RECOMMENDEDAGELEVEL:ALLAGES DRAWN&QUARTERLY T OVE J ANSSON FALL 2009 CATALOGUE THEBOOKABOUT [ D & Q ’ S 2 0 TH ANNIVERSARY] MOOMIN,MYMBLE DISTRIBUTEDINCANADABY ANDLITTLEMY RAINCOASTBOOKS The treasured children’s classic, ORDERS: 1–800–663–5714 lovingly back in print “My favorite is THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND LITTLE MY, by Tove Jansson. [I] discovered it when [I was] in Finland. It's just an awful lot of fun.”—James Billington, NEWSWEEK “For those wanting more gentle escapism, Tove MARKETING Jansson’s THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND National Publicity LITTLE MY is a joy... teases and beguiles at every National Advertising turn.”—THE OBSERVER Web Marketing Library Marketing “THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND LITTLE MY is a what–happens–next? tale with cut–outs. It ENFANT (D&Q Children’s is charmingly dated but delightful, and has an imprint) oddness to which modern illustrators might as- pire.”—SUNDAY TIMES (UK) HARDCOVER Full–Color illustrations throughout with die–cuts In a delightful, curious game of what comes next, on every page. Moomintroll travels through the woods to get 8.2 x 11.25 / 20 pages home with milk for Moominmamma. A simple trip turns into a colorful adventure as Moom- 9781897299–95–1 introll meets Mymble who has lost her sister Lit- $ 1 9 . 9 5 C D N tle My. Along the way, they endure the hijinks of all the charming characters of the Moomin world including the Fillijonks and Hattifatteners. Will OCTOBER Moomin ever make it home safe and sound? A beautiful and boisterous story by internationally acclaimed children’s author Tove Jansson, this pic- ture book is sure to tickle the fancies of parents and kids as well as Moomintroll fans everywhere! TOVE JANSSON (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki, Finland and is the Hans Christian Andersen award–winning author, cartoonist, painter and creator of the Moomintrolls. The Moomins are loved around the world, have been on television and can be found in their own museum and theme park in Finland. An excerpt from THE BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE AND LITTLE MY RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ R . S i k o r y a k MASTERPIECE COMICS Hilarious parodies of classic litera- ture reimagined with classic comics “A brilliant parable about literature, history and what telling stories tells us about ourselves.” —TORONTO STAR “A provocative collision.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY “Disconcerting and fascinating… a canny fusion MARKETING of overlapping fictional legacies.” National Publicity —GLOBE AND MAIL National Advertis- ing in The New MASTERPIECE COMICS adapts a variety of classic lit- Yorker, Believer, erary works with the most iconic visual idioms of Harper’s twentieth–century comics. Dense with exclama- Web Marketing Library Marketing tion marks and lurid zip–a–tone, R. Sikoryak’s parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of All rights: D+Q the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical ex- pressiveness of classic comics from Superman to HARDCOVER Peanuts. In “Blond Eve,” Dagwood and Blondie Full–Color Illustrations are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their ar- Throughout chetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde’s Dorian 9.5 x 14 / 64 pages Gray is re–imagined as a foppish Winsor McCay character; and Camus’ Stranger as a brooding, 9781897299–84–5 chain–smoking Golden–Era Superman. Sikoryak’s $ 2 4 . 9 5 C D N classics have appeared in landmark anthologies such as RAW and DRAWN & QUARTERLY, all of SEPTEMBER which are collected in MASTERPIECE COMICS, along with brilliant new graphic literary satires. He is an illustrator for the NEW YORKER and his anima- tion has been featured on the DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart. R. SIKORYAK is an animator, illustrator and car- toonist living in New York with his wife. He is in the speakers program of the New York Council of the Humanities and teaches in the illustration ABOVE: An excerpt from Masterpiece Comics. department at Parsons School of Design. 2 3 RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ R.O. Blechman TALKINGLINES A collection of graphic narratives from one of the most influential and respected print artists of the past half century. INTRODUCTION BY SETH “An immensely rich talent....his qualities of taste, intelligence, and—most vital—his instincts never to stray into forms that will betray him, have al- lowed Blechman to express himself in a variety of MARKETING ways that have enhanced the quality of American National Publicity life.” —MAURICE SENDAK National Advertis- ing in The New “The drawings of Blechman, which are minimal- Yorker, Believer, ist, trembling, even hesitant, manage to express a Harper’s universe of uncommon perfection.” —SEMPE Web Marketing Library Marketing “In a class by himself.