Random House New Releases - Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3 by Russ Kick

2013-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3
Written by Russ Kick

Boxed Set, 1600 pages | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary; Fiction - Classics | $125.00 | 978-1-60980-383-4 (1-60980-383-3)

"These works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia; they flourish in the eye of our imagination...will leave you awe-struck."
—New York Times Book Review

"It's easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory, and certainly the one that's most relevant for today's readers"
—NPR, Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best

The classic canon of Western civilization meets the artists and illustrators who have remade reading in the last years of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3.

This special slipcase edition includes all three volumes of the series in an attractively designed slipcase, as well as the three promotional posters created for each volume's release, allowing graphic novel collectors and fans to quickly add this seminal work to their library.

The Minimum Security Chronicles by Stephanie McMillan

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide
Written by Stephanie McMillan

eBook, 160 pages | Seven Stories Press | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels | $16.95 | 978-1-60980-512-8 (1-60980-512-7)

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3 by Russ Kick

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3 From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
Written by Russ Kick

Trade Paperback, 576 pages | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary; Fiction - Classics | $44.95 | 978-1-60980-380-3 (1-60980-380-9)

Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"

"These works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia; they flourish in the eye of our imagination...will leave you awe-struck."
—New York Times Book Review

"It's easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory, and certainly the one that's most relevant for today's readers"
—NPR, Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best

“Verdict: Russ Kick brings it on home – to the home library – with style.”
—The Austin Chronicle

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3.

Volume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, a disturbing meditation on Naked Lunch, Rilke's soul-stirring Letters to a Young Poet, Anaïs Nin's diaries, the visions of Black Elk, the heroin classic The Man With the Golden Arm (published four years before William Burroughs' Junky), and the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Raymond Carver, and Donald Barthelme.

The towering works of modernism are here--T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land," Yeats's "The Second Coming" done as a magazine spread, Heart of Darkness, stories from Kafka, The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, and his short story "Araby" from Dubliners, rare early work from Faulkner and Hemingway (by artists who have drawn for Marvel), and poems by Gertrude Stein and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

You'll also find original comic versions of short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Flannery O'Connor, and Saki (manga style), plus adaptations of Lolita (and everyone said it couldn't be done!), The Age of Innocence, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Last Exit to Brooklyn, J.G. Ballard's Crash, and photo-dioramas for Animal Farm and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Feast your eyes on new full-page illustrations for 1984, Brave New World, Waiting for Godot, One Hundred Years of Solitude,The Bell Jar, On the Road, Lord of the Flies, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and three Borges stories.

Robert Crumb's rarely seen adaptation of Nausea captures Sartre's existential dread. Dame Darcy illustrates Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood Meridian, universally considered one of the most brutal novels ever written and long regarded as unfilmable by Hollywood. Tara Seibel, the only female artist involved with the Harvey Pekar Project, turns in an exquisite series of illustrations for The Great Gatsby. And then there's the moment we've been waiting for: the first graphic adaptation from Kurt Vonnegut's masterwork, Slaughterhouse-Five. Among many other gems.

Hand-Drying in America by Ben Katchor

2013-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

Hand-Drying in America And Other Stories
Written by Ben Katchor

Hardcover, 160 pages | Pantheon | Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary; Humor - Cartoons; Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $29.95 | 978-0-307-90690-8 (0-307-90690-6)

WITH BEAUTIFUL FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT

From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban planning, product design, and architecture—a surrealist handbook for the rebuilding of society in the twenty-first century.

Ben Katchor, a master at twisting mundane commodities into surreal objects of social significance, now takes on the many ways our property influences and reflects cultural values. Here are window-ledge pillows designed expressly for people-watching and a forest of artificial trees for sufferers of hay fever. The Brotherhood of Immaculate Consumption deals with the matter of products that outlive their owners; a school of dance is based upon the choreographic motion of paying with cash; high-visibility construction vests are marketed to lonely people as a method of getting noticed. With cutting wit Katchor reveals a world similar to our own—lives are defined by possessions, consumerism is a kind of spirituality—but also slightly, fabulously askew. Frequently and brilliantly bizarre, and always mesmerizing, Hand-Drying in America ensures that you will never look at a building, a bar of soap, or an ATM the same way.

