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DRAWN & QUARTERLY ESSENTIAL BACKLIST For publicity inquiries please contact: Peggy Burns 514.279.2221, ex 222 [email protected] DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY RAINCOAST BOOKS To place an order please call 800.663.5714 “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
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DRAWN & QUARTERLYESSENTIAL BACKLIST

For publicity inquiries please contact:Peggy Burns 514.279.2221, ex [email protected]

DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY RAINCOAST BOOKS

To place an order please call 800.663.5714

“The [graphic novel] field, in whichMontreal’s Drawn & Quarterly isarguably among the world’s top twoor three publishers, is experiencinga renaissance that shows no sign offading.” — THE MONTREAL GAZETTE

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HARDCOVER

full-colour Illustrations

throughout

8.375 x 10.875 / 208pages

978-1-897299-35-7

$27.95 CDN

Lynda BarryWHAT IT IS

R E C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : A L L A G E S

PRAISE FOR WHAT IT IS:“The collages in legendary cartoonist LyndaBarry’s What It Is are a bathysphere-likeodyssey through the depths of her funky sub-conscious.”—VANITY FAIR

“Meditations, stories and images float past ina random fashion, segueing between darknessand hope, or adulthood and childhood, theway 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 theimagination. It’s bold and beautiful; angryand sad; joyful and loving and nervous.”—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

How do objects summonmemories?What do real images feel like? Fordecades, these types of questions havepermeated the pages of Lynda Barry’scompositions, with words attracting pic-tures and conjuring places through a pen thatfirst and foremost keeps onmoving. What It Isdemonstrates a tried-and-true creativemethodthat is playful, powerful, and accessible to any-one with an inquisitive wish to write or to re-member. Composed of completely newmaterial, each page of Barry’s first Drawn &Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is notonly a gentle guide to this process but an invig-orating example of exactly what it is: “The ordi-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 verymuch alike. She lives in Wisconsin.

The groundbreaking book oncreativity by a legendary artist

ABOVE: Excerpt fromWhat It Is.

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PAPERBACK

b/w Illustrations

throughout

6 x 9 / 280 pages

978-1894937-89-4

$19.95 CDN

Chester BrownR E C O MM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : A L L A G E S

“If you love to read a gripping story, if you areawed 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 neverlooked so good.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL

“Louis Riel is gripping reading, filledwith drama and poetry, in whichplain words and stunning imagescarry equal weight in telling thestory…Louis Riel is destined tobecome a Canadian classic.”—THE CALGARY HERALD

“This is an ingenious comic and amajor achievement.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

“To see such a pivital historical figure and tor-tured sould rendered so effectively and accu-rately was more evidence that comics arepowerful literature.”—THE TORONTO STAR (BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE)

Chester Brown documents with dramatic sub-tlety the violent rebellion on the Canadianprairie led by Louis Riel, who some regard amartyr who died in the name of freedom, whileothers 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 &Quarterly in 2012.

The classic Canadian graphic novel

CANADIAN AUTHOR

LOUIS RIELA COMIC STRIP BIOGRAPHY

ABOVE: Excerpt from Louis Riel: A comic strip biography.

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HARDCOVER

full-color Illustrations

throughout

8.25 x 11.5 / 80 pages

978-1-77046-007-2

$23.95 CDN

Daniel ClowesWILSON

RE C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

“Though we may all have favorite Clowescreations, from the dim superhero auteurDan Pussey to the disaffected adolescents Enidand Rebecca of Ghost World, the Wilsonof Wilson vies with his past triumphsand takes a bold leap beyond them.”—Sam Lipsyte, THE NEW YORK TIMES

BOOK REVIEW

“This is a book about life’s passages anddisappointments, and will be most appreciatedby those who know something of quiet desper-ation.” —Michael Dirda, THE WASHINGTON POST

“While Wilson’s statements may be mono-dimensional, Clowes counterpoints themand gives them nuance through thevisual details…”—Michael Faber, THE GUARDIAN

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-agedloner who loves his dog and quite possibly noone else. In an ongoing quest to find humanconnection, he badgers friend and strangeralike into a series of one-sided conversations,punctuating his own lofty discursions with abrutally honest, self-negating sense of humor.

Daniel Clowes, one of the leading cartoonistsof our time, creates a thoroughly engaging,complex and fascinating character study ofthe modern egotist—outspoken and obliviousto the world around him.

