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AUTHORS Hanawalt, Lisa 20–21

Ayuyang, Rina 4–5 Hernandez, Gilbert 40

Bagge, Peter 6–7 Huizenga, Kevin 40

Barry, Lynda 8–9 Jones, Keith 40

Bell, Marc 40 Katin, Miriam 40

Brown, Chester 10–11 Matt, Joe 40

Castrée, Geneviève 40 Nilsen, Anders 40

Chippendale, Brian 40 Ollmann, Joe 22-23

Clowes, Daniel 40 Pond, Mimi 24–25

Davis, Vanessa 40 Porcellino, John 26–27

DeForge, Michael 12–13 40

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Present Goliath (paperback) The Good Times are Boundless The Unquotable From Lone The Abominable leslie stein tom gauld Killing Me nick drnaso Trump Mountain Mr. Seabrook FALL 2017 fall 2017 spring 2017 spring 2018 r. sikoryak john porcellino joe ollmann SEE PAGE 30 see page 16 fall 2017 see page 34 see page 14 fall 2017 winter 2018 WINTER 2017 see page 8 see page 28 see page 26 see page 22

Baking with Kafka Fire!!: The Zora The Customer is Blame This on the Art Comic Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero tom gauld Neale Hurston story Always Wrong Boogie matthew thurber spring 2018 Winter 2017 Fall 2017 rina ayuyang see page 36 see page 12 see page 16 winter 2017 spring 2017 spring 2018 see page 6 see page 24 see page 4 Rina Ayuyang Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Rina Ayuyang was always inspired by the Sunday funnies and slice-of-life tales. Her short stories have been nomi- nated for the Ignatz and Eisner Awards, and she has been honored with a MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence Silver Medal. Her have appeared in Mutha Magazine and . She is also the publisher of the micro-comics imprint Yam Books. Her first book was Whirlwind Wonderland. Ayuyang lives in Oakland, , with her husband and son.

“[Ayuyang’s comics] delightfully revolve around everyday subjects with a subtle humor that points out life’s small absurdi- ties.” —Hyphen Magazine “[Ayuyang’s] autobiographical stories . . . find something wondrous in the kind of moments that most let slip past without a thought.” —Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Inspired by the visual richness and cinematic structure of the Hollywood musical, Blame This on the Boogie chronicles the adventures of a Filipino American girl born in the decade of disco who escapes life’s hardships and mundanity through the genre’s feel-good song-and-dance numbers. Rina Ayuyang explores how the glowing charm of the silver screen can transform reality, shaping a person’s approach to childhood, relationships, sports, reality TV, and eventually poli- tics, parenthood, and mortality.

Ayuyang’s comics are as vibrant as Spring 2018, hardcover, 160 pages, full color the movies that she loves. Her deeply personal, moving stories unveil the magic of the world around us—rendering the ordi- nary extraordinary through a jazzed-up song-and-dance routine. A yuyang showcases the way her love of musicals became a form of therapeutic distraction to circumnavigate a childhood of dealing with cultural differences, her struggles with postpartum depression, and an adulthood overshadowed by an increasingly frightening and depressing political climate.

Blame This on the Boogie is Ayuyang’s ode to the melody of the world, and shows how Blame This on the Boogie Rina Ayuyang tuning out of life and into the magic of Hollywood can actually help an outsider find her World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. place in it. 4 5 BACK TO HOT LIST Peter Bagge Known for his comics, Peter Bagge’s first biography was the hilariously informative Times bestselling Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story. The biography was selected as a YALSA Great Graphic Novel For Teens and appeared on the Amelia Bloomer Project list of the Best Feminist Books for Young Readers; and was nominated for the Washington State Book Award and the for best reality-based work.

