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winter 2013 MIRIAM KATIN’S LETTING IT GO
Miriam Katin LETTING IT GO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR STRUGGLES TO LET THE PAST GO
Miriam Katin’s debut graphic novel, the 2006 memoir We Are On Our Own, was a unique portrait of how one family survived the Second World War. A companion to We Are On Our Own, Letting It Go shows Miriam, now an adult, dealing with her son Ilan’s recent move to Berlin. As Miriam struggles to accept his decision, she realizes that her hesitations have more to do with longheld grudges than any sort of legitimate concerns.
Whereas We Are On Our Own probed Miriam’s loss of faith and talked about her experiences during the War, Letting It Go examines the lasting trauma of surviving World War II from a very different vantage point, focusing on Miriam’s life as a middle-aged New Yorker. The flowing, expressive style employed in We Are On Our Own has been refined in this full- color masterpiece. A panel-less style lets the story flow, with wise and funny anecdotes along the way. Katin has the light hand of a master storyteller in this, an insightful, serious, but NOT FINAL COVER wry account of the myriad ways trauma inflects daily existence, both for survivors and for their families.
“Richly illustrated in pencil, this book should not be missed by anyone with an interest in history, love or faith--so anyone, really.” –Time Magazine
“A skillfully rendered memoir about Katin and her mother’s harrowing escape from Budapest in 1944. Its world is gray, its characters complex.”–Boston Globe
ALSO AVAILABLE: WE ARE ON OUR OWN 978-1-896597-20-1 • $19.95 USD/CDN MIRIAM KATIN was born in Hungary during World War II. She later immigrated to Israel and then the USA, where she worked in background design for animation studios such as MTV and Disney. Her debut graphic novel was the award-winning memoir We Are On Our Own.
FEBRUARY 2013 • $24.95 USD/CDN • Full Color • 6.8" X9" • 160 PAGES COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS/LITERARY • ISBN: 978-1-77046-103-1 • HARDCOVER National Publicity • National Author Appearances • Library & Academic Marketing gah!
the terrible tire-like green booger closed in on KitAro… watch out!
I cAn’t get Away! it’s like A heat-seeking missile! Shigeru Mizuki YOUNG ADULT KITARO MEET ONE OF JAPAN’S MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME–THE ONE-EYED MONSTER BOY
Meet Kitaro. He’s just like any other boy, except for a few small differences: he only has one eye, his hair is an antenna gah! that senses paranormal activity, his geta sandals are jet-pow- ered, and he can blend in to his surroundings like a chame- leon. Oh, and he’s a three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old yokai (spirit monster). With all the offbeat humor of an Addams Family story, Kitaro is a light-hearted romp where the bad guys always get what’s coming to them.
Kitaro is bestselling manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki’s most famous creation. The Kitaro series was inspired by a kamishibai, or storycard theater, entitled Kitaro of the Graveyard . Mizuki began to write stories about Kitaro in 1959. Originally the series was intended for boys, but once it was picked up by the influential Shonen magazine it quickly became a cultural landmark for young and old alike. Kitaro inspired half a doz- en TV shows, plus numerous video games and films, and his cultural importance cannot be overstated. Presented to North American audiences for the first time in this lavish format, Mizuki’s photo-realist landscapes and cartoony characters blend the eerie with the comic. the terrible “But above all, [Mizuki] draws the monsters of Japan. Haunted umbrellas, living walls, giant flaming wheels, tire-like green booger closed in monstrous snakes and frogs and two-tailed cats…all kinds of spooky things creep and crawl through GeGeGe no on KitAro… watch Kitaro. Is it any wonder it became a hit?...Mizuki accomplished the greatest thing a fan could accomplish: he started out! out drawing GeGeGe no Kitaro as a tribute to the monster myths he loved, and today, GeGeGe no Kitaro is better-known than the original source material he based it on.”–Jason Thompson, Anime News Network
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Born on March 8, 1922, in Sakaiminato, SHIGERU MIZUKI is a specialist in stories of yokai and is considered a master of the genre. He was the first manga-ka to win Best I cAn’t get Away! it’s Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He has been published in Japan, like A heat-seeking South Korea, France, Spain, Taiwan, and Italy. missile!
