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{image © Julie Morstad}

Year End Report


From our own Tom Devlin, interviewed by Tom Spurgeon at Comics Reporter.

More Morstad

The first review of Milk Teeth is in, on Book By Its Cover. Included is a link to Julie Morstad's wallpaper!

My Favorite Day of the Week


We now have this nifty page on our site that archives Lynda's weekly comic for your reading pleasure.

Lavender Diamond instore


On Sunday December 16th at 2pm, Lavender Diamond will stop by the D+Q store and play a short acoustic set. Please come on down and browse our new stock while listening to the dulcet tones of Becky Stark and her boys.

King-Cat Classy

Look up John Porcellino on Amazon.co.uk, and this is what you will find:



(via Journalista)

I mean, they both like cats...

VERSUS


James Sturm interview

The CCS has a new page online dedicated to James Sturm's other new book, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow. It features an interview with Sturm as well as a guide for teachers and preview pages.

Julie Doucet interview & artwork online

Today The Walrus posted this interview with Julie Doucet. This is an online exclusive coinciding with the Jan/Feb "Cities Special" issue, which will be featuring a short diary piece about Montreal by Julie that you can also download here.

Treat Yourself This Holiday Season

with some Adrian Tomine original art. He doesn't sell his artwork too often, so buy quickly from our pals at Giant Robot while you can. View the complete show at GRNY. Here's two of my favorites:


"Carnival" New Yorker illustration


"Yukie" illustration from Private Stash. Sorry boys and girls, this one is sold.

Pascal Blanchet on CBC: "Q"

Last Monday Pascal Blanchet was interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi, about White Rapids. You can listen here. (It's about 2/3 in - or you can listen to the first parts with John Waters and Louise Pitre.)

Just arrived!

In stores and your hands in two weeks (so I guess that means Christmas Eve.)

Rutu Rules!


Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds has been cropping up on "Best Of" lists all over the place. TIME, whose Top 10 Graphic Novels list Exit Wounds made, says that "[its] high-spirited plot ... is laid out in eloquent, perfectly composed matte panels." New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly also put it on their lists, and, earlier this year, HEEB put Exit Wounds on their Best of 5767 list and Rutu on their HEEB 100. In summation, Rutu rules!

Our store blog has launched!

Here's a photo from the recent Elisabeth Belliveau and Richard Suicide Conundrum Press book launch. Elisabeth is holding her dog there on the left. To see the very pink store blog go here or click on that "211" on the upper right of your browser window.

Reminder: Adrian Tomine Art Show


Don't miss Shortcomings and Goings this Saturday, December 8th, 2007, 6:30PM at Giant Robot 437 East 9th Street in NYC. The Voice, Time Out NY and Flavorpill all say not to miss it!

Interns. Awesomer still.

Nic is our intern chappie from Ol' Blighty. He bet that I wouldn't post the word "fanny" on our blog.

Here's Amelia and I apologize to her now for getting her in a crouch.

Ben has actually left us but I was behind on my intern posts so here he is. He came to us from Tor Books, believe it or not. Fare Thee Well, Olde Friend!

Jessica says this kind of post actually drives traffic away from the blog

but my Mom loves them. So just look at the five new books that have come in in the past week!! You can probably even find some of these at your local comic shop or bookstore any day now.




This photo is an actual aerial view of Tokyo. Well, all right, it's not, but you'd think it were considering how Moomin crazy Chris Butcher makes Japan seem. This picture is, in fact, a photo he took. I merely altered it to drive home a point. Pretty "trippy," eh?

Montreal tomorrow, Vancouver on Tuesday

But don't get confused about which Julie! Tomorrow at the D+Q store, we launch Julie Doucet's 365 Days. Tuesday, in Vancouver, Julie Morstad launches her new "Petits Livres" book, Milk Teeth, at Lucky's.

My Favorite Day of the Week

A nice thing to do

So the kids at the Center of Cartoon Studies are having an ebay auction to raise money to defray costs of going to conventions and that sort of thing. C'mon you've got the holiday spirit!! Also, it's the cheapest way I can think of to get a diploma (left, by Ivan Brunetti). There's also an uncut sheet for the original Seth-design CCS brochure, a silk-screened Sammy Harkham, Anders Nilsen, Kevin Huizenga tour poster and a Ken Dahl Monsters promo silk-screen. Yes, awesome. For more info visit the student run web-store, I Know Joe Kimpel.

A perfect week for Montreal's Julie Doucet fans

Yes, there are two events and two new Julie Doucet books launching this week. The first event happens tomorrow, December 4th, at Cheval Blanc, 809 Ontario E, for her book "a l'ecole de l'amour," 80 pages of collages of images & texts published by L'Oie de Cravan. It is also a double launch for Gigi Perron's "ELLE et moi," and an opening for an exhibit of Matryoshkas painted by various artists.



Then on Friday, the 7th, the D+Q store hosts the launch of 365 Days, and an art opening for a selection of her prints, which will be up at the store (211 Bernard W) until the end of January.