DANIEL CLOWES is the author of the seminalcomic book series EIGHTBALL, the screenwriterof GHOST WORLD and ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL,and an illustrator for the NEW YORKER. He ismarried and lives in Oakland, CA.

“A bona-fide cult hero.”— THE NEW YORKER

ABOVE: An excerpt fromWilson.

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PAPERBACK

b/w Illustrations

throughout

6.25 x 8.5 / 192 pages

978-1897299-21-0

$16.95 CDN

“Thememoir is topical, coming at a time wheninterest in the goings-on behind the last remain-ing panel of the Iron Curtain is high. [...] Theepisodes are smart, sharply observed andfunny, without downplaying the untold horrors(death camps, starvation) that lurk aroundevery 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 compassionatecynicism that cushions the bleak horrors of thistotalitarian Lost In Translation. A–"—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Voted "Best of" by CBC Radio One’s "TalkingBooks," the American Library Association andTime.com. More timely than ever, GuyDelisle’s acclaimed Pyongyang is a glimpseinto one of the most secretive and mysteriousnations in the world today: North Korea. Py-ongyang is a graphical record of the time car-toonist Guy Delisle spent working as ananimator in Pyongyang, becoming one of thefew Westerners to witness current conditionsin 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

Born in Québec City, GUY DELISLE now lives inthe south of France. He is currently workingon a graphic novel about his year spent livingin Jerusalem.

Guy DelislePYONGYANG

RE C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

A candid glimpse at one of the mostsecretive nations in the world

CANADIAN AUTHOR

ABOVE: An excerpt from Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea.

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SEE LEFT FOR LIST OF

ALL AVAILABLE MOOMIN

EDITIONS

“A lost treasure now rediscovered—one of thesweetest, strangest comics strips ever drawnor written. A surrealist masterpiece. Honest.”—NEIL GAIMAN, author of CORALINE

“Moomin is gorgeous, and is flat out the bestMoomin book I’ve ever seen. Tove Jansson wasa natural cartoonist. These strips are clever,gentle, witty, and completely engross-ing.” —JEFF SMITH, cartoonist of BONE

Tove Jansson is revered around the worldas one of the foremost children’s authorsof the twentieth century for her illustratedchapter books regarding the magical worlds ofher creation, the Moomins. The Moomins sawlife in many forms but debuted to its biggestaudience ever on the pages of the LONDONEVENING NEWS. The strip was syndicatedin newspapers around the world withmillions of readers in forty countries.

Also available in the Moomin series are two de-lightful mid-century children’s picture booksby Jansson: A BOOK ABOUT MOOMIN, MYMBLE, ANDLITTLE MY and WHO WILL COMFORT TOFFLE?

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 MY978-1897299-95-1 / $17.95 CDN• WHO WILL COMFORT TOFFLE?978-1770460-17-1 / $17.95 CDN

TOVE JANSSON (1914-2001) was a legendaryFinnish children’s book author/artist and cre-ator of theMoomins, who came to life in chil-dren’s books, comic strips, theater, opera, film,radio, theme parks, and television.

Tove JanssonTHE COMPLETE MOOMIN

R E C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : A L L A G E S

The beloved comic strip classic

ABOVE: An excerpt fromMoomin.

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“[Berlin] will be the longest, most sophisticatedwork of historical fiction in the [graphic novel]medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, Europeandrawing style, much like Hergé’s Tintin…Thisbook 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 thecomicmedium. His story is full of novel com-binations of text and pictures, shuttling (a laWINGS OF DESIRE) between impassive bird’s-eyecityscapes and dairy-like internal mono-logues.”— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“BERLIN amounts to a rare drawn document ofa vastly confusing time, presenting apanorama of visual information comple-mented with well-conceived dialogue.”— PRINT MAGAZINE

A novel with cinematic sweep, the lives ofWeimar Berlin’s glamourous and downtrod-den denizens criss-cross in the cold city streetsand change the city’s destiny forever. JasonLutes’ BERLIN series masterfully creates a storyagainst the backdrop of the excesses and anxi-eties of the twilight of theWeimar years and theterrible sense of the doom to come.

AVAILABLE IN THE BERLIN SERIES:• BERLIN VOLUME 1 / 978-1896597-29-4 / $23.95 CDN• BERLIN VOLUME 2 / 978-1897299-53-1 / $23.95 CDN

Born in 1967, JASON LUTES is an American car-toonist whose work includes the ongoingBERLIN trilogy, and the graphic novel JAR OFFOOLS. Jason lives in rural Vermont, where heteaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies.He is currently working on the final chapter inthe BERLIN trilogy.

