full force, with a case of questionable paternity fanning the flames of activity in the community. The new mother Adjoua has her friends to help with the baby, perhaps employing Aya a bit too frequently, while a new romance leaves Bintou with little time for her friends, let alone their responsibilities. The young women aren't the only residents of Yopougon involved in the excitement, however; Aya's father is caught in the midst of his own trysts and his employer's declining Solibra beer sales, and Adjoua's brother finds his share of the city's nightlife.
ISBN: 9781897299418
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Aya
Abouet & Oubrerie
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the...war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life goes on."--Marguerite Abouet
Ivory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's house every evening to watch the country's first TV ad campaign promote the fortifying effects of Solibra, "the strong man's beer." It's a golden time, and the nation, too--an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa--seems fueled by something wondrous.
Who's to know that the Ivorian miracle is nearing its end? In the sun-warmed streets of working class Yopougon, aka Yop City, holidays are around the corner, the open-air bars and discos are starting to fill up, and trouble of a different kind is about to raise eyebrows. At night, an empty table in the market square under the stars is all the privacy young lovers can hope for, and what happens there is soon everybody's business.
Aya tells the story of its 19-year old heroine, the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a breezy and wryly funny account of the desire for joy and freedom, and of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see-spirited, hopeful and resilient.
Aya won the 2006 award for Best First Album at the Angouleme International Comics Festival. Clement Oubrerie's warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet's vibrant writing.
ISBN: 9781894937900
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Aline & the Others
Guy Delisle
Women literally lose their heads as they swap limbs and lovers in Aline and the others, a collection of 26 sublimely perverse wordless strips by Guy Delisle, best known for his internationally successful books from D+Q, Pyongyang and Shenzhen. Arranged alphabetically, the strips are named after their 26 vivacious female protagonists who stretch, shrink, disappear into one another's orifices and jump off the page in stories that are as hilarious as they are utterly bizarre, dynamically brought to life by Delisle's skillful hand as an animator.
72 pages, softcover.
ISBN: 9781897299128
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Atlas #1
Dylan Horrocks
Dylan Horrocks returns with ATLAS, a mammoth, new one-thousand page comic book story, serialized in approximately twelve 80-page booklets! ATLAS is a long, sprawling saga of comics, cartography and magic, revisiting two landscapes introduced in his first book, Hicksville: the eponymous comics-obsessed town and the mysterious Cornucopia. Along the way, it will explore the nature of comics, the politics of the new millennium, the frailty of love and the secret to mapping the sky. The story follows 70 years in the life of Emil Kopen, from his peasant childhood in the mountains of Cornucopia to the cartooning sweatshops of New York in the late thirties; from the horrors of Nazi occupation to the hope and disillusionment of postwar Europe. But it is also the story of Kopen's journey to Hicksville and of his struggle to come to terms with his own past and his country's future, as centuries of isolation from the rest of the world give way to economic globalisation and market-driven disorder. For Kopen still has one final part to play in determining the political and cultural destiny of Cornucopia. And that country's feared secret police will stop at nothing to prevent him...
Back-up story by James Kochalka.
$100 b/w pages. First printing: July 2001.
ISBN: 9781894937016
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ACME Novelty Datebook: Volume Two, 1995-2002
Chris Ware
Straggling behind the mild 2003 success of cartoonist Chris Ware's first facsimile collection of his miscellaneous sketches, notes, and adolescent fantasies arrives this second volume, updating weary readers with the last ten years of Ware's clichéd and outmoded insights.
Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sensitive and personally incriminating material from his private journals, carefully recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an ordered mind and established aesthetic directive. All phone numbers, references to ex-girlfriends, "false starts," and embarrassing experiments with unfamiliar drawing media have been generously excised to present the reader with the most pleasant and colorful sketchbook reading experience available. Included are Ware's frustrated doodles for his book covers, angry personal assaults on friends, half-finished comic strips, lengthy and tiresome fulminations of personal disappointments both social and sexual, as well as his now-beloved drawings of the generally miserable inhabitants of the city of Chicago. All in all, a necessary volume for fans of fine art, water-based media, and personal diatribe. Hardcover, attractively designed, and easy to resell.
ISBN: 9781897299180
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ACME Novelty Datebook 1986-1995
Chris Ware
Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan --one of the great crossover success stories-- as a tremendous art collection from of one of America’s most interesting and popular graphic artist.
Chris Ware has a passion for drawing that is surprisingly wide-ranging in style and subject. This book surprises the reader on every page with its sense of spontaneous vision. Architectural drawings from Chicago and interplanetary robot comics collide with cruelly doodled human figures and quietly troubling studies of the still life. A must for people with a passion for modern design and old-fashioned style!
ISBN: 9781896597669
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Abandon The Old In Tokyo
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
"These stories get under your skin and invite rereading."--Bookforum
"These stories...reveal an artist who was making comics that weren't just adult, but truly mature."--Village Voice
"The author's careful control of line expresses a broad range of emotion, and his layouts are so thoughtfully paced that his craft becomes invisible, always serving the story rather than drawing attention to itself."--Washington Post
"Tatsumi makes it so any of his characters could be any of the others, crafting a powerful and still-potent commentary on the social and sexual roles of Japanese society."--Miami Herald
Abandon The Old In Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and Other Stories, debuted to much critical acclaim and rightfully placed Tatsumi as a legendary precursor to the North American graphic novel movement. 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 Tatsumi’s maturation as a storywriter.
The introduction is penned by Koji Suzuki, the best-selling author of the Ring trilogy (Ring, Spiral, Loop), as well as Dark Water and Birthday (all published in America by Vertical). His stories have been the basis for several blockbuster films in both Japan and the United States. He lives in Tokyo.
