Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) The Amateurs by Conor Stechschulte 72-page black & white (with spot color) 6" x 9" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-734-5 A local medical expert and sheriff are summoned to investigate a strange sighting that sets the stage for Conor Stechschulte's debut graphic novella: a severed human head that still seems…
Black Is the Color by Julia Gfrörer – Video/Photo Slideshow Preview
Black is the Color by Julia Gfrörer 72-page black & white 6" x 9" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-717-8 Ships in: November 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Black is the Color begins with a 17th century sailor abandoned at sea by his shipmates, and as it progresses he endures, and eventually succumbs to, both his lingering death sentence and the advances of a cruel and amorous mermaid. The narrative also explores the experiences of the loved ones he leaves behind, on his ship and at home on land, as well as of the mermaids who jadedly witness his destruction. At the…
Lilli Carré’s Eyeworks Animation Festival Brooklyn Screenings!
This weekend, Lilli Carré's acclaimed animation festival Eyeworks will screen at the Pioneer Works Center for Art & Innovation in Brooklyn. Screenings take place today, Friday, November 15th, at 8:00 PM, and tomorrow, Saturday, November 16th, at 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM. Tickets are available online here, and the duel-day festival pass comes with a free silkscreened poster. The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation was founded by Carré and Alexander Stewart in 2010 to showcase outstanding experimental animation of all sorts, and the range of animation techniques, including paper cutouts, stop-motion, 3D computer animation, and a wide variety of hand-drawn…
Hip Hop Family Tree Signing with Ed Piskor in Chapel Hill, NC!
That's right! Chapel Hill Comics are gonna funk you right on up with a signing of Hip Hop Family Tree this Saturday, November 16th with the funkmaster Ed Piskor! Join in the fun from 6:00 to 9:00 PM! If you love hip hop, you will love everything about this book: Piskor's exuberant yet controlled cartooning takes you from the parks and rec rooms of the South Bronx to the night clubs, recording studios, and radio stations where the scene started to boom, capturing the flavor of late-1970s New York City in panels bursting with obsessively authentic detail. Chapel Hill Comics…
An Evening with the Hernandez Brothers in Columbus, OH!
photo credit: Stephanie Rivers It's time for the Billy Ireland Festival of Cartoon Art, and this year, they've got even more to celebrate as the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is moving into wonderful new, expanded facility in Sullivant Hall! All weekend long, they're breaking in the new building with comics events, including this very special evening with Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, this Saturday, November 16th! Kicking off at 7:30 PM, join them for a freewheeling conversation between these alternative comics legends as they discuss their groundbreaking series Love & Rockets, and their ongoing stories…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 7: Esther & Eleanor
Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Unlovable Vol. 3 by Esther Pearl Watson 416-page two-color 5.75" x 5.75" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-737-6 Summer vacation is here and Tammy Pierce is back with more sometimes ordinary, often humiliating, occasionally poignant, and usually hilarious exploits! Her hopes, dreams, agonies, and defeats are brought to vivid, comedic life…
Perfect Nonsense: The Chaotic Comics and Goofy Games of George Carlson – First Look
Do you like beautiful books? Do you like gorgeous illustration? Do you like fun, inventive comics? Then you will love Perfect Nonsense: The Chaotic Comics and Goofy Games of George Carlson, coming in January. Collecting Carlson's mostly youth-oriented work from the first half of the 20th century, Perfect Nonsense is brimming with clever whimsy and swoon-worthy artwork in a package so lovely we all crowded around designer Tony Ong and his pup Otis (out of frame) to congratulate him on a job well done when the first advance copies arrived. And the die-cut cover! Heeeeere's Wanda!
Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse NYC!
Get ready to play ball! Editor Hal Bock is steppin' up to the plate in New York City with our beautiful collection Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972! Join him on Thursday, December 5th starting at 7:00 PM at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse for a signing and discussion about the great Willard Mullin, voted "Sports Cartoonist of the Century" upon his retirement by his peers. (We're also told this talk will be filmed for a later podcast, so stay tuned!) Bergino Baseball Clubhouse is located at 67 East 11 Street in the landmark Cast Iron Building in Greenwich…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 6: Tradition & Transgression
Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) SuperTrash by Jacques Boyreau 220-page full-color 8" x 8" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3 SuperTrash is the awaited, mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a model describing the shared evolution…
New Nancy, Peanuts, and Don Rosa Kickstarter rewards
If you run over to our Kickstarter page, you'll find a few new — and good — premiums. 1. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden will collaborate on a drawing, and they will do this exactly five times before collapsing in exhaustion (the drawings will be that good). Plus, they'll throw in an original, 10" x 17" vintage syndicate proof for a week of 1960s Nancy dailies! This is the promotional part of the pitch because it primes the pump for their groundbreaking 200+ page analysis and historical monograph of Nancy, How to Read Nancy, coming up in our Fall 2014 season. All this for…
