Something of interest

It's not all D+Q hype here, y'know. Old friend Greg Cook interviews old friend Brian Chippendale at The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research. It's a multi-parter so click through. And bookmark Greg's blog while you're at. It's the best coverage of the New England area art scene out there. Also, go here and buy Brian's boo...

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Chicago! New York! Philadelphia! LYNDA BARRY!

From the "Writing the Unthinkable" myspace page: "JUST ANNOUNCED! New action-packed TWO-DAY class in CHICAGO! Saturday and Sunday, AUGUST 23rd and 24th, 2008! ONLY 15 seats left! Tuition is only $250.00! This class ALWAYS sells out fast! So, write to Betty Bong at fromthedeskofmarlys@yahoo.com to sign up today!"As you may have guessed from our blog...

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D+Q At BEA!

Continuing their national tour, Chris "Chief" Oliveros and Jamie "Controller" Salomon will be the manning the old booth at Book Expo America in Los Angeles starting tomorrow. Lucky attendees may be able to spy Joe Matt at the D+Q booth #1504 in the Farrar, Straus and Giroux aisle which is always front and center at BEA and score a copy of What It Is or a poster, D+Q FCBD issues from both 2008 and 2007, and galleys of Guy Delisle's Burma, Rutu Modan's Jamilti and Abouet and Oubrerie's Aya 2. Haven't heard of these titles you say? Well, you must...

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Denver! Montreal!

DENVER:Check out John Porcellino at the upcoming Denver Zine Fest: The 3rd annual DZF will be held Saturday May 31st, from 10 AM - 6 PM at the First Unitarian Church, 1400 Lafayette in Capitol Hill. For more info please visit www.denverzinefest.com.MONTREAL:Come visit the D+Q booth at Puces Pop this weekend! The zine and craft fair is happening at...

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Guy Delisle + Joe Matt = Definitely Not the Opera

Check out recent interviews with Guy Delisle and Joe Matt from Sook-Yin Lee's great CBC radio show, "Definitely Not the Oper...

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Gary Panter in LA

Tonight, May 26th, 7:30pmGary Panter signing and film programmingAND Gary Panter and Devin Flynn live performanceFamily436 N. Fairfax Ave, Los AngelesTuesday, May 27th, 7:30 pmGary Panter signing, lecture and slideshow(introduction by Matt Groening)Skylight Books1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Ange...

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Gold Medal!

Shortcomings is the recipient of the Gold Medal honor for Graphic Novel/Drawn Book--Drama/Documentary in the "Ippys" or for those not in the know, the Independent Publisher Awards. Congrats Adri...

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How Awesome is Miriam Katin?

Miriam is in Amsterdam doing a a presentation at the Jewish Historical Museum where she is currently apart of the exhibit Superheroes and Schlemiels and naturally stopped by Lambi...

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Not Comics: Congrats to Julie Doucet, Jamie Quail and Jessica Campbell

Yesterday I took advantage of Montreal's Museum Day to go over to the Contemporary Art Museum, view the inaugural edition of the the Quebec Triennial: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, where Julie Doucet was selected as one of 38 artists to be spotlighted. Congrats to Julie on this wonderful honor. The show is up through...

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Family ties

Check out this article on the Men's Vogue blog about David Kramer, Tahli Harkham and Sammy Harkham's store, Family, in ...

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John Stanley reprint project expanded

D+Q is excited to announce that we've added the John Stanley written Nancy and Sluggo comic book series to our expanding John Stanley library. This series will likely begin next summer; it is undetermined at this time just how many volumes there will be in total. These comics came as something as a surprise to me because I just assumed that there was...

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Pascal Blanchet has a new website

It's fantast...

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RON REGE music video

From 2003, for the band M...

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Our Sincerest Condolences

It is with much, much sadness and great shock that we extend our sincerest condolences to the family, friends, and staff of Comic Relief in Berkeley, California on the news of Rory Root's death. Rory was one of the great personalities of the industry and the rare breed who was an original with an eye on the future. Comic Relief is one of the finest...

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Thank You Montreal

As Claudia points out over on our 211 blog, the readers of the Montreal Mirror honored us with two Best Of Montreal categories; Librairie Drawn & Quarterly took the #2 spot in the Best Comics Store category and the #5 position in the Best Bookstore (Ne...

