Drawn and Quarterly
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CR Review: Wilson
Comics Reporter &bull Mar 4, 2010
Creator: Daniel ClowesPublishing Information: Drawn and Quarterly, hardcover, 80 pages, April 2010, $21.95Ordering Numbers: 9781770460072 (ISBN13), 1770460071 (ISBN10)Wilson is a sharp strike right to the sweet spot of the brain where great comics are enjoyed; it's a late, great start to a 2010 that felt slightly quiet after the rush to publication by book like Footnotes In… Full Story »
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A Drifting Life
graphicnovelscomics.suite101.com via @drifto_king &bull Feb 24, 2010Yoshihiro Tatsumi's groundbreaking autobiography is an insight into the experiences of a young Japanese manga artist. Full Story »
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James Sturm Heads to the "Market"
CBR News &bull Feb 22, 2010
James Sturm's "Market Day," published by Drawn & Quarterly, follows a day in the life of Mendleman, a Jewish rug maker living in Europe in the early 1900s. Proud of his work and utterly devoted to it, Mendleman heads to the local market, full of vigor and life, eager to visit the merchant who serves as his patron of sorts. And then...something happens that alters Mendleman's world view entirely, forcing him to question not only his choice of career but determine the future for his rapidly growing family. The end result is a compelling, breathtaking comic that explores the cruel… Full Story »
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Brecht Evens Art
Meathaus Enterprises &bull Feb 19, 2010
Brecht Evens works in washes and pencils and draws clusters of people and things and XRAY cut-a-way views and UFOs with a loose, expert hand. Hint to see more art: click each of the category tags at the top of… Full Story »
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography
en.wikipedia.org via @JonMedow &bull Jan 8, 2010Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography is a highly acclaimed comic book biography of the Mtis rebel leader, Louis Riel, by Chester Brown and published by Drawn and Quarterly. Time Magazine included it in its annual Best Comix list in 2003. Full Story »
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Italian studio buys Cococino Press
THE BEAT &bull Nov 17, 2009
Variety reports that Italian Producer Domenico Procacci’s Fandango has purchased Igort’s Coconino Press. As you might guess from the name (taken from the setting of the seminal comic strip Krazy Kat) Coconino publishes literary European comics, so a film teaming… Full Story »
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The Unexpected Twists and Turns
akamamma.blogspot.com via @iCronos4 &bull Nov 14, 2009This past August, in dire need of some pure escapism, I came across the four-part AYA de Yopougon graphic novel series at the Park Avenue Renaud-Bray. I thumbed through the first volume of the brightly coloured panels of the life… Full Story »
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Review: Nancy Vol. 1
Blog@Newsarama &bull Oct 3, 2009The second release from Drawn and Quarterly's John Stanley Library collection features a much better known property than Melvin Monster?Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip heroine Nancy. As was the case with the Melvin book, Nancy Vol. 1 is a gorgeously designed… Full Story »
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SPX Fast Facts
THE BEAT &bull Sep 25, 2009
The Small Press Expo kicks off tomorrow. Official info Here’s Comicsgirl’s excellent (and much needed) dining guide. And her also excellent Survival Guide. Brian Heater has a guide to some of the new comics debuting. Also excellent, Chris Mautner’s guide… Full Story »
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drawn and quarterly
www.drawnandquarterly.com via @bouledeneige273 &bull Sep 24, 2009An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see--spirited, hopeful and resilient. Full Story »
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Drawn and Quarterly holds massive sale
Blog@Newsarama &bull Sep 24, 2009Want to get your Drawn and Quarterly fix at half cost? It’s a multiple-fraction proposal that’s sure to get your inner indie excited, as the comics publisher is holding it’s warehouse clearance sale. According to the publisher, almost all titles… Full Story »
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Drawn and Quarterly big giant SALE
THE BEAT &bull Sep 24, 2009
D&Q is having an impressive sale. How often does this happen? We’re cleaning our warehouses and we have put virtually all of our titles on sale, serious sale, like 30-50% off on sale. This is an online sale only. Online… Full Story »
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There's A Sale Going On At D
Comics Reporter &bull Sep 23, 2009
This link at Drawn and Quarterly's site indicates a 50 percent sale on-line and a 30 percent sale at their store, while the catalog link seems to offer up various books at various discounts. But it's all good, getting D&Q… Full Story »
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Drawn and Quarterly and Delisle in New York/Brooklyn Book Festival
THE BEAT &bull Aug 27, 2009
Guy Delisle, author of three fantastic graphic novels, will be making his first appearance in New York at the Brooklyn Book Festival September 13th. Drawn & Quarterly will be exhibiting for the third year in a row and they have… Full Story »
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I see you quiver with Antici
Neil Gaiman's Journal &bull Aug 7, 2009
Worldcon is underway. ( Here is an interview with me about it .) Today I went with Dave McKean to the Drawn and Quarterly shop where we saw my friend the lovely Peggy Burns. In this photo I am showing Dave one of the Bigfoot books, which I am very fond of. Then was interviewed, had lunch with Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden . Then I was interviewed by Jessica Langer and an audience. Met a bunch of people -- John Scalzi was the one I've been waiting the longest to meet in the flesh, and he was every bit… Full Story »
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Maybe This Is The Last MoCCA Round-Up
Comics Reporter &bull Jun 11, 2009
A few quick ones: * I continued to get the exhibitor thank you note forwarded to me from incredulous recipients into yesterday evening, although a couple of those folks were kind enough to suggest that maybe the initial letter wasn't… Full Story »
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CR Sunday Interview: Seth
Comics Reporter &bull Jun 7, 2009
***** I'm a great fan of the cartoonist and designer Seth, whose comics I've come to enjoy more and more over the years. He has what would be for many artists a decade's worth of projects either recently out or imminent: George Sprott, 1894-1975, a book-length expansion of his New York Times Sunday Magazine novella and a work that features some of his best cartooning to date; The Collected Doug Wright, Volume One: Canada's Master Cartoonist, which he designed and I believe edited; various volumes of the John Stanley Library for Drawn and Quarterly, featuring his design work; a short… Full Story »
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More From Book Expo America 2009
Comics Reporter &bull Jun 2, 2009
* e-publishing pioneer Glenn Hauman writes a recap of his experience at BEA over at ComicMix, reminding us that the advance reading copies of Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of The Hunter hit at this show. * one of Hauman's photos includes… Full Story »
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Sounds Like BEA Did Okay In 2009
Comics Reporter &bull Jun 1, 2009
Comics aren't central to the Book Expo America, but they are a significant category and a lot of publishers attend and use that time well. We're far past the stage -- only six, seven years ago -- when the success of comics was a strange and exciting thing for a lot of book… Full Story »
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The Bun Field
Comics Reporter &bull May 20, 2009
Creator: Amanda Vahamaki Publishing Information: Drawn and Quarterly, softcover, 96 pages, March 2009, $12.95 Ordering Numbers: 9781897299388 (ISBN13) This is less a proper review than a reminder that the English-language version of Amanda Vahamaki's Campo Di Baba published by Drawn… Full Story »
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