“Peter Bagge’s Fire!! is thoroughly researched and eminently readable. Weaving together the complex tapestry of Z ora Neale Hurston’s life (and featuring accurate-and-entertaining cameos by Langston Hughes and Alice W alker, among others), this graphic novel is both insightful and fun to read—a rare combination.” —Tami Navarro, Ph.D., Associate Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women Barnard College, Columbia University “An exhilarating addition to Hurston lore...It’s irresistible to try and imagine what Hurston would make of this book, and inevitable to conclude that she’d approve.” —NPR Peter Bagge has defied the expectations of the comics industry by changing gears from his famous slacker hero to documenting the life and times of historical 20th century trailblazers. If Bagge had not already had a New York Times bestseller with his biography of Margaret Sanger, his newest March 2017, hardcover, 112 pages, full color biography, Fire!!: The Story, would seem to be an unfathomable pairing of author and subject. Yet through Bagge’s skilled cartooning, he turns what could be a rote biography into a bold and dazzling graphic novel, creating a story as brilliant as the life itself.

Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society, and became a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, best known for her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston story Peter Bagge and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly; Spain: Ediciones La Cúpula; French: Nada forgotten by of her life. W ith admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her Editions. vivid life in resounding full-colour.

6 7 BACK TO HOT LIST Lynda Barry Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, , writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher. An inductee to the Eisner hall of fame, she is the inimitable creator behind the seminal Ernie Pook’s Comeek, and author of The Freddie Stories, One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!, and The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. Barry has written three bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels for D+Q: the Eisner Award-winning What It Is, and Picture This, and Syllabus: Notes from an accidental professor.

“Lynda Barry’s comics were my YA, before YA really even existed. She’s been writing teen stories with an incredibly clear voice since the early 80s. [The! Greatest! Of! Marlys!] is raw, ugly, hilarious, and poignant.” — Raina Telgemeier, Smile & Drama

Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of adults; sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging. At the heart of The Good Times Are Killing Me is the forbidden friendship between Edna who is white and Bonna Willis who is black, and how the world around them forces them to chal- lenge their loyalties to each other. As Barry does in her comics, she perfectly captures the awkward and earnest adolescent voice as Edna moves from childhood to middle school.

Originally published in 1988, The Good Times Are Killing Me is as relevant now as it ever was. Its influence cannot be overstated as it was adapted into an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. D+Q’s October 2017, hardcover, 184 pages, color section edition is a deluxe hardcover with a new cover, afterword, and the original color illustrations from the first edition.

The Good Times Are Killing Me Lynda Barry World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. 8 9 BACK TO HOT LIST Chester Brown is best known for his two recent non-fiction graphic novels, : A Comic-Strip Biography (2003) and : A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John (2011). The former won widespread critical acclaim for its compelling, meticulously researched portrayal of Riel, the charismatic nineteenth century Métis leader, a crucial figure in Canadian history. The book won Harvey Awards for Best Writer and Best Graphic Album and was featured on Quill and Quire’s list of the five best Canadian non-fiction books of the year and on ’s list of the 100 best books of the year.

“There aren’t many as brave—or frankly, as strange—as this Canadian artist.”—Rolling Stone

“Brown has once again produced a graphic novel of rare and striking intelligence. It tackles the subject of sex work from a fresh and surprising angle and challenges more than one myth along the way” —The Rumpus

The iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John returns with a polemical interpretation of the Bible that will be one of the most controversial and talked-about graphic novels of 2016. Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is the retelling in comics form of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown’s fascinating and startling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and the Virgin Mother and reassesses the Christian moral code by examining the cultural implications of the Bible’s representations of sex work.

Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a fitting follow-up to Brown’s Paying for It, which was reviewed twice in and hailed by sex workers for Brown’s advocacy for the decriminalization and normalization of prostitution. Brown approaches the Bible as he did the life of Louis Riel, making these stories compellingly readable and utterly pertinent to a modern audience. In classic Chester Brown fashion, he provides April 2016, hardcover, 280 extensive handwritten endnotes that delve into the biblical lore pages, black and white that informs Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus.

Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus Chester Brown World rights available excluding: World English Drawn 95& Quarterly; Korean: Mimesis; World French: Corne- lius Fabrique; World Italian: BAO Publishing; World Portuguese: Editora WMF Martins Fontes; World Spanish: Ediciones La Cúpula.

10 11 BACK TO HOT LIST Michael DeForge Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, . His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for, or won, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His illustrations have been published in the New York Times and Bloomberg View; his comics have appeared in the Believer, Maisonneuve, and the series.

