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DRAWN & QUARTERLY DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY RAINCOAST BOOKS ESSENTIAL BACKLIST To place an order please call 800.663.5714 RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: ALL AGES Lynda Barry WHAT IT IS The groundbreaking book on creativity by a legendary artist

PRAISE FOR WHAT IT IS : “The collages in legendary Lynda Barry’s What It Is are a bathysphere-like odyssey through the depths of her funky sub - conscious.”— VANITY FAIR

“Meditations, stories and images float past in a random fashion, segueing between darkness and hope, or adulthood and childhood, the way they might in dreams or memory.” —Carol Kino, THE TIMES

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How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s HARDCOVER compositions, with words attracting pic - full-colour Illustrations tures and conjuring places through a pen that throughout first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is 8.375 x 10.875 / 208 demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method pages that is playful, powerful, and accessible to any - one with an inquisitive wish to write or to re - 978-1-897299-35-7 member. Composed of completely new $27.95 CDN material, each page of Barry’s first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invig - orating example of exactly what it is: “The ordi - ABOVE : Excerpt from What It Is . nary is extraordinary.”

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LYNDA BARRY has worked as a painter, cartoon - ist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, com - mentator and teacher, and found they are very much alike. She lives in Wisconsin.

2 Order from Raincoast Books • 800.663.5714 • www.raincoast.com RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: ALL AGES A COMIC STRIP BIOGRAPHY The classic Canadian graphic novel “If you love to read a gripping story, if you are awed by the talent of an artist, then look no fur - ther: Chester Brown’s Louis Riel is comix his - tory in the making, and with it, history never looked so good.” —

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978-1894937-89-4 CANADIAN AUTHOR $19.95 CDN

Chester Brown documents with dramatic sub - tlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Louis Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

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CHESTER BROWN was born in 1960 in Montreal. His next book will be published by Drawn & ABOVE : Excerpt from Louis Riel: A comic strip biography. Quarterly in 2012.

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“Though we may all have favorite Clowes creations, from the dim auteur Dan Pussey to the disaffected adolescents Enid and Rebecca of , the Wilson of Wilson vies with his past triumphs and takes a bold leap beyond them.” —Sam Lipsyte, BOOK REVIEW

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Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no HARDCOVER one else. In an ongoing quest to find human full-color Illustrations connection, he badgers friend and stranger throughout alike into a series of one-sided conversations, 8.25 x 11.5 / 80 pages punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. 978-1-77046-007-2 $23.95 CDN Daniel Clowes, one of the leading of our time, creates a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating character study of the modern egotist—outspoken and oblivious to the world around him.

ABOVE : An excerpt from Wilson . DANIEL CLOWES is the author of the seminal series , the screenwriter of GHOST WORLD and , and an illustrator for the NEW YORKER . He is married and lives in Oakland, CA.

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“Tinged with black humour, ...[ PYONGYANG ] of - fers a perspective no straight-up print journal - ism could.” — THE

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Voted "Best of" by CBC Radio One’s "Talking Books," the American Library Association and PAPERBACK Time.com. More timely than ever, Guy b/w Illustrations Delisle’s acclaimed Pyongyang is a glimpse throughout into one of the most secretive and mysterious 6.25 x 8.5 / 192 pages nations in the world today: . Py - ongyang is a graphical record of the time car - 978-1897299-21-0 toonist Guy Delisle spent working as an $16.95 CDN animator in Pyongyang, becoming one of the few Westerners to witness current conditions in the surreal showcase city.

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• : A TRAVELOGUE FROM CHINA 978-1894937-79-5 / $24.95 CDN ABOVE : An excerpt from Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea. Born in Québec City, GUY DELISLE now lives in the south of France. He is currently working on a graphic novel about his year spent living in .

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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 its biggest audience ever on the pages of the LONDON EVENING NEWS . The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in forty countries.

