By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 5/19/2016
Jamie Coville has, as always, recorded the best of the panels from TCAF, including a shocking number in which I participated. YOU can hear the audio of the panels here and the DWAs here. The DWAs are notable for the extraordinary remembrance that Seth offered or Dawwyn Cooke and also the induction of James Simpkins into the Giants […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 11/2/2015
If you know anything of the work of Canadian cartoonist Seth, you know that him giving an exhibit of his art the gloomy title "Nothing Lasts" is quite appropriate. But it should be lovely. Details and a preview here.. Bonus daily showing of Seth's Dominiom an award winning documentary about the artist by Luc Chamberland that was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/4/2014
D&Q has just firmed up their Winter/Spring titles for 2015 and…well, it’s going tobe another great year, in case all these previews we’ve been publishing haven’t given you that idea yet. As if new books from Jillian Tamaki, Michael Deforge, Anders Nilsen, Seth, Shizero Mizuki and the like weren’t enough to get you drooling into a bucket, there are a few new faces, such as MELODY by Svlvie Rancourt, a lost 80s comic about a woman’s life in rural Canada, and a new book by stunning Norwegian illustrator Bendik Kaltenborn. More Moomin! More Anna and Froga! And yet More Clyde Fans from Seth! Say what you will, but I love by once every two years look into the lives of Abe and Simon Matchcard and their doomed fan company.
PLUS….as 25th Anniversary spectacular with variant covers by Paco Medina and Alex Ross including tributes from writers including Margaret Atwood (writing on Kate Beaton), Sheila Heti (writing on Moomin), Jonathan Lethem (writing on Chester Brown), Françoise Mouly (writing on Adrian Tomine). The immense tome will also spotlight the history of the company with interviews, photos and many a little of the sassy D&Q style we all love from their website. AND hundreds of pages of previously unpublished/untranslated comics by Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Michael DeForge, Joe Matt, Jillian Tamaki, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, Rutu Modan, Shigeru Mizuki, and again, many more. Gotta sit down! Too much awesome!
AND there’s the regular line, whose covers and biblio info we share below, but to get more info just go here.
FIRST YEAR HEALTHY
BY MICHAEL DEFORGE
In stores January 13 2015! $14.95 / 6″ x 9″ / 48 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770461734
PALOOKAVILLE 22 BY SETH
In stores April 14 2015! $22.95 / 6.25″ x 8.5″ / 120 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770461635
TRASH MARKET BY TADAO TSUGE
edited and translated by Ryan Holmberg
In stores March 2015! $22.95 / 6.375″ x 8.75″ / 272 pages / b+w / flexicover / 9781770461741
ADULT CONTEMPORARY BY BENDIK KALTENBORN
In stores June 23 2015! $24.95 / 10.575″ x 8.25″ / 176 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770461758
JERUSALEM: CHRONICLES FROM THE HOLY CITY BY GUY DELISLE; translated by Helge Dascher
Now in paperback, expanded with sketches from Delisle’s time in Jerusalem!
In stores March 3 2015! $19.95 / 6.5″ x 8.75″ / 344 pages / full-color / paperback / 9781770461765
INTELLIGENT SENTIENT? BY LUKE RAMSEY
In stores February 3 2015! $19.95 / 10.875″ x 8″ / 64 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770461772
WALT & SKEEZIX BOOK SIX: 1931-1932
BY FRANK KING
edited by Chris Ware, foreword by Jeet Heer
In stores April 7 2015! $39.95 / 9.5″ x 7.5″ / 400 pages / b+w / hardcover / 9781770461789
SUPERMUTANT MAGIC ACADEMY
BY JILLIAN TAMAKI
In stores April 28, 2015! $19.95 / 6.25″ x 8.5″ / 224 pages / b+w and partial color / paperback / 9781770461987
MÉLODY BY SYLVIE RANCOURT
trans. Helge Dascher
In stores June 9 2015! $22.95 / 6″ x 7.75″ / 352 pages / b+w / paperback / 9781770462007
DRAWN AND QUARTERLY:
25 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY CARTOONING, COMICS, AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
In stores May 12, 2015! $44.95 / 6.875″ x 9.125″ / 512 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770461994
SHOWA 1953-1989: A HISTORY OF JAPAN
BY SHIGERU MIZUKI
trans. Zack Davisson
In stores July 2015! $24.95 / 6.45″ x 8.75″ / 552 pages / b+w / paperback / 9781770462014
STROPPY BY MARC BELL
In stores May 2015! $21.95 / 8.125″ x 10.375″ / 64 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770462052
POETRY IS USELESS
BY ANDERS NILSEN
In stores June 2015! $34.95 / 6.5″ x 8.75″ / 224 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770462076
MOOMIN BOOK TEN: THE COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP
BY LARS JANSSON
In stores June 2015! $19.95 / 8.75″ x 12″ / 112 pages / b+w / hardcover / 9781770462021
ANNA AND FROGA: FORE!
BY ANOUK RICARD
trans. Helge Dascher
In stores July 2015! $14.95 / 8″ x 9.75″ / 40 pages / full color / hardcover / 9781770462045
MOOMIN AND THE MARTIANS
BY TOVE JANSSON
In stores July 2015! $9.95 / 8.5″ x 6″ / 56 pages / full color / flexicolor / 9781770462038
PLUS check out the current 50% off sales running until the end of the week!
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 10/7/2014
A film has been made about Seth, the single named Autuer of Clyde Fans, It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, Palookaville, and countless illustrations. It’s called Seth’s Dominion, it’s directed by Luc Chamberland and it is described as “a hybrid documentary/animation film exploring the life of master cartoonist Seth.”
Given that Seth is a perfectionist, you’d expect no less of a film about him, so to no one’s surprise the film has won the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival.
The film will be shown this week in Montreal as an official selection of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
Saturday, October 11th, 4:30 pm: Auditorium Alumni H-110, Hall Building Concordia University, 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest Tickets available here. Seth will be present and signing at this screening only!
Thursday, October 16th, 3:00 pm: Pavillion Judith-Jasmin Annexe UQAM, 405 rue Sainte-Catherine Est Tickets available here.
Add this to Root Hog or Die, the John Porcellino movie, Rude Dude, the Steve Rude movie—ON SALES TODAY, I might add— and some others in the works and you have a nice library of in depth films about comics makers beginning.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 3/15/2013
PALOOKAVILLE #21 is on its way, and while the looong running Clyde Fans serial is on hold, Seth digs into his own life story in the cheerfully titled “Nothing Lasts.” Seth may be gloomy but he’s also one of our all-time favorite cartoonists; we’ll race to pick this up.
This is an auto-bio comic where Seth reminisces about his childhood and his mother and I might even go so far as to say it’s a revelation. It promises to be a much longer comic when completed–one of many comics that Seth does concurrently with his “Clyde Fans” serial as well as his work with Lemony Snicket on the new All the Wrong Questions series.
Here’s a short preview (click to embiggen):
Don’t buy books direct from D&Q…I’m sorry but 30% off cover price plus a huge shipping bill is way more than you’d pay on Amazon every day of the week…
Boo! False Advertising! JERUSALEM: CHRONICLES FROM THE HOLY CITY BY GUY DELISLE. Now in paperback, expanded with sketches from Delisle’s time in Jerusalem!
I was expecting to find out about a new book :(
Not really upset, just bummed out…
But the sale is 50%, Alex.
I wish they would go back to their anthologies. Ive discovered so many of my favorite comics and cartoonists through those.
So… Joe Matt is never going to publish again, is he?