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DRAWN&QUARTERLY fall 2012 ADRIAN TOMINE’S NEW YORK DRAWINGS

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ADRIAN TOMINE’S NEW YORK DRAWINGS

Adrian Tomine NEW YORK DRAWINGS A COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE NEW YORKER COVER ARTIST AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST

Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleet- ing glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the sub- way stairs for a summer storm to pass.

Adrian Tomine’s illustrations and comics have appeared for more than a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of the New Yorker. Instantly recognizable for their deceptively simple and evocative style, these images have garnered the attention of the New Yorker’s readership and the approbation of such venerable institutions as the Art Directors Club and American Illustration.

New York Drawings is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past seven years. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that he has pro- duced for the New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches inspired by the city. Complete with notes and annotations by the author, New York Drawings will also feature a new introductory comic focusing on Tomine’s experiences as a New York illustrator.

“One of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation.”–The Village Voice

“Tomine has always been a master of the small gesture.”–The Los Angeles Times

“Tomine has an understated visual style that combines wit, social commentary, psychological insights and elegant drawing.”–The San Diego Union-Tribune

“A superb draftsman and chronicler of the inconsolable heartaches.”–The Philadelphia Inquirer

ADRIAN TOMINE is the author of Scenes from an Impending Marriage, Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, 32 Stories and the comic book series Optic Nerve.

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SLEEPWALK AND OTHER SUMMER BLONDE SCRAPBBOOK STORIES 978-1-896597-12-6 978-1-896597-57-7 978-1-896597-77-5 $17.95 USD/CDN $16.95 USD/CDN $24.95 USD/CDN LYNDA BARRY’S THE FREDDIE STORIES

Lynda Barry THE FREDDIE STORIES THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TROUBLED ADOLESCENTS FROM BARRY’S ACCLAIMED COMIC

The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of Freddie, the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. These four-panel entries–each representing an episode in the life of Freddie–bring to life adolescence, pimples and all. No matter what happens, it all seems to go wrong for Freddie–he’s set up as an arsonist, mercilessly teased in school, and bossed around by classmates. With con- summate skill, Lynda Barry writes about the cruelty of children at this most vulnerable age when the friends they make and the paths they choose can forever change their lives. In The Freddie Stories every word of dialogue, every piece of narration, and every dark line evokes ado- lescent angst.

These short, moving stories are collected from Bar- ry’s beloved Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which was serialized across North America for two decades. Re-packaged here with a brand-new introduction from Lynda Barry, The Freddie Stories is an adult tale about just how hard it is NOT FINAL COVER to be a teenager–a classic Barry work alongside her cult- masterpiece novel Cruddy–poignant, insightful, and true.

“Barry rejects milk-and-sugar sweetness for something stronger, richer, more complex.”–The New York Times

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LYNDA BARRY was born in Wisconsin in 1956, and later studied at Evergreen State College. She has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator and teacher, finding them all very much alike.

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CANADIAN AUTHOR Julie Morstad THE WAYSIDE ALL NEW DRAWINGS FROM A NOTED ILLUSTRATOR

Julie Morstad has long excelled at illustra- tion, often working in tandem with children’s writers, but in The Wayside, the storytelling potential of her fantastical pictures is fully re- alized. Within these pages, Morstad’s worlds unite, maintaining their ethereal, almost fairy-tale beauty while also achieving a loose overarching synthesis through thematic and visual commonalities.

The work found herein combines the delicate line of Edward Gorey with the color palette of Marcel Dzama, and emerges as some- thing utterly unique: a combination of the two with the spirit of Virginia Woolf. Similar to her first D+Q book, Milk Teeth, Morstad’s drawings—dramatic, poetic, and heavy with symbolism—speak for themselves, exploring femininity, identity, and personal mythologies.

“This new book of her work is perfect. It’s...a good match for her delicate fine line drawings and etchings.” –Book By Its Cover

“...delicate, imaginative, whimsical and haunting.”–The Vancouver Sun

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JULIE MORSTAD Julie Morstad is an award-winning illustrator and artist living in Vancouver, B.C., with her husband and three kids. She received her BFA at the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2004, and is a sessional faculty member at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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CANADIAN AUTHOR Genevieve Castree SUSCEPTIBLE A TRANS-CANADIAN EXPLORATION OF IDENTITY FROM A MULTITALENTED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN

Geneviève Castrée has long been beloved for her mini- comics, comics, visual art, and music. There is a unique quality to all of her artistic endeavors–quiet, serene, de- pressing. Castrée’s keen eye for detail and her fearless ability to probe the depths of her troubled past make Susceptible a stirring portrait of an artist coming into her own.