Jason LutesBERLIN

R E C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

The first two chapters of the epichistorical trilogy

SEE LEFT FOR LIST OF

BOTH AVAILABLE

BERLIN EDITIONS

ABOVE: An excerpt from Berlin.

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PAPERBACK

colour Illustrations

throughout

6 x 9 / 168 pages

978-1897299-83-8

$21.95 CDN

“Best comic of the year.”—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“The real glory of Exit Wounds is Modan’s art-work. Her characters’ body language andfacial expressions, rendered in the gestural‘clear line’ style of Hergé’s Tintin books, areso precisely observed, they practically tell thestory by themselves.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Modan’s spare, affecting lines andcharged dialogue add up to a tragicomictake on family and identity.”—THE WASHINGTON POST

Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, KobyFranco, receives an urgent phone call from a fe-male soldier. Learning that his estranged fathermay have been a victim of a suicide bombing inHadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier insearching for clues. His death would certainlyexplain his empty apartment and disconnectedphone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mys-tery of his father’s death, he finds himself piec-ing together not only the last fewmonths of hisfather’s life but his entire identity. With thin,precise lines and luscious watercolors, RutuModan creates a portrait of modern Israel, aplace where sudden death mingles with theslow dissolution of family ties.

ALSO AVAILABLE:• JAMILTI AND OTHER STORIES

978-1897299-54-8 / $19.95 CDN

RUTU MODAN graduated from the Bezalel Acad-emy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, where shelives. She has done illustrations for children’sbooks as well as for THE NEW YORK TIMES, THENEW YORKER, and LE MONDE.

Rutu ModanEXIT WOUNDS

RE C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

An unlikely story of love inTel Aviv

ABOVE: An excerpt from Exit Wounds.

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PAPERBACK

b/w Illustrationsthroughout

7 x 10 / 216 pages

978-1897299-90-6

$22.95 CDN

“Sacco is one of the most astute war–zonecorrespondents working today.”— ROLLING STONE

“A searing and amusing look at the motleycollection of reporters, war profiteers, crimi-nals, soldiers and hapless civilians trapped inwar zone.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Sacco doesn’t try to lay claim to the truth.He’s simply telling one man’s story, and itmakes for an excellent book.”— THE WASHINGTON POST

“Sacco is a master cartoonist, possessing adocumentarian’s eye.”— THE TORONTO STAR

“Sacco demonstrates that the narrative arts,including comics, can gather up complicatedsocial truths with a gradual patience thatoften eludes the camera.”— THE BOSTON GLOBE

Using old–fashioned pen and paper, award–winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from thesidelines of wars around the world. THE FIXERAND OTHER STORIES is a new softcover that col-lects Joe Sacco’s landmark short stories on theBosnian War that previously comprised thehardcover editions of THE FIXER and WAR’S END.

JOE SACCO was born in Malta and graduatedfrom the University of Oregon with a degreein journalism. He is the author of PALESTINE,SAFE AREA GORAZDE, and FOOTNOTES IN GAZA.He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he isworking on his next graphic novel.

Joe SaccoTHE FIXER AND OTHER STORIES

R E C O MM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

The complete softcover collectionof the Bosnian War stories fromthe author of Palestine andFootnotes In Gaza

ABOVE: Excerpt from The Fixer and Other Stories.

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SethGEORGE SPROTT

HARDCOVER

colour Illustrations

throughout

9 x 14 / 96 pages

978-1897299-51-7

$29.95 CDN

R E C O MM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

PRAISE FOR GEORGE SPROTT:“It’s haunting and exquisite.”—Julia Keller, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“A memorial to a lost age of localism andcraft.”—Douglas Wolk, THE NEW YORK TIMES

The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker il-lustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale ofGeorge Sprott, the host of a long-running tele-vision program. The events forming the patch-work of George’s life are pieced together fromthe tenuous memories of several informants,who often have contradictory impressions.His estranged daughter describes the man asan unforgivable lout, whereas his niece re-members him fondly. His former assistant re-calls a trip to the Arctic during which Georgeabandoned him for two months, while Georgehimself remembers that trip as the time hebegan writing letters to a former love, fromwhom he never received replies.