“Michael DeForge makes some of the most excellent and unnerving comics currently in print.” —Wired

Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, “49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist.” After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named . When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling forma- tive incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.

DeForge’s witty dialogue and deadpan narration create a bizarre yet eerily March 2017, hardcover, 96 pages, two-color familiar world. Sticks Angelica plays with autobiography, biog- raphy, and hagiog- raphy to look at how we build our own sense of self and how others carry on the roles we Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero Michael DeForge create for them in our World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. own personal dramas. 12 13 BACK TO HOT LIST Nick Drnaso Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut graphic novel, Beverly, received the Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and coedited the second and third issues of Linework, Columbia College’s annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator.

“Drnaso’s diagnosis of the sickness at the soul of sheltered communities is novel in its discordant effects and keen observation.” —The Globe and Mail

“Uncomfortable, fascinating . . . Full of moments in which the bubbling reservoir of anxiety or feeling or darkness boils to the surface.” —Slate

How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression or thoughts of suicide? Is there anything in your personal life that is affecting your duty?

When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina’s grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits May 2018, hardcover, 204 pages, full color in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation shown through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.

The follow-up to Nick Drnaso’s Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina Nick Drnaso Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. disaster. 14 15 BACK TO HOT LIST Tom Gauld Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator. He has weekly comic strips in The Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in The New York Times and The Believer. In addition to his graphic novels Goliath, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, and Mooncop, he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.

“With his singular style of irreverent erudition, cartoonist Tom Gauld has emerged as an unpar- alleled visual satirist of the literary world.” —Brainpickings

“Cartoonist Tom Gauld’s You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack consists of single panels that explore the passage of time, absurdism, and most of the 7 Deadly Sins, all presented with a sense of graceful whimsy that makes his work such a delight to read.” —BoingBoing

In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed, concise comics. Simultaneously silly and serious, Gauld adds an undeniable lightness to traditionally high- brow themes. From sarcastic panels about the health hazards of being a best-selling writer to a list of magical items for fantasy writers (such as the Amulet of Attraction, which summons mainstream acceptance, Hollywood money, and fresh coffee), Gauld’s cartoons are timely and droll—his trademark British humour, impeccable timing, and distinctive visual style sets him apart from the rest. October 2017, hardcover, 160 pages, full color Lauded both for his frequent contributions to New Scientist, The Guardian and The New York Times, and his Eisner-nominated graphic novels, Gauld is one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today. In , Tom Gauld Baking with Kafka Baking with Kafka he proves this World rights available excluding: North American English: Drawn & Quarterly; Italian: Mondadori Libri; North with one witty, sly, American French: Editions Alto; Spanish: Salamandra; UK: Canongate; World Russian: Boom Company Limited; ridiculous comic World French (excl. North America): Editions 2024, after another. 16 17 BACK TO HOT LIST Glidden’s debut book, How to Understand in 60 Days or Less landed on several best of the year lists, including Entertainment Weekly; earned a YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens distinction; and won an . Glidden’s work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines, as well as in the Best American Comics anthology. She spent a year as an artist in residence at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, France. Her second book, Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from , , and , was a New York Times bestseller, appearing on fifteen best of the year lists, and earning her the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. A graduate of Boston University, she now lives in Seattle, Washington.

“... an ambitious, nuanced and sprawling work of graphic nonfiction.”—Rolling Stone

“Sarah Glidden’s remarkable Rolling Blackouts adds a new twist to the [graphic journalism] form. Glidden accompanies a team of journalists through Syria and Iraq and her muted waterco- lours record not only the lives of people in war zones but the way the media interacts with them. Highly recommended.”—The Guardian

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden follows up her acclaimed debut, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, with Rolling Blackouts, which details her two-month long journey through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. Glidden accompanies her two friends—reporters and founders of the journalistic non-profit The Seattle Globalist—as they research stories on the ’s effect on the Middle East and, specifically, the war’s refugees. Joining them is a former Marine and childhood friend of one of the journalists whose deployment to Iraq in 2007 adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across October 2016, hardcover, 304 pages, full color and perhaps even themselves.