Susceptible is the story of Goglu (Geneviève), a day- dreamer growing up in Quebec in the ‘80s and ‘90s with a single mother. From a skillful artist comes a moving, beautiful story about families, loss, and growing up. Whether she’s discussing nature versus nurture or the story of her birth, Castrée imbues her storytelling with a quiet power and a confidence in the strength of imagery.

“[Castrée] offers three connected minimalist fables dreamily portraying a young woman’s reactions to depression, domes- ticity, and motherhood in delicate watercolors that, thanks largely to her keen graphic skills, make them whimsical with out being cloying.” –Booklist NOT FINAL COVER

“[Castrée’s work], illustrated in a delicately watercolored style that suggests Richard Scarry in the throes of an Edward Gorey obsession, is an episodic meditation on love, belonging, and personal identity. The visual metaphors for depression and home will break your heart; the care taken with their rendering will join the broken pieces back together on every page.” –Austin Chronicle

“We’re Wolf is composed of a trilogy of adult fables about happiness, sadness and companionship drawn in a graceful, languid style.” –Publishers Weekly

GENEVIÈVE CASTRÉE was born in Quebec. She has been drawing since the age of two. Castrée lives and works in the Pacific-Northwest, where she makes visual art, and records and plays music under the name “Ô PAON.”

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Anders Nilsen DON’T GO WHERE I CAN’T FOLLOW A STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS INSCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, LETTERS, AND BEDSIDE SKETCHES

In this collection of letters, drawings, and photos, Anders Nilsen chronicles a six-year relationship and the illness that brought it to an end.

Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is an eloquent appreciation of the time the author shared with his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver. The story is told using artifacts of the couple’s life together, including early love notes, simple and poetic postcards, tales of their travels in written and comics form, journal entries and drawings done in the hospital during her final days. It concludes with a beautifully rendered account of Weaver’s memorial that Glen David Gold, writing in the L.A. Times, called “16 panels of beauty and grace.” Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is a deeply personal romance, and a universal remind- er of our mortality and the significance of the relationships we build.

Originally published as a limited edition in 2006, this collection includes a new afterword written by Nilsen, the author of the New York Times Notable Book and Lynd Ward Prize winning graphic novel Big Questions.

“...[a] lonely, tender pastiche.” –Chicago Tribune

“...a tribute to the life and death of a woman he loved and to the redemptive power of art.”–Glen David Gold, LA Times

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ANDERS NILSEN was born in New Hampshire and now lives in Chicago. He has a BFA in painting and illustration from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He is the author of New York Times Notable Book Big Questions and Dogs and Water.

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Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie ALL AGES! AYA: LOVE IN YOP CITY THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE to the award-winning AYA serieS

Aya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Aya is a lighthearted story about life on the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country’s history.

While the stories found in Aya: Love in Yop City maintain their familiar tone, quick pace, and joyfulness, we see Aya and her friends beginning to make serious decisions about their future. When a professor tries to take advantage of Aya, her plans to become a doctor are seriously shaken, and she vows to take revenge on the lecherous man. With a little help from the tight-knit community of Yopougon, Aya comes through these trials stronger than ever.

This second volume of the complete Aya includes unique appendices–recipes, guides to understanding Ivorian slang, street sketches, and concluding remarks from Marguerite Abouet explaining history and social milieu. Inspired by Abouet’s childhood, the series has received praise for offering relief from the disaster-struck focus of most stories set in Africa. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme Inter- national Comics Festival; was nominated for the YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels list; and was included on “best of” lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

“Oubrerie’s style animates both the broadly funny and painfully grave moments in Abouet’s rhythmic slice-of-life storytelling.”–Washington Post

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The writer MARGUERITE ABOUET was born in Abidjan in 1971 and now lives outside of Paris. The artist CLÉMENT OUBRERIE was born in Paris in 1966 and has illustrated more than forty children’s books.

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Featuring never-before-seen original Pippi Longstocking comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman & Tove Jansson’s Moomin comics in an all-new color and paperback format! ASTRID LINDGREN AND INGRID VANG NYMAN’S PIPPI MOVES IN

Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman ALL AGES! PIPPI MOVES IN THE LOST MASTERPIECE FROM ASTRID LINDGREN’S CHILDREN’S CLASSIC

Pippi Moves In marks the first time that the legendary Pippi Longstocking comics by famed children’s au- thor and creator Astrid Lindgren and Danish illustra- tor Ingrid Vang Nyman will be published outside of Scandinavia in thirty years, as well as their first ever publication in English.

The outspoken strong-girl with the carrot-colored pigtails and the mismatched socks has enthralled generations of children the world over with her fabu- lous exploits at Villa Villekulla, where she lives with her horse and monkey. Countless translations of the chapter books are available in over sixty languages. Pippi is Sweden’s best-known children’s export, mak- ing it all the more remarkable that Drawn & Quarterly has discovered what will be a three volume series.

