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Monday, May 20, 2013
We had Lisa Hanawalt in town last week giving a presentation, and let me tell you: you are going to laugh and laugh and laugh, Brooklynites. So get on this New York City book launch for My Dirty Dumb Eyes, stat. After all, Slate just called it "the weirdest, funniest comic of the year."
Lisa Hanawalt will be at the PowerHouse Arena in DUMBO tonight! Monday May 20th, 7 pm at 37 Main St. in Brooklyn. There will be a reading, a Q&A, a signing, free wine, books for sale, prints for sale, and funny people to talk to. What more could you possibly ask for from us on a fine spring evening?
Plus, it's been spotlighted as a Voice Choice in this week's Village Voice, where Angela Ashman says:
"Did you know that Mario Batali’s Crocs can double as pasta-makers? Or that Anna Wintour takes power naps in a Louis Vuitton trunk? Or that Martha Stewart hot-glues dildos to her oven knobs when she’s drunk? OK, OK, none of that is true (that we know of). Rather, these hilarious scenarios are what Brooklyn-based illustrator and cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt has dreamed up in her first book, My Dirty Dumb Eyes... Get to know how her strange and brilliant mind works at tonight’s launch party."
Awright, no excuses. Get out there!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
It's been a little while since we've updated you on Rutu Modan's beautiful, funny, exquisitely plotted graphic novel The Property.
And since then, we've put the book in a few reviewers' hands. Here's a selection of the advance press The Property has received:
" The Property [is] a stunning book about a family’s attempt to reclaim property lost during the Second World War. [Rutu] Modan’s drawings are precise and evocative, with rich yet restrained colouring and detail. The Warsaw she imagines, shaded with a mournful tone but full of vivid characters, feels alive on the page."— The Globe & Mail
"Modan adroitly captures the complexity of the Jewish relationship to Europe, where so many Jews built and lost families and fortunes. There’s a deep ache within The Property, as Modan’s characters think about what might’ve been, and decide to replace that sense of mourning with a sense of possibility."—Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
"Modan ( Exit Wounds) has proven to be one of the most accessible of graphic novelists, with a cinematic presentation and the ability to capture the complexity of larger human experience within smaller family dramas.... A beautiful, fully realized story that’s as much “novel” as “graphic”."— Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"The book is tightly plotted, with a twist (or two) that feels entirely organic to the movement of the narrative. Modan is masterful at creating complex motivations, exploring the confusion her characters create in each other and, more fundamentally, in themselves."—David L. Ulin, The LA Times
As of today, The Property is available in great bookstores across North America. I'll leave you with these two beautiful, almost wordless pages. They give you a sense of the mood and ambiance of the book...
No joke, this may be my favourite literary graphic novel of 2013. Get out there and read this beaut!
Monday, May 13, 2013
Yes yes, y'all! We're back from TCAF and we've brought two wonderful, funny cartoonists with us!
Join us for what will undoubtedly be a fabulous evening - I've seen these two talk, and if you ain't laughing, you're probably not paying attention (and it might be Monday morning at the airport). As Emily Raine at Cult MTL puts it in their interview, " Lisa Hanawalt is the shit."And as for Michael Kupperman, well, having taken one plane ride with him and read any number of his comics, I promise you that, he too is the shit.
So please: shake yourself off, ignore the semi-return of winter, and come out tonight, Monday May 13 at 7 pm at the Librairie D+Q (211 Bernard O.) What better cause than to listen to some funny people be funny for you? There will be presentations from Lisa Hanawalt and Michael Kupperman about their work, a Q&A, and a book signing session.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
 Advance copies of the new volume of Anouk Ricard's Anna & Froga are here and I am telling you people that it is hilarious!! Is it as funny as My Dirty Dumb Eyes? Is it as funny as You're all just Jealous of my Jetpack? Is it as funny as Letting it Go? Is it as funny as Animals with Sharpies? Is it as funny as the new notes for The Playboy? Why you always got to be comparing? They're all funny in different ways.
