Drawn & Quarterly comic books issue 1

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Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; Artists, journalists, communists, fascists, police, poets, lovers and workers cross paths while they dance the decadent city of Berlin into the arms of growing fascism; Life is not a cabaret for the denizens of Europe's fascinating city of stones; set during the years of the Weimar Republic of Germany. 28 pgs., B&W. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.

6 1/2-in. x 10-in., 24 pages, B/W. Cover price $2.95.

6 1/2-in. x 10-in., 24 pages, B/W. Cover price $2.95.

Cover art by Anne D. Bernstein. Woman with snake illustration by Marisa Gelfusa. "A Dear John Letter from Your Dog on Moving Day," script by Philip Fine, art by John Oliveros; A letter from a dog who is leaving his owner on the day he moves out of an apartment and into a house. Untitled story, script and art by Peter Bagge; Chuckie-Boy has a stomach ache and Girly Girl gives him stuff that should make him throw up but instead makes him better. "My Life in a Nutshell," script and art by Joe Matt; A year by year account of Joe's life up to 1988. "Apr. 10th, 1989," script and art by Joe Matt and Trish; Trish visits Joe in his strip and draws herself. "Mar. 31st, 1988," script and art by Joe Matt; Insecurity comes to visit Joe Matt, but he defeats it with white-out. "Christmas 1,000,000 B.C.," script by J. D. King (credited) and Alice Sebold pages 1 and 2 only), art by J. D. King; Santa in 1,000,000 B.C and a caveman try to get his girlfriend a present. "Thermal Dynamics," script and art by John Oliveros; The story of another planet where the Thermal Dynamics live. "Out of Control Fantasy Comics," script and art by Anne D. Bernstein; A woman goes through an entire fantasy relationship with a cute guy she sees. "Life After Three Card Monte," script and art by Chris Oliveros; Chris goes to New York City and gets swindled out of money for a present by playing three card monte. 36 pgs., B&W. Cover price $3.75.

Story, Art and Cover by Kevin Huizenga. Fielder is the new series by Kevin Huizenga, author of the classic Ganges series of over-sized comics, featuring four new stories by the multi-Ignatz winning, Eisner, and Harvey nominated cartoonist. Reminiscent of current one-man anthologies like Sammy Markham's Crickets and Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve, this new 'comics magazine' will center on Huizenga's character, Glenn Ganges, in different genre-bending roles. This issue will feature the first chapter of the new graphic novel, 'Fielder, Michiana,' as well as a continuation of Huizenga's dinosaur adventure comic, 'Bona,' and some of his short 'Viral Webcomics' series. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $7.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Sanpei Shirato. At long last, manga titan Shirato Sanpei's groundbreaking epic makes its way into English. Celebrated as a watershed of both the Japanese counterculture and dramatic, longform storytelling in manga, THE LEGEND OF KAMUIi serves up clashing swords and class struggle to create a timeless political allegory set in feudal Japan. It's the 17th century in Japan. Child outcast Kamui lives on the fringes of a miserably stratified society. Fueled by pure grit, rage, and a dash of cunning, his only way out is to take up the mantle of ninja. Follow scrappy peasants, cold-blooded ninja, and disgraced and exalted warriors as they navigate the unforgiving hardships of a violent yet hopeful age. With its vivid and critical attention to social injustice and environmental issues against a backdrop of heart-pounding action and romance, this multilayered gekiga drama not only redefined ninja and samurai fantasy, it also offers astonishing parallels with the modern day. Softcover (with Cover Sash), 6-in. x 8-in., 612 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $39.99.

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By Dylan Horrocks. Cover price $3.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Kate Beaton. Now available in paperback, Kate Beatons DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS stunned the world with its unflinching honesty and candid vulnerability, cementing its place in the graphic novel canon alongside Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, young Katie heads out west to take advantage of Albertas oil rush. But as one of the few women among thousands of men working for the worlds largest oil companies, the culture shock is palpable. It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet never discussed. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 436 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Working Girl!"

Story and art by John Stanley.

Lulu Moppet is an outspoken and brazen young girl who doesn't follow any rules-whether they've been set by her parents, the neighborhood boys, or society itself. 2019 D+Q begins a landmark reissue series of Lulu's suburban hijinks: she goes on picnics, babysits, and attempts to break into the boys' clubhouse again and again. Cartoonist John Stanley's expert timing and constant gags made these stories unbelievably enjoyable, ensuring that Marge's Little Lulu was a defining comic of the post-war period.

