Pantheon Graphic Novels News

Dash Shaw event @ MoCCA

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:13:08 -0500

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.

Pantheon Graphic Novels contest

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:38:58 -0500

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

mocca poster

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:43:49 -0500

Check out the 2010 MoCCA poster, designed by Pantheon author DASH SHAW:

Dash Shaw

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:19:36 -0500

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."

Dash Shaw Q&A w/PW

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:39:58 -0500

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.

Pantheon e-newsletter/la's orchestra sweepstakes

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:13:11 -0500

Love Pantheon's graphic novels? Maybe you'll love our regular books just as much! Click here to sign up for the brand new Pantheon e-newsletter, and automatically enter a contest to win a free copy of La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Pantheon.

The sweepstakes begin January 12th, 2010, and final submissions are due by 11:59 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on February 5th, 2010.

Praised as a "fresh and unforgettable story about the power of human kindness" by Booklist, bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith (most famous for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series) brings us a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music.

Good luck!

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:49:47 -0500

In addition to being featured as one of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of the Year and one of Vanity Fair's 10 Books from 2009 to Read on Your Holiday Vacation, David Mazzucchelli's ASTERIOS POLYP was named New York Magazine's #1 Best Comic of 2009, with Josh Neufeld's A.D.: NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE DELUGE coming in a runner-up.

MTV picks A.D.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:17:46 -0500

MTV.com chooses Josh Neufeld's A.D. as the best non-fiction comic of 2009!

"By chronicling the stories of seven very different survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans floods, Josh Neufeld provides one of the best examples of comics as journalism to hit the shelves this year. With stories that are equal parts inspirational, thought-provoking and, in some cases, terribly frustrating, "A.D." is collective memory that goes a long way toward helping us learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them."

Read more and find out what other comics were picked!

Modern Tonic picks AP

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:03:03 -0500

Modern Tonic chooses David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp as the lead book in its round-the-world travelogue of the best books of 2009, saying "Asterios Polyp will cause comic-book buffs to swoon, sure, but the narrative -- after a fire, an arrogant architect slowly begins to rebuild his own life -- makes it much more than a pretty picture book."

Dash Shaw at Sundance

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:19:14 -0500

Sundance has announced the 12 projects they have chosen for the 2010 January Screenwriters lab. Why should you care? Well because the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has hand picked some of the most original filmmakers of the last 28 years, including a Pantheon author!

We are proud to announce that our very own Dash Shaw (author of the upcoming Bodyworld) was chosen for his film Slobs and Nags. Told with hand-drawn animation, a disconnected family is thrown into chaos when the scientist father loses the test subject of his experiment with appearance-altering technology.

Books=Gifts

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:33:55 -0500

Looking for books to read and give this holiday season? Take the "What's My Type of Book?" Facebook quiz here and share with friends.

Need help finding the perfect gift for friends and family? Use our Personal Shopper Widget at www.booksequalgifts.com and feel free to embed it on your own site or blog.

Also, through Twitter, Books = Gifts representatives will recommend specific titles each day, and on Fridays through December 18, Books = Gifts personal shoppers will be available to make free customized gift recommendations to you via Twitter and e-mail through personalshopper@randomhouse.com.

Happy holidays!

Times of London best books

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:20:12 -0500

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.

ASTERIOS POLYP indie pick

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:42:51 -0500

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!

PGN Enews Dec09

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:34:20 -0500

The holidays are just around the corner and if you're like me, you can't even begin to think about what to buy each person on your list. When you're stumped about what to purchase this holiday season, consider this--

BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS!

Just think about it:

You can buy 10 hardcovers for the price of an iPhone
A book costs less than a movie and popcorn
A book has the potential to change someone's life
Reading a book lasts longer than wearing a new sweater (and you never grow out of it)
A book is the easiest gift to wrap
A book is the easiest item to re-gift!

These are some of the books I plan to give as gifts this holiday season. And don't forget to get something for yourself while you're browsing!

Until next time, happy holidays and happy reading!

Lauren Helman
Pantheon@randomhouse.com

HOLIDAY GIFT DIRECTORY
For the activist

The perfect gifts for your politically and socially conscious friends!

I Live Here (Mia Kirshner) is a visually stunning narrative - told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas - in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too often overlooked, it is a raw and intimate journey through crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.