The crew works their way through the region with the goal of asking civil- ians, refugees, and officials: “who are you?” Everyone has a story to tell: the Iranian blogger, the United Nations Refugee administrator, a taxi driver, the Iraqi refugee deported from the US, the Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria, and even the 125 American Marine. Glidden records all that she encounters with a sympathetic Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq Sarah Glidden and searching eye—What is journalism? What is its purpose? What is honesty? World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly; French: Glenat; : Reprodukt; Spanish: Painted in her trademark soft muted watercolors and written with a self- Salamandra; World Italian: Rizzoli. effacing humor, Rolling Blackouts cements Glidden’s place as one of comics’ most original nonfiction voices.

18 19 BACK TO HOT LIST Lisa Hanawalt Lisa Hanawalt is an artist living in Los Angeles, CA, and is the production designer/producer of the original series, Bojack Horseman. Lisa has worked on illustrations, book covers, animations, comics, murals, textile patterns, and exhibits her work in galleries. She writes and draws a quarterly, James Beard Award-winning food column for Lucky Peach magazine, and co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. Her first collection with Drawn & Quarterly was 2013’s critically acclaimed My Dirty Dumb Eyes.

“[Hot Dog Taste Test] overflows with colorful oddities ... a lushly illustrated, stream-of- consciousness diary ... with Dalí-esque surre- alism”—NPR

“Hot Dog Taste Test roasts food obsession in its many forms with a sometimes gross, sometimes charming collection of water- colors, sketches and comics” —The Wall Street Journal

“Lisa Hanawalt is my favourite funny artist. Her special brand of humour hits me directly where I live, even though I never told her where I live.” —, author of Love and Rockets

“Lisa Hanawalt has an amazing ability to make the mundane disturbing and the strange seem normal. Also, her baking tips are solid.” —David Chang, Founder of Momofuku Restaurants & Lucky Peach Magazine June 2016, hardcover, 160 pages, full color

Lisa Hanawalt’s debut graphic novel, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, achieved instant and widespread acclaim, from the New York Times to comedian Patton Oswalt.

Hot Dog Taste Test serves up Lisa Hanawalt’s devastatingly funny comics, saliva-stimulating art, and deliciously screwball lists as she skewers the pomposities of foodie subculture. From the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and production designer/producer of Bojack Horseman, Hot Dog Taste Test dishes out five-star laughs Hot Dog Taste Test Lisa Hanawalt as Hanawalt keenly muses on pop culture, relationships, and the World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. animal in all of us. 20 21 BACK TO HOT LIST Joe Ollmann Joe Ollmann lives in Hamilton with his wife and child. He is the winner of the Award for best cartooning for his book Mid-Life.

“... in Ollmann’s sweaty, ink-stained mitts, Seabrook’s life becomes a cautionary tale, character study and novelistic American tragedy all at once.” –The Globe and Mail

In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surround- ings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend – participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara desert, communing with cannibals and most notably, popularizing the term “zombie” in the West. A string of his bestselling books show an engaged, sympathetic gentleman hoping to share these strange, hidden delights with the rest of the world. He was willing to go deeper than any outsider had before.

But, of course, there was a dark side. Seabrook was a barely functioning alcoholic who was deeply obsessed with bondage and the January 2017, paperback, 316 pages, so-called mystical properties of pain and two-color degradation. His life was a series of traveling highs and drunken lows; climbing on and falling off the wagon again and again. What led the popular and vivid writer to such a sad state?

Cartoonist Joe Ollmann spent seven years researching Seabrook’s life, accessing long neglected archives in order to piece together the peri- patetic life of a forgotten American writer. Often weaving in Seabrook’s Joe Ollmann The Abominable Mr. Seabrook own words and those of his biographers, Ollmann posits Seabrook World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly; Brazil: Companhia das Letras. France: the believer versus Seabrook the exploiter, and leaves the reader to Presque Lune. consider where one ends and the other begins. 22 23 BACK TO HOT LIST Mimi Pond Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of , “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Her first book with Drawn & Quarterly, Over Easy, won the PEN Award for Graphic lIterature. , She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.