ISBN: 9781894937870
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A Village Under My Pillow
Luc Giard
A 2005 addition to D+Q's "Petits Livres" artbook series sees the return of comic art legend, Luc Giard. As many alternative comic aficionados will know, Giard's bold, intense drawings were a regular fixture in the early issues of the Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and this new book marks his first solo collection, featuring all-new material. Giard has gotten even better over the years, as this collection of work shows, and he covers a diverse range of subject matter, including TinTin reproductions, beautiful nudes, and portraits of Jasper Johns and Saul Steinberg. SC, 5x7, 96pgs
ISBN: 9781894937849
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365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet
"Julie Doucet is a conceptual artist trapped in a cartoonist's body... finding fresh ways to channel her creative eruptions onto paper." --The Village Voice
"Like many of her alt-comics contemporaries, Doucet eradicates any uppity delineation between art and comics." --Bust Magazine
Despite Julie Doucet's renunciation of her comics-centric lifestyle over five years ago, 365 Days is imbued with the iconic talent and studied aesthetic of her seminal comic book series Dirty Plotte, which catapulted her into being one of the world's greatest cartoonists. This visual journal, starting in late 2002, is an idiosyncratic collision of her various creative interests, wherein personal narrative, collage and drawing begin to tell the story of her pursuits into printmaking and beyond, chronicling her maturation as a mid-career artist and her fluid extension into a broader arts community.
Now exhibiting internationally, Doucet blurs the boundaries between high art, illustration, craft and comics: where panel borders once divided pages, collage creeps in; events and doodles merge; recollection and narrative blend with the abstract. The surreal neurosis of her comics has subsided to reveal a more relaxed creativity that is unrestricted by form or definition and is as engaging as ever. 365 Days: A Diary By Julie Doucet was excerpted in McSweeney's #13.
ISBN: 9781897299159
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.2 #2
Drawn & Quarterly
David Mazzucchelli gives a somber account of an American traveller's unsettling experience in a run-down Paris hotel in "Rates of Exchange" (16 pages, b/w); "The Ghost of Whitechapel" (10 pages, full-color), is Loustal's lavishly-illustrated yarn about debonair semi-sophisticate Morel Cox's adventures in 1940's Europe; A new chapter of "It Was The War of The Trenches" (14 pages, b/w), by Jacques Tardi, is featured here; Separating these stories are two short strips: "More Than Coincidence" (2 pages, b/w), by Maurice Vellekoop and "Eleanor" (1 page, full-color), by Eric Drooker. Covers and endpapers by David Mazzucchelli. 48 pages. First printing.
Publication date: December 1994.
ISBN: 9781894937191
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.1 #10
Drawn & Quarterly
The last magazine format issue ever. Contents: "Life Cycle" (1 page, color) by Santiago Cohen; New Illustration by Seth; "Visitors In The Night" (6 pages) by Debbie Drechsler; "Within Three Seconds" (2 pages) by Marti; "Fate" (2 pages, color) by Linhart; "Horror In The Henhouse" (18 pages) by Michael Dougan; "Making Friends" (2 pages, color) by Debbie Drechsler; "Soap" (1 page) by Maurice Vellekoop; "The Old Nazi Guy" (1 page) by Vincent; "Claudia" (1 page) by Marti; "The Secret Life of Gloria Badcock" (5 pages) by Maurice Vellekoop; "Facing Faces" (1 page, color) by Anne Baraou and Pascale Bougeault; "Night Job" (1 page, color) by Maurice Vellekoop; Front Cover by Santiago Cohen. 40 pages. First printing.
Publication date: December 1992. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: DQV1#10
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.1 #09
Drawn & Quarterly
Contents: "It's a beautiful day..." (1 page, color) by David Mazzucchelli; "Barcelona!" (7 pages) by Marti; "Those Tenacious Teens!" (1 page) by David Collier; "Notes From The Ledger" (1 page) by Carel Moiseiwitsch; "My Dad in Tucson" (3 pages) by Lloyd Dangle; "The Neck" (1 page) by Anne D. Bernstein; "Going Steady" (1 page) by Debbie Drechsler (first published strip); "A Folk Tale" (2 pages, color) by Seth; "A Brief History of Civilization" (2 pages, color) by David Mazzucchelli; "That Night..." by Pierre Lefebvre and Luc Giard; "House of Angels" (2 pages, color) by Santiago Cohen; "Stevenson..." by Pierre Lefebvre and Luc Giard; "Kentucky Fried Funeral" (14 pages) by Michael Dougan; "Art Fantasy" (1 page, color) by Maurice Vellekoop; "#$*!!" (1 page, color) by Peter Kuper; Front Cover by Seth. 40 pages. First printing.
Publication date: July 1992.
ISBN: DQV1#09
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.1 #08
Drawn & Quarterly
Contents: "Day of Crabby Art" (1page, color) by Maurice Vellekoop; "Chicken Stories" (8 pages) by Michael Dougan; "Pie Kids" (1 page, color) by Carol Tyler; "Interrupted" (2 pages) by Fiona Smyth; "Professional Training" (3 pages) by Marti; "Letter to Papa", (3 pages) by Santiago Cohen; "That Time of The Month" (2 pages) by Roberta Gregory; "Camera Obscura" (2 pages, color) by Carel Moiseiwitsch; "The Meek" (1 page) by Gig Wailgum; "On My Day Off" (7 pages) by Joe Sacco; "The Cat..." (2 pages) by Lee Binswanger; "I can't say what hit me..." (1 page, color) by Pierre Lefebvre and Luc Giard; "Advertising Feature" (1 page) by Maurice Vellekoop; "Speak Up!" (5 pages) by Dennis Eichhorn and Carol Swain; "Can I ever tell the truth?" (1 page, color) by Pierre Lefebvre and Luc Giard; "Parallel Universe" (1 page, color) by Maurice Vellekoop; Front Cover by Daniel Clowes. 40 pages. First printing.
Publication date: April 1992.
ISBN: DQV1#08
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.1 #07
Drawn & Quarterly
Contents: "8 Pillars of Gay Culture" (4 pages) by Maurice Vellekoop; "Talkin' Nineties" (1 page) by Roberta Gregory; "The Yin Yang Man" (3 pages) by Mary Fleener; "Another Job Story" (1 page) by Clara Bayliss and David Collier; "Night of..." (3 pages) by Dennis Eichhorn and Fiona Smyth; "Le Baiser" (1 page) by Julie Doucet; "Whipped-up in Wichita!" (4 pages, color) by Lloyd Dangle; "Time Bomb" (3 pages) by Richard Sala; "Some Things I Think You Should Know About Joe Matt" (2 pages) by Seth; "Where The Boys Are" (8 pages) by Michael Dougan; Inside back cover by Bernie Mireault; Front, Back, and inside front covers by Luc Giard. 32 pages. First printing.
