Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Toys in the Basement by Stéphane Blanquet 32-page full-color 8.5" x 11.25" hardcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-402-3 Ordering Info & Previews With appearances in such anthologies as Zero Zero, Blab! and Kramer's Ergot, Stéphane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness. So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be… a children's book? Yes indeed. Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to be a pirate) stumbles across a secret…
Now in stock: Unlovable: The Complete Collection by Esther Pearl Watson
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Unlovable: The Complete Collection by Esther Pearl Watson two hardcover volumes in custom slipcase, 832 pages, two-color, 5.75" x 5.75" • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-397-2 Ordering Info & Previews Loosely based on a teenager’s diary from the 1980s found in a gas-station bathroom, Unlovable is the remarkable story of Tammy Pierce, as filtered through the pen and brush of Los Angeles artist Esther Pearl Watson. This boxed set collects the complete, acclaimed two-volume saga of Tammy’s sophomore year of high school in 1989. Tammy has built a devoted following over the last several…
Monday’s Strip by Stephen DeStefano – Strip 10
Originally run as an experiment on Stephen’s blog starting in 2008, Monday’s Strip is re-presented here. Lettering on this strip by Siobhan DeStefano. Stephen’s graphic novel Lucky in Love Book 1: A Poor Man’s History (written by George Chieffet) was released by Fantagraphics in September, 2010.
Destroy All Movies!!! interview & contributor’s notes
Two features too big for our "Daily OCD" roundup today: First, Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film gets the cover (seen above) of this week's issue of The Austin Chronicle! Marc Savlov of the Chronicle, who says "Destroy All Movies!!! is more than a reference book for the Mohawk-obsessed: It's a feat akin to taking your shitty punk rock band on a world tour in a crappy '72 Ford Econoline circa 1983. Hard work, but man, when you're done you know you've really been somewhere," talks to the book's editors Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly, the…
Daily OCD: 11/4/10
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "I know what you're all thinking. Does [Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film] adequately up the punx? The answer is a resounding, 'Yep!' […] There's a little more attention paid to Nick Zedd and Lydia Lunch than I think is deserved, but otherwise the book is perfect. […] This one will live above your toilet tank for years and make shitting so much fun." – Nick Gazin, Vice • Review: "Dave Cooper's produced [Bent,] another book's worth of sketches and oil paintings of weird looking women. Some of Cooper's…
Georgetown Art Attack Falls on Saturday, November 13
The Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack returns on Saturday, November 13 with challenging visual and performing arts presentation throughout the historic industrial arts corridor. Among the many highlights on November 13: The AV Club, a new Georgetown film and video showcase located in the alley between Flora and Ellis behind Tacoma Screw, will feature the installation, "Ohio," by Laura Wright, which serves dual functions as an environmental installation and as the ambience for AV Club Cinema media presentations; the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall launches the Fourth Annual Holiday Bazaar including new work by Mark Tweed in the Lula B Lightning…
King of the Flies Vol. 1: Amazon’s #5 comic of the year
We're thrilled to see that Mezzo & Pirus's King of the Flies Vol. 1: Hallorave has landed in the #5 spot on Amazon's Best Books of 2010: Top 10 Comics & Graphic Novels list. If this amazing book has slipped under your radar, here is your wake-up call! (And the wait for Vol. 2: The Origin of the World is almost over — it will be out in early January.) It's also great to see Jaime Hernandez in the top spot on Amazon's list (even if it's not our book). Hooray!
Ray Fenwick’s Mascots video trailer #1
Ray Fenwick presents the first of a promised two live-action trailers for his forthcoming book Mascots, featuring a dramatization of the scene "What'd I Miss?" Go go Power Fenwick! EDIT: Oh, that’s Ben Jones as the teleporting man! EDIT AGAIN: Oh, but not “Ben Jones the cartoonist” Ben Jones but “Ben Jones Ray’s brother-in-law” Ben Jones.
Special Exits by Joyce Farmer – Previews, Pre-Order
Special Exits by Joyce Farmer 208-page black & white 8" x 10" hardcover • $26.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-381-1 Ships in: November 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Joyce Farmer’s memoir chronicles the decline of the author’s parents’ health, their relationship with one another and with their their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Elderly parents Lara and Rachel, who have enjoyed a long and loving married life together, are rendered in fine, confident pen lines. Set in southern Los Angeles (which makes for a terrifying sequence as blind Rachel…
Jaime Hernandez & Joe Sacco at Miami Book Fair International
Jaime Hernandez & Joe Sacco will be special guests at Miami Book Fair International later this month. Jaime has a panel discussion on Saturday November 20 at 2:00 PM, and Joe speaks on the following day at the same time. It's all part of the festival's impressive "Weekend Cartoons" programming track. Much more info at the links above.
