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NEWS
November 13, 2008
You’ll have to wait until 2009 to get your copy of David Mazzucchelli’s new book, Asterios Polyp, but you can see him a lot sooner. On Wednesday, November 19. David will be moderating a discussion with several preeminent European graphic novelists, including David B. as part of the New Literature from Europe Series. The talk, which starts at 6:30 pm, will be taking place at the School of Visual Arts. A book signing will follow. For more information, click here. Hope to see you there!…...
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November 12, 2008
Calling all Kim Deitch fans! If you haven’t yet gotten to MoCCA to see the Kim Deitch retrospective, here’s yet another compelling reason to do so: this Thursday, December 13, Kim Deitch will be speaking with Bill Kartalopoulos, the exhibits curator, about his career and will be previewing images from his current works in progress. What are you waiting for? Get down there!…...
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FEATURED ARTIST
Charles Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. Hs work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, for an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the set for Mark Morris's delightful restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at BAM. He's illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in 2003. Burns lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters.
NEW RELEASES
Bat-Manga!
Written by Chip Kidd
Comics & Graphic Novels - Graphic Novels - Superheroes | Pantheon | Hardcover | October 2008 | 60.00 | 978-0-375-42545-5 (0-375-42545-4)
The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.
In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin...Read More
Bat-Manga!
Written by Chip Kidd
Comics & Graphic Novels - Graphic Novels - Superheroes | Pantheon | Trade Paperback | October 2008 | 29.95 | 978-0-375-71484-9 (0-375-71484-7)
The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.
In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin...Read More
I Live Here
Written by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons
Current Affairs - Poverty; Photography - Essays | Pantheon | Hardcover | October 2008 | 29.95 | 978-0-375-42478-6 (0-375-42478-4)
I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi.
~THE BOOK~
I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in...Read More
