and just in time for the high holida...
Headphone Store And PC Gaming
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Daybreak Originals
Have y'all seen the originals for DAYBREAK?I know, normally you're all like "That old fogey Brian Ralph? Yeah, sure he was a part of Fort Thunder, but he doesn't do Chippendale/Brinkman-style horror vacui comics where you can't tell up from down. He's all about putting things in boxes or whatever." But then I'm all like:That's right folks. 20 panels....
Denys and John
Dan Nadel has some appreciative moments for Denys Wortman with some James Sturm-supplied outtakes over at Comics Comics.And Allan Holtz over at Stripper's Guide does some nice excavating to find a Wortman profile in Editor & Publisher from 1929! Tom Spurgeon makes some excellent Holiday shopping suggestions over at The Comics Reporter including...
Pascal Girard's BIGFOOT
Let me introduce you to a wonderful new book by the Quebec (and, as of recently, Montreal) based cartoonist Pascal Girard.BIGFOOT is a reflection on youth and budding romantic feelings. Jimmy is torn between Jolene, a friend that he has a crush on, and Jessica, a girl who seems to genuinely like him but he feels reticent about, perhaps because of her...
This Weekend In Toronto: THE ONE OF A KIND SHOW
THE SELVES artist Sonja Ahlers is in Toronto for One of a Kind show, which sounds pretty epic and crazy over the top as it spotlights 800 artisans for 10 days! This gives me a chance to plug Sonja's upcoming bag with one of my favorite blogs, fieldguided. Also check out this podcast with Sonja on Bitch radio. You can check out what Sonja is selling...
Interns are awesome! (And Julie is, too!)
Here, our lovely intern Vincent is holding a copy of the BRAND NEW edition of Julie Doucet's classic My New York Diary, in stores in the new year. (though you might be able to snag an advanced copy at BACKFA...
Tamaki Designed Ts!
Next weekend at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival--or as we call it around the office: Brooklyn Art Community Komix Festival and Talks (BACKFAT)--make sure to swing by the D+Q booth on Saturday between 6-8 to have the jack-of-all-trades (jill-of-all-trades?) Jillian Tamaki sign your copy of Indoor Voice. If your copy's already signed, just...
May I Suggest A Book For You, Ms. Palin.
Sarah, there's this nifty little book full of pictures that totally explains which Korea is our ally. It doesn't even take that long to read!And while I'm busy suggesting books for you, if you read this other nifty book, you'll be able to understand who was freed from house arrest from where and why the other week. And, it's now even in paperback,...
Everything! by Lynda Barry
We weren't actually going to announce anything today because it is Thanksgiving after all but my general sour mood exacerbated by lazy and oddly exclusionary year-end lists and unfathomable comics press coverage caused my wisecracks to reach a fever pitch and it seems they were taken at face value by Tom Spurgeon at Comics Reporter so I might as well...
Please come see us and laugh at our bad French
Peg and I will be attending Angouleme this year. We'll be there for a few days. I urge you to let us know if you are going or plan on dropping by and seeing us in the foreign rights tent. Peg has never been!! And it's been something like 13 years for me so I'm looking forward to seeing some old acquaintanc...
Gosh, shucks.
Sometimes as a publicist, you feel like your publicity mailings are going into a black hole. So, it was nice to read novelist and critic Jeff Vandermeer's blog and what it's like to receive a box of D+Q books:"Other [publishers] stand out by a mile because they’re recognizably coming at readers from a unique or interesting perspective, and because they vary their formats and design approaches while remaining true to some central focus. Drawn & Quarterly always puts out cool books. When they come in the door, I can’t just throw them on the...
Cartoonists are celebrities in France.
So the big hub-bub in the office is that Le Dernier Cri published a Johnny 23 which is a version of Toxic which is the Cornelius name of X'ed Out and debuted it at Charles' gallery opening for the book last week in Paris. Crazy, right? But soooooo awesome. And though it looks "pirated" with the fake foreign lettering, and reconfigured artwork, it's...
Frank Santoro interviews Brecht Evens on The Wrong Place
Over at Comics Comics, Frank Santoro smartly breaks down what he thinks are the strengths of Brecht Evens' new graphic novel, The Wrong Place and then he asks Brecht a couple of quick questions about method and meaning. Very illuminatin...
Ron Rege talks Cartoon Utopia
.Ron talks about why he started drawing comics and his latest project in this sweet vid...
HEY FLORIDA! Go see Lynda Barry & Vanessa Davis!
Holy Smokes, the Miami Book Fair has invited--get this--Lynda Barry, Vanessa Davis, Joe Sacco and Jaime Hernandez. Unbelievable! In fact this festival has so many big name authors it is an embarrassment of riches. For $8 to the ENTIRE festival you can go see Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, Salmon Rushdie, Carl Hiaasen, and the festival started with George...