Lulu's assertiveness, individuality, and creativity is empowering to witness; the series is powerfully feminist despite the decades in which the stories were created.

Hardcover, 256 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1921-1922!" By Frank King. Edited and designed by award-winning comics virtuoso Chris Ware, these volumes reprint the first six years of Frank King's Walt and Skeezix. One of the pioneering giants of American comic strips, Frank King made his lasting mark by creating this iconic comic, which became one of the most widely syndicated and popular strips in North America until King's death in 1969. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 7-in., 400 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "1921-1922!" By Frank King. Edited and designed by award-winning comics virtuoso Chris Ware, these volumes reprint the first six years of Frank King's Walt and Skeezix. One of the pioneering giants of American comic strips, Frank King made his lasting mark by creating this iconic comic, which became one of the most widely syndicated and popular strips in North America until King's death in 1969. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 7-in., 400 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

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Story and Art by Max. Cover price $3.50.

1st printing.

Story and art by Joe Ollmann.

Caleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career. He also happens to be the only child of one of the world's most famous cartoonists, Jimmi Wyatt. Known for the internationally beloved father and son comic Sonny Side Up, Jimmi made millions drawing saccharine family stories while neglecting his own son.

Softcover, 212 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Michael DeForge. Jackie has been determined to be the "saddest living person in the entire world" by a mysterious team of alien abductors. His earthly musical celebrity is nothing compared to his emotional superstar status in the eyes of these curious and peculiar shape-shifters. Jackie is forced to perform his sadness over and over again on command, so his captors can study and master this very puzzling, very human emotion. Until just like that, Jackie is returned to his old life. Trying to comprehend what has happened, he joins a support group. It's a sea of conspiracy theorists, emotional vampires, and simpatico "real" abductees. As each person tells their story, he realizes he may never know. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in x 9-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Matthew Forsythe. NOTE: Story continued from Ojingogo GN (2008). Jinchalo is Korean for "Really?" and that question is at the heart of this book. A companion to Ojingogo, Jinchalo stars the same little girl as its heroine. When the mischevious shapeshifter Jinchalo hatches from a mysterious egg, he starts our heroine adventuring anew. Magical troubles drag the pair out of the safety of her home. These comics are firmly rooted in Korean folktakes and stylistic conventions, with a playful, joyous line to create a Miyazaki-tinged dreamscape where spotted octopi fly and bears give piggyback rides. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 152 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages Cover price $19.95.

Reprint Material (W/A/CA) John Stanley. Drawn & Quarterly is excited to offer a Free Comic Book Day comic from its archival series of the great children's classic comic book series, Marge's Little Lulu by John Stanley! Lulu Moppet is back with even more outlandish adventures and misadventures, as the cartoonist John Stanley settles into kooky and entertaining suburban storylines starring Lulu, Tubby, Alvin, and the rest of the beloved gang! Rating: All-Age

2nd Edition - 1st printing. By Chester Brown. Paying for It was the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in The New York Times. Chester Brown's eloquent, spare artwork stands out in this new paperback edition, tied to the release of the film adaptation co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee, Brown's longtime friend. Paying for It offers an entirely unvarnished exploration of sex work through Brown's own life story, showing him as a timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice. The book demystifies an experience that is so often sensationalized, revealing a world of online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd street corners, drugs, or pimps. Now with an introduction by Lee, expanded notes discussing the film adaptation, movie stills and behind the scenes shots, as well as a new cover by Brown and artwork that he created for the production, Paying for It: The Film Edition is an unmissable edition for fans of Brown and film-making alike. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 344 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $21.95.

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by John Porcellino.

Brimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester John Porcellino's coming-of-age memoir about the momentous and eternal year between the end of high school and the start of college.

It's a year of awkward house parties, first kisses, spontaneous, open-ended road trips, and struggles with depression. Framed within the context of empathetic recollection, Perfect Example offers up a new way for us to read our own pasts and be kinder to our younger selves.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $19.95.

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Guy Delisle.

