NEWS
February 4, 2010
In a starred Booklist review, Ray Olson says Dash Shaw, author of the forthcoming BODYWORLD, “shows himself as adept at dire comedy as he is with midlife family crises.”…... (Read More)
January 14, 2010
Check out this Publishers Weekly interview with Dash Shaw, which originally appeared in PW Comics Week on January 12, 2010. Praised by PW as “out of this world” and “raging torrent of ideas, characters, and plot”, Dash Shaw’s BodyWorld was originally a webcomic, which will be published as a hardcover book in April. Nominated for a 2009 Eisner Award and with a bold, innovative design, BodyWorld is a mind-blowing blend of science-fiction, classic high school drama, and futuristic what-if. It is at once funny and fearless-and sure to be the graphic novel event of the year….... (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
A.D.
Written by Josh Neufeld
Current Affairs - American; Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction | Pantheon | Hardcover | August 2009 | 24.95 | 978-0-307-37814-9 (0-307-37814-4)
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,”...Read More
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