There is hope...PURE PAJAMAS
Oh, how you had spent hours in your local comic shop bemoaning the fact that comics had lost Marc Bell to the fine art world. Well, guess what, you were wrong! Ol' Simp is back! And Shrimpy and Paul and Taco and on and on. Coming next fall! Oh what a fa...
Clowes' WILSON lands at Fox Searchlight with Alexander Payne!
As reported on deadline.com today, Dan Clowes will be adapting his D+Q original graphic novel into a screenplay that has Alexander Payne attached to direct, with Sam Raimi's Stars Road behind the project.Holy smokes! Not only is the D+Q's book to go Hollywood, boy does it! The obvious question, who will play WILSON? Paul Giametti? Philip Seymour HOffman?...
Vanessa! Tonight! In! Berkeley! at! Pegasus!
OK Bay Area comic fans, here's your last chance to see the dazzling, charming Vanessa Davis in person presenting her slide show at Pegasus Books at 7:30 PM TONIGHT at the Shattuck location before jetting off to Miami to join Ms.Barry (as well Mr. Sacco and Mr. J. Hernandez) at the Miami Book Fair this weekend. The reviews for MAKE ME A WOMAN keep...
Denys Wortman in the NYT A&L This Sunday!
Can't make Thursday's opening of DENYS WORTMAN REDISCOVERED at the Museum of the City of NY that Tom blogged about? Well, no worries, check out this fabulous story, Gotham Chronicle Sharp Eye and Pencil and slide show, Get Me Redraw penned by Carol Kino that has hit the internet in advance of its Sunday pub date. With quotes from Jules Feiffer & James Sturm! Also, buy the bo...
D+Q at the Salon du livre de montreal
Come see us at the Salon du livre de Montreal, from November 17th to 22nd! Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore is at kiosque # 363, right next to our friends La Pastèque!Aside from just coming by to say hello to our lovely store staff and to peruse books, make sure not to miss our weekend signings:SATURDAY NOV 20th13:00-15:00 Diane Obomsawin14:00-15:00...
Denys Wortman at the Museum of the City of New York
By now, you've heard at least something about our Denys Wortman project--Denys Wortman's New York. In brief, James Sturm uncovered thousands of drawings in a shed on Martha's Vineyard by a long forgotten ash-can artist and daily newspaper strip artist. Comprised almost entirely of single-panel gag format strips about New York City drawn in a gorgeous...
More! Lynda! Barry! Interviews!
Did I mention that Lynda spoke to a standing room only crowd of 350-plus at the School of the Art Institute on Monday night? And then signed for two hours straight? Did I mention this interview she did with WBEZ? And this interview with Nathalie Atkinson of the National Post who picked her amongst the Harbourfront skyscrapers in Toronto and took...
BIG QUESTIONS--FIN
That's right, the fifteenth and last issue of Anders Nilsen's magnum opus, Big Questions, was approved for printing this morning, which means (if all goes according to plan) Big Questions 15 will be available at The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival in December, where Anders will be a special guest. Can't wait that long for some big answers? Too...
Prepare for your mind to be blown!
This Belgian interview with the great Charles Burns might be the best cartoonist video I've ever seen. It's a 6-1/2 minute long interview set as a doctor/patient analysis. And it's actually a good interview t...
Lynda Barry on NPR's Talk Of The Nation Today!
Tune into NPR's Talk of the Nation today, 11/11/10, to listen to Neal Conan and Lynda Barry in conversation. Be sure to call ...
Kevin Huizenga at Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn this Saturday!
Brooklyn's Bergen Street Comics will be hosting the Brooklyn Launch Event for Kevin Huizenga’s The Wild Kingdom this coming Saturday, November 13th at 8pm. The evening will start with a conversation between Kevin and Bergen Street Comics’ own Tucker Stone. Fun and bubbly refreshments are promised!Bergen Street ComicsSaturday, November 13th, 8pm470...
Feeling the love for MAKE ME A WOMAN
Reviewers everywhere are falling for, relating to, and finding a friend in Vanessa Davis, showing there's a whole lot to love about Make Me A Woman...Greg McElhatton at Read About Comics declares Make Me A Woman one of his favorite books of the year, finding "...a lot to connect with. And more importantly, fall in love with."In the opening to her her...
Woodrow White, Sitting Is Not Selling!
I am getting grief around the office for not posting an APE report, but to my defense, I did have camera issues. Well, here we have a video from Chris Anthony Diaz, which is better than any photo report I could have done, and maybe will still do. (if i can find the cord to my broken camera to see if anything can be salvag...
Top Graphic Novels of 2010
It looks like those lists are going to start dropping (or already have.) They will almost certainly make me hang my head and shed bitter tears for many a talented cartoonist as well as other excellent publishers. Here's hoping that all the lists don't suffer from a botched even-handedness or lazy Amazon search. This has been an amazing year for comics.Why,...