More store pics (store blog coming soon!!)

Have I introduced you to our store employees yet? This is Matt. Possesses a gentle disposition.

Have I introduced you to our new piece of store furniture? This is our 800 lb. oak poster rack. Possesses Brian Ralph silkscreens, Adrian Tomine posters, and various historical documents from D+Q's past.

Have I mentioned that we have workshops at the store (located at 211 Bernard West)? Well, we do. Right now we have "drawing for kids" and "making comics for adults" workshops once a week. Here's Billy Mavreas coaxing brilliance from the pencil of a young lady named Leela. We've got workshops planned in the new year including silkscreening, woodcuts, papier-mache, drawing, more drawing, comics-ing, more comics-ing, bookbinding, writing and likely more that I've forgotten. We'll even have gift certificates for these workshops at the store soon.

Jimbo doll falls to #2 spot

Yeah, yeah, it's not a competition but look at this thing!!

My Favorite Day of the Week

Speaking of Miriam


She'll be at Dartmouth tomorrow.

Miriam Katin wins Grand Prix 2008 de la critique BD


Congrats to Miriam for winning the Grand Prix 2008 de la critique BD for the French translation of We Are On Our Own.

"Think visionary, think Nilsen."


According to this Q+A on the Book By Its Cover blog, Anders has a blog. This is where I swiped the image above from an installation Anders did of buttons using images from an old World Book.

I really like what the Contra Costa Times had to say recently about Anders:

The Existentialist: Anders Nilsen

Why him? Less means more when it's in the hands of this New Hampshire-born cartoonist. Nilsen's sketchy art and episodic storytelling sinks into our psyches. A wry commentator on the absurdity of modern life ("Monologues For the Coming Plague"), he is equally adept at conveying the purgatory of an isolated neo-future ("Dogs & Water"). Think visionary, think Nilsen.

Must-reads: "Dogs & Water." A nameless Everyman roams a post-apocalyptic world filled with danger. Haunting on the first read, humbling on the second.


Also, Tom just pointed out to me that he blogged Anders' blog months ago. Apologies, apologies.

Eh, I'll take it.


Quill and Quire just made a list of their top books of the year, and included in the list are Pascal Blanchet's White Rapids and Joe Matt's Spent. Congratulations!

Expozine et cetera


This is just a little reminder to you Montrealers (and travelers!) that we'll be at Expozine this weekend, Nov. 24 & 25, 12:00 - 6:00 PM, 5035 Saint-Dominique. You can click the Expozine logo above to go to their website.

For you internet savvy book-lovers who are unable to come to Montreal this weekend, be sure to check out our page on Shelfari. If you do not yet have a profile, don't worry. After a simple sign up process, you'll be on your way to recommending your favorite books. The only difficult part is thinking up a catchy fake screen name. Will you be bookgrrl or bananaloafer? Faerieangel or hamlips52? Only you and Shelfari can know for sure.

New Books in the office



We just received copies of Milk Teeth, Optic Nerve # 8 and It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken. They can all be ordered from our website, which, if you're reading this, you're already on.

Happy (American) Thanksgiving


Congratulations to Adrian, on Shortcomings being one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year selected by The New York Times Book Review.

My Favorite Day of the Week

Ron Rege, Jr. has a blog...


and among other things, he has posted his "Spider-man" strip from Coober Skeber 2. The top of the blog is here.

Introducing our newest Petits Livres...


D+Q started its Petits Livres imprint about 3 years ago and the series has featured innovative work by artists including Marc Bell, Charles Burns, Nicolas Robel, and Julie Doucet. A new batch of Petits Livres will be in stores within the next month. One of my favorites is Milk Teeth, by Vancouver artist Julie Morstad.
My colleagues Peggy and Tom first spotted her work in a magazine about a year ago, and shortly after that we started seeing her Neko Case poster all around town.
Milk Teeth collects her drawings and prints from the last couple of years and I think it will be an amazing introduction to many people who are not yet familiar with her work. Her artwork is both haunting and gorgeous, and I've found myself compulsively staring at it over and over again.


During the holidays you should see Fire Away! in stores, by an artist with possibly the best sounding name ever,
Chris von Szombathy.
Fire Away!, which sports one of the best book covers in recent memory, also collects drawing, prints, and photographs of sculptures by this prodigious artist and, like Julie Morstad, we'll be sure to see more by him in years to come.


Guy Delisle is best known for his books Pyongyang and Shenzhen but before then he created two pantomime comic "albums" for French publisher L'Association. D+Q published the first of these, Aline and The Others, last year, and now its companion volume, Albert and The Others, will be out soon.
The 26 short vignettes presented here are both funny and clever, and they also open a window on the early career of a great cartoonist.

And speaking of Guy Delisle, you'll be hearing a lot more about him next year when D+Q publishes his next book, The Burma Chronicles, in September. Watch this space for more details.

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