Publication date: March 1992.ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: DQV1#07
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (hardcover)
Guy Delisle
"Guy Delisle is a wry 37-year-old French Canadian cartoonist whose work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Pacific Rim studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual maladies of the long-term boarder: cultural and linguistic alienation, boredom, and cravings for Western food and real coffee. Delisle depicts these sojourns into the heart of isolation in [the] brilliant graphic novel, Pyongyang..." --Foreign Affairs
Famously referred to as an "Axis-of-Evil" country, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital of Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation company, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city.
Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside while chaperoned by his translator and a guide. But among the statues, portraits and propaganda of leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il--the world's only Communist dynasty--Delisle was able to observe more than was intended of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered. His astute and wry musings on life in the austere and grim regime form the basis of this remarkable graphic novel. Pyongyang is an informative, personal, and accessible look at an enigmatic country.
180-page hardcover.
ISBN: 9781896597898
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Portraits from Life
David Collier
Collier takes on the lives of six people. Humphrey Osmond was a mild-mannered doctor from Canada who coined the word "psychedelic" and traveled to California to give Aldous Huxley mescaline. Ethel Catherwood, the Olympic high jumper known as the Saskatchewan lily, went down in infamy and scandal. So did the eccentric British conservationist known to the world as Grey Owl 'the Indian'. Infamy was vindicated in the case of David Milgaard, a man who spent over 20 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit.
Collier wraps up his book with a loving portrait of his grandfather, as well as a glimpse at the man who gave us the modern visual vocabulary for bathrooms and more.
"Collier's work stands out like a beacon amidst other comics, entertaining and informing all at once." --Eye Weekly
"Collier's cross hatched, realistic drawings belie a whimsical approach to historical storytelling."
--Philadelphia City Paper
ISBN: 9781896597355
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Above & Below
James Sturm
Before his breakthrough book, The Golem's Mighty Swing, James Sturm produced two bold, remarkable short novellas set in different periods on the American frontier. The Revival and Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight are collected for the first time in this eighty-page deluxe comic book.
ISBN: 9781894937764
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Palooka-Ville #15
Seth
Seth concludes Clyde Fans: Book One in a small Ontario town circa 1958. Simon, the timid brother and would-be salesman, wraps up his final and ultimately disasterous journey as a travelling salesman. While staying at a hotel, Simon has a strange hallucination, which gives us a glimpse into his troubled personality. 32 pages, two color. Publication date: May 2002.
ISBN: 9781894937429
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Milk Teeth
Julie Morstad
In this collection of illustrations, Vancouver artist Julie Morstad spins fairy tales infused with dreamlike innocence and a touch of the macabre. Morstad’s work has been shown in galleries, featured on the cover of Neko Case’s 2006 album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and developed into a line of patterned wallpapers with a distinctive nostalgic quality. Milk Teeth’s universe, populated by animals, flowers, peculiar objects and disembodied heads, has a sensibility reminiscent of Marcel Dzama’s surreal drawings, Jeffrey Eugenides’ haunting novel The Virgin Suicides, and Peter Weir’s classic film Picnic at Hanging Rock.
ISBN: 9781897299456
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Louis Riel #07
Chester Brown
(24 p, B/W)
Brown recounts the gripping battle between Riel's ragged group of Metis rebels and the Canadian army. After the Metis unexpectedly win the first battle, the Prime Minister makes plans to wipe out the threat once and for all...
ISBN: 9781894937306
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Louis Riel #06
Chester Brown
(24 p, B/W)
This issue carefully documents the events leading up to the second Metis Rebellion against the Canadian government. Meanwhile, as these tragic events unfold, Canadian Prime Minister John A. MacDonald tries to exploit the battle with the Metis to gather support, and money, to finance his controversial plan to build an intercontinental railway.
ISBN: 9781894937290
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Louis Riel #03
Chester Brown
(24 p, B/W)
Thomas Scott, an English settler, is tried and executed by Riel's forces on charges of treason.
ISBN: 9781894937269
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Lift Your Leg, My Fish is dead! (Limited edition)
Julie Doucet
(96 p, B/W, 6x9")
"Doucet's artwork bursts with a passion for life...the dense, twisting art has a dreamlike innocence that is almost hypnotic." --LA. Weekly
Julie Doucet's first book collection, featuring a selection of strips culled from her cult comic book series Dirty Plotte is just as odd as it's title suggests. You'll find it all in here: fatal kisses, early misadventures with tampons, ecstatic lovemaking with giant beer bottles, and a host of other strange and unconventional themes from the unfettered imagination of Ms. Doucet.
ISBN: 9780969670124
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It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken (PB)
Seth
"Seth really knocks me out....He has such an instinct for knowing what the most important image is in any scene, and he combines that with real insight — which is a kind of magic in any genre. He is the perfect example of why graphic novels should be taken more seriously. I can't say enough good things about him."
— Aimee Mann (Singer/songwriter)
"After spending so much of my youth hoarding cardboard cartons of comics, it was a grand delight to discover this comic narrative written for adults. This graceful, simple and compelling book tells the story of a good life lived simply."
— Stuart McLean (host of CBC Radio's "The Vinyl Cafe")
In his first graphic novel, It’s a Good Life, if You Don’t Weaken—one of the most acclaimed D&Q titles—Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the magazine cartoon. Disaffected by the crassness of contemporary culture Seth takes refuge in a quest to uncover the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s, but his obsession blinds him to his increasingly withdrawn lover and the quiet desperation of his family. Charming old-fashioned style characterizes this gently wry modern quest tale about longing, anxiety and the lessons of nostalgia.