 When I think about it maybe the notes for The Playboy aren't that funny. But look at this awesome book!!!!
 I've been trying to pay a lot of attention to my nails these days. Extra care. I think a lot of people look at them first so I'm trying to make a good impression. Also, dare I say that this volume is even funnier than the first? I dare not (who can pick a favorite?) but it is very funny!!
Debuting this September in Brooklyn. Story at the Comics Reporter.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
This weekend is TCAF, which means the entire D+Q office is packing up and coming to Toronto, and we're bringing a whole lot of authors with us!
We'll have debut books by TCAF Special Guests Lisa Hanawalt, Gilbert Hernandez, Rutu Modan, and Art Spiegelman, as well as brand new paperback editions of Chester Brown's autobio works The Playboy and Paying For It.
Plus, Canadian darlings Marc Bell and Seth will be signing their books at the D+Q table both days.
Lastly, we are bringing a limited quantity of hot-off-the-presses books by Guy Delisle (A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting), Tom Gauld (You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack), and John Stanley (Nancy Volume 4).
And finally, what I know you've all been waiting for...
D+Q'S TCAF EVENTS, SIGNINGS, AND PANELS
A few notes: panels are in a variety of locations, including the Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel (90 Bloor St. E.), the Pilot Tavern (22 Cumberland St.), and the Reference Library's conference rooms (789 Yonge St.) Consult the TCAF site for more information about any of the below panels.
Also! A few signings (Gilbert Hernandez and Art Spiegelman's) are taking place NOT at the Drawn & Quarterly tables. These signings are marked with double asterisks (**)
FRIDAY MAY 10
TCAF Tenth Anniversary Kick-off Event Featuring Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
Friday May 10, 2013 | Doors: 7 pm | Talk: 7:30 pm
The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St.
RESERVE FREE TICKETS HERE
Come kick off the Tenth Anniversary of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival with us on the evening of Friday, May 10th! TCAF will welcome to the stage alt-comix legends Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, as they engage in a lively career-spanning conversation with The Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon! Both artists will also sign autographs and meet with fans at the event. Selections from their complete comics library will be available for sale at the event.
SATURDAY MAY 11, 9 AM TO 5 PM
10–11 am Gilbert Hernandez signing
10–12 pm Rutu Modan signing
12–4 pm Chester Brown signing
12–1 pm Lisa Hanawalt signing
12:15–1:15 pm Gilbert Hernandez's
Marble Season Spotlight Panel (Marriott Forest Hill Ballroom)
12:30–1:15 pm TOON Books Storytime Celebration with Art Spiegelman, Rutu Modan,
and Francoise Mouly. (Novella Room, Library)
1:30–2:30 pm Gilbert Hernandez
signing (B1 Signing Area, Library basement)**
1:30–2:30 pm Art Spiegelman
signing (B1 Signing Area, Library basement)**
1–2 pm Seth signing
2–3 pm Lisa Hanawalt signing
3–4 pm Marc Bell signing
4–5 pm Comics & Politics panel with Rutu
Modan, Sarah Glidden,
Matt Bors, and Josh Neufeld. Moderated by Nicole Marie Burton. (Marriott Forest
Hill Ballroom)
SUNDAY
MAY 12, 11 AM TO 5 PM
11–12 pm Art Spiegelman Spotlight panel,
moderated by Seth (Marriott
Forest Hill Ballroom)
11–12 pm Gilbert Hernandez and Rutu Modan signing
12:15–1:15 pm Art Spiegelman
signing (Marriott Hotel)**
12:15–1:15 pm Seth signing
12:15–1:15 pm Queer Comics panel with Gilbert
Hernandez, Justin Hall, Erika Moen, Jaime Hernandez, Chip Kidd, and
moderator Zan Christiensen. (Pilot Tavern, 22 Cumberland St.)
