Congratulations to the family of Jason Lutes on the arrival of Maximilian Pepper Warren-Lutes at 4:49am on December 26th, weighing in at a 10 lbs. 2 ...
Headphone Store And PC Gaming
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Blechman in the New Yorker (December 1956!!)
Thumbing through an old New Yorker magazine, I came across this wonderful example of R.O. Blechman commercial illustration. Few artists manage to survive a decade in illustration, let alone successfully work with a distinctive line and distinguished wit in various commercial media for over half a century! In the same issue...
Marc Bell, TV Star
If you ever hear a sample in a rap song that says I'm kind of a small fish wish upon a star that marc bell is getting paid royalti...
Dancing Mile End
Still looking for the perfect gift? How about this Matt Forsythe print? Signed and numbered and mailed to your do...
Delightful Delicious Delisle
Here are a few photos from the Guy Delisle event last night at the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore. Guy's talk packed the house; having arrived late, I ended up squashed against the window display at the very front of the store while people continued to squeeze in throughout the lecture! Despite the big crowd, Guy's conversational speaking style and...
Happy Hanukkah!
In honour of the holiday season and "complicated consumer impulses" here is a strip by Vanessa Davis for you to enjoy. Also, a possible addition to your wish-list: pants with your name on th...
Guy Delisle In Town! This Thursday!
Guy Delisle of Pyongyang, Shenzhen and Burma fame will be in town this week for an event at the D+Q Librairie, his first! Yipp...
This weekend! Rusty Plum Craft Fair!
So I know I'm a Mom when I find myself:1) working the local craft fair instead of the cool comic fest 2) bring my kids along with me to the craft fair and 3) get very excited when we sell a bunch of copies of our Moomin books, as well as lots of copies of other kid friendly comics like Ojingogo. Last weekend Drawn and Quarterly was at, and this weekend...
Big FCBD news in the office! Congrats to us!
So, we're really excited to announce that our Free Comic Book Day 2010 issue, YOW!!: THE JOHN STANLEY LIBRARY has been selected by Diamond as a gold level comic for the "holiday" of May 1, 2010. This means, it will be available at every store that participates in FCBD. (So no more slew of emails to the office asking for a copy because someone's store...
Interns ARE awesome! #7635 in a series
Meet Kiarra, D & Q production intern and new friend. Hailing from Canada's exotic prairies, Kiarra draws and animates when she's not busy reading Thirteen "Going on Eighteen", the latest book in D & Q's ongoing John Stanley Library series! Satisfyingly thick and supplemented with an introductory essay by none other than series designer Seth,...
On the shelves, in your arms
I'm sure you've all taken notice of the Masterpiece Comics deficit in recent times. No longer is it so! The third printing has arrived in stores and online!...
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest!
This past weekend was the inaugural Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival in Williamsburg, hosted by Gabe Fowler of Desert Island and Dan Nadel of Picturebox.This photo gives you an idea of the space, which was a church basement. The feel of the show was really comfortable and nice, very similar to Montreal's ExpoZine, but with a big representation...
More Rabagliati civic pride
Montrealers: keep your eyes peeled for Michel Rabagliati artwork gracing construction site walls and bistro bathrooms all over town on posters announcing local band Mes Aieux's CD launch. Like a scene straight out of Paul in the Metro (a Rabagliati short story featured in D & Q's 2005 Free Comic Book Day comic), the poster and CD cover pictured...
R.O. Blechmania
Steven Heller, SVA prof and ex NY Times art director loves R.O. Blechman! A scholar when it comes to artists' christmas cards, Blechman is one of his four noted favourites. Just take a look at this iconic 1966 CBS animation, pure cheer. Catch up with R.O. Blechman this weekend at The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Saturday and The Ancram...
Holiday Sale & Shipping! Holy Smokes!
It's that time of year folks when you can save on books and still get them the cheapest method possible and in time for the holidays! But only if you act now! {Best Crazy Eddie Voice} So here's the sale, buy three items, any items, on our website and get 30% off!So for all US orders, deadlines for the following shipping methods:USPS Media Mail -...
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest
Come visit D+Q this weekend at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest! We'll be at booth 1+2! The festival is going to be FULL of amazing cartoonists and it's totally free! So come on down! Signing books for D+Q will be Gabrielle Bell, R.O. Blechman, Charles Burns, Ron Rege, R. Sikoryak and Adrian Tomine. You can check out the exact signing and programming...
Amy Lockhart
I know I already mentioned that tonight is Montreal launch for Amy Lockhart's DIRTY DISHES, but let me introduce you to the book! It's our latest addition to our "Petits Livres" series and features a collection of Amy's comics, paintings and sculptural works, which are strange, kind of grotesque and totally captivating. All of Amy's work appears to...