JANUARY 2013 • $24.95 USD/CDN • B&W • 6.44" X 8.75" • 432 PAGES COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS/LITERARY • ISBN: 978-1-77046-110-9 • PAPERBACK National Publicity • Library Marketing • Young Adult Crossover Marketing TOM GAULD’S YOU’RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK
Tom Gauld YOU’RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK
A NEW COLLECTION FROM THE GUARDIAN AND NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CARTOONIST
The New York Times Magazine cartoonist Tom Gauld follows up his widely praised graphic novel Goliath with You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, a collection of cartoons made for The Guardian. Over the past eight years, Gauld has pro- duced a weekly cartoon for the Saturday Review section of Britain’s most well regarded newspaper. Only a handful of comics from this huge and hilarious body of work have ever been printed in North America – exclusively within the pages of the prestigious Believer magazine.
You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack distills perfectly Gauld’s dark humor, impeccable timing, and distinctive style. Arrests by the fiction police and fictional towns de- signed by Tom Waits intermingle hilariously with piercing observations about human behavior and whim- sical imaginings of the future. Again and again, Gauld reaffirms his position as a first-rank cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.
“Nobody does silence like Tom Gauld. It sits heavy on his lonely lunar landscapes, dismantled robots and dilapi- dated moonbases; it pulls his tiny mute figures even further away from us as they wave proudly at the top of their doomed enterprises. Pages of perfectly paced silence make the few deadpan words he does use weightier, perfectly economised, no more or less than you’ll ever need…Gauld’s atmospheric world is bleak and lonely but totally funny and full of heart.”–Hayley Campbell, The Comics Journal
“Gauld’s Goliath is a master class in reduction...a celebration of the Christian underdog becomes a subtle medita- tion on the power of spin and the absurdity of war.”–The Times of London
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TOM GAULD lives in London. His comics frequently appear in The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Believer. He has designed a number of book covers.
FEBRUARY 2013 • $19.95 USD/CDN • FULL COLOR • 8" X 5.9" • 160 PAGES COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS/LITERARY • ISBN: 978-1-77046-104-8 • HARDCOVER National Publicity • Web Marketing JOE OLLMANN’S BURDEN
CANADIAN AUTHOR Joe Ollmann BURDEN FAITH, TRUST, AND ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
Burden follows the slow, often wry, disintegration of a re- lationship. Mark and Susan have been together for five years, and, despite Mark’s occasional bouts of depression, they have always had a strong bond, prompting envy and jealousy from their friends. A movie rental sets in mo- tion events that test their relationship’s strength and their faith in one another.
When Mark’s suppressed memory of being abducted by aliens is uncovered while watching an alien-abduction film, Susan is forced to deal with the repercussions. Though she tries to be supportive, it grows increas- ingly difficult, as Mark becomes obsessed with alien abduction chat rooms, and refuses to leave the house. With all the keen observational wit and incisive, self- deprecating dialogue of Mid-Life, Burden is Joe Ollmann at the top of his form. Another hallmark of Ollmann’s style–his ability to write page-turning stories–is in strong evidence throughout. With a self-aware quip and an ever-finer drawn line, Joe Ollmann has done it again.
“Mid-Life is bracingly (and occasionally cringingly) smart and funny about men, women, marriage and singlehood and it’s told with humor, specificity and style.” –NPR
The story is brilliantly conceived and executed… Readers of any age who pick up this gem will find it impossible to put down.” – Publishers Weekly Starred Review
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JOE OLLMANN lives in Montreal with his wife and children. He is the winner of the Doug Wright Award for best cartooning.
JANUARY 2013 • $16.95 USD/CDN • B&W • 6.75" X 10" • 96 PAGES COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS/LITERARY • ISBN: 978-1-77046-105-5 • PAPERBACK National Publicity
CANADIAN AUTHORS Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber ANIMALS WITH SHARPIES PAINTINGS BY TWO OF CANADA’S MOST INFLUENTIAL CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTISTS
Animals With Sharpies is a collection of paintings with hand-lettered texts. In each painting, Michael Dumon- tier and Neil Farber have depicted an animal holding a sharpie, ostensibly writing a message. These messages are varied in nature: political and religious tracts, confessions, recipes, arithmetic problems and more. Above all, these paintings are funny, but they are also startlingly poignant and jarring for the humanness of the suffering and long- ing depicted in these animals’ simple words.
