Kathryn and Stuart Immonen are of course well known for their stellar superhero work, but in their “spare time” they turn out some more personal work which though smalelr and quiter, has an even greater scope. 2010’s Moving Pictures
was a thoughtful and tense exploration of the relationship between a museum curator in Nazi occupied France, and a German officer set against the backdrop of World War II’s art pillaging.
Now they’re back with the collection of Russian Olive to Red King a very long in the making story about a woman whose lover dies. It’s described as “a tortured love story” featuring “petroglyphs and plane crashes and bad dogs and angry people.”
After being promised for several years, AdHouse is publishing the book in May. And here’s a preview. As you can see, it looks amazing.
Ordering info:
Russian Olive to Red King
by Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen.
Published by AdHouse Books
When your lover may be dead, how long can you hold on to what remains? To whatever is left of you? A plane crash, a package, her dog, her voice. A notebook, his writer’s block, and heat-distorted summer memories of a search for Jumbo the Elephant and an absent father.
details:
176 4C pages
7 ” x 10.5″HC
$24.95 US funds
ISBN 978-1-935233-34-3
Shipping May 2015
Diamond Order Code: MAR15 0857
There’s a great warehouse sale going on at AdHouse Books:
It’s been a few years since we had a SALE, so I thought we’d make some AdSelections available again. Also, we have a fair amount of inventory coming to the warehouse this season, so we need to make room. Any order of $40 or more will get free shipping via a paypal refund. Just remind me when you place your order. (Also, feel free to add any non-sale items from our regular catalog to your order. We’d love to put them on sale, too, but we don’t have the inventory to do so.)
AdHouse specializes in books that are attractive and daring but accessible as well. A few suggestions/perennials:
Noirness
by Boulet.
$3.50
Amazing 24-hour comic by one of the boldest cartoonists working.
Pope Hats #3
by Ethan Rilly.
$3.50
MULTIPLE award winning comic that picks up where the great comcis of the 90s like Optic Nerve and Love and Rockets let off.
Centifolia Volume 1
by Stuart Immonen.
$10
Hello? Stuart Immonen. There’s a second volume as well.
Driven by Lemons
by Joshua Cotter.
$10
Like all of Cotters books, this is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Duncan the Wonder Dog
by Adam Hines.
$12.50
Winner of the LA Times Graphic Novel Prize. The first in a planned 9-volume tale, this is anough to stand by itself exploring a world where animals can talk.
This weekend sees Small Press Expo take place over in Maryland, and AdHouse have leapt out the gate early with the announcement that they are going to publish a collection of cartoonish Noah Van Sciver’s work as ’Youth is Wasted’, due in 2014.
Collecting together primarily his series Blammo, the book will also feature a number of his other short stories published elsewhere, as part of various anthologies. Comics Reporter has more details, being as Tom Spurgeon is actually at SPX right now, and he notes that Youth is Wasted will be 112 pages long, priced at $12.95 softcover. Van Sciver is quoted:
The stories I’m putting into this book are very meaningful to me, and Adhouse is one of the few publishers I’d trust to present them tastefully. I can’t think of one Adhouse book that sucks.
Youth is Wasted is scheduled for publication in June 2014.
You may not know the name Boulet, but this French artist is one of the most prolific and talented cartoonists working. Maybe you will recall his disgustingly accomplished 24-hour comic from last year, The Darkness. Or his blog, which includes English versions of his comics. That first link is getting a printed version in the US, courtesy of AdHouseIt's due in April to tie in with Boulet's 2013 US tour, and will be printed in a limited quantity. Hopefully this is only the first US edition of Boulet's work to see print. Here's a wee preview:
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Here are a selection of books due out this month. All of the information presented below [aside from my aside/snide comments] are from publisher or distributor websites.
ALL information is subject to change, and something which might ship this month to a comics shop might show up months later in regular bookstores. So, if you see something here which has been out for a while, that’s why. Just consider it a reminder, in case you didn’t notice it the first time.
Unless it’s something amazing (like omnibus volumes), I tend to ignore ongoing books series. You either know about the series, or unlikely to pick it up if there are numerous volumes on the shelves. Yes, I know it’s almost April. But many publishers announce their new titles via “Out This Week” posts, so that’s why I wait. (And some don’t even do that!)
I do work for a bookseller, so everything posted here has nothing to do with my day job.
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Athos in America
Jason
Hardback
9781606994788, 1606994786
Author Bio: Jason hails from Oslo, Norway, but currently resides in the south of France. The Harvey and Eisner Award-winner continues to create new books at a breakneck pace-his books include Werewolves of Montpellier; Low Moon; Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories; Hey, Wait…; Sshhhh!; The Iron Wagon; What I Did(collecting the previous three volumes); I Killed Adolf Hitler; The Last Musketeer;The Left Bank Gang; Why Are You Doing This?; The Living and the Dead; Meow, Baby!; You Can’t Get There from Here; Tell Me Something; and Almost Silent(collecting the previous four volumes) and (with Fabien Vehlmann) Isle of 100,000 Graves.
Summary: Another all-original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from the lead story, a prequel of sorts to the graphic novel The Last Musketeer, in which the seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920 New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to play himself in a film version of The Three Musketeers. Another tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in “The Smiling Horse,” in which the characters from the story “&” in Low Moon attempt to kidnap a woman.
Also in this volume: “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf,” a mash-up of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, told in reverse chronological order; the Bukowski pastiche “A Cat From Heaven” in which Jason works on his comic, has a reading in a comic book store, gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; the dialogue-free (all the text occurs in thought balloons) “Tom Waits on the Moon,” in which we follow four people (one of them a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes wrong; and “So Long Mary Ann,” a prison-escape love-triangle story.