Also available in the Moomin series are two de - lightful mid-century children’s picture books A BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN MYMBLE AND by Jansson: , , SEE LEFT FOR LIST OF LITTLE MY and WHO WILL COMFORT TOFFLE ? ALL AVAILABLE MOOMIN EDITIONS AVAILABLE IN THE MOOMIN SERIES : • MOOMIN VOLUME 1 / 978-1894937-80-1 / $21.95 CDN • MOOMIN VOLUME 2 / 978-1897299-19-7 / $21.95 CDN • MOOMIN VOLUME 3 / 978-1897299-55-5 / $21.95 CDN • MOOMIN VOLUME 4 / 978-1897299-78-4 / $21.95 CDN • MOOMIN VOLUME 5 / 978-1897299-94-4 / $21.95 CDN • BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN , MYMBLE , AND LITTLE MY 978-1897299-95-1 / $17.95 CDN • WHO WILL COMFORT TOFFLE ? 978-1770460-17-1 / $17.95 CDN

TOVE JANSSON (1914-2001) was a legendary ABOVE : An excerpt from Moomin. Finnish children’s book author/artist and cre - ator of the Moomins, who came to life in chil - dren’s books, comic strips, theater, opera, film, radio, theme parks, and television.

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“A comic of impressive scope. One of the ap - pealing things about Berlin is Lutes’ love of the comic medium. His story is full of novel com - binations of text and pictures, shuttling (a la WINGS OF DESIRE ) between impassive bird’s-eye cityscapes and dairy-like internal mono - logues.” — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“BERLIN amounts to a rare drawn document of a vastly confusing time, presenting a panorama of visual information comple - mented with well-conceived dialogue.” — PRINT MAGAZINE

A novel with cinematic sweep, the lives of Weimar Berlin’s glamourous and downtrod - den denizens criss-cross in the cold city streets and change the city’s destiny forever. Jason SEE LEFT FOR LIST OF Lutes’ BERLIN series masterfully creates a story BOTH AVAILABLE against the backdrop of the excesses and anxi - BERLIN EDITIONS eties of the twilight of the Weimar years and the terrible sense of the doom to come.

AVAILABLE IN THE BERLIN SERIES : • BERLIN VOLUME 1 / 978-1896597-29-4 / $23.95 CDN • BERLIN VOLUME 2 / 978-1897299-53-1 / $23.95 CDN ABOVE : An excerpt from Berlin. Born in 1967, is an American car - toonist whose work includes the ongoing BERLIN trilogy, and the graphic novel JAR OF FOOLS . Jason lives in rural , where he teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies. He is currently working on the final chapter in the BERLIN trilogy.

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“The real glory of Exit Wounds is Modan’s art - work. Her characters’ body language and facial expressions, rendered in the gestural ‘clear line’ style of Hergé’s Tintin books, are so precisely observed, they practically tell the story by themselves. ” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Modan’s spare, affecting lines and charged dialogue add up to a tragicomic take on family and identity. ” —THE WASHINGTON POST

Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a fe - PAPERBACK male soldier. Learning that his estranged father colour Illustrations may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in throughout Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in 6 x 9 / 168 pages searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected 978-1897299-83-8 phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mys - $21.95 CDN tery of his father’s death, he finds himself piec - ing together not only the last few months of his father’s life but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Rutu Modan creates a portrait of modern , a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.

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RUTU MODAN graduated from the Bezalel Acad - ABOVE : An excerpt from Exit Wounds . emy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, where she lives. She has done illustrations for children’s books as well as for THE NEW YORK TIMES , THE NEW YORKER , and LE MONDE .