“Mimi Pond is an incredible storyteller in any medium... But the greatest depths of melancholy, tragedy and humor are found in her quasi-memoir graphic novels, starting with Over Easy (2014) and now with The Customer Is Always Wrong, about an artist named Madge and a rogues’ gallery of restaurant customers wandering through Oakland in the 1970s.” –Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

“Madge’s coming of age is hilarious, terrifying, moving, and compulsively readable. Great drawings and great writing.” –Roz Chast, author of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant...

The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the fascinating sleaze-ball characters that August 2017, hardcover, 448 pages, two-color surround young Madge into her workaday waitressing life. Outrageous and loving trib- utes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Madge’s life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not.

Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, Pond’s storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic, standalone graphic novel. Madge is right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for Mimi Pond The Customer is Always Wrong her adopted restaurant family while her career as a cartoonist starts to World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. take off. 24 25 BACK TO HOT LIST John Porcellino John Porcellino was born in Chicago in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing , comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self- published series King-Cat Comics, begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. According to artist , “John Porcellino’s comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive.”

“John Porcellino is comics’ reigning master of mini- malism.” —AV Club

John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams, and overgrown abandoned lots that surround every city. He studies the flora and fauna around us. He looks at the overlooked. Porcellino also digs deep into a quintes- sential American endeavour—the road trip. Uprooting his comfortable life several times in From Lone Mountain, John drives through the country weaving from small town to small town, experiencing America in slow motion, avoiding the sameness of airports and over- whelming hustle of major cities.

From Lone Mountain collects stories from Porcellino’s influential zineKing-Cat —John enters a new phase of his life, as he remarries and decides to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for April 2018, paperback, 304 pages, black meaning in the everyday. and white

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26 27 BACK TO HOT LIST R. Sikoryak R. Sikoryak is an animator, illustrator, and cartoonist living in New York with his wife. He is the author of Masterpiece Comics and Terms and Conditions, and his comics and illustrations have appeared in , The Onion, GQ, MAD, SpongeBob Comics, and Nickelodeon Maga- zine, as well as on with Jon Stewart. He is in the speakers program of the New York Council of the Humanities and teaches in the illustration department at Parsons School of Design.

“ is a virtuoso cartoonist who draws so well he can not only draw whatever he wants, he can draw it to look like any other cartoonist he wants to pay tribute to, as well.” —The Observer

“Under the shadow of the impending Trump administration, many people aren’t sure whether they want to laugh or cry. Artist R. Sikoryak has us doing both.” —Paste

R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now in these uncertain times, cartoonist R. Sikoryak draws upon the power of comics and satire to frame President Trump and his contro- versial declarations as the words and actions of the most notable villains and antagonists in comic book history.

Reimagining the most famous comic covers, October 2017, paperback, 96 pages, Sikoryak transforms Wonder Woman into Nasty full color Woman; Tubby Tompkins into Trump; Black Panther into the Black Voter; the into the Hombres Fantasticos and Trump into Magneto fighting the Ex-Men.

In perfect Trumpian fashion, The Unquotable Trump is a 48-page treasury annual—needlessly oversized and garishly colored; a throw-back to the past when both Comics and America were The Unquotable Trump R. Sikoryak Great. This is the hugest comic, truly a great comic. World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. You won’t want to miss this, trust me, you’ll see! 28 29 BACK TO HOT LIST Leslie Stein Leslie Stein is the creator of the Eye of the Majestic Creature series, as well as the diary comic Bright-Eyed at Midnight. Her diary comics appear regularly on Vice. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

“...every page is suffused with empathy, while resisting the saccharine: there are no tidy endings, nor smug moralizing. Stein’s vibrant watercolors are a marvel, especially in the palette: dribbles of cerulean, slashes of black, and dots of deepest crimson are as captivating as any plot twist. Even the lettering tells a story, often exploding on the page in different colors and sizes. It all adds up to a sweet, relatable portrait of the minutiae that make life worth living.” –Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Leslie Stein takes us on a sinuous urban stroll divorced from destination, glimpsing through her open eyes. While she is closing up a bar late at night, she is also an adoles- cent at a rave in the mountains, an adult grappling with her grandfather’s fading memory or at one of her first waitressing jobs. Stein is a master storyteller, an urban explorer, and a loyal guide through dark days and simple, blissful encounters. Stein’s curiosity about and generosity toward the world around her come through powerfully: each colorful story flows with vivid watercolors and delicate ink lines. Here, an autobiography is built through memories and moments tied together by loose lines, evoking a beautiful dreamlike yet endlessly relatable glimpse into the world of a thirty-something woman carving out a life for herself, one step at a time.