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 by Russ Kick

2012-10-02T00:30:00-05:00

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Written by Russ Kick

Trade Paperback, 512 pages | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary; Fiction - Classics | $39.95 | 978-1-60980-378-0 (1-60980-378-7)

The Graphic Canon, Volume 2 gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists—including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly—present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s visions. The great American novel Huckleberry Finn is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism—Shelley, Keats, and Byron—are visualized here, and so are the Brontë sisters. We see both of Coleridge’s most famous poems: “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are ably represented by ink versions of Nietzsche’sThus Spake Zarathustra and Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

Frankenstein, Moby-Dick, Les Misérables, Great Expectations, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment (a hallucinatory take on the pivotal murder scene), Thoreau’s Walden (in spare line art by John Porcellino of King-Cat Comics fame), “The Drunken Boat” by Rimbaud, Leaves of Grass by Whitman, and two of Emily Dickinson’s greatest poems are all present and accounted for. John Coulthart has created ten magnificent full-page collages that tell the story of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. And Pride and Prejudice has never looked this splendiferous!

This volume is a special treat for Lewis Carroll fans. Dame Darcy puts her unmistakable stamp on—what else?—the Alice books in a new 16-page tour-de-force, while a dozen other artists present their versions of the most famous characters and moments from Wonderland. There’s also a gorgeous silhouetted telling of “Jabberwocky,” and Mahendra’s Singh’s surrealistic take on “The Hunting of the Snark.”

Curveballs in this volume include fairy tales illustrated by the untameable S. Clay Wilson, a fiery speech from freed slave Frederick Douglass (rendered in stark black and white by Seth Tobocman), a letter on reincarnation from Flaubert, the Victorian erotic classic Venus in Furs, the drug classic The Hasheesh Eater, and silk-screened illustrations for the ghastly children’s classic Der Struwwelpeter. Among many other canonical works.

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 by Russ Kick

2012-05-22T00:30:00-05:00

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons
Written by Russ Kick

Trade Paperback, 512 pages | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary; Fiction - Classics | $39.95 | 978-1-60980-376-6 (1-60980-376-0)

THE GRAPHIC CANON (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.

Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), The Aeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery.

Religious literature is well-covered and well-illustrated, with the Books of Daniel and Esther from the Old Testament, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation from the New Testament, the Tao te Ching, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s Mahabharata, and the Mayan holy book Popol Vuh, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with The Tale of Genji (the world’s first novel, done in full-page illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley), three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by pioneering underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia.

Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s Symposium, Gulliver’s Travels, Candide, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and Don Quixote visualized by the legendary Will Eisner.

Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic Dangerous Liaisons, as illustrated by Molly
Crabapple.

Edited by Russ Kick, The Graphic Canon is an extraordinary collection that will continue with Volume 2: "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray in Summer 2012, and Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest in Fall 2012. A boxed set of all three volumes will also be published in Fall 2012.

Golden Age Western Comics by Christopher Irving

2012-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

Golden Age Western Comics
Edited by Steven Brower
Introduction by Christopher Irving

Hardcover, 144 pages | powerHouse Books | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $24.95 | 978-1-57687-594-0 (1-57687-594-6)

The Wild West has been romanticized in American culture ever since the dime novels capturing the exploits of Jesse James were produced in the years directly following the Civil War, and the Western genre continues to enthrall audiences to this day. The stories of frontiersmen, outlaws, cowboys, Indians, prospectors, and marksmen surviving the harshest of environments through wit, skill, and determination, or meeting their end by bullet, noose, or exposure speak to what it means to be American and play an essential part in how we define ourselves as a nation. These mythic stories have been captured and created in almost every popular mass medium of the past century and beyond from tabloids to novels, radio plays, television shows, and movies.

Now, powerHouse Books is pleased to present a collection of these uniquely American stories as told through a uniquely American medium…the comic book! Golden Age Western Comics lovingly reproduces in full-color, restored, complete scans of 20 of the best Western stories—plus a few pin-ups—created between the years 1948 and 1956. These lavishly illustrated stories of guts and glory, violence and valor, intrigue, romance, and betrayal, on the range and in lawless frontier towns, were created by some of the best artists and writers of the era. The action flies off the page in stories such as “The Tragedy at Massacre Pass,” and “Breakout in rondo Prison,” from the greatest earliest publishing houses, including: Fawcett, Charlton, Avon, Youthful, and more.Golden Age Western Comics is a collection unlike any other and is sure to delight fans of rootin-tootin, gun-toting, adventure of all ages!