12:15–1:15 pm TCAF's Debut Books panel with Rutu Modan, Michael
DeForge, CF, Jess Fink, Matt Kindt, and Patrick McEown. (Marriott Forest
Hill Ballroom)
12:15–1:15 pm What’s Funny in the Funnies? Comics & Humour panel with Lisa Hanawalt, Ivan Brunetti, Michael
Kupperman, Bill Amend, and Danielle Corsetto. (Marriott High Park Ballroom)
1–4 pm Chester Brown signing
1:30–2:30 pm Lisa Hanawalt
Spotlight panel, hosted by Kate Beaton (Learning Center 1, Library)
1:30–2:30 pm Judge a Book by its Cover: Designing Comics panel with Tom Devlin, Chip Kidd, Matt Kindt, and Fawn Lau. Moderated by John Green. (Marriott High Park Ballroom)
2–3 pm Marc Bell signing
3:30–5 pm Lisa Hanawalt signing
4–5 pm Gilbert Hernandez signing
(B1 Signing Area, Library basement)**
And, since we're kicking it TCAF-style all the way through the end of the show:
SUNDAY MAY 12, 5 PM TO 8 PM
Rutu Modan’s The Property: Special Presentation
Sunday, May 12, 2013 | 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, 750 Spadina Ave
NO TICKETS REQUIRED, FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED
Rutu Modan is one of the most exciting cartoonists of our generation, which makes this special presentation of The Property something that you should definitely not miss. The Property, Modan’s second major graphic work (and a TCAF debut), is a triumph of storytelling and fine lines. After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren’t a little different than her grandmother led her to believe. Presented in partnership with the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre and the Israeli Consulate.
Now you have all the tools you need for a magically D+Q weekend, so please! Join us for the tenth anniversary of our beloved festival! It all takes place this weekend, Saturday (May 11, 9 to 5) and Sunday (May 12, 11 to 5) at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St, just north of Bloor). TCAF is one of the year's/world's/and definitely Canada's best comics festivals! TCAF! TCAF!
A scant few weekends ago, when Canada was still very tentatively emerging from hibernation, the delightful Miriam Katin came to our Northern shores for two events - one in Ottawa at the Writers Fest and one in Montreal as part of Blue Met Bleu Literary Festival. She was greeted (as she well deserved) with crowds in both cities!
In Montreal, she gave a stirring, joyful, and often belly-laugh-inducing talk about her life as a cartoonist, also reading from her new book Letting It Go. D+Q's Chris Oliveros hosted a Q&A after the talk, which ranged in topic from her use of coloured pencil to being-the-eldest-on-the-payroll-at-MTV to how she got involved with D+Q. It was a standing-room-only crowd, and they loved it!
After the signing, we all went out to feast on our successes...
It was such a treat to meet Geoff (Miriam's husband, co-star in Letting It Go, and photographer at all her talks!), who took this opportunity to visit too! From L-R: Julia, Miriam, Tracy, Marina, Chris, Geoff, and new office staffer Jade.
We talked a little politics, a lot of gossip (I'll never tell!), and, most importantly, about the American Ambassador's Tea that Miriam and Geoff attended while in Ottawa. When we found out Miriam had been invited to the Ambassador's Residence, we insisted that she make a report for us of all her findings, and she very graciously acquiesced. So with no further ado...
A Cartoonist visits the Embassy of the United States, and reports in diary-form:
That's all she wrote, folks! And thanks again Miriam, for the report, for the visit, and for all the great stories.
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
I love Chris Ware's Mothers Day cover for the New Yorker, but I think I love his essay on Mothers and same sex marriage more.
The one and only Daniel Clowes will be in Chicago on June 29th, in conversation with Susan Miller who is the curator of Modern Cartoonist: The Art Of Daniel Clowes. Yes, lucky Chicagoans will be able to escape the heat this summer by checking out Dan's original art in the amazing show, which will be at the MCA.