Known for her acclaimed Eye of the Majestic Creature series, collected here are Stein’s serialized Vice.com comics which have become a staple for the site, showcasing her storytelling abilities with a freer style. With an introduction and new material, Present is a deluxe die-cut hardcover that is a medi- tation on memory. Stein asks us to take a moment to be here now, while acknowl- Present Leslie Stein edging the other places and people we always World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. October 2017, hardcover, 160 pages, full color carry with us. 30 31 BACK TO HOT LIST James Sturm lives in White River Junction, , with his wife and two daughters, where he helps run a cartooning school that he co-founded, The Center for Cartoon Studies. James’ books include Market Day, James Sturm’s America, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, Denys Wortman’s New York, and the popular Adventures in Cartooning series. His comics, writing, and illustrations have appeared in scores of national and regional publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Onion, The New York Times, Slate, and on the cover of The New Yorker. James has taught and exhibited his work throughout the world.

“[Golem’s Mighty Swing] ties together sport, art and literature into a grand-slam comic book.”—Time

“Employing thick lines, minimal detail and simple prose… Sturm gracefully summons the seedy, often dangerous baseball world of the 1920s.” —Washington Post

Before penning his acclaimed graphic novel Market Day and founding the C enter for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm proved his worth as a master cartoonist with the eloquent graphic novel, The Golem’s Mighty Swing, one of the first breakout graphic novel hits of the 21st century.

By reuniting America’s greatest pastime with its hidden history, the graphic novel tells the story of the Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team of the depression era. Led by its manager and third baseman, the nomadic team travels from small town to small town providing the thrill of the sport while May 2017, paperback, 120 pages, two-color playing up their religious exoticism as a curio for people to gawk at, heckle, and taunt.

When the team’s fortunes fall, the players are presented a plan to get people in the stands. But by placing their fortunes in the hands of a promoter, the S tars of David find themselves fanning the flames of ethnic tensions. S turm’s Coming nuanced composition is on full display as he in Fall 2018:

deftly builds the climax of the game against Off-Season an original graphic the rising anti-semitic fervor of the crowd. novel currently being Baseball, small towns, racial tensions, and the The Golem’s Mighty Swing James Sturm serialized on desperate grasp for the American Dream: Slate! World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. The Golem’s Mighty Swing is a classic American novel. 32 33 BACK TO HOT LIST Jillian Tamaki Jillian Tamaki is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. She is the co-creator of the graphic novel (with ), which was listed as one of the New York Times’ Best Illustrated Books of 2008 and was nominated for four Eisner Awards. Her second collaborative work with Mariko Tamaki, the graphic novel This One Summer, was a New York Times Bestseller, won the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, and became the first graphic novel to be given a Caldecott Honor. Tamaki has won two Ignatz Awards for her work on

“Restlessly versatile… Boundless collects short stories that are so far apart from one another in tone and technique that they could almost pass for the work of entirely different artists.” —New York Times Book Review “Each story is as indelible as it is singular [and] so beautifully told that after a while you begin to feel that Tamaki... is capable of almost anything. And perhaps she is.” —The Guardian

“Boundless feels at one time wholly of this moment and otherworldly, presenting a reality that’s tilted slightly off its axis. Her evocative drawings are intimate, energetic, in moments loose and casual, in others tight and finely rendered.” —Nina Maclaughlin,

“An ambitious and eclectic set of tales ... In Boundless, Tamaki tackles subtle shifts in emotion, identity, and power.” —The Atlantic