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Philly Book Fest This Weekend with Charles Burns!

Don't forget to meet Chris "Chief" Oliveros and Jamie "Controller" Salomon tomorrow and Sunday at the Philly Book Festival at the Free Library, along with Charles Burns signing from 1-3 each day! Phillyist notes our debut at the sh...

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The man, himself

John Stanley's son Jim sent me this photo of his dad taken around the time that John was 18 or 19 meaning 1932/33. As far as I can tell from the information I could uncover so far, it would be another 10 years before he started work steadily in comics writing Bugs Bunny and Andy Panda stori...

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The next great reprint project (explained)

JOHN STANLEY.Perhaps the single best writer in comics before R. Crumb changed everything. Best known for his scripting of Little Lulu comics (easily the best kid's comics of all time--do you own those Dark Horse collections? Get them!). I began reading these to my daughter Georgy a year ago and kind of expected well-crafted kid's stories in a Barks...

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The next great reprint project (part four)

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MAD #490...

...features a 2-page comic strip, "Superdelegate," written by Joe Raiola and drawn by R. Sikoryak. It's on sale this mon...

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What It Is excerpt

PW Comics Week has an excerpt from this magnificent Lynda Barry book here... in stores toda...

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Has anyone said...

CONGRATULATIONS! To all the D+Q artists nominated for Eisners??Best Publication for TeensSatchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion)Best Reality-Based WorkSatchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion)White Rapids, by Pascal Blanchet (Drawn & Quarterly)Best Graphic Album--NewExit Wounds, by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly)Best Graphic Album--ReprintJames Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems, by James Sturm (Drawn...

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What Books are Adrian and Rutu Reading?

I must say --AGAIN--that I like the redesigned Comic-con magazine. The new issue asks this year's special guests what they are reading. Rutu is reading Tove Jansson and Winsor McCay while Adrian is reading Philip K. Dick, Mark Olivier Everett and Cormac McCarthy. Check out the magazine to see exactly what they say about the books.BREAKING NEWS Adrian...

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My Favorite Day of the Week

Unfortunately, my favorite day doesn't seem to be going that well for Lynda.The newest ish of BUST has a fantastic one-page interview with Lynda. Check it out, Amy Sedaris on the cover, Lynda inside...can't lo...

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Ever wondered...

how much you'd have to pay Joe Matt to sleep with Oprah?Well, the following comic strip interview with Noah VanSciver will clear that up. Also mentioned: cocaine at a ComicCon hotel room party. In Dave Sims' ro...

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We're all a little Lynda crazy right now...

But this isn't a What It Is post. Nope, it's a Cruddy post. Or actually it's an Against Pain post. I just finished the production and proofing on this book and it should be hitting stores in mid-July. So the idea is that Ron will be at SDCC to sign what amounts to a kind of career retrospective/greatest hits/odds and sods/mixed bag/flotsam jetsam/sam...

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The next great reprint project (part three)

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I! Dug! It!

So take the following with a grain of salt, as Amazon rankings are a precarious indicator of sales as are any other numbers when presented on their own, out of context. It is fun, however, when a big piece of press hits to check in and see how the book is doing on the rankings. Yesterday afternoon, What It Is was the #1 graphic novel (take that wimpy...

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The next great reprint project (part two)

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Can! You! Dig! It?!!!!!!!!

The New York Times has posted their profile of Lynda from tomorrow's Arts & Leisure section, they also have an awesome online component. Gentle Reminder: Book! goes! on! sale! this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

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How awesome is Gary Panter?

In addition to his recent 700 page book with PictureBox, he recently had an exhibition at Clementine Gallery in New York (featured above), and has another major exhibition up at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Daydream Trap. Anyone in or near Ridgefield, CT should definitely check it out! Gary will be doing a book signing tomorrow (Saturday,...

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Attn Philly and Chicago Fans!

I just wanted to point out to all readers in Philadelphia and Chicago that D+Q will be making two new festival appearances this year with both events being overseen by the "Chief Oliveros" and "Controller Salomon" with signings by local authors....Next weekend, May 17th and 18th, D+Q will be at the Philadelphia Book Festival at the Free Library with...

