NEWS
March 2, 2010
Pencil this event into your calendars! Dash Shaw Making The Abyss Drawings from BodyWorld, Bottomless Belly Button, animations and comic short stories March 12 - May 30, 2010 Artist Talk: Tuesday, May 25, 7pm The Museum of Comic and Cartoon is pleased to present an exhibition by Dash Shaw, featuring work from BodyWorld, Bottomless Belly Button, The Uncanny Reproduction and The Unclothed Man in the 35h Century. Dash Shaw was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated with a BFA in Cartooning/Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, in 2005….... (Read More)
February 23, 2010
PANTHEON GRAPHIC NOVELS CONTEST In celebration of the upcoming publication of Alex Ross’ ROUGH JUSTICE (Pantheon, on sale 3/30), click this link and enter to win your choice of three (3) graphic novel giveaways. Coming in March from the sensational, award-winning artist of the bestselling Mythology: his never-before-seen DC Comics sketchbook, ROUGH JUSTICE. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the stunning black-and-white drawings of the DC characters you loved from Mythology: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary, and many more. None of these hundreds of graphite sketches has ever been published before, and most of them will make their only published appearance in Rough Justice. Enter the contest and you may win your choice of one (1) of the following three (3) graphic novels: 1) Rough Justice by Alex Ross 2) BodyWorld by Dash Shaw 3) Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocello Marchetto…... (Read More)
FEATURED ARTIST
Charles Burns
Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. Hs work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the set for Mark Morris's delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM. He's illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.
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NEW RELEASES
MetaMaus
Written by Art Spiegelman
Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; History - Holocaust; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | Pantheon | Hardcover | October 2011 | 35.00 | 978-0-375-42394-9 (0-375-42394-X)
***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER***
Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals. In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five... Read More
Habibi
Written by Craig Thompson
Comics & Graphic Novels; Fiction - Religious; Fiction - Folklore | Pantheon | Hardcover | September 2011 | 35.00 | 978-0-375-42414-4 (0-375-42414-8)
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel. Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the...Read More
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