Jenny becomes obsessed with a strange “mirror Facebook,” which presents an alternate, possibly better, version of herself. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser, June 2017, paperback, 248 pages, full color and as she shrinks away to nothingness, the world around her recedes as well. The animals of the city briefly open their minds to us, and we see the world as they do. A mysterious music file surfaces on the internet and forms the basis of a utopian society–or is it a cult? Boundless is at once fantastical and realist, playfully hinting at possible transcendence: from one’s culture, one’s relationship, oneself. This collection of short stories is a showcase for Jillian Tamaki Boundless the masterful blend of emotion and humour of World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. German: Reprodukt. award-winning cartoonist Jillian Tamaki. 34 35 BACK TO HOT LIST Matthew Thurber Matthew Thurber is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn. Thurber was the recipient of a NYFA fellowship in fiction in 2010 for his graphic novel 1-800-MICE, which The Paris Review called “the Gravity’s Rainbow–Sherlock Holmes–Professor Sutwell–Inspector Clouseau–Silent Spring of comics.” He followed this with his second book, Infomaniacs, in 2013. Ambergris, his ongoing multimedia performance project, has performed its “Anti-Matter Cabaret” since 2003 at venues such as Issue Project Room, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Fumetto Festival in Switzerland. His artwork has been shown in galleries such as Southfirst and Knowmoregames in New York and Weird Things in Toronto.

“[Art Comic] mercilessly deflates the pomposity of the mainstream art world.” —Blouin Artinfo

“Thurber’s at his best experimenting with a wide array of visual techniques, none of which get tiresome, revealing an artist and storyteller who is wonderfully inventive.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Matthew Thurber’s Art Comic is a blunt and hilarious assault on the swirling hot mess that is the art world. From syco- phantic fans to duplicitous gallerists, fatuous patrons to self-aggrandizing art stars, he lampoons each and every facet of the eminently ridiculous industry of truth and beauty. Follow Cupcake, the Matthew Barney obsessive; Epiphany née Tiffany Clydesdale, the divinely inspired performance artist; Ivanhoe, a modern knight in search of artistic vengeance, and his squire, Turnbuckle. Each artist is more June 2018, hardcover, 160 pages, full color ridiculous than the last, yet they are tested and transformed by the even more absurd machinations of Thurber’s fantastical art world. Can the Free Little Pigs destroy this blighted system? Will “The Group” continue its indirect assas- sination of promising young artists? Can artistic integrity exist in this world amid the capitalist co-opting, petty rivalries, otherworldly portals, heavenly interventions, and murders at sea?

Art Comic is brimming with references and cameos, outsize personalities and shuddering nonsense—Robert Rauschenberg smashes a beer bottle, Francesca Woodman, a wineglass. In the center of it all, Thurber’s twisted drawings and laugh-out-loud dialogue convey a compli- cated picture of an industry at the intersection of fantasy and reality. Part scathing condemna- Matthew Thurber Art Comic tion, part irreverent appreciation, Thurber’s comics skewer the art world in a way only an art World rights available excluding: World English: Drawn & Quarterly. lover can. 36 37 BACK TO HOT LIST Adrian Tomine was born in 1974 in Sacramento, California. He began self-publishing his comic book series when he was sixteen, and in 1994 he received an offer to publish from Drawn & Quarterly. His comics have been anthologized in publications such as McSweeney’s, Best American Comics, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and his graphic novel Shortcomings was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. Since 1999, Tomine has been a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters.

“Adrian Tomine can draw, think, write and feel. He sees everything, he knows everything; he’s in your apartment, he’s on the subway, he’s in your dreams. He knows about aging baseball fans and delusional horticulturists, he knows hapless fathers and awkward nerd-girl stand-ups, he knows the single and the married, the mad and the sane, knows when to use a speech a bubble and when silence is enough. He has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.” —Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth and NW

Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibili- ties of the graphic novel medium and a wry explora- tion of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics, but as one of the great voices of modern American literature. His gift for capturing emotion and intellect resonates here: the weight of love and its absence, the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive in the October 2015, hardcover, 128 pages, twenty-first century. full color In six interconnected, darkly funny stories, Tomine forms a quietly moving portrait of contemporary life. Adrian Tomine is a master of the small gesture, equally deft at signaling emotion via a subtle change of expression or writ large across landscapes illustrated in full color. Killing and Dying is a fraught, realist masterpiece.

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