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NEWS
November 19, 2009
The Times of London just announced their Best Books of the Decade with Pantheon titles in abundance: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi coming in at #2and Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware at #79…....
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November 18, 2009
Three independent area booksellers visited The Brian Lehrer Show this morning and left their recommendations for holiday gift suggestions. Christina Onorati of WORD Bookstore chose our own Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli! Be sure to stock up in time for the holidays!…...
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FEATURED ARTIST
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.
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
Asterios Polyp
Written by David Mazzucchelli
Comics & Graphic Novels - Graphic Novels | Pantheon | Hardcover | July 2009 | 29.95 | 978-0-307-37732-6 (0-307-37732-6)
The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly...Read More