ISBN: 9781896597706
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Drawn & Quarterly Vol.2 #6
Drawn & Quarterly
This edition expands to 64 pages and delivers a number of strong translated stories that won this book a Harvey Award for "Best Foreign Material". Spanish cartoonist Max gives a captivating and beautifully-drawn interpretation of the myth of Orpheus (10 pages; two colors); Jason Lutes recounts the story of a couple in the twilight of their relationship in "Late Summer Sun" (8 pages, two colors); Linhart pens a chilling homage to Jean-Luc Godard in "Tout Va Bien" (2 pages, full color); Monsieur Jean is sent on a book promotional tour in Portugal and falls in love with a woman, but instead endures the attention of his long-winded host (15 pages, full color) by Dupuy & Berberian; Miguel Gallardo recounts his father's experience in the Spanish Civil War in "Red, Blue, and Black" (4 pages, b/w); It's a day at the museum with Maurice Vellekoop in "Artwork" (1 page, full color); Baru completes the third and final chapter of "The Road To America" (15 pages; full color). Covers and endpapers by Max. 64 pages. First printing.
Publication date: June 1997.
ISBN: 9781894937221
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Dirty Plotte #09 (Purty Plotte)
Julie Doucet
This issue features Doucet's first full length feature story. "Julie In Junior College" details her early days in art college, as she encounters the nightmares of color-gradation scales, basket weaving, and her first experiences with strange men. This story was reprinted in the book "My New York Diary".
24 pages. First printing: April 1995.
Mature readers. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: DP#09
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Big Questions #5: Nothingness
Anders Nilsen
Betty's premonitions prove to be true. The Idiot starts to figure things out. And the consequences of decisions past weigh heavy on the birds.
ISBN: BQ#5
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Big Questions #4: Asomatognosia
Anders Nilsen
Charlotte delivers her evangelical theories on the mysterious egg. Betty struggles with her sense of duty as opposed to her own will and belief, and to the advice of Curtis. The squirrels have it in for Algernon, and he winds up below ground. The Idiot's life is about to change drastically, and we get a glimpse of Isaac, the pilot's, point of view.
Available for a limited time only in this photo-copied edition.
ISBN: BQ#4
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Big Questions #10: The Hand That Feeds
Anders Nilsen
October 2007
Anders Nilsen is recognized as being one of the most talented new cartoonists in recent years. Aside from having authored the books Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow and The End (Fantagraphics), Nilsen is also known for his somber and haunting comic series, Big Questions. Issue #10 sees night fall at the crash site. Tensions flare among the birds in skirmishes over food and loyalty, blood is drawn. The crows watch, amused and make way for wild dogs.
ISBN: 9781897299432
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Albert and the Others
Guy Delisle
Limbs are swapped and pants are dropped in Albert and the Others, a collection of wordless strips that expose the pleasures, pitfalls and perversities of masculinity. In this companion volume to Aline and the Others (2006), Guy Delisle delves deep into the male psyche and emerges with twenty-six alphabetically arranged strips, named after the men who tumble through the pages. These elastic protagonists risk damnation and dismemberment in a series of improbable slapstick relationships with women, which veer from the titillating to the downright macabre.
ISBN: 9781897299272
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Satiroplastic
Gary Panter
What makes the original punk rock artist tick? Satiroplastic is Gary Panter's sketchbook from December 1999 - November 2001. This hardcover facsimile edition of the pocket sketchbook diary shows the everyday creative spasms of this iconic designer-painter-cartoonist-illustrator.
In his introduction, Panter explains the first rule of the madness of his sketchbook: the pages and drawings are not in chronological order. Scenes from a family vacation to Oaxaca, Mexico, Brooklyn still-lifes, 9/11 images are interspersed with comics and illustrations buzzing with manic genius.
Praise for Gary Panter:
"As the graphic designer of television's Pee Wee's Playhouse and creator of the underground comic strip Jimbo, Gary Panter combines whimsy and the sublime."–Architecture Magazine
"And on the subject of the strange and visionary... Anyone who saw Mr. Panter's previous work at the [Pierogi] gallery knows what a treat he is." –Holland Cotter (art critic), The New York Times
ISBN: 9781896597867
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Big Questions #11: Sweetness and Light
Anders Nilsen
Acclaimed cartoonist Anders Nilsen continues his surrealist trek through the queries and conundrums of life that plague the minds of reptile, fowl, and mammal alike. In the eleventh issue of Big Questions, Nilsen's detailed yet minimalist visual style continues to grow in answer to the complexity of the concepts he addresses in his writing. It begins at the dead of night. The Idiot sleeps, the Pilot dreams. He seems to wake momentarily, sleepwalking out into the night on a curious errand. One injured bird also wakes after days of unconsciousness and leads his protector, the reluctant Louis, on a slow crawl toward the site of the explosion that wounded him. Philo shares a late night conversation and midnight snack with a crow. The dogs squabble.
ISBN: 9781897299821
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Big Questions #3: Astrophysics
Anders Nilsen
Alger searches for his missing home and his companion, Thelma; Donnie has little patience for Leroy's philosophical musings; the Idiot and his caregiver, whose health is failing, go about their daily routine; the bomb drops; and Leroy has a run-in with an owl.
A photocopied reprint of the issue that prompted Nilsen's grad-school drop-out, in favour of drawing comics. Anyone who was captivated by this evocative series with the later issues now has a chance to catch-up on its history.
ISBN: BQ#3
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ACME Novelty Library #19
Chris Ware
>The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library appears this autumn with a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative "Rusty Brown," which examines the life, work and teaching techniques of one of its central real-life protagonists, W. K. Brown. A previously marginal figure in the world of speculative fiction, Brown's widely-anthologized first story "The Seeing Eye Dogs of Mars" garnered him instant acclaim and the coveted White Dwarf Award for Best New Writer when it first appeared in the pages of Nebulous in the late 1950s, but his star was quickly eclipsed by the rise of such talents as Anton Jones, J. Sterling Imbroglio and others of the so-called "psychovisionary" movement. (Modern scholarship concedes, however, that they now owe a not inconsequential aesthetic debt to Brown.) New surprises and discoveries concerning the now-legendarily reclusive and increasingly influential writer mark this nineteenth number of the ACME Novelty Library, itself a regular award-winning periodical, lauded for its clear lettering and agreeable coloring, which, as any cultured reader knows, are cornerstones of any genuinely serious literary effort. Full color, seventy-eight pages, with hardbound covers, full indicia, and glue, the ACME Novelty Library offers its readers a satisfying, if not thrilling, rocket ride into the world of unkempt imagination and pulse-pounding excitement.