Featuring Western Legends of Life, Literature, and Filmdom such as:
• Wild Bill Hickok
• Jesse James
• Annie Oakley
• Davy Crockett
• Daniel “Dan’l” Boone
• Tex Ritter
• Lash Larue
• Gabby Hayes
• Tom Mix
And Many More!

Be Good, Little Puppy by Mike Krahulik

2011-06-28T00:30:00-05:00

Be Good, Little Puppy A Penny Arcade Book
Written by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik

Trade Paperback, 144 pages | Del Rey | Comics & Graphic Novels; Humor; Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $15.00 | 978-0-345-51228-4 (0-345-51228-6)

“WHO DARES DISTURB THE CRYPT OF THE IMMORTAL SPACE BITCHES?”

The answer may very well be here—along with blatant abuse of Nerf weapons, highly questionable pizza toppings, murderous exploding penguins, shopping-mall zombie mayhem, the ponderous ponderings of Twisp and Catsby, and the libidinous juice machine that shall remain nameless (at least on the book cover)—in the seventh Penny Arcade collection.

Inside you’ll find
• Every full-color Penny Arcade strip from 2006—along with all-new, supposedly insightful commentary from the genial creators!
• Sixteen pages of brand-spanking-new bonus material that’s not to be missed!
• The Sorcelator!
• And more, from the New York Times bestselling alteregos of those gaming-obsessed, pop-culture hellions Gabe and Tycho!

Flight Volume Eight by Kazu Kibuishi

2011-06-28T00:30:00-05:00

Flight Volume Eight
Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Villard | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels; Art - Cartooning | $27.00 | 978-0-345-51738-8 (0-345-51738-5)

STORIES BY
JP Ahonen
Matthew Armstrong
Bannister
Jason Caffoe
Scott Campbell
Tony Cliff
Cory Godbey
Grimaldi
Der-shing Helmer
Kostas Kiriakakis
Nicholas Kole
Sonny Liew
Leland Myrick
Jake Parker
Katie Shanahan
Steven Shanahan
Kean Soo
Kyla Vanderklugt
Dermot Walshe

Sutton Impact by Ward Sutton

2011-01-04T00:30:00-05:00

Sutton Impact
Written by Ward Sutton

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Humor - Political; Humor - Cartoons | $18.95 | 978-1-60980-310-0 (1-60980-310-8)

A full-color trouncing of the Bush Dynasty from cult-favorite Village Voice cartoonist Ward Sutton, Sutton Impact brings together for the first time the artist’s hilarious, irreverent social commentary and his vivid poster art. More than two hundred pieces document the flights and folly of an era, from politics to popular music, excoriating the USA PATRIOT Act, John Ashcroft’s evangelical songwriting, the Democrats’ domestic blunders, and much more.

Spy vs Spy Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity! by John Ficarra

2009-08-11T00:30:00-05:00

Spy vs Spy Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity!
Written by Antonio Prohias
Foreword by John Ficarra

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $11.99 | 978-0-8230-5052-9 (0-8230-5052-1)

Don't Go Stir Crazy!
Break Out of the Doldrums!

Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity! locks up a collection of crazy clashes between those two bumbling MAD Spies!

"Spy vs. Spy" was the brainchild of Cuban-born political cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who fled his country after receiving death threats from Fidel Castro. Prohias settled in America, and in 1960 he began a 26-year run of Spy misadventures in MAD Magazine. This book by Prohias, long out of print, showcases his genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer.

Spy vs Spy Masters of Mayhem by John Ficarra

2009-08-11T00:30:00-05:00

Spy vs Spy Masters of Mayhem
Written by Antonio Prohias
Foreword by John Ficarra

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $11.99 | 978-0-8230-5051-2 (0-8230-5051-3)

Looking for "Cloak and Dagger" stuff?
Try the C.I.A.!
This is strictly "joke and gagger" stuff!

So if you’re looking for laughs, try these
adventures of those two agents of absurdity

"Spy vs. Spy" was the brainchild of Cuban-born political cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who fled his country after receiving death threats from Fidel Castro. Prohias settled in America, and in 1960 he began a 26-year run of Spy misadventures in MAD Magazine. This book by Prohias, long out of print, showcases his genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer.