Dumontier and Farber, two of the founding members of the highly influential art collective the Royal Art Lodge, have been collaborating on art projects for more than fifteen years. Their collaborative style is unique from that found in their individual works and is respected internationally: they’ve exhibited together in France, Switzerland, Canada, the USA, Belgium, Spain, England and Germany.
Dumontier and Farber have a strong sense of the absurd, but are also deeply insightful about the world in which their art is created. Animals With Sharpies will be a mixture of new, previously unseen pieces, and older pieces.
“The artists share a homemade, low-fi tendency that is in each case expressed with striking individuality, but in col- laboration their disparate styles communicate seamlessly.” –The Believer “…a fantastic little package full of [Dumontier and Farber’s] amazingly strange and humorous work.” –Book By Its Cover “The book offers up often comic and sometimes moving scenes . . . The strength of the paintings is their naïve style coupled with the incongruous, and sometimes dark, captioning.” —Design Week ALSO AVAILABLE: CONSTRUCTIVE ABANDONMENT 978-1-77046-045-4 • $15.95 usd/cdn
MICHAEL DUMONTIER and NEIL FARBER are founding members of the Royal Art Lodge. They live in Winnipeg.
APRIL 2013 • $19.95 USD/CDN • Full Color • 9" X 7" • 64 PAGES ART BOOKS/GENERAL • ISBN: 978-1-77046-106-2 • HARDCOVER National Publicity
John Stanley with a design by Seth ALL AGES! NANCY VOLUME FOUR THE IRRESISTIBLE ADVENTURES OF NANCY AND SLUGGO
In the fourth and final volume of the John Stanley Library’sNancy com- ics, the gang is back. Readers are treated to still more uproarious antics from Nancy, Sluggo, Spike, Aunt Fritzi, and Mr. & Mrs. McOnions. In these stories, Nancy has a dream that seems a little too real, Sluggo’s moth cupboard turns out to be pretty profitable, and Rollo Haveall takes rhubarb and blackberry pie revenge on an ungrateful Nancy.
John Stanley drew these comics as a journeyman on the stories. He tended towards absurdist punchlines, but also mimicked the logic of children very well. John Stanley’s work is incredibly fresh and funny half a century later. Pudgy, irritable, and always trying to find ways to have fun, Sluggo and Nancy’s hijinks are laugh-a-minute.
“Seriously charming, funny and at times downright weird.” –Time Out Chicago
NANCY VOL 1 978-1-897299-77-7 NANCY VOL 2 978-1-897299-96-8 NANCY VOL 3 978-1-77046-050-8 JOHN STANLEY was a journeyman comics scripter in the 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for his scripts for many of the Little Lulu comics produced by Dell. Stanley is considered by many comics historians to be the most consistently funny and idiosyn- cratic writer to ever work in comics. He left comics bitterly sometime in the late 1960s, never to return. He died in 1993.
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MARCH 2013 • $29.95 USD/CDN • Full Color • 7.8" X 11" • 136 PAGES JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General • 978-1-77046-109-3 • HARDCOVER National Publicity • Library & Youth Marketing TOVE JANSSON’S MOOMIN FALLS IN LOVE Tove Jansson ALL AGES! MOOMIN NOW IN COLOR THE TOVE JANSSON CLASSIC NOW REFORMATTED FOR KIDS, IN SOFTCOVER!
Due to the resounding success of the hardcover Moomin comics by Tove and Lars Jansson, Drawn & Quarterly is re-releasing these classic comics in an all-new format. Available in an affordable kid-proof but kid-friendly flexicover, and in full color for the first time, these books are slimmer versions of the hardcovers, with one story in each volume while previous editions collected four.
Moominvalley is flooded, so Snor- kmaiden and Moomin head out to rescue anyone stranded in the deluge. They bring home Miss La Goona, the leading lady of the visit- ing circus, who turns out to be quite a demanding houseguest. Nonethe- less, Moomin, having read a few too many romantic novels, falls head over heels in love with her, and cha- os ensues.