ALSO AVAILABLE:• PALOOKAVILLE VOLUME 20978-77046-018-8 / $20.95 CDN• WIMBLEDON GREEN

978-1896597-93-5 / $19.95 USD• CLYDE FANS VOLUME 1978-1896597-84-3 / $19.95 USD• IT’S A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN978-1896597-70-6 / $24.95 USD

SETH is the cartoonist of such graphic novelsas GEORGE SPROTT, IT’S A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU DON’TWEAKEN, and WIMBLEDON GREEN. He is thedesigner of the COMPLETE PEANUTS collectionsand the JOHN STANLEY LIBRARY and a NEW YORKER

illustrator. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

The award-winning book firstserialzed in The New York Times

CANADIAN AUTHOR

ABOVE: An excerpt from George Sprott.

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HARDCOVER

Full–Color IllustrationsThroughout

9.5 x 14 / 64 pages

978-1897299-84-5

$24.95 CDN

R. SikoryakMASTERPIECE COMICSHilarious parodies of classic litera-ture reimagined with classic comics

R E C O MM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

“Superbly crafted, sublimely conceptual stripsthat combine classic cartoons and super-heroes with classic literature. A.”— THE ONION A.V. CLUB

“An impressively diverse collection of Siko-ryak’s clever, distinctive and ultimately illu-minating work; it reads like the assignedtextbook for the coolest Great Books surveycourse of all time.” — NPR

“A brilliant parable about literature, historyand what telling stories tells us about our-selves.”— THE TORONTO STAR

“A provocative collision.”— ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

MASTERPIECE COMICS adapts a variety of classicliterary works with the most iconic visual id-ioms of twentieth–century comics. Dense withexclamation marks and lurid zip–a–tone, R.Sikoryak’s parodies remind us of the sensa-tional excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer,of the economical expressiveness of classiccomics from Superman to Peanuts. In “BlondEve,” Dagwood and Blondie are ejected fromthe Garden of Eden into their archetypal sub-urban home; Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray isre–imagined as a foppish Winsor McCay char-acter; and Camus’ Stranger as a brooding,chain–smoking Golden–Era Superman.

R. SIKORYAK is an animator, illustrator and car-toonist living in New York with his wife. He isan illustrator for the NEW YORKER and his ani-mation has been featured on the DAILY SHOWwith Jon Stewart.

ABOVE: An excerpt fromMasterpiece Comics.

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HARDCOVER

full-color Illustrations

throughout

6.5 x 9.75 / 96 pages

978-1-897299-97-5

$23.95 CDN

James SturmMARKET DAY

R E C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

“Spendid artwork…the ending of Market Dayis superb in its uncertainty.”— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A tightly woven graphic novella about a shetlcraftsman…”— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW

“Sturm’s prose is sttraightforward, hisart spare and deceptively simple: to-gether…his words and images achievethe quiet lyricism of the folktale.” — NPR

Mendleman’s life goes through an upheavalwhen he discovers that he can no longer earn aliving for his growing family doing the workthat defines him—making well-crafted rugs byhand. As the realities of the marketplace sinkin, Mendleman unravels. James Sturm draws aquiet, reflective, and beautiful portrait of east-ern Europe in the early 1900s–bringing to lifethe hustle and bustle of an Old-World market-place on the brink of the industrial revolution.Market Day is an ageless tale of how economicand social forces can affect a single life.

ALSO AVAILABLE:• JAMES STURM’S AMERICA978-1-897299-05-0/ $27.95 CDN

JAMES STURM is an award-winning cartoonist ofnumerous books, including THE GOLEM’SMIGHTY SWING, and ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING.He is a true visionary, having co-founded thealternative weekly the SEATTLE STRANGER andthe Center for Cartoon Studies, North Amer-ica’s premier cartooning school.

A timeless meditation on artand commerce seen through thelife of an early 20th centuryjewish rug maker

ABOVE: An excerpt fromMarket Day.

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The epic autobiography of amanga master

“One of the most significant works themedium has ever produced.” — THE ONION

“[A DRIFTING LIFE] manages to be, all atonce, an insider’s history of manga, amordant cultural tour of post–HiroshimaJapan and a scrappy portrait of a strug-gling artist…It’s among this genre’s sig-nal achievements…It’s as if someone hadtaken a Haruki Murakami novel anddrawn, beautifully and comprehensively,in its margins.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

Over ten years in the making, A DRIFTINGLIFE is Tatsumi’s most ambitious, per-sonal, and heart–felt work: an autobio-graphical bildungsroman in comics form.Tatsumi weaves a complex story that en-compasses family dynamics, Japaneseculture and history, first love, the intrica-cies of the manga industry, and most im-portantly, what it means to be an artist.