ISBN: 9781897299562
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ACME Novelty Library #18
Chris Ware
In keeping with his athletic goal of issuing a volume of his occasionally lauded ACME series once every new autumn, volume 18 finds cartoonist Chris Ware abandoning the engaging serialization of his "Rusty Brown" and instead focusing upon his ongoing and more experimentally grim narrative, "Building Stories."
Collecting pages unseen except in obscure alternative weekly periodicals and sophisticated expensive coffee table magazines, The ACME Novelty Library #18 re-introduces the characters which New York Times readers found "dry" and "deeply depressing" when one chapter of the work (not included here) was presented in its pages during 2005 and 2006. Set in a Chicago apartment building more or less in the year 2000, the stories move from the straightforward to the mnemonically complex, invading character's memories and personal ambitions with a text point size likely unreadable to human beings over the age of 45. Reformatted to accommodate this different material, readers will be pleased by the volume's vertical shape and tasteful design, which, unlike Ware's earlier volumes, should discreetly blend into any stack or shelf of real books.
ISBN: 9781897299173
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The Playboy
Chester Brown
"Brown has the ability to open a door that leads directly back into the very texture of childhood with all its darkness...an astonishing narrative."--The Vancouver Sun
"His best work yet. Brown has painted these embarrassing scenes with cathartic candor but also with a keen eye for detail and an understated tone...a landmark look at an artist's growth."--The Comics Journal
ISBN: 9780969670117
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Yummy Fur #29
Chester Brown
Part four of the "I Never Liked You" storyline is its original published format. Brief three page "Gospels of Matthew (9:18 - 9:30)" chapter. First printing. Publication date: August 1992. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: 99781897299432
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Illusztraijuns for Brain Police
Marc Bell
A 96-page short run (175 copies) preview of Marc Bell's forthcoming (Fall 09) art book Hot Potatoe. Many of the pieces included herein will not make the final book. Great scratch nervous doodles by the Canadian doodle king!
Trade paperback, 96 pages, b/w, 6.5 x 8 inches.
ISBN: DNQ810150234
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It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken (HC)
Seth
(1996 rev.ed. 2001, 176 pp, 2-color, 6 x 9")
�Extraordinary and original.�
� Raymond Briggs
�Rich, evocative...characterized by small moments revealing the author's sharp eye for detail"�Globe & Mail
Library Journal Selection
New York Times Book Review Top 10 pick
Comics Journal Top 100 comics of the 20th Century pick
An acknowledged classic returns in this new edition, gorgeously re-designed. Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his dissatisfaction with the present, Seth discovers the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s. But his obsession blinds him to the needs of his lover and the quiet desperation of his family. Wry self-reflection and moody colors characterize Seth�s style in this tale about learning lessons from nostalgia.
Collects Palooka-Ville #4 - 9.
ISBN: 9781896597317
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Underwater #04
Chester Brown
Kupifam discovers television and a secret dimension. 6 page story, "My Mom Was a Schizophrenic" and 7 page Gospels of Matthew (14:24 - 14:31)
ISBN: UNDER#4
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Or Else #1
Kevin Huizenga
It's not often that D+Q debuts a new regular comic book series, so when it happens it's big news. Kevin Huizenga is regarded by many as being one of the most promising new talents in comics in at least a decade. He is best known for his long running mini-comic, Supermonster, and for several outstanding short stories, including work in last year's D+Q Showcase #1. Huizenga starts off this issue with a selection of features from Supermonster, including the breathtaking Chinese landscape story and the first appearance of Glenn Ganges. "Or Else" debuts as a new quarterly title and promises to be the best ongoing comic book series since Optic Nerve.
Issue #1 is OUT OF PRINT, but will be included in the September 2006 book, CURSES.
ISBN: ORELSE01
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Or Else #3
Kevin Huizenga
Kevin Huizenga is regarded as one of the best new cartoonists to have emerged in recent years. This issue of his quarterly comic book series presents four self-contained stories, an ideal introduction for anyone who may have missed his earlier work. Huizenga continues to explore fascinating themes and widely divergent subject matter with an illustrated excerpt from Franz Kafka's diary along with a mini-biography on noted early Mickey Mouse newspaper strip artist Floyd Gottfredson. He then shifts gears yet again with an autobiographical story about his refusal to take part in an ad campaign for "Fashionably Zen."
ISBN: ORELSE03
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Or Else #2
Kevin Huizenga
The second issue of this remarkable new series is a 96 page extravaganza (in a pocket-sized 4.25 x 5.5 inch format), complete with a center spread gatefold. Recent Ignatz Award-winner Kevin Huizenga may be the best new talent to have emerged in comics in quite some time and this issue, a reprinting of his original "Gloriana" mini comic, is an excellent sampling of his work. In this issue Huizenga brilliantly uses the comic book medium to jump back and forth in time, mixing daydreams and reality until the two are blurred. Aside from his Ignatz Award, Huizenga recently had a comic strip published in Time Magazine.
ISBN: ORELSE02
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Crash #1: The Quarterly Comic Book Review
Drawn & Quarterly
Alert! Collector's item for all comic book afficionados longing for mid-nineties nostalgia !
Crash #1 is the short lived comic book magazine by Steve Solomos.* Issue #1 has a cover story with Chester Brown, sneak preview of Harvey Pekar's The Cancer Years, archival look at Jean Cocteau's drawings, brief overview of Jeff Smith's Bone and Roberta Gregory's Naughty Bits, and some wonderfully positive or negative reviews of Palestine, Real Stuff, Duplex Planet, Dangle, Melody, Black Dogs, Motherless Child, Lowlife, Dirty Plotte and the Acme Novelty Library.