Moomin FALLS IN LOVE • 978-1-77046-107-9 • Flexicover • 8" X 6.5" • 48 pp • full color • $9.95 USD/CDN JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General • National Publicity
After Mymble’s family comes to visit the Moomins, her littlest and most badly behaved sister, Little My, is left behind. She promises to behave if she is given Moomin’s bedroom; Moomin, tired of being forced out of his room, decides to build a house where all the rooms will belong to him. With Little My helping out, things are sure to go awry, but in the end, Moomin’s house-building misadven- tures teach him the value of a home.
Moomin BUILDS A HOUSE • 978-1-77046-108-6 • Flexicover • 8" X 6.5" • 48 pp • full color • $9.95 USD/CDN JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General • National Publicity ALL AGES! More Moomin!
TOVE JANSSON is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to the biggest audience ever on the pages of the world’s largest newspaper, the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in forty countries. The Drawn & Quarterly reprints (which began in 2006) are the first time the strip has been published in any form in North America, and they have deservedly reclaimed Jansson’s place among the international cartooning greats of the last century. To date there are seven hardcover volumes of the Moomin comic strip, with over 100,000 units in print, two childrens reprints–The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My and Who Will Comfort Toffle–as well as a biography of how Tove and Lars Jannson became cartoonists, Moomin Every Day. These D+Q Moomin books join the internationally loved Moomin chapter- books by F.S.G. and the reissued Moomin kids books by Puffin.
VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4 978-1-894937-80-1 978-1-897299-19-7 978-1-897299-55-5 978-1-897299-78-4 $19.95 USD/CDN $19.95 USD/CDN $19.95 USD/CDN $19.95 USD/$21.95 CDN
VOLUME 5 VOLUME 6 VOLUME 7 MOOMIN EVERY DAY 978-1-897299-94-4 978-1-77046-042-3 978-1-77046-062-1 978-1-77046-043-0 $19.95 USD/CDN $19.95 USD/$20.95 CDN $19.95 USD/$20.95 CDN $22.95 USD/CDN THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND LITTLE MY WHO WILL COMFORT TOFFLE? 978-1-897299-95-1 • $16.95 USD/$19.95 CDN 978-1-77046-017-1 • $16.95 USD/CDN
MOOMIN’S WINTER FOLLIES MOOMINVALLEY TURNS JUNGLE 978-1-77046-098-0 • $9.95 USD/CDN 978-1-77046-097-3 • $9.95 USD/CDN
TOVE JANSSON (1914–2001) was a legendary Finnish children’s book author/artist and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in chil- dren’s books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and TV.
Lars Jansson (1926–2000) took over the Moomin comic strip from his sister Tove. He was a published author at sixteen before he taught himself to be a cartoonist to replace Tove. MORE
PIPPI MOVES IN by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman
A zany redheaded girl moves in next door to Tommy and Annika. She’s no ordinary girl, however, she’s Pippi Longstocking! The strongest person in the world, Pippi lives in Villa Villekulla with a horse, a monkey named Mr. Nilsson, and no parents. Her nonstop hijinks thrill her fellow playmates, torment befuddled adults, and delight readers the world over.
The irrepressible Pippi Longstocking makes her comic book debut! First published in 1957, written by Astrid Lindgren and drawn by original series artist Ingrid Vang Nyman, this long lost mid-century classic has been translated into English for the first time by renowned translator Tiina Nunnally.
978-1-77046-099-7 • Hardcover • 5.625” X 9.5” • 56 pp • full color • $14.95 USD/CDN JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General • National Publicity • Library Marketing ENFANT
ANNA & FROGA: WANT A GUMBALL? by Anouk Ricard
Anouk Ricard’s Anna and Froga features the adventures of a little girl named Anna and her gang of animal friends. Anna’s best friend is the titular Froga, and they often hang out with Bubu the dog (an aspiring artist), Christopher the gourmand earthworm, and Ron (a practical joker of a cat). With a sly humor, Ricard spins yarns that will delight and entertain the whole family.
Anouk Ricard works in a fanciful and childlike style, with vibrant colors and simple storylines. The illustrations in Anna and Froga are inviting and the stories well told, employing short, snappy dialogue. Without sacrificing quality, intelligence, or humor, Angouleme Festival-nominated author Ricard is able to write from childhood effectively and charmingly.
978-1-77046-070-6 • Flexicover • 7.75" X 9.875" • 40 pp • full color • $14.95 USD/CDN JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General • National Publicity
TOVE JANSSON’S MOOMIN BUILDS A HOUSE
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