Order your copy here

Cancer Vixen (Marisa Acocella Marchetto), now available in paperback, is the groundbreaking graphic memoir that has inspired breast cancer patients to fight back - and do it with style. One of Time.com's top ten graphic novels of the year, with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Cancer Vixen tells the story of Marchetto's eleven-month, ultimately triumphant battle against breast cancer - from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.

Order your copy here
Read an interview with the author
Watch an inspirational video for The Cancer Vixen Fund
Visit the author's website

After spending three weeks as an American Red Cross volunteer in Biloxi, Mississippi, cartoonist Josh Neufeld created A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Depicting seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina, A.D. presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it.

Order your copy here
Visit Josh Neufeld's website

For the teen

Everyone is familiar with the name Marjane Satrapi these days, and now you can have both volumes of her best-selling, internationally acclaimed comic memoir in one package - The Complete Persepolis. Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with humor and wisdom - Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded graphic artists at work today.

Order your copy here, and be sure to check out Marjane's other graphic novels: Chicken with Plums and Embroideries.

A memoir that should be read in every school, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker). It now appears as it was originally envisioned by the author: The Complete Maus.

Order your copy here

Hailed by Time as "another of his hilariously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live," Ice Haven is a brilliant graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, author of Ghost World (for which he received an Oscar nomination for the screen adaptation!).

Order your copy here

For the superhero fan:
Attention collectors!! The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever in Geoff Spear & Chip Kidd's Bat-Manga! This is The Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, is interviewed by Chip exclusively in this book. More than just a dazzling novelty, Bat-Manga! is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most timeless figures in comics.

The deluxe, expanded, and limited hardcover edition has a distinctive cover, full-color printed endpapers, and an amazing extra adventure written by Jiro Kuwata (not included in the paperback), about a band of rogue alien robot art thieves at large in Gotham City.

Order your copy of the limited edition hardcover
Order your copy of the trade paperback

For the sci-fi geek:
Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. Follow his adventures through a delightfully absurd science-fiction universe, where the artificial intelligence is stupid, dust motes carry branding messages, and middle-management zombies have overrun a corporate training satellite. In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best--mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling page-turner.

Order your copy here

The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle - but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back. Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards, Black Hole (Charles Burns) is as hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying.

Order your copy here

For the New Yorker
We still can't get you a seat at The Waverly Inn, but we can bring you the wonderful, witty mural by Edward Sorel that graces its walls. Sorel - whose caricatures and drawings regularly appear in The New Yorker and on its cover - chose forty Greenwich Village greats from the past 150 years to cavort in bacchanalian splendor. Each of the 40 makes a solo appearance in these pages alongside a charming, telling vignette of his or her life by Dorothy Gallagher. Then, the entire mural appears in a foldout at the back of the book. Here you will find Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jackson Pollack, James Baldwin, Thelonius Monk, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Andy Warhol, Fran Lebowitz, Margaret Sanger, Marlon Brando, and many others.
The Mural at the Waverly Inn is an enduring delight to treasure, and the perfect gift for this holiday season.

Order your copy here

Perfect for your coffee table - big gift books that are guaranteed to be enjoyed:

"It's as if John Updike had discovered a bag of art supplies and LSD. Elegant, deceptively simple line work and nearly subliminal color symbolism make everything go down like candy." --Entertainment Weekly

The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents, Asterios Polyp is 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. This is David Mazzucchelli's masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

Order your copy here

One of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection--part freakish dreamlife, part quirk-o-rama autobiography, all genius. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down is David Heatley's life story told in six different but connected narrative threads. Every inch of this book is filled with visceral art and emotionally resonant storytelling, that is at once stunning, truthful, and uncomfortably hilarious.

Order your copy here

Free Pizza at B&N Greenwich Village

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:55:02 -0500

Free Pizza at B&N Greenwich Village

Marisa Acocella Marchetto will be reading from Cancer Vixen, now on sale from Pantheon Books, on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 pm at Barnes & Noble Greenwich Village. Featuring a PowerPoint presentation, book signing, and free pizza from Greenwich Village's Scuderia, this event is not to be missed.

"Marchetto is an inspiration, and her story is one that is definitely worth reading" (Sacramento Book Review).