*see page 60 of Joe Matt's The Poor Bastard
ISBN: CRASH#1
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Big Questions #8: Theory and Practice
Anders Nilsen
From 2005 Ignatz Award winner Anders Nilsen, Big Questions #8 features a rainstorm, an apparent drowning, the pilot losing himself in the forest, Algernon descending deeper underground than he could ever have imagined, and a return from the dead. The issue also features a synopsis of the story so far, an overview of the main characters, and a lesson in the anatomy of a giant. 40 pages, with a painted cover. Nilsen has also authored the successful one-shot Dogs And Water and appears regularly in Kramers Ergot.
ISBN: BQ#8
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Atlas #2
Dylan Horrocks
After a lengthy stint as a writer on Batgirl comics, Dylan Horrocks finally returns to his comic book series Atlas! Trouble is brewing in Cornucopia, homeland of the mysterious cartoonist Emil Kopen. On the eve of reporter Leonard Batts' arrival in the capital city Crieste, we spy on a clandestine meeting fraught with tension and intrigue and find out how to swear in Cornucopt. Also, a back-up "Sam Zabel and The Magic Pen" 10 page episode.
ISBN: ATLAS#2
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Big Questions #7: Dinner and a Nap
Anders Nilsen
D+Q takes over publishing Big Questions, one of the best independent comics in recent years, written and drawn by rising star Anders Nilsen. Big Questions has evolved steadily from a modest Xerox project to its current ambitious state over the span of a few short years. Nilsen's work has garnered numerous grants, including the Xeric, and has earned him Ignatz award nominations for Promising New Talent and Outstanding Comic. Nilsen has also authored the successful one-shot Dogs And Water and appears regularly in Kramers Ergot. This issue of Big Questions features some of Nilsen's best artwork yet, which is accentuated by his somber, graceful storytelling.
ISBN: BQ#7
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All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood
Tom Horacek
Tom Horacek's characters possess the hydrocephalic proportions of Playmobil people, but they've traded the colorful plastic environs of childhood for a bleaker, twisted landscape where insanity, loneliness and death are fodder for laughs. Heard from their pinhole mouths and seen in their beady eyes is fear, desperation, resignation, and pure misanthropy, all presented across a single-panel canvas. Join in the fun with this first collection of Horacek's bitingly bitter gag cartoons, All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood.
ISBN: 9781897299487
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Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Three
The D&Q Showcase Series
Genevi�ve Castr�e (m. Elverum), Sammy Harkham and Matt Broersma.
(100 pages)
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW (May 2005)
Every year Drawn & Quarterly offers an anthology of lengthy stories by emerging young cartoonists; this installment is the strongest thus far, and a visually stunning book to boot. Elverum's "We're Wolf" is composed of a trilogy of adult fables about happiness, sadness and companionship drawn in a graceful, languid style. The vibrant colors, rarely seen in comics, give the artwork a fantastic life on the page, and the story announces Elverum as a major young talent. Occupying the middle spot is Kramer's Ergot editor Harkham's "Somersaulting," a tale of two friends and a long summer. Using a muted color palette of yellow, orange and black, Harkham effortlessly controls the story's mood, summoning the languid pace of summer as well as the gradual discovery of love and sex in the suburbs. Neither cynical nor sentimental, this tale plays like a long, clear-eyed tone poem to teenage summers. After two such dreamy stories, Broersma rounds out the book with the two-part "The Mummy," a charming and funny romp through a mythical mid-20th-century European locale, featuring tongue-in-cheek romance, intrigue and ghosts. Entertaining and wittily executed, it's the perfect complement to the more serious works in this essential new volume.
ISBN: 9781896597881
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Optic Nerve Poster
Adrian Tomine
18 x 24 " ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: ONPOSTER
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Yummy Fur #30
Chester Brown
Fifth and final chapter of the "I Never Liked You" storyline. First printing. Publication date: April 1993. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: FUR#30
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Summer Blonde Poster
Adrian Tomine
18 x 24" ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: SBPOSTER
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Palooka-Ville #09
Seth
"It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken" wraps up in this issue, with the mystery of Kalo revealed (well, sort of!). 24 pages, b/w. First printing: June 1996.
ISBN: PV#09
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Big Questions #6: Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany
Anders Nilsen
Nilsen's own photocopied reprint edition, includes fold-out page. Limited quantity available.
While the idiot begins fending for himself, the plane hits his home. Algernon awakens underground, the pilot endures his post-crash frustration and the birds curiosity, and Louis & Morris arrive with disturbing news.
Note: the edition currently available has a black & white cover.
ISBN: BQ#6
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32 Stories
Adrian Tomine
"Each turn of the page unfolds a documentary of a blossoming artist." --Minneapolis City Pages
"Worth reading just for Tomine's eloquent restraint and literary leanings." --The Boston Phoenix
"Easily the most prodigious talent to burst on the alternative scene in several years..." --The Comics Journal
"Deftly rendered character sketches. In these narratives, we see a keen, expanding intelligence at work." --Wired
ISBN: 9781896597003
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The Golem's Mighty Swing
James Sturm
James Sturm pens this richly evocative graphic novel set in the 1920s. The Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team, travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads. They all sport beards, a gimmick to attract patrons but when financial difficulties threaten to end their season they cast their lot with a Chicago promoter who has just seen the hugely successful German silent film Der Golem... With the golem, a baseball game is transformed into a mythical pageant. Fear and curiosity fills the stadium, but it also stokes the flames of anti-Semitism. Winning the game for the Stars of David becomes less important then surviving it. With a sepia-tinted cinematic style, this compelling book reminds us that making it home is at the heart of baseball.
2001 "Best Graphic Novel"--Time
"This book is a home run in any language."--Observer on Sunday
"Employing thick lines, minimal detail and simple prose storytelling, sturm gracefully summons the seedy, often dangerous baseball world of the 1920s...this would make a fine gift for any fan of the game."--Washington Post Book World
ISBN: 9781896597713
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The Chronicles of Lucky Ello
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson’s angular, detailed, artfully-constructed doodles are featured in the second book in the new Petits Livres series—Drawn and Quaterly’s regular art book series designed to showcased beautiful drawings by cartoonists or comics-related artists. Peter’s drawings are reminiscent of sometimes collaborator Marc Bell and underground godfather R. Crumb for sheer dizzying inventiveness.
