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edited by Francoise Mouly
Abbeville Press
This superb book presents not only the best of The
New Yorker's covers from it's 75 year history but also a behind
the scenes peek at some of the sketches that lead up to them and a look
at the controversy that sometimes followed in their wake. An article
by Francoise Mouly illuminates the history of the magazine's cover and
how they have changed over the decades. In addition, portfolios throughout
the book highlight the work of six especially evocative cover artists:
Barry Blitt, Bruce McCall, Sempé,
Edward Sorel, Art
Spiegelman and Saul Steinberg.
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by Dan Clowes
Pantheon
When David Boring, a nineteen year old security guard with a tortured
inner life and an obsessive nature, meets the girl of his dreams, things
begin to go awry. What seems to be too good to be true apparently is.
And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of
circumstances (in this case a cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder)
the primal nature of mankind will inexorably come to the fore.
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edited by Chris Oliveros
Drawn & Quarterly Books
A luxurious coffee table anthology featuring the best in international
comic strips, including stories by Chris
Ware, Frank King, Michel Rabagliati, Dupuy & Berberian.
"A favourite source of smart comics for smart people."
Hartford Advocate
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by Chris Ware
Pantheon
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2001. A 380 page intricate tale
of four generations of the Corrigan family spanning 100 years that will
break your heart.
"Jimmy Corrigan pushes the
form of comics into unexpected formal and emotional territory."
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by Jamie
Hernandez
Fantagraphics Books
"Jamie's art balances big white and black spaces to create a world of nuance
in between, just as his writing balances our big human feelings and our small
human trivias to generate its incredible emotional power. Quite simply, this
is one of the 20th century's most significant comic creators at the peak of his
form, with every line a wedding of classicism and cool. He has never been better."
Alan Moore
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by James Kochalka
Top Shelf Productions
A factory of self replicating robots is stripping the jungle of its natural
resources, threatening the territory of a colony of nearby monkeys. A
series of encounters between the two groups quickly escalates in to all
out war. Behind the explosive action and eye-catching graphics lies a
stirring examination of the dual between technology and nature. A modern
day fable for all ages.
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by Joe Sacco
Fantagraphics Books
"Harrowing and bleakly humorous, Sacco's account of life during the Balkan
conflict is a timeless portrait of ordinary people caught in desperate circumstances.
It's also a work of genius in an unlikely genre: journalism in comic book form."
Utne Reader
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by Ben Katchor
Pantheon
"Mr. Katchor captures not only the poignancy of lives that have fallen short
of expectation, but also the poetry of those seemingly inconsequential lives,
sunk in the everydayness of ritual, routine and habit. [Katchor] has written
a funny, touching and compassionate ode to the city and the anonymous people
who live there."
New York Times
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by Lynda Barry
Sasquatch Books
"Lynda Barry's flawed and chunky language, and corresponding unsmooth drawing
style have, in the opinion of many reviewers lifted her right out of the realm
of comics and dropped her square into the lap of literature... Barry is a genius,
there is no getting around it, and her dear darling sweetheart character Marlys
is the perfect vehicle for the underlying the world is so dang groovy sometimes
it breaks your heart message."
The Comics Journal #231
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by Shaun Tan
Lothian
"So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty
interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, other
so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those.
So I'll just tell you about the time I found the lost thing..."
Extract from The Lost Thing
With highly stylised art reminiscent of Bill Sienkiewicz,
Shaun Tan is the writer/artist of The Lost
Thing, a childrens book which adults will want to keep
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