The comics are re-imaginings of the classic chap- ter book stories and were originally published in the Swedish magazine Humpty Dumpty in 1957–1959, a decade after the original books. The comics spotlight both Lindgren’s brilliant writing and Vang Ny- man’s bold, bright colors that seem presciently and eerily modern. The original illustrator for the chapter books, Vang Nyman was a very talented children’s book illustrator and an avant-garde cham- pion of the importance of children’s literature, insisting that art in children’s books needed to meet the same esthetic standards as art in any other medium. Vang Nyman died in 1959, while Lindgren went on to become one of the world’s best loved writers with over 145 million books sold worldwide.

ASTRID LINDGREN (1907–2002) was the creator of one of Sweden’s most iconic fictional characters, Pippi Longstocking. The Pippi books have been translated into more than sixty languages.

INGRID VANG NYMAN (1916–1959) was a noted children’s book illustrator, as well as the original illustrator of the Pippi chapter books.

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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.

A crate filled with tropi- cal seeds washes ashore, and when Moominmamma plants the seeds, a lush rain- forest erupts in Moominval- ley. When Stinky liberates some exotic animals from the zoo, chaos ensues, and the Moomins are forced to prove once and for all whether or not they’re re- lated to hippopotamuses.

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Moomin wakes up one morning to find the pond frozen over, and rather than hibernate, the family decides to brave the winter weather. At first, their win- try adventure seems to be going swimmingly, until Mr. Brisk of the Great Outdoors Club takes over and forces everyone to embrace the winter sports, whether they want to or not.

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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.

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TOVE JANSSON (1914–2001) was a legendary Finnish children’s book author/artist and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in children’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 pub- lished author at sixteen before he taught himself to be a cartoonist to replace Tove.

Brian Ralph ALL AGES! CAVE~IN A FANTASTICAL, WORDLESS VOYAGE THROUGH SUBTERRANEAN MAZES

A rat darts across the opening pages, into a hole, and down a long tunnel, stopping under a hammock. A mole man stretches and wakes up, leading the rat and the reader deeper into the tunnel. What follows is a se- ries of dreamlike sequences, each stranger than the last. Brian Ralph, author of the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller and American Library Association/YALSA “Great Graphic Novel for Teens” Daybreak, was a founding member of the influential Providence, Rhode Island, Fort Thunder art collective, which was renowned for the way its members’ work intermingled lowbrow and highbrow art forms–draw- ing inspiration from comics, video and role-playing games, and contemporary art. Fort Thunder created the alterna- tive adventure comic and the comic book as artist’s book. Cave~In was seen as the first example of this new approach.

In this wordless classic, special emphasis is placed on the power of gesture. Minimalism allows Ralph to be playful with form–Cave~In’s use of color and crosshatching speak much more clearly to narrative shifts than they could in a more conventional text, and the use of different panel shapes and sizes transform the rhythm and pacing of the story. Cave~In is an all-ages adventure story, jam-packed with monsters, bats, and all manner of unimaginable underground mystery.

“Brian Ralph’s comics present more than meets the eye, but they’re eye candy, too, and work well as fantasy stories that cover a specific landscape over a period of time roughly equivalent to the experience of seeing how they unfold. I find them immensely pleasurable.”–Tom Spurgeon, the Comics Reporter

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BRIAN RALPH is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a professor of sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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CANADIAN AUTHOR Doug Wright (with design by Seth) ALL NIPPER 1967–1968 AGES! A FAITHFULLY RENDERED PAEAN TO MID-CENTURY FAMILY LIFE

In the late 1960s, things are still fun, innocent, and wholesome in the suburbs, but the panto- mime strip does reference con- temporary life with the entire Wright family making an excur- sion to downtown Montreal for the 1967 World’s Fair. As always, Wright’s stellar draftsmanship, fond eye for detail, and brilliant sense of comic timing shines throughout this volume of the Nipper series.

“There are a lot of things to like about (Nipper)…The way these wordless sto- ries are told is like nothing I’ve seen in a comic strip before.”–Boing Boing

COL. DOUG WRIGHT 9781897299524 • $39.95 USD/CDN DOUG WRIGHT (1917–1983) was a Canadian cartoonist whose weekly comic strip Doug Wright’s Family, a.k.a. Nipper, ran for more than 35 years in magazines and newspapers

NIPPER (1963–1964) 9781770460195 • $16.95 USD/CDN NIPPER (1965–1966) 9781770460560 • $16.95 USD/CDN across Canada and the U.S.

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