Hear ye, Montreal! Hot Potatoe! Dirty Dishes!
Check out this week's edition of THE MONTREAL MIRROR for this sweet Marc Bell cover and interview by Rupert Bottenberg. Ever wonder where all those waffles come from? Now is your chance to find out!WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, why not swing on down to 211 Bernard tomorrow night for the Montreal launch of Marc's HOT POTATOE and Amy Lockhart's DIRTY DISHES? Welcome...
Design mart
Go pick up a copy of the Ojingogo reprint and say hello to Matt Forsythe this weekend at Smart Design Mart. 5333 Casgra...
Couple of John P. videos
John P.'s Map of My Heart tour may be over for now but there are some great momentos like this and this other video snippets from his date at Wax Trax.{Thanks to Karl Dotter for his great Flickr se...
Blechman Illo!
R.O. Blechman's illustration in yesterday's NY Times Book Review reminded me that I am very late in linking to Spurge's astute review of Talking Lines but am ahead of schedule in letting you know that D+Q will be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival with many of our artists, Blechman, being one of them. He will also be on a panel with Kim Deitch...
Hot Potatoe fan art
From an art exchange at Expozine, this young man (8?) named Léon Auché understands Marc Bell. Take that Alexa Kitchen and Lucy Knisely.{Apologies, I'm told that Lucy Knisely is apparently a grown woma...
Many people have been here before but you should still go
I'm not the first person to point people towards Eddie Campbell's blog but it's good enough that it deserves frequent repeat pointing-towardses (?!) He writes often and casually and even when I'm not in agreement over some theory or other, his writing is probably as close as a well-read professorial lecture on comics as you'll find online.I've been meaning to link to this quick rumination on Exit Wounds for a while. As usual, Eddie is paying attention to things many of us are n...
For Canucks Only: Marc and Amy's Hoser Tour, Eh.
Y'know, take off fans, Amy Lockhart and Marc Bell are traveling as far as ever a puffin flew, eh. They hit the 401 this week and travel down to Trawna, and then to Sweet L. O., and back to Mun-treal. Friday, November 20th | MAGIC PONY GALLEY | Toronto | 7 PMWednesday, November 25th | FOREST CITY GALLERY | London | 9 PM | Blackshire PubFriday, November...
No, we don't have a Steig book planned...
it's just that these Punch and Judy drawings killed me. Also, what a great artist-at-his-desk portrait above. {Also, he's a left...
Ojingogo returns!
If you've missed it the first time around, Matthew Forsythe's great graphic novel debut, Ojingogo, is now back in print, complete with a new design. After being originally serialized on Matthew's blog, it was published in book form about a year ago and was met with widespread acclaim, winning a Doug Wright Award and being selected as a Book of the...
Hellllllooooo Montreal!
We are going to be at ExpoZine this weekend, sitting next to Amy Lockhart, Julie Doucet and Marc Bell whose brand new HOT POTATOE we'll be selling (Julie and Marc will be selling prints and Amy will be selling painted cut-outs). There will be lots of other D+Q pals there, too, like Bodega Distribution, La Pastheque, Zach Worton, Chuck Forsman...ALSO,...
Fancy more Nancy?
Here's a peek at Seth's cover design for Nancy Volume 2, forthcoming from our John Stanley Library collection in summer 2010!I really like Seth's toonish "big head" take on everyone's favorite malleable mallet-head. Composed of basic shapes tied together with a bow, Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy was designed with such economy and balance that her component...
Masterpiece Comics Takes Miami!
Attention Florida! As you may know the Miami Book Fair is taking place right now! And they have a whole slate of graphic novel programming. On Saturday the 14th at 5:00 PM, R. Sikoryak will be doing his last official Masterpiece Comics event for his tour! Slide show and all.Earlier in the day, Saturday at 2:00 PM, Bob will be teaming up with James...
Powerpoints are forever
If you happened to miss the joint presentation given by R. Sikoryak and R.O. Blechman at New York's Strand Bookstore then you should take a look at this. Please note - the majority of "related videos" are inaccurately represented as such, most significantly, perhaps, in the case of the la...
Hen-reeee! Hen-ree Al-driiiiiiich!
(Click on the page above to read the rest of the comic.) Blog readers over the age of 60 may remember the (apparently) famous shout-out that kicked off every episode of what was once among the most popular radio shows in America. The Aldrich Family, which aired on the radio from 1939 to 1953, spawned eleven movies (two of which starred an awkward-looking,...
Introducing Imiri Sakabashira.
Tom is putting the finishing touches on a new graphic novel called The Box Man. Every time someone in the office reads it, they look a bit disheveled and startled--in a good way of course.Some time in the past few weeks, Tom and I came across this little VICE Magazine promotional book for Where the Wild Things Are featuring Ron Rege, Vanessa Davis...