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“A searing and amusing look at the motley collection of reporters, war profiteers, crimi - nals, soldiers and hapless civilians trapped in war zone.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Sacco doesn’t try to lay claim to the truth. He’s simply telling one man’s story, and it makes for an excellent book.” — THE WASHINGTON POST

“Sacco is a master cartoonist, possessing a documentarian’s eye. ” — THE TORONTO STAR

“Sacco demonstrates that the narrative arts, including comics, can gather up complicated PAPERBACK social truths with a gradual that b/w Illustrations often eludes the camera.” throughout — THE BOSTON GLOBE 7 x 10 / 216 pages

Using old–fashioned pen and paper, award– 978-1897299-90-6 winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the $22.95 CDN sidelines of wars around the world. THE FIXER AND OTHER STORIES is a new softcover that col - lects Joe Sacco’s landmark short stories on the Bosnian War that previously comprised the hardcover editions of THE FIXER and WAR ’S END . ABOVE : Excerpt from The Fixer and Other Stories. JOE SACCO was born in Malta and graduated from the University of with a degree in journalism. He is the author of PALESTINE , SAFE AREA GORAZDE , and FOOTNOTES IN GAZA . He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is working on his next graphic novel.

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The award-winning book first serialzed in The New York Times

PRAISE FOR GEORGE SPROTT : “It’s haunting and exquisite.” —Julia Keller, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“A memorial to a lost age of localism and craft.”—, THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker il - lustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott, the host of a long-running tele - vision program. The events forming the patch - work of George’s life are pieced together from the tenuous memories of several informants, who often have contradictory impressions. His estranged daughter describes the man as an unforgivable lout, whereas his niece re - members him fondly. His former assistant re - calls a trip to the Arctic during which George abandoned him for two months, while George HARDCOVER himself remembers that trip as the time he colour Illustrations began writing letters to a former love, from throughout whom he never received replies. 9 x 14 / 96 pages

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SETH is the cartoonist of such graphic novels as GEORGE SPROTT , IT ’SAGOOD LIFE , IF YOU DON ’T WEAKEN , and WIMBLEDON GREEN . He is the designer of the COMPLETE collections and the JOHN STANLEY LIBRARY and a NEW YORKER illustrator. He lives in Guelph, .

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“Superbly crafted, sublimely conceptual strips that combine classic cartoons and super - heroes with classic literature. A.” — THE ONION A.V. CLUB

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“A provocative collision.” — ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY HARDCOVER MASTERPIECE COMICS adapts a variety of classic Full–Color Illustrations literary works with the most iconic visual id - Throughout ioms of twentieth–century comics. Dense with 9.5 x 14 / 64 pages exclamation marks and lurid zip–a–tone, R. Sikoryak’s parodies remind us of the sensa - 978-1897299-84-5 tional excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, $24.95 CDN of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Superman to Peanuts. In “Blond Eve,” Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal sub - urban home; Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray is re –imagined as a foppish Winsor McCay char - acter; and Camus’ Stranger as a brooding, ABOVE : An excerpt from Masterpiece Comics . chain–smoking Golden –Era Superman.

R. SIKORYAK is an animator, illustrator and car - toonist living in New York with his wife. He is an illustrator for the NEW YORKER and his ani - mation has been featured on the DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart.

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A timeless meditation on art and commerce seen through the life of an early 20th century jewish rug maker

“Spendid artwork…the ending of Market Day is superb in its uncertainty.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A tightly woven graphic novella about a shetl craftsman…” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , STARRED REVIEW

“Sturm’s prose is sttraightforward, his art spare and deceptively simple: to - gether…his words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale.” — NPR

Mendleman’s life goes through an upheaval when he discovers that he can no longer earn a living for his growing family doing the work that defines him— making well-crafted rugs by HARDCOVER hand. As the realities of the marketplace sink full-color Illustrations in, Mendleman unravels. James Sturm draws a throughout quiet, reflective, and beautiful portrait of east - 6.5 x 9.75 / 96 pages ern Europe in the early 1900s–bringing to life

the hustle and bustle of an Old-World market - 978-1-897299-97-5 place on the brink of the industrial revolution. $23.95 CDN Market Day is an ageless tale of how economic and social forces can affect a single life.

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JAMES STURM is an award-winning cartoonist of numerous books, including THE GOLEM ’S MIGHTY SWING , and ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING . He is a true visionary, having co-founded the alternative weekly the STRANGER and the Center for Cartoon Studies, North Amer - ica’s premier cartooning school. ABOVE : An excerpt from Market Day .

