DRAWN&QUARTERLY 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 ALSO AVAILABLE: NONNONBA 978-1-77046-072-0 • $26.95 USD/CDN ONWARD TOWARDS OUR NOBLE DEATHS 978-1-77046-041-6 • $24.95 USD/CDN 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 ALSO AVAILABLE: GOLIATH 978-1-77046-065-2• $19.95 USD/CDN 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 ALSO AVAILABLE: MID-LIFE 978-1-77046-028-7 • $19.95 US / $20.95 CDN 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.