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The next great reprint project

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Exit Wounds exhibition in Jerusalem

Sunday, May 11th, to Thursday, May 15th, an International Writers Festival takes place at the leading cultural centre Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem, with renowned writers from Israel and abroad in attendance, participating in an array of events. The festival will be a fascinating venue for encounters between the comic book and prose books, between...

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KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art

Attention, Vancouver comics fans:The Vancouver Art Gallery is opening a new exhibiton next week that focuses on comics, animation and video games. Each section is curated by specialists in its domain, with comics curated by Art Spiegelman and D+Q's Seth. The entire exhibition loosely revolves around George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" and its influence,...

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Loft livin' in NYC

(Christian Hansen for The New York Times)Was I the only who thought of Lucky when I read this article in the New York Times about the living conditions in artists' lofts in New York?The article is interesting, but I'll say that one thing that Lucky has that this article could use more of, however, is Green Card star Gerard Depardi...

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Boys Comics

Man, the Fifties were aweso...

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Rock the Eisner Vote Online!

The Eisners are having online voting this year, with a very easy write in section to each category so you and your favorites can be recognized! All of the industry awards are different, but the Eisners nominations are selected by that year's particular panel of judges while the voting itself is open to almost all segments of the comic book industry including artists, publishers, and retailers. I just did it myself and it took about three minutes. All votes are due June 13th!http://www.eisnervote.com/A gentle reminder of the books D+Q published...

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Mark Your Calendars...What It Is Comes Out Next Week! Lynda Events Galore in 2008!

What It Is is in stores next week, yes, next week! And one of the first reviews are in, the Austin Chronicle weighs in: "This is the artist Lynda Barry at her enthusiastic best, her most sincerely encouraging, urging readers toward journeys of self-discovery and the joy of making, of appreciating, art. And how does she do this? How does she communicate...

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Thoreau by Porcellino

I knew John was working on this but didn't realize it was so close to being released. As you may or may not know, John is one of my all-time favorite cartoonists and part of the reason for that is John's firm belief in his art and his convictions. Series editor James Sturm brilliantly chose John to do a book on Henry David Thoreau. I can't think of...

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Good-Bye

Andrew Wheeler of ComicMix devoted his Manga Friday column to Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, in stores this July: "Good-Bye as a whole is a stunning achievement, a collection of dark, realistic stories from a side of the world we rarely see. Tatsumi is one of the greats of world comics, a creator with a fearless, unblinking focus on the sadness and...

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Trapped!!

Oh, sure the new offices look swanky but there are drawbacks. The elevators always seemed a little makeshift (they respond to the opposite call buttons, floor buttons mysteriously turn off) so it wasn't a real surprise yesterday morning when I climbed aboard the refurbished freight elevator with our new fridge and my life became something out of a New Yorker article when the doors closed and the car lurched and I knew I was trapped. Fortunately there was actually a pretty good emergency phone service (I don't have a cell phone) in the elevator...

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FREE COMICS!!!

Don't forget to stop by your local comic book retailer for tomorrow's FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! You can read up on the various titles available at Salon, where they've been reviewed. Remember to look for D+Q's free comic, Geki...

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John Porcellino FCBD events

John P. will be participating in a couple events being held in conjunction with this year's famed Free Comic Book Day, this Saturday, May 3rd: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM in Boulder, CO:signing comics and chitchatting at Time Warp Comics3105 28th Street; phone 303-443-45003:30 PM - 5:00 PM in Colorado Springs, CO:hands-on Mini-Comics Workshop at Pikes Peak Library, East Branch5550 North Union Blvd; phone 719-531-6...

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New office pics

Yes it's true, we've spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks packing, unpacking, and generally getting things re-organized to meet all of your production, publicity and web-order needs.Here's what things looked like in here on Tuesday...... while D+Q Controller, Jamie Salomon, and the Chief, Chris Oliveros, were getting back to work asap amid...

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Attention web-shoppers!

Dearest blogosphere,We're really sorry, but, due to an office move this week, web orders made after April 18th are going out now. Rest assured that your books and goodies are on their w...

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Pomme-Pomme reminder!

Application deadline is May 15th, so apply now! Details here.(poster by Julia Rothman, design superstar and author of one of our favorite book blogs, Book By Its Cove...

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