Spy vs Spy Missions of Madness by John Ficarra

2009-08-11T00:30:00-05:00

Spy vs Spy Missions of Madness
Written by Antonio Prohias
Foreword by John Ficarra

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $11.99 | 978-0-8230-5050-5 (0-8230-5050-5)

Join us as we take you behind closed doors. . .
and expose the idiotic antics of the agent in black and the agent in white!

"Spy vs. Spy" was the brainchild of Cuban-born political cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who fled his country after receiving death threats from Fidel Castro. Prohias settled in America, and in 1960 he began a 26-year run of Spy misadventures in MAD Magazine. This book by Prohias, long out of print, showcases his genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer.

Syncopated by Brendan Burford

2009-05-19T00:30:00-05:00

Syncopated An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
Edited by Brendan Burford

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Villard | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels | $16.95 | 978-0-345-50529-3 (0-345-50529-8)

The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.

Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island. It will immerse you in fascinating subcultures, from the secret world of graffiti artists to the chess champs of Greenwich Village. And it will open your eyes to pieces of forgotten history–for example, the Tulsa race riots of 1921–and to new perspectives on critical current events, such as the interrogation of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. These “picto-essays” encompass memoir, history, journalism, and biography in varied visual styles–each handpicked by Brendan Burford, one of America’s top editors.

Postcards by Jason Rodriguez

2009-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Postcards True Stories That Never Happened
Edited by Jason Rodriguez

eBook, 160 pages | Villard | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $12.99 | 978-0-307-49733-8 (0-307-49733-X)

“The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.”
–Frank Warren, author of PostSecret

You’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a snapshot of someone’s life once upon a time. Jason Rodriguez, acclaimed editor of Elk’s Run, collected a remarkable array of these correspondences, dispersed them among thirty-three of comics’ greatest creators, and asked each to craft a story about the person who sent it. The result is a vividly imagined, gorgeously rendered graphic anthology illustrating tales of romance, adventure, hardship, and mystery. In Postcards, these gifted artists share some of the richest and most inventive work of their careers.

From the Hardcover edition.

I Saw You by Julia Wertz

2009-02-03T00:30:00-05:00

I Saw You Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections
Edited by Julia Wertz

eBook | Crown Archetype | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Social Science - Popular Culture | $11.99 | 978-0-307-45261-0 (0-307-45261-1)

This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country will tug at your heartstrings and make you think. Lonely hearts, romantics, and even cynics pore over missed connection ads in search of love, to gawk and giggle, or out of curiosity. These posted stranger sightings and chance encounters lay bare the truths and oddities of real-life loneliness and attractions and bring out the voyeur in the best of us. I Saw You takes this phenomenon and makes it even better.

Julia Wertz has gathered the stars and soon-to-be-stars of the graphic art world, including Peter Bagge, Jesse Reklaw, Tom Hart, Sam Henderson, Laura Park, Emily Flake, Keith Knight, Janelle Hessig, Gabrielle Bell, Aaron Renier, Austin English, Corinne Mucha, Jeffrey Brown, Alec Longstreth, Minty Lewis, Joey Sayers, David Malki, Kazimir Strzepek, Ken Dahl, Shannon Wheeler, Shaenon Garrity, Rodd Perry, Abby Denson, Damien Jay, Sarah Glidden, and dozens more, to interpret these plaintive, hopeful postings in drawings that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disarmingly strange.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Flight Volume Three by Kazu Kibuishi

2006-06-27T00:30:00-05:00

Flight Volume Three
Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Trade Paperback, 352 pages | Ballantine Books | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels; Art - Cartooning | $24.95 | 978-0-345-49039-1 (0-345-49039-8)

STORIES BY TODAY’S HOTTEST ANIMATORS

Chris Appelhans• Matthew Armstrong • Neil Babra • Bannister • Chuck BB • Catia Chien • Tony Cliff • Becky Cloonan • Phil Craven • Matthew Forsythe • Alex Fuentes • Michel Gagne • Rodolphe Guenoden • Steve Hamaker • Paul Harmon • Ben Hatke • Azad Injejikian• Kazu Kibuishi • Khang Le • Reagan Lodge • Johane Matte • Bill Plympton • Dave Roman • Israel Sanchez • Rad Sechrist • Kean Soo • Yoko Tanaka • Joey Weiser

“Regardless of where it’s shelved, this book belongs in every library.”
–Library Journal, on Flight, Volume One

“The sheer force of creative energy on display is impressive.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Flight, Volume Two