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The epic autobiography of a master

“One of the most significant works the medium has ever produced.” — THE ONION

“[ A DRIFTING LIFE ] manages to be, all at once, an insider’s , a mordant cultural tour of post–Hiroshima Japan and a scrappy portrait of a strug - gling artist…It’s among this genre’s sig - nal achievements…It’s as if someone had taken a Haruki Murakami novel and drawn, beautifully and comprehensively, in its margins.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

Over ten years in the making, A DRIFTING LIFE is Tatsumi’s most ambitious, per - sonal, and heart–felt work: an autobio - graphical bildungsroman in comics form. Tatsumi weaves a complex story that en - compasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intrica -

cies of the manga industry, and most im - PAPERBACK portantly, what it means to be an artist. b/w Illustrations throughout ALSO AVAILABLE : 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 / • , ISBN 978-1-77046-012-6 / $21.95 840 pages • GOOD -BYE , ISBN 978-1897299-37-1 / $24.95 978-1-897299-74-6 • ABANDON THE OLD IN , $36.95 CDN ISBN 978-18949378-70 / $24.95 • THE PUSH MAN ISBN 978-1896597-85-0 / $24.95

Born in 1935, YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI began writing and drawing comics for a sophisticated adult readership in a realistic style he called . He has influenced generations of ABOVE : An excerpt from A Drifting Life . cartoonists and lives in Japan.

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“Tomine’s lacerating falling-out-of-love story is an irresistible gem of a graphic novel.” — JUNOT DÍAZ , PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Meticulously observed…Pitch-perfect and succinct. [Tomine] is an invisible reporter, a scientist of the heart.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“One of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation…[ SHORTCOMINGS is] equal parts poignant, hilarious, and sad.” — THE VILLAGE VOICE

SHORTCOMINGS , Adrian Tomine’s first long- form graphic novel, is the story of Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and PAPERBACK racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerat - b/w Illustrations ing, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to throughout life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. 8.25 x 10.75 / 104 pages A frequent contributor to THE NEW YORKER , Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan following and has earned status as one of the most 978-1897299-75-3 widely acclaimed cartoonists of our time. $18.95 CDN

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ADRIAN TOMINE is a graduate of The University of Berkeley and lives in Brooklyn, ABOVE : An excerpt from Shortcomings. New York. His illustrations have appeared in many publications, including THE NEW YORKER , ESQUIRE , and ROLLING STONE .

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Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sen - sitive and personally incriminating mate - rial from his private journals, carefully recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an ordered mind and es - tablished aesthetic directive. All phone numbers, references to ex-girlfriends, “false starts,” and embarrassing experi - ments with unfamiliar drawing media have been generously excised to present the reader with the most pleasant and col - orful sketchbook reading experience avail - able. Included are Ware’s frustrated doodles for his book covers, angry per - sonal assaults on friends, half-finished comic strips, and lengthy and tiresome fulmi - nations of personal disappointments both so - HARDCOVER cial and sexual, as well as his now-beloved drawings of the generally miserable inhabi - colour Illustrations tants of the city of Chicago. All in all, a neces - throughout sary volume for fans of fine art, water-based 6.25 x 9.25 / 208 pages media, and personal diatribe. This hardcover is attractively designed and easy to resell. 978-1897299-18-0 $42.95 CDN ALSO AVAILABLE : • VOLUME 18.5 978-1897299-34-0 / $32.00 CDN • ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY VOLUME 19 978-1897299-56-2 / $17.95 CDN • ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY VOLUME 20 978-1770460-20-1 / $24.95 CDN

CHRIS WARE lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and is the author of JIMMY CORRIGAN – THE SMARTEST ABOVE : Excerpt from The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 2 . KID ON EARTH , which was recently selected as one of the 100 best books of the decade by the LONDON TIMES .

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