Monday, May 06, 2013
Hey! Have you seen the Slate Book Review this month? Drawings by Lisa Hanawalt. The esteemed Mr. Kois reviews the book and states:
"It is exactly as weird, obscene, hilarious and gross as you might expect. It is awash in penises, butts, poop, and pudenda...absurdly smart and sharp."–Dan Kois, Slate.
Have you seen this Vice review? Have you seen this AV Club review?
Wanna laugh in Lisa's face? Then check her out this weekend in Toronto, Monday in Montreal or Monday May 20th in Brooklyn. Or check out her whole tour including the West Coast here.
"In this semi-autobiographical tale, Mr. Hernandez captures the wonder of childhood – the joy of imagination, an appreciation for comics books and all the ultimately petty but seemingly world shattering trials and tribulations of friendships during that time in one's life...reminded me of Sunday newspaper comic strips which I devoured in my youth."
Friday, May 03, 2013
Go to your "LCS" and get our Free Comic Book Day issues of Marble Season, Pippi Longstocking and Anna & Froga. Yup, D+Q bringing you the BEST FREE COMIC DAY COMICS YEAR AFTER YEAR. Yes, I am boasting because it's true. Check out you local comic store and see for yourself. And if your LCS doesn't have our comics, get a new LCS.
Monday, April 29, 2013
(Sorry...)
Well looky here: yet more proof that those of us not in London missed out on a great night at Gosh! Comics last week. Photos courtesy of Gosh.
Tom's window display:
Signings-in-progress:
While we're on the topic of cool and awesome things, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack hits STORES in North America tomorrow! To celebrate, there will be a single strip from the book on the Paris Review website every day this week! Why not cheggitout?
And for those of you in or near Bristol, you get a chance to redeem yourself for missing the Gosh! event: Tom Gauld will be at the Here Shop & Gallery (108 B Stokes Croft) in Bristol this Sunday, May 5th, from 2 to 4 pm!
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Mr. Woodrow Phoenix sends along this photo of Tom signing his new book, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack yesterday at Gosh! Comics in London. Thanks, Woodrow!!
Tom Gauld's taking this show on the road. He's in Edinburgh tonight doing a talk and signing for the very fine people of Analogue Books. 39 Candlemaker Row, event starts at 7 pm! Get there post-haste!
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Okay, you know the drill by now, so I'm just going to let the LA Weekly's David Cotner handle this one:
"Oxnard-born cartoonist Gilbert "Beto" Hernandez has for more than 30 years taken his experiences from life and punk rock and distilled them into an ever-evolving universe that readers ignore at their peril... The co-creator of the nigh-unto-perennial Love & Rockets comic book tonight presents his memoir, Marble Season (Drawn and Quarterly) -- and, as a special bonus, will present the slideshow "From Funnybooks to Graphic Novels," which shines a light on the childhood comic books that fueled his growing confidence and vision. The main character Huey, based on the artist, is the middle child in an extended family making its way in the SoCal suburbs of the '60s. Illustrator Howard Chaykin once observed, "What's the Golden Age of comics? Twelve!" -- and Hernandez is no stranger to the truth of this particular quip, his adolescence shot through with an unfolding imagination that moves readers the world over, far from the strawberry fields of beautiful downtown Oxnard."
In case you couldn't tell, it's a Critics' Pick! 7:30 pm tonight, Wednesday April 24th at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Look, it's not often we get to have three authors on tour in three different countries during the SAME WEEK. Why don't we bask in it a little bit?
While Gilbert's talking comics in America this week ( Wednesday in LA, Friday in Fort Worth, people!), Tom Gauld and Miriam Katin will be doing the same in the UK & Canada, respectively. Oh, to be in three places at once!
Tomorrow night in London, England, join Tom and the wonderful people of Gosh! Comics for the Official Jetpack Launch Party. People of London, this is a great chance to get your book signed, snag a sweet bookplate edition of You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, and drink beer with our very nicest British cartoonist. Don't miss it! 7:30 to 9 pm on Wednesday April 24 at Gosh Comics, 1 Berwick St in London.
