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 Possesses Brian Ralph silkscreens, Adrian Tomine posters, and various historical documents from D+Q's past.Have I mentioned that we have workshops at the store...

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Jimbo doll falls to #2 spot

Yeah, yeah, it's not a competition but look at this thin...

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My Favorite Day of the Week

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Speaking of Miriam

She'll be at Dartmouth tomorr...

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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 O...

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"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 NilsenWhy him? Less means more when it's in the hands of this...

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Eh, I'll take it.

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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. Congratulatio...

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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....

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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 ...

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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 Revi...

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My Favorite Day of the Week

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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 he...

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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...

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Michel Rabagliati graces the cover of the Montreal weekly Voir today. Rabagliati is the special Guest of Honor at this year's Salon Du Livre festival in Montreal (North America's largest French-language book fair). It's the first time in the festival's history that any cartoonist has received this distinction, so congratulations to Michel. Early next...

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White Rapids is making waves...

...in Canada's National Post (which ran as a gorgeous two-page spread with full color artwork spanning both pages) stating, "Blanchet appears to have the soul of the archivist. From subject to style, it's about rendering the ephemeral." And in Walrus Magazine, which declares that, "the elegance of its aesthetic is sure to propel him to the forefront...

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Tonight in Berkeley

Tonight is the last stop on Adrian's book tour, well, at least until his art opening at GRNY on December 8th. At Cody's in Berkeley at 7 PM, Julia Cosgrove of ReadyMade asks the questions. I would imagine that some of the questions will focus on the East Bay settings in the book, the Oakland Tribune picks up yesterday's San Jose Mercury story in...

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Very Short List features R. Sikoryak

Today's VSL pick features a comic published in The D+Q Anthology, Volume 3. VSL points out that this story is also available to read online (in a questionable case of copyright infringement. Speaking of crime and punishment, heh heh, remember to ask permission bloggers!!) Luckily R. Sikoryak isn't too upset by this one, so in that case, this is also...

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Three favorites

One of my favorites cartoonists, Joe Sacco, was in one of my favorite cities, Minneapolis, at one of my favorite museums, The Walker. MPR provides an insightful interview where Joe explains that he is, in fact, not an objective reporter. The Minneapolis Star Tribune interviews Joe and starts with Superman and ends with Spiderman. Geez Louise, I am...

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Bay Area Welcomes Home Adrian!

Adrian winds up his ten-city tour with an event tonight at 7 PM in San Francisco at Booksmith with Glen David Gold (Carter Beats the Devil) and tomorrow night at 7 PM in Berkeley at Cody's with Julia Cosgrove (of ReadyMade). Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle featured a review of Shortcomings, the San Francisco Bay Guardian reviewed the book and...

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My Favorite Day of the Week

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Tonight in Vancouver

Adrian Tomine visits Sophia Books tonight, 7:00 PM, 450 West Hastings Street. Don't miss the Q+A with Kevin Chong (author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation). Speaking of Adrian and Vancouver, he recently appeared on the great Van-based comics radio show, Inkstuds, which normally you can listen to here, but the site seems to be having some technical things going on.. so in the meantime try th...

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Tonight in Minneapolis

Rain Taxi sponsors a reading series as a further demonstration of its commitment to literary culture.JOE SACCOTuesday, November 13, 7:00 pm$10 ($8 for Walker Members and Rain Taxi subscribers)Walker Art Center1750 Hennepin Avenue, MinneapolisJoin us as celebrated cartoonist JOE SACCO visits Minneapolis for a special presentation co-hosted by Rain Taxi Review of Books and the Walker Art Center. Appearing in conjunction with the Walker exhibition Brave New Worlds, Sacco will offer a visual tour of his acclaimed approach to comics journalism, in which...

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Thursday in Hanover, NH

James Sturm, co-founder of The Center for Cartoon Studies, will be lecturing at Dartmouth College about James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems with a reception and signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Jewish Studies.6:00 PMDarmouth CampusRockefeller Center ...

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French radio

Last night our fantastic "controller" Jamie Salomon was on CHOQ.FM talking about all things D+Q, on the show "Dans ta Bulle" (which I believe translates sort of as "in your speech bubble" - yes, it's a show about comics). Listen he...

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Amazon Shows Adrian More Love...

