“The [graphic novel] field, in which Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly is arguably among the world’s top two or three publishers, is experiencing a renaissance that shows no sign of fading.” — THE MONTREAL GAZETTE For publicity inquiries please contact: Peggy Burns 514.279.2221, ex 222 [email protected] 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 cartoonist 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 NEW YORK TIMES “What It Is is part diary, part showcase, part manifesto for the power of the imagination. It’s bold and beautiful; angry and sad; joyful and loving and nervous.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE 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.” ALSO AVAILABLE (OCTOBER 2010) : • PICTURE THIS / 978-1897299-64-7 / $32.95 CDN 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 Chester Brown LOUIS RIEL 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.” — THE GLOBE AND MAIL “Louis Riel is gripping reading, filled with drama and poetry, in which plain words and stunning images carry equal weight in telling the story…Louis Riel is destined to become a Canadian classic.” —THE CALGARY HERALD “This is an ingenious comic and a major achievement.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW ) “To see such a pivital historical figure and tor - PAPERBACK tured sould rendered so effectively and accu - b/w Illustrations rately was more evidence that comics are throughout powerful literature.” 6 x 9 / 280 pages —THE TORONTO STAR (BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE ) 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. ALSO AVAILABLE : • I NEVER LIKED YOU / 978-1896597140 / $16.95 CDN • THE LITTLE MAN / 978-1896597133 / $19.95 CDN • THE PLAYBOY / 978-0969670117 / $14.95 CDN 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. 3 Order from Raincoast Books • 800.663.5714 • www.raincoast.com RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ Daniel Clowes WILSON “A bona-fide cult hero.” — THE NEW YORKER “Though we may all have favorite Clowes creations, from the dim superhero auteur Dan Pussey to the disaffected adolescents Enid and Rebecca of Ghost World , the Wilson of Wilson vies with his past triumphs and takes a bold leap beyond them.” —Sam Lipsyte, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “This is a book about life’s passages and disappointments, and will be most appreciated by those who know something of quiet desper - ation.” —Michael Dirda, THE WASHINGTON POST “While Wilson’s statements may be mono- dimensional, Clowes counterpoints them and gives them nuance through the visual details…” —Michael Faber, THE GUARDIAN 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 cartoonists 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 comic book series EIGHTBALL , the screenwriter of GHOST WORLD and ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL , and an illustrator for the NEW YORKER . He is married and lives in Oakland, CA. 4 Order from Raincoast Books • 800.663.5714 • www.raincoast.com RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ Guy Delisle PYONGYANG A candid glimpse at one of the most secretive nations in the world “The memoir is topical, coming at a time when interest in the goings-on behind the last remain - ing panel of the Iron Curtain is high. [...] The episodes are smart, sharply observed and funny, without downplaying the untold horrors (death camps, starvation) that lurk around every corner.” — THE GLOBE AND MAIL “Tinged with black humour, ...[ PYONGYANG ] of - fers a perspective no straight-up print journal - ism could.” — THE NATIONAL POST “[Delisle] cloaks his tale with a compassionate cynicism that cushions the bleak horrors of this totalitarian Lost In Translation. A –" —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY CANADIAN AUTHOR 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: North Korea. 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. ALSO AVAILABLE : • BURMA CHRONICLES 978-1-77046-025-6 / $17.95 CDN • SHENZHEN : 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 Jerusalem. 5 Order from Raincoast Books • 800.663.5714 • www.raincoast.com RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: ALL AGES Tove Jansson THE COMPLETE MOOMIN The beloved comic strip classic “A lost treasure now rediscovered—one of the sweetest, strangest comics strips ever drawn or written. A surrealist masterpiece. Honest. ” —NEIL GAIMAN , author of CORALINE “Moomin is gorgeous, and is flat out the best Moomin book I’ve ever seen. Tove Jansson was a natural cartoonist. These strips are clever, gentle, witty, and completely engross - ing.” — JEFF SMITH , cartoonist of BONE 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. 6 Order from Raincoast Books • 800.663.5714 • www.raincoast.com RECOMMENDED AGE LEVEL: 16+ Jason Lutes BERLIN The first two chapters of the epic historical trilogy “[Berlin] will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the [graphic novel] medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, European drawing style, much like Hergé’s Tintin…This book has the density of the best novels.” — TIME “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.