And the following day, Thursday April 25 at 7 pm, you'll find Tom in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he'll be giving a talk and signing at Analogue Books, 39 Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh.
Finally, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack was featured in this weekend's Times, where Tom Gatti says: "Each single-page piece is a clever, funny, slightly bonkers riff on a literary theme... Gauld's graphic novel Goliath, published last year, was a sublime Beckettian take on the Bible. With Jetpack, he mops up everything else."
Miriam Katin, on the other hand, will be hitting the Canadian book festival circuit. On Friday April 26, find her at the Ottawa Writers Festival. Mark Medley of the National Post will be moderating a panel called "Writing Your Life" with Miriam Katin, Amber Dawn, and Iain Reid. Friday at 6:30 pm at the Knox Presbyterian Church (120 Lisgar St), tickets $15 in advance and $17 at the door.
On Sunday April 28 at 1 pm in Hotel 10 (10 Sherbrooke O.), Miriam will be giving her slideshow presentation at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. D+Q's Chris Oliveros is going to be there to introduce and help out with the Q&A session. Admission is free, so we hope to see all a few familiar faces in the audience.
P.S. Did we mention? Our pals at Cult Mtl and the Montreal Gazette have both included Miriam's talk as a 'highlight' of the fest!
All right... You know what to do, citizens of London, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Ottawa, and Montreal! Happy international D+Q event week!
Attention Comics fans of Western Massachusetts! Adrian Tomine will be speaking today at 4:30 pm at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Mass! John Seven of the North Adams Transcript caught up with Adrian. No slight to the Berkshires, but how often does this happen? People, get over there!
Well, Julien beat me to it but we had a great visit by Gilbert Hernandez here in Montreal last week. Here he is at our store giving a presentation on his favourite comics from when he was a kid. This is a Jack Kirby spread of female superheroes and Gilbert pointed out that Kirby was such a great designer and his imagination was so fertile that he could draw a spread like this and you wanted to read a comic about every single character in that double page spread. That ability to remember how he felt as a kid is just one of the talents that Gilbert brings to his new D+Q book Marble Season.
Right after I dropped Gilbert off at the airport, I picked up Julio's Day and I have to say that Gilbert is clearly at the top of his game. Two books, so different, so brilliant, released a week apart. WHO DOES THAT?!?! When has that ever happened? This man is thirty one years into his career and he just released the two of the most complete serious graphic novels of his career. Phenomenal!!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Well, a photo like this doesnt happen every day! L-R: R. Sikoryak, Peter Kuper, Al Jaffee, Miriam Katin, Bob Fingerman and Dean Haspiel, altogether at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art on the panel BLAME IT ON NEW YORK. Read this charming Wall Street Journal write-up of the panel by Bruce Bennett and Miriam's reaction to moving to NYC.
Also! Event Alert! Miriam Katin is in Canada this weekend! On Friday, she will be in Ottawa at the Ottawa Writers Festival. And on Sunday, she will be here in Montreal at Blue Metropolis. Yes! Two D+Q authors in two weeks in Montreal, Spring is here people!