Sutton Impact by Ward Sutton

2005-06-07T00:30:00-05:00

Sutton Impact
Written by Ward Sutton

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | Seven Stories Press | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Humor - Political; Humor - Cartoons | $18.95 | 978-1-58322-677-3 (1-58322-677-X)

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor

2003-08-12T00:30:00-05:00

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District
Written by Ben Katchor

Trade Paperback, 120 pages | Pantheon | Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Fiction - Literary | $16.95 | 978-0-375-70098-9 (0-375-70098-6)

Join Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, on a leisurely stroll past The Institute for Soup-Nut Research and The Municipal Birthmark Registry. Savor the smell of a phone booth, circa 1961. Sign up for a guided tour of the oldest continually vacant storefront in America. Attend a championship grave-digging competition, or, should you feel you've wasted yet another day, you can check in for help at a local Misspent Youth Center.

In "The Beauty Supply District," a new twenty-four-page story, Knipl attends an evening concert and unwittingly enters the world of wholesale empathizers and chiaroscuro brokers who make the decisions critical to the production of aesthetic pleasure in all its forms -- from the shape of an olive jar to the score of a string quartet.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Maurice Sendak

1995-10-03T00:30:00-05:00

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
Written by Audrey Geisel
Introduction by Maurice Sendak

Hardcover, 96 pages | Random House | Art; Comics & Graphic Novels; Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies | $35.00 | 978-0-679-43448-1 (0-679-43448-8)

These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his books for children, and exhibit a sophisticated and often quite unrestrained side of the artist. 65 color illustrations.

Random House New Releases - Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3 by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3 Written by Russ Kick

The Minimum Security Chronicles by Stephanie McMillan

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to EcocideWritten by Stephanie McMillan

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3 by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3 From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite JestWritten by Russ Kick

Hand-Drying in America by Ben Katchor

Hand-Drying in America And Other StoriesWritten by Ben Katchor

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian GrayWritten by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous LiaisonsWritten by Russ Kick

Golden Age Western Comics by Christopher Irving

Golden Age Western Comics Edited by Steven Brower Introduction by Christopher Irving

Be Good, Little Puppy by Mike Krahulik

Be Good, Little Puppy A Penny Arcade BookWritten by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik

Flight Volume Eight by Kazu Kibuishi

Flight Volume Eight Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Sutton Impact by Ward Sutton

Sutton Impact Written by Ward Sutton

Spy vs Spy Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity! by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity! Written by Antonio Prohias Foreword by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Masters of Mayhem by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Masters of Mayhem Written by Antonio Prohias Foreword by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Missions of Madness by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Missions of Madness Written by Antonio Prohias Foreword by John Ficarra

Syncopated by Brendan Burford

Syncopated An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-EssaysEdited by Brendan Burford

Postcards by Jason Rodriguez

Postcards True Stories That Never HappenedEdited by Jason Rodriguez

I Saw You by Julia Wertz

I Saw You Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed ConnectionsEdited by Julia Wertz

Flight Volume Three by Kazu Kibuishi

Flight Volume Three Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Sutton Impact by Ward Sutton

Sutton Impact Written by Ward Sutton

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District Written by Ben Katchor

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Maurice Sendak

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss Written by Audrey Geisel Introduction by Maurice Sendak

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3
Written by Russ Kick

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide
Written by Stephanie McMillan

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3 From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
Written by Russ Kick

Hand-Drying in America And Other Stories
Written by Ben Katchor

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Written by Russ Kick

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1 From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons
Written by Russ Kick

Golden Age Western Comics
Edited by Steven Brower
Introduction by Christopher Irving

Be Good, Little Puppy A Penny Arcade Book
Written by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik

Flight Volume Eight
Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Sutton Impact
Written by Ward Sutton

Spy vs Spy Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity!
Written by Antonio Prohias
Foreword by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Masters of Mayhem
Written by Antonio Prohias
Foreword by John Ficarra

Spy vs Spy Missions of Madness
Written by Antonio Prohias
Foreword by John Ficarra

Syncopated An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
Edited by Brendan Burford

Postcards True Stories That Never Happened
Edited by Jason Rodriguez

I Saw You Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections
Edited by Julia Wertz

Flight Volume Three
Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Sutton Impact
Written by Ward Sutton

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District
Written by Ben Katchor

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
Written by Audrey Geisel
Introduction by Maurice Sendak