ISBN: 9781894937825
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Sof'Boy Econo Combo
Archer Prewitt
The long-out-of-print first two issues of Archer Prewitt's Sof' Boy are finally back in this new "Econo-Combo" edition, printing both comics in one specially-priced 48 page booklet! Prewitt successfully captures a certain bygone sensibility with his use of bright, primary colors and his innocent tongue-in-cheek approach to modern society. In these stories, our gullible protagonist crosses paths with a prostitute, a street bum, a senile old woman, and even a cannibal! At only $ 5.95 U.S., it clocks in at a 25% savings over the first printings! First printing: November 2000. 48 full-color pages
ISBN: 9781894937542
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Road to America
Baru
An alumnus of Art Spiegelman’s RAW and one of France’s most exciting talents, Baru has created with twitchy, nervous lines and washes of pale color the tense, sun bleached atmosphere of colonial Algeria in the 1950s. A graphic novel with cinematic sweep and richly expressive art, the story explodes with the force of a punching fist or a car bomb.
“While its setting becomes nostalgic, its sense of danger does not. Filled with paranoia, prejudice and terrorism, the time and place have a particular resonance now. ”
—Time.com
“Drop dead beautiful.”—Publishers Weekly
"This is an exemplary graphic novel, informative and gripping, and Baru's muted colors and mournful caricatures are a welcome break from the American style."—Nick Hornby, The New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 9781896597522
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Nowhere #4
Debbie Drechsler
Misunderstandings, cold shoulders, and bad reputations abound as Lily tries to weave through the tortured maze of adolescent relationships. 24 pages. First printing. Publication date: June 1998. ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE
ISBN: 9781894937955
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Big Questions #9: The Lost and Found
Anders Nilsen
Anders Nilsen's Big Questions series continues.
Betty defends the explosion site against hungry crows, who scavenge their meal elsewhere. The pilot and the idiot have an encounter, and their relationships with the finches evolve. Meanwhile, Alger's journey through the underground holds a bitterweet surprise. The predators philosophize.
October 2006.
ISBN: 9781894937986
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Exit Wounds
Rutu Modan
"Modan's elegantly simple line drawings match her dialogue, resulting in a heart-piercing, tough-minded love story. A-"
--Entertainment Weekly
"Rutu Modan [is] one of the best artists to emerge from the vibrant Tel Aviv cartooning scene of the past decade...
Modan’s art is a pleasure...[and her] storytelling is likewise rich with subtle detail and nuance."--Bookforum
Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, A young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father’s death, he finds himself not only piecing together the last few months of his father’s life, but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.
Exit Wounds is the North American graphic novel debut from one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists, Rutu Modan.
She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children's Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times, Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture and is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.
Exit Wounds is nominated for the televised 2007 Quill Awards in the graphic novel category.
ISBN: 9781897299067
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Joseph
Nicolas Robel
September 2007
Joseph is another fantastical tale from surrealist master Nicholas Robel. A little boy with enormous hands and an overactive imagination copes with indifferent parents, teasing schoolmates and troubling dreams. Returning to themes explored in Fallen Angel, his first book from D+Q’s Petits Livres series, Robel captures the wonders and traumas of childhood in a short narrative that is as emotionally sincere as it is cryptic. Obliterating the line between the physical and the imaginary, Robel exploits the dynamic potential of his signature simple yet highly evocative drawing style.
ISBN: 9781897299319
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Crickets #2
Sammy Harkham
Crickets #2 features the highly anticipated second installment in Sammy Harkham's new ongoing serial Black Death as well as a number of shorter strips that showcase the acclaimed young artist's sharp wit and quirky sense of humour. Begun in the first issue, Black Death follows the adventures of a curiously indestructable man shot full of arrows and a mute Golem as they wander in the woods together, blundering through their encounters with its strange and isolated inhabitants. In the unrelated shorter strips, Harkham, publisher of the influential comics anthology Kramer's Ergot, takes advantage of the opportunity to exercise his considerable imagination on a wide range of topics, from his autobiographical adventures on a signing tour to the frustrated comic aspirations of the emperor Napoleon.
ISBN: 9781897299449
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Lucky, Volume 2 #2
Gabrielle Bell
In this issue of Lucky Gabrielle travels with two fellow cartoonists up the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle, collecting little stories along the way in Oakland, Berkeley, Eureka and Portland. Back in New York, she and sidekick Tom discover the secrets of Roosevelt and Governor's Island. Later, they go deep sea fishing with comedienne friend Edith. Also included is a bonus story about Gabrielle at eleven years old, when she tried to run away from home and live alone at a summer camp during the off-season.
ISBN: 9781897299623
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Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book One
The D&Q Showcase Series
D&Q publisher Chris Oliveros was so impressed by the work of these two young artists that he decided to commission each of them to write and draw original illustrated short stories for this new book.
Kevin Huizenga and Nicolas Robel represent some of the brightest new talents in comics today. This is the inaugural volume in an annual showcase of new talent, complimenting our annual flagship anthology. This is comics pushing all the boundaries; surreal, edgy stories of wonder that shimmer with visual style and emotional power. They are presented here in a deluxe package to introduce them to new fans of illustrated fiction.
100 pages, 2-color.
ISBN: 1-896597-62-9
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Or Else #4
Kevin Huizenga
FEBRUARY 2006
This issue follows a day in the life of Glenn Ganges as he interacts with a squirrel, discovers a beetle in the basement, and sees a pigeon get hit by a car. Also presented here are the first in a series of “TV commercial” comics. Huizenga's most astute rendering of the mystical mundane to date.
Kevin Huizenga is one of the best new cartoonists of his generation. Later this year his first collection (“Curses”) will be published by D+Q and he is also completing a mini-series (“Ganges”) with Fantagraphics.
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The Fixer
Joe Sacco
When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy.
It’s dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate.
Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days…
"Sacco survives by making friends and living in the same conditions as those he covers. This gives his work a kind of street-level grit and insight, and it also makes it hard to romanticize the people he writes about...His drawings are stark, realistic visionsof the gray, depressing world of a land mangled by artillery shells and deformed by poverty." --Chris Hedges, New York Times
ISBN: 9781896597607
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White Rapids
Pascal Blanchet
Award-winning Quebecois cartoonist Pascal Blanchet's graphic novel is a compelling account of the rise and fall of the small northern town of White Rapids. In the first English translation of his work, Blanchet seamlessly blends fact and fiction as he weaves together the official history of the town and snapshots of the quotidian life of its residents. Founded in 1928 in an isolated region of Quebec forest, the town was conceived and constructed by the Shawinigan Water & Power Company to function as a fully-equipped, self-contained living community for workers at the nearby dam and their families. Intended as an incentive to lure workers to the remote and inaccessible region, White Rapids provided its residents with all the luxuries of middle-class modern life in a pastoral setting-until the town was abruptly shut down in 1971, when the company changed hands.
Blanchet's unique, streamlined, retro-inspired aesthetic draws on Art Deco and fifties Modernist design to vividly conjure up idyllic scenes of lazy summer days and crisp winter nights in White Rapids, transporting the reader back to a more innocent time.
ISBN: 9781897299241
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ACME Novelty Library #18.5
Chris Ware
This print portfolio, somewhat hedgingly entitled The ACME Novelty Library, No. 18.5, contains all four "Thanksgiving" covers drawn by cartoonist and cultural commentator F. C. Ware for the November 27th, 2006 issue of the New Yorker, as well as the additional fifth comic strip which heretofore only appeared in digital form, all carefully printed in full color at an oversized 15" x 20" size on heavy paper and folded in half for easy recycling. As if this wasn't dreary enough, included is a new supplementary folded comic strip, measuring 16" x 11," which is also folded in half. Presented as the "Lower East Side" version of the even more ridiculously priced signed "Upper East Side" portfolio (which is, however, not folded in half) the consumer is asked to carefully weigh whether purchase of this object is truly necessary, and to act accordingly.
ISBN: 9781897299340
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Walt and Skeezix: Volumes One, Two, and Three
Frank King
A deal for all three volumes published so far! Get six years of Gasoline Alley strips and save $15!
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Crash #2: The Quarterly Comic Book Review
Drawn & Quarterly
Alert! Collector's item for all comic book afficionados longing for mid-nineties nostalgia!
Crash #2 is the short lived comic book magazine by Steve Solomos.* Issue #2 has two covers and main features: David Mazzuchelli and Terry Zwigoff! An archival look at Basil Wolverton, interview with Maurice Vellecoop, overview of Carol Swain's Way Out Strips, Jason Lut'es Jar of Fools, Dylan Horrock's Pickle, Terry Moore' Strangers in Paradise, Peter Kuper's Wild Life, Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library and reviews of Jazzbo!, Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger, Jim, Eightball #14, Tomato, Blvd. of Broken Dreams, Ballad of Dr. Richardson, Life Under Sanctions, The Biologic Show No. 0, and The Big Wheels!
*see page 60 of Joe Matt's The Poor Bastard
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Drawn & Quarterly (NEW series) Volume 4
The D&Q Anthology
Volume 4 continues with an international roundup, kicking off with the 54-page "The Adventures of Herge", by French cartoonist Stanislas (written by Bocquet and Fromental), a compelling, meticulously-researched biography of Tintin's famed creator. New cartoonist Miriam Katin explores terrifying childhood memories in Hungary during the time of the Soviet invasion in 1956 and French cartoonist Blutch provides another brutal look at the unsavory history of boxing. Other highlights include "The Bleeding Tree", a haunting story by new Swiss cartoonist Nicolas Robel, a new full color strip by Ron Rege Jr, and the return of R. Sikoryak, with his retelling of "The Scarlet Letter" as seen through the eyes of...Little Lulu?! This edition also includes an expanded "Archives" section, with another breathtaking 30 page overview of Frank King's Gasoline Alley Sunday pages in color, focusing on the early years of the strip from 1922 through 1925. D&Q will also delve into the past with an impressive 20 page "poster gallery" of Harry Mayerovitch's stunning World War Two posters he produced at the time for Canada's National Film Board, none of which have been reproduced in color since the 1940's! Covers and endpapers by noted illustrator Steven Guarnaccia.
160 pages, softcover, 9" x 12".
First Printing: July 2001
ISBN: 1-896597-40-8
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Drawn & Quarterly (NEW series) Volume 3
The D&Q Anthology
D&Q kicks off its tenth anniversary with this massive full-color "coffee table" book (a 9" x 12" format) featuring almost 200 pages of all new material. Leading off with extravagant covers and endpapers by Chris Ware, this book features a complete 55 page full color "Monsieur Jean" story by "New Yorker" artists Dupuy & Berberian, a focus on brilliant Italian cartoonist Franco Matticchio, and an exclusive 14 page "preview" of Seth's breathtaking sketchbook drawings. RAW cartoonist R. Sikoryak manages to simultaneously deconstruct both Bob Kane's Batman and Russian literature in "Dostoyevsky Comics", French cartoonist Blutch provides a brief history of boxing in "Fist To Fist", and "new" 90-year-old cartoonist Harry Mayerovitch's takes a whimsical look at the true nature of shadows! Other features include stories by Pentti Otsamo, Jason Little, and new Quebec "clear-line" cartoonist Michel Rabagliati. One of the highlights of this edition is a new, extensive archival feature focusing on one of the greatest comic strips of the 20th century, Frank King's "Gasoline Alley". Thirty full-color Sunday strips from the 1920's and 30's are reproduced here, the most comprehensive reprint sampling of King's work ever, with a rare "forward" written by Frank King himself! In honor of this section, Chris Ware's covers will be an homage to Gasoline Alley, complete with a new strip drawn in Frank King's style! Edited by Chris Oliveros. - Softcover; 176 pages. 9" x 12". First edition.
Publication date: May 2000.
ISBN: 1-896597-30-0
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Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Anders Nilsen
"Don't Go Where I Can't Follow is both a tribute by a good artist to the life and death of a woman he loved and to the redemptive | | | |