Friday, April 19, 2013
Sunday night in the great city of Portland, OR, Gilbert Hernandez launches Marble Season. From the Portland Mercury: "Hernandez's all-ages characters are curious, thoughtfully nuanced, and full of the vivid expressions and body language of his adult worlds, as if the Riverdale of Archie Comics suddenly acquired a previously unknown depth. Or Little Archie & Co. came face to face with the fact that it's super frustrating to be a kid.. . Hernandez revels in the simple pleasures of a neighborhood where little girls swallow marbles, war games prevail, and comic books are king. "
Gilbert will be giving his epic, fun, slideshow tribute to the comics of his childhood, and then there'll be a Q&A and a signing. Sunday April 21st, 7:30 pm, Powell's City of Books at 1005 W. Burnside.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
As soon as Gilbert sent us his list of images for his MARBLE SEASON tour slide show, it took EVERYTHING in us to not immediately blog or tweet to tease all the great comics. And since Gilbert is half way done with his tour, and I got to see him do the slide show last night, I'll tease you this Little Archie page. Why? Because Gilbert made the astute point that "old ladies were running it in those days, and where are the old ladies now [in pop culture]?" And he remarked, can you imagine a kids comics with two old ladies on the same page? As someone who will admit to worrying about how comics will treat her when she is an old lady, I loved it. Also: HAVE NO FEAR FANBOYS! Us D+Q ladies will still be running this *H&T in 30 years!
The Beat also loved the show!
I believe we have posted the fromyourdesks write-up of Adrian's drawing table. Well, I am doing it again because it was picked up by Buzzfeed as part of a 40 Inspiring Workplaces. Let's just say that Adrian is a lot tidier than Martin Amis but not as tidy as Virginia Woolf.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
In two weeks, we have the new book from Tom Gauld releasing in North America, YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK while in Tom's native UK, the book is in stores, and his tour starts next week, with a launch at the fantabulous bookstore Gosh on Wednesday April 24th; an event the following day in Edinburgh at Analogue Books on Thursday the 25th and a Bristol event at HERE on May 5th. Here's what people are saying!
"The dark humour of Tom Gauld...pokes fun at literature...not to mention futurism, religion, modern art and human hubris and frivolity."– Mother Jones
"The ironic takes on key moments in in history and literature and will certainly elicit a few laughs."–Vogue UK (print edition)
"YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK bristles with Tom's acerbic wit, casting his critical gaze on everything from abattoirs to British literary guests...they're seriously funny."– It's Nice That
"Describing Gauld's little figures can't possibly do them justice. He has a way of taking the rudiments of geometry and making characters that are hilariously recognizable."– AV Club
On May 14th, after her TCAF appearances, Rutu Modan's THE PROPERTY will be in stores. Rutu will have a full slate of appearances at TCAF, but note that her official solo spotlight will be Sunday night at 5 PM at the Miles Nadal JCC right down the street from the TPL. Check it, Toronto is so excited the Globe & Mail has already reviewed the book!
"A stunning book...Modan's drawings are precise and evocative. The Warsaw she imagines...feels alive on the page."– Globe & Mail
"Modan has proven to be one of the most accessible of graphic novelists, with a cinematic presentation and the ability to capture the complexity of larger human experience within smaller family dramas."– Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Modan's dialogue is smart and nuanced to match a drawing...[a] gratifying work of comics realism."–Booklist
And lastly, check out this wonderfully in-depth thoughtful review by everyone's favorite librarian and writer, Francisca Goldsmith:
"A tightly crafted, accessible family story in which history and the present inform each other."– School Library Journal, Starred Review
And on May 30th, Lisa Hanawalt's MY DIRTY DUMB EYES is in stores but lucky urbanites in Toronto, Montreal and NYC can get advance copies at TCAF May 11th & 12th, her event at Librairie D+Q on May 13th and her powerHouse Launch on May 20th. She is also going on a national tour after the release, including an event with Kristen Schaal and Dan Savage...say what? that's right! So back, to press, can we start with the best pull-quote ever?
"Imagine a grown-up Richard Scarry turned absurdist social commentator."– Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"The subject matter in MY DIRTY DUMB EYES ranges from the bizarre to the commonplace, and Lisa's art can be jaw-droppingly beautiful and purposely hideous...But what matters most is that she is very very funny."– AV Club
"[Hanawalt's drawings are] bright, bizarre and often crammed with textile-clad animals partaking in anthropomorphic activies. They're also, of course, very well drawn and designed."– It's Nice That
I don't want to get too geeky publicist on you all, but gotta love the well-deserved advance praise!!!!
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