"On the first Monday of every month we reveal The Significant Seven: the new titles chosen by our editors as the must-read books of the seaso...

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Attn Seattle Fans!

It's your one and only opportunity to see Adrian's slide show he put together for the Shortcomings book tour, followed with a Q+A by Eric Reynolds of the "competition"--it all goes down tonight at the University Bookstore. Seattlest has a Q+A with Adrian in advance of the event.Here are two photos from last week's Philadelphia event at the Free Library...

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PW Announces Best of 2007

Publishers Weekly announced their Best of 2007 lists last week, and we're ecstatic that THREE D+Q titles made their comics list. Congrats to Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings), Rutu Modan (Exit Wounds), and Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (Ay...

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Shortcomings in the New York Times Book Review

"[Tomine] is an expert at hooking the reader without tricks or obvious effort, and you'll be tempted to buzz through Shortcomings in an hour. But you'll want to slow down to take in the detailed black-and-white panels that casually document the way we live now...Tomine isn't given to flights of surrealism, rude jests or grotesque images. He is a mild observer, an invisible reporter, a scientist of the heart. His drawing style is plain and exact. The dialogue appearing inside his cartoon balloons is pitch-perfect and succinct. He's daring in his...

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Adrian in the Pacific NW: Portland, Seattle and Vancouver

The Shortcomings reports haven't stopped rolling in from Chicago yet, and they're already pouring in from the NW. Check out the Chicago New City and the Chicago Reader as they both picked last night's event at Quimby's as not to miss. Here's a slew of interviews for Adrian's upcoming appearances: The Willamette Weekly interviews Adrian in advance...

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Tonight in DC: Lynda Barry & Chris Ware

Anyone within a 100-mile radius of DC should not miss this awesome event: Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware with astute comics reporter Dan Raeburn asking the questions. It's at the Cecile Goldman Theater of the Washington, DC Jewish Community Cent...

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Shortcomings Makes Amazon's Best of 2007

Amazon has released their Best of 2007 lists, and Shortcomings comes in at #5 on their comics and graphic novel list! They have the book on sale for a great price too...

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Fan Photos

Thanks to Chris Anthony Diaz for sending in these pictures from James Sturm's talk & signing at the JCC San Francisco on Sund...

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This Week: Adrian Tomine in Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Chicago and Portland

The Shortcomings tour is officially in full swing. On Tuesday at the Free Library in Philadelphia, Wednesday at Shaman Drum in Ann Arbor, and Saturday at Wordstock in Portland, Adrian will present a slide show, which I have been privy to, and I swear (not as his publicist!) don't miss it! On Thursday at Quimby's in Chicago, Adrian will be interviewed...

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New Lynda Barry Strip

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Attn L.A.: Shortcomings Originals in Giant Robot Biennale

Congratulations to one of our favorite magazines, Giant Robot, for making it to Issue #50! In celebration of this anniversary, Eric Nakamura has curated a show up at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. If you are lucky enough to get over there, you'll see over 10 pages of original Shortcomings art, as well as the cover by Adrian...

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Sunday: James Sturm in San Francisco

The 2007 SF Jewish BookFest Presents:JAMES STURM Gain insights into the creative process, politics and vision of James Sturm, an Eisner Award winner and the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies. James Sturm's America draws a portrait of the people and their dreams that make up this country: pioneers searching for a place to call home, ghost towns...

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Adrian Tomine in L.A. this Saturday

Don't miss Adrian in Los Angeles as one of our favorite retailers, Skylight Books celebrates their 11th Anniversary party. Bill Smith, formerly of the LA Weekly, will be asking the questions.ADRIAN TOMINE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKSQ+A and SigningSaturday, November 3rd 2007 5:00 PMSKYLIGHT BOOKS (1818 N. Vermont Ave LA, CA 90027)Also, we are asking all readers...

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Chris Ware's The Savages Poster

A Chris Ware poster for a movie that has two of my favorite actors in it!? Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney in The Savages!! Can't think of anything bett...

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Can't Make Adrian's Tour?

Don't live in L.A., Philly, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, Berkeley or NYC? Don't worry, the continent's best all-comics radio show Inkstuds interviewed Adrian Tomine yesterday and have posted the podcast. Before the interview they asked Adrian for a playlist and he requested: "I'm Satisfied" by Mississippi John...

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