Tonight to do: Seth and Clowes in Montreal
If you can't make it out for these seminal events, you can still listen to these modern masters talk with WYNC's Leonard Lopate right here.
Continue ReadingSeth wins Harbourfront Festival Prize; tours
Another cartoonist has won a prestigious prize, this time Seth winning the Harbourfront Festival Prize for his body of work.
Continue ReadingKate Beaton’s North American tour dates announced
The long-awaited HARK! A VAGRANT collection of Kate Beaton's hilarious digs at history and literature is hitting stores, and she'll sign across North America. Here are the tour dates:
Continue ReadingAnders Nilsen hits the West Coast with ‘Big Questions’
The complete BIG QUESTIONS by Anders Nilsen is ure to be one of the books of the year, a 600+ page meditati
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PAYING FOR IT gets final cover and an intro by R. Crumb
Chester Brown's PAYING FOR IT is sure to be one of the most-discussed GNs of the year, and D&Q has just released the final cover. In case you missed the log line, it's an account of Brown's decade-long practice of hiring prostitutes and his arguments for the dignity and necessity of the profession -- in Canada certain forms of prostitution are legal, but that situation is changing for the worse, and Brown makes a pretty impassioned plea in the book to expand on the legalization of what really should be a business transaction between adults. We've read the whole thing, and while we're not quite on board with some of of it, he does make a good case for keeping things safe and legal. The book will have an intro by R. Crumb and blurbs from many famous folks, including Neil Gaiman, who writes:
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: February 2011
February has only 28 days, but is jam-packed with lots of great graphic novels and related titles! Warning... looking at what appears so far on BarnesAndNoble.com, the rest of 2011 is going to be just as amazing! Click this link to discover more! (Sweet Kirby Crackle! Corto Maltese, in English, from Rizzoli?!) Better start shopping for bookshelves now.
Continue ReadingMore Lynda Barry on tour and Montreal report
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If you missed the earlier stops, you can still see the one and only phenomenal Lynda Barry talking and inspiring: DO NOT MISS Lynda Barry on tour for PICTURE THIS in a city near you. Seeing Lynda Barry’s exceptional, inspirational presentation in person is something each and every fan should witness. Lynda [...]
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: November 2010
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBy Torsten Adair The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in November 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 350 books scheduled. Instead, I have selected titles which caught my interest. If you would like to browse forthcoming graphic novels and related books [...]
Continue ReadingThe Drawn & Quarterly sale
Drawn & Quarterly is also having a warehouse sale, with nearly all titles in stock 30-40% off. Lots of great stuff from Chester Brown to Lynda Barry to Kevin Huizenga.
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Clowes on tour!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Dan Clowes is on tour this week, D&Q tells u, starting today in Washington DC. In each city, Dan will be talking with a special guest moderator complete with slide show. (and it’s a great slide show) And in Boston you get to see Ghost World after the event, with an introduction [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Drawn & Quarterly – #1529
Share this link on Facebook!TweetD&Q will have a new tote bag for all purchases over $40, new books and signings and panels by James Sturm, Lynda Barry, Rutu Modan, and Adrian Tomine. You won’t want to miss stopping by! Thursday, July 24th: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM Rutu Modan Signing 1:00-4:00 PM Lynda Barry Signing 5:00-7:00 PM Adrian Tomine Signing
Continue ReadingMore John Stanley!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Drawn and Quarterly continues to do God’s Work be announcing even more John Stanley reprints: We’ll be starting off with a three volume set of Stanley’s Melvin Monster. During the “monster” craze of the Sixties, Dell Comics launched this short-lived but hilarious and weird series about a good little monster boy [...]
Continue ReadingLynda Barry on tour!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Lynda Barry’s WHAT IT IS comes out in a few short days, and the legendary cartooner will be touring all spring and summer, into the fall D&Q reports. Here are her current tour dates: 06/4 The Strand New York, NY 06/5 Free Library of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA 06/6 NYU Cantor Center New York, NY 06/7-8 MoCCA Fest New York, NY 06/12 Hideout Chicago, IL 07/24-27 Comic-Con San Diego, CA
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