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES All rights: D+Q TALKING LINES is the first ever comprehensive overview of the graphic stories of R.O. Blechman, HARDCOVER Full–Color Illustrations spanning six decades in the career of one of the Throughout most influential print artists of our time. From 6.7 x 9 / 272 pages early work in Harvey Kurtzman’s seminal HUMBUG in 1957 to ruminations on Shakespeare 9781897299–85–2 and Virginia Wolfe from the pages of the THE NEW $ 3 4 . 9 5 C D N YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW in 2002–2006, TALKING LINES collects the work of a modern master. OCTOBER R.O. BLECHMAN has won several Emmy Awards and gold medals from the Cannes Film Festival and NY Art Directors Club. His animated shorts have appeared on SESAME STREET and he was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Mod- ern Art in 2003. Blechman’s artwork is in the per- manent collections of The Library of Congress and MoMA and he has provided numerous NEW YORKER covers and illustrations for publications ABOVE: An excerpt from Talking Lines. around the world. 4 5 RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ Susumu Katsumata REDSNOW An award–winning book from a leg- endary Manga–Ka author RED SNOW continues D+Q’s groundbreaking ex- ploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga in this collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the pre–modern Japanese countryside of the au- thor’s youth, a slightly magical world where an- cestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life, struggling to survive the harsh MARKETING seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers National Publicity and farmers. While the world they inhabit has National Advertising faded into memory and myth, the universal fun- Web Marketing damental emotions of the human heart prevail at Library Marketing the center of these tender stories. All rights: D+Q SUSUMU KATSUMATA was born in 1943 in Ishino- maki in northeastern Japan. He died in 2007. HARDCOVER b/w Illustrations throughout OTHER D+Q MANGA TITLES OF INTEREST: 6.25 x 8.5 / 260 pages A DRIFTING LIFE 978-1-897299-86-9 BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI $ 2 9 . 9 5 C D N 978-1-897299-74-6 / $29.95 USD THE PUSH MAN AND OTHER STORIES OCTOBER BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI 978-1-896597-85-0 / $19.95 USD ABANDON THE OLD IN TOKYO BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI 978-1-894937-87-0 / $19.95 USD GOOD–BYE BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI 978-1-897299-37-1 / $19.95 USD RED COLORED ELEGY BY SEIICHI HAYASHI 978-1-897299-40-1 / $24.95 USD THE BOX MAN (SEE PAGE 14 OF THIS CATALOGUE) ABOVE: An excerpt from Red Snow. 6 7 CANADIAN AUTHOR RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ M a r c B e l l HOTPOTATOE Fine Ahtwerks: 2 0 0 1 — 2 0 0 8 “A gifted…cartoonist… the delight of his work is in the play of free–as- sociating and funny imagination.” —Ken Johnson, NEW YORK TIMES “Boundary–destroying, wacked–out (and beauti- MARKETING fully drawn) material from Canadian artist Marc National Publicity Bell that will leave you feeling as if you have bees Author tour in in your head.”—MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Canadian cities Web Marketing “Marc Bell is a riddle wrapped in a conundrum Library Marketing further wrapped in salty bacon.” —LA WEEKLY All rights: D+Q Marc Bell’s HOT POTATOE seamlessly combines decade–plus comics activities with a lifelong de- HARDCOVER votion to, as Bell calls it, “Fine Ahtwerks.” Part Full–Color Illustrations art monograph, part comics collection, HOT POTA- Throughout TOE is filled with mixed media cardboard con- 9 x 11.5 / 272 pages structions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell’s most intense, dizzying comics 9781897299–89–0 from the contemporary avant–garde comics an- $ 3 9 . 9 5 C D N thologies — KRAMERS ERGOT and THE GANZFELD. OCTOBER Represented by the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan, Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray John- son and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph. MARC BELL was born in London, Ontario and has befuddled and bemused his readers for over a decade. He is the author of SHRIMPY AND PAUL AND FRIENDS, and his comics have appeared in many Canadian weeklies, VICE magazine and the ABOVE: An excerpt from Hot Potatoe. LA WEEKLY. 8 9 RECOMMENDEDAGELEVEL:ALLAGES John Stanley THIRTEENGOING ONEIGHTEEN The latest title in The John Stanley Library designed by Seth In the early to mid–1960s, John Stanley turned his attentions to drawing and writing his own se- ries, specifically MELVIN MONSTER, AROUND THE BLOCK WITH DUNC AND LOO, KOOKIE, and the most interesting of these titles, THIRTEEN GOING ON EIGHTEEN, rather than working with already es- MARKETING tablished licensed characters he is most well National Publicity known for such as Little Lulu.