ALSO AVAILABLE:• BLACK BLIZZARD, ISBN 978-1-77046-012-6 / $21.95• GOOD-BYE, ISBN 978-1897299-37-1 / $24.95• ABANDON THE OLD IN TOKYO,ISBN 978-18949378-70 / $24.95

• THE PUSH MANISBN 978-1896597-85-0 / $24.95

Born in 1935, YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI began writingand drawing comics for a sophisticated adultreadership in a realistic style he calledGekiga. He has influenced generations ofcartoonists and lives in Japan.

PAPERBACK

b/w Illustrationsthroughout

6 1/2 x 8 1/2 /

840 pages

978-1-897299-74-6

$36.95 CDN

Yoshihiro TatsumiA DRIFTING LIFE

R E C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

ABOVE: An excerpt from A Drifting Life.

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PAPERBACK

b/w Illustrations

throughout

8.25 x 10.75 / 104pages

978-1897299-75-3

$18.95 CDN

“Tomine’s lacerating falling-out-of-love story isan irresistible gem of a graphic novel.”— JUNOT DÍAZ, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Meticulously observed…Pitch-perfect andsuccinct. [Tomine] is an invisible reporter, ascientist of the heart.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“One of the most masterful cartoonists ofhis generation…[SHORTCOMINGS is] equalparts poignant, hilarious, and sad.”— THE VILLAGE VOICE

SHORTCOMINGS, Adrian Tomine’s first long-form graphic novel, is the story of BenTanaka, a confused, obsessive JapaneseAmerican male in his late twenties, andhis cross-country search for contentment (or atleast the perfect girl). Along the way, Tominetackles modern culture, sexual mores, andracial politics with brutal honesty and lacerat-ing, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing tolife a cast of painfully real antihero characters.A frequent contributor to THE NEW YORKER,Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan followingand has earned status as one of the mostwidely acclaimed cartoonists of our time.

ALSO AVAILABLE:• 32 STORIES • 978-1897299-76-0 / $24.95 CDN• SUMMER BLONDE • 978-1896597-57-7 / $16.95 CDN• SCRAPBOOK • 978-1896597-77-5 / $36.95 CDN• SLEEPWALK • 978-1896597-12-6 / $19.95 CDN

ADRIAN TOMINE is a graduate of The Universityof California Berkeley and lives in Brooklyn,New York. His illustrations have appeared inmany publications, including THE NEW YORKER,ESQUIRE, and ROLLING STONE.

Adrian TomineSHORTCOMINGS

R E C OMM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

The 2007 New York Times BookReview Notable Book

ABOVE: An excerpt from Shortcomings.

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Chris WareACME NOVELTY DATEBOOKVOLUME 2

HARDCOVER

colour Illustrations

throughout

6.25 x 9.25 / 208 pages

978-1897299-18-0

$42.95 CDN

R E C O MM E N D E D A G E L E V E L : 1 6 +

Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor,and white-out whenever he makes a mistake,Ware has cannily edited out all legally sen-sitive and personally incriminating mate-rial from his private journals, carefullyrecomposing each page to simulate theappearance of an ordered mind and es-tablished aesthetic directive. All phonenumbers, references to ex-girlfriends,“false starts,” and embarrassing experi-ments with unfamiliar drawing mediahave been generously excised to presentthe reader with the most pleasant and col-orful sketchbook reading experience avail-able. Included are Ware’s frustrateddoodles for his book covers, angry per-sonal assaults on friends, half-finishedcomic strips, and lengthy and tiresome fulmi-nations of personal disappointments both so-cial and sexual, as well as his now-beloveddrawings of the generally miserable inhabi-tants of the city of Chicago. All in all, a neces-sary volume for fans of fine art, water-basedmedia, and personal diatribe. This hardcoveris attractively designed and easy to resell.

ALSO AVAILABLE:• ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY VOLUME 18.5978-1897299-34-0 / $32.00 CDN• ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY VOLUME 19978-1897299-56-2 / $17.95 CDN• ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY VOLUME 20978-1770460-20-1 / $24.95 CDN

CHRIS WARE lives in Oak Park, Illinois, and isthe author of JIMMY CORRIGAN – THE SMARTESTKID ON EARTH, which was recently selected asone of the 100 best books of the decade by theLONDON TIMES.

Facsimile sketchbook by one oftoday’s most celebrated cartoonists

ABOVE: Excerpt from The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume 2.

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