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Heidi MacDonald,
on 4/3/2011
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The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in April 2011. This list is not comprehensive, just what I’ve discovered browsing the Internet. Below, you’ll find selected titles which caught my interest. If you would like to browse forthcoming graphic novels and related books at your leisure, click here. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore.
If you click that link above, you’ll see all the graphic novels at BN.com, sorted by date. Lots of graphic novels (and related books) scheduled from May to December. Of course, there will be even more titles added and announced in time for the Holidays! (You might want to use your tax return to buy some bookshelves.)
Please be advised that publication dates are not set in stone, titles may change, and covers may be altered. Also, your local comics shop might receive copies before your local neighborhood website or library. I consider my tastes to be rather eclectic. If you feel I’ve neglected or slighted a title, publisher, or creator, please feel free to mention it in the comments below. Yes, you may promote your own work, but please include the ISBN for easy searching (and shopping!)
Disclaimer: I am employed by Barnes & Noble. This and any other posts by me at this site have no official connection to B&N. As always, feel free to send us your PR. Even better, send us some free books!
Salt Water Taffy: Caldera’s Revenge! Part 1
by Matthew Loux
- $ 5.99
- Pub. Date: April 2011
- Publisher: Oni Press
- Format: Paperback, 72pp
- ISBN-13: 9781934964620
- ISBN: 193496462X
Patrick in A Teddy Bear’s Picnic and Other Stories
by Geoffrey Hayes
- $ 12.95
- Pub. Date: April 2011
- Publisher: Candlewick Press
- Format: Hardcover, 32pp
- Lexile: 0050L
- ISBN-13: 9781935179092
- ISBN: 1935179098
Pepper Penwell and the Land Creature of Monster Lake
by Steph Cherrywell
- $ 14.95
- Pub. Date: April 2011
- Publisher: SLG Publishing
- Format: Paperback, 200pp
- ISBN-13: 9781593622053
- ISBN: 1593622058
Scratch 9, Volume1: Pet Project
by Rob M Worley,Jason T Kruse
Riding a wave of fantastic reviews (including one in the New York Times) Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines was the rookie sensation of late 2010. Unfortunately the success also meant a quick sell-out for publisher AdHouse. Although a second printing is on its way, but it won’t be availble until March. However, publisher Chris Pitzer has announced that you can now purchase he complete book in digital form from MyDigitalComics
for $9.95. In an interview at
ComicsAlliance Pitzer explains more about the decision:
I approached Comixology originally since we have the majority of our library through their system. The problem was that they couldn’t just release Duncan to the Ipad or computer. It had to also go mobile, which mean thousands of hours in programming the work for the small screen. We didn’t have the resources to do that, and they didn’t. So it opened up a chance for MyDigitalComics and AdHouse to work together. I’ve had fond dealings with DCBS and InStockTrades, so I felt it was time to try this.
PR below:
MyDigitalComics (MDC), an up and coming player in the digital comics market place, and AdHouse Books are coming together this week to offer AdHouses’ critically acclaimed Duncan The Wonder Dog in three different digital formats. Duncan The Wonder Dog was conceived and created by cartoonist Adam Hines and has been widely praised since it’s late 2010 release. With the first printing of the ambitious work completely selling out, and a second printing on the way this Spring, MyDigitalComics will be offering the book for purchase as digital download in both .PDF and .CBZ formats, as well as in its onsite page flipper.
With titles from publishers like Top Cow, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite, Devil’s Due, TwoMorrows, and now AdHouse, MyDigitalComics has been aggressively reaching out to publishers from all levels of the industry to make as many new and exciting titles available to readers as possible. MDC is also part of the Discount Comic Book Service (DCBS) family, which also includes sibling store, InStockTrades. Discount Comic Book Service is one of the nation’s largest comics retailers.
Cameron Merkler is the co-founder of DCBS, InStockTrades, and MyDigitalComics. “We’re very excited about this new addition to the MDC library and family. AdHouse is a publisher who offers a great library of titles that appeal to a broad ranger of readers, especially those who are looking for something new and thought provoking,” says Merkler. “We’ve been working with AdHouse for a number of years with both DCBS and InStockTrades, and we’re thrilled to be taking the next step forward with them in the digital market place.”
“I’ve enjoyed working with DCBS and InStockTrades with our previous efforts,” says Chris Pitzer, publisher of AdHouse Books, “so it was nice to work with them to make the work of Duncan available in a digital format.”
“AdHouse put out two of my favorite OGNs of 2010 with Afrodisiac and Duncan the Wonder Dog,” says Zack Kruse, marketing director for DCBS. “Duncan is
Day Two of Preview month features is the Xeric Grant-winning Lone Pine by Jed McGowan, which looks like your typical duo-tone indie comic but turns into a mystery set in the deep dark woods.
A distraught man retreats to the woods with a simple question on his mind: why did his last relationship end? He’s soon deep in a world of cryptic messages, shadowy figures, guns and philosophical crisis. A page-turning mystery told with exciting formal invention, Lone Pine is Jed McGowan’s debut graphic novel and a 2010 Xeric winner.
details:
2C cover
168 2C pages
6.5 ” x 9.5 ” SC
$15.00 US funds
ISBN 978-1-935233-07-7
Shipping November 2010
Diamond order code: SEP10 0742
BTW, we love duo-tone indie comics. More more more.
0 Comments on A month of previews: Lone Pine as of 1/1/1900
Can’t wait for this! Immonen-tastic
Jeezebus, that is lovely.
I will have to pick this up.
I can’t believe I missed this before.
AND those colors… amazing.