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by Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell Comics/Top Shelf Productions
Eddie Campbell has created a graphic novel about the rise and fall of
the graphic novel itself and along the way draws potent conclusions about
the very nature of art. It is a graphic novel about becoming an artist
and making your way in the world as an artist. The narrative teems with
figures who are and would be artists. Many are briefly examined while
a few have been made the subjects of penetrating case histories in this
cavalcade of dreamers, fools and sudden millionaires.
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by Jason Lutes
Drawn & Quarterly Books
Berlin is a historical
novel with cinematic sweep, documenting the lives of Berlin's glamorous
and downtrodden denizens as they criss-cross in the cold city streets
and change the city's destiny forever. Berlin: City
Of Stones is the first volume of an ambitious trilogy (collecting
issues #1-8 of the Berlin periodical) set
in the German city in the twilight years of the Weimar Republic in the
late 1920's.
"It will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical
fiction in comics... this book has the density of the best
novels."
Time |
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edited by Chris Oliveros
Drawn & Quarterly Books
Winner of the 2001 Harvey
Award for best anthology, Drawn & Quarterly is
a luxurious coffee table showcase of the very best in comic from around
the world and includes the outstanding comic strip biography of Herge, Tintin's
complex creator.
"... features stories that hark back to an earlier age,
when cartooning was leisurely and sophisticated."
The National Post
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by Dan Clowes
Fantagraphics Books
Twenty-seven interlocking short stories, drawn is a variety of styles,
which cumulatively tell the story of the residents of a small American
town called Ice Haven and the disappearance of a dopey-looking kid.
"Working in his familiar milieu of slightly exaggerated
suburban weirdness, Eightball #22
continues Clowes' development as one of the premier comic artists
working today... an excellent primer of Clowes' art at a low
price."
Andrew D. Arnold, Time.com |
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by Jason
Fantagraphics Books
Two childhood friends at that magical age when life sometimes seems to
consist of nothing but a series of lazy summer days spent playing and
reading comics, and the future branches out into an infinity of rich
and exciting possibilities. And then - in a single moment - everything
changes forever.
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by Alan Moore & Eddie
Campbell
Eddie Campbell Comics/Top Shelf Productions
"As with all of the site based works, Snakes & Ladders and
it's specific nature grew out from my reading of the site itself. The disinterment
of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Siddel; the visionary nature of Arthur Machen's
experiences after the death of his first wife and their relation to the lunar
and solar spheres of the Kaballah; the musings about DNA (which is pretty much
all about death and reproduction)... all of these things seemed to have a whiff
of resurrection about them, tying them together. Love, death, art, resurrection,
dreams, visions, heartbreak, romance... these seemed to be the predominating
colours of the landscape, that gave the place its individual soul and character."
Alan Moore, from Egomania #2
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by James Sturm
Drawn & Quarterly Books
"James Sturm is one of those rare creatures who, in combing words with images,
raises the comic book to the level of literature. The Golem's
Mighty Swing is smart, suspenseful and a really good read."
Myla Goldburg, author of Bee Season
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by Shaun Tan
Lothian
"The Red Tree is a fantastical fable in a league
of it's own. As picture books go, it is a work of art."
Newcastle Times
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