Complete with a new cover and an introduction by Gore Verbinski, this expanded edition of the international bestselling graphic novel Pyongyang is more important now than ever. Guy Delisle recounts his experience as one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country when he was working in animation for a French company. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa, Delisle observed everything he was allowed to see of life and culture in the "hermit kingdom."

Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.95.

32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics - 1st printing. By Adrian Tomine. 32 Stories is Adrian Tomine's first book, collecting his remarkably prodigious mini-comics. This book serves as an excellent introduction to Tomine's work and provides an early glimpse at his development over the past decade. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $9.95.

32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics - 2nd and later printings. By Adrian Tomine. 32 Stories is Adrian Tomine's first book, collecting his remarkably prodigious mini-comics. This book serves as an excellent introduction to Tomine's work and provides an early glimpse at his development over the past decade. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $9.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine. In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a prize at the Festival de la BD d'Angoulême, legendary manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi uses his lifelong obsession with comics as a framework to tell his life story incisively and unflinchingly. He deftly weaves a complex story that encompasses Japanese culture and history, family dynamics, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, A Drifting Life is the masterful summation of a fascinating life and a historic career. Over sixty years ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, dark, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people, a genre he coined gekiga. A Drifting Life is Tatsumis most ambitious, personal, and heart-felt work and considered to be one of the defining autobiographical works of the comics medium. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 840 pages, B&W. Teen+ Cover price $39.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1986-1995!" By Chris Ware. Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan - one of the great crossover success stories - as a tremendous art collection from of one of America's most interesting and popular graphic artists. Hardcover, 208 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.95.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Book 1: City of Stones!" Collects Berlin (1996) #1-8.

Story and art by Jason Lutes.

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by the encroaching shadow of history.

Softcover, 212 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $15.95.

Add to cart Fine $14.75

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "Book 1: City of Stones!" Collects Berlin (1996) #1-8.

Story and art by Jason Lutes.

Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1929, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by the encroaching shadow of history.

Softcover, 212 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.95

1st printing. A collection of the magazine's initial run, featuring covers, endpapers, and three stories by Maurice Vellekoop. Also, rare, never-since published material by Seth, David Mazzucchelli, Julie Doucet, and more! Softcover, 64 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $10.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Darryl Cunningham.

Darryl Cunningham offers an illuminating analysis of the origins and ideological evolutions of four key players in the American private sector: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and oil and gas tycoons Charles and David Koch. What emerges in these informative and hilarious biographies, is a vital critique of American capitalism and the power these individuals have to assert a corrupting influence on policy-making, political campaigns, and society writ large.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 264 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Rina Ayuyang.

Inspired by the visual richness and cinematic structure of the Hollywood Musical, Blame This on the Boogie chronicles the adventures of a Filipino-American girl born in the decade of disco who escapes life's hardships and mundanity through through the genre's feel good song and dance numbers. Ayuyang's deeply personal, moving stories unveil the magic of the world around us-rendering the ordinary extraordinary through a jazzed-up song and dance routine. Blame This on the Boogie is Ayuyang's ode to the melody of the world, and how tuning out of life and into the magic of Hollywood can actually help an outsider find their place in it.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $22.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Elise Gravel.

In The Bug Club, Elise Gravel shares all her favorite and most interesting facts about these marvelous creatures, some of which are so unique and strange, you could almost imagine them living in outer space! Elise's inquisitiveness and charm pop off the page as she takes us on a walk through her mind-and the awe-inspiring natural wonders that exist right outside our doorsteps.

Hardcover, 56 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $17.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Story and art by Seth.

Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant, the Canadian cartoonist best known for his series Palookaville and his mock-autobiographical graphic novel, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken. His work can be found everywhere from national magazines to album covers for the likes of Aimee Mann. Get to know Seth and his unique style and signature voice with these exceptional backlist titles!

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $19.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd or later printing.

Story and art by Seth.

Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant, the Canadian cartoonist best known for his series Palookaville and his mock-autobiographical graphic novel, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken. His work can be found everywhere from national magazines to album covers for the likes of Aimee Mann. Get to know Seth and his unique style and signature voice with these exceptional backlist titles!

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $4.80

1st printing.

Story and art by Sylvia Nickerson.

A new mother takes us on a tour of Hamilton, a Rust Belt city born of the Industrial Revolution and dying a slow death due to globalization. This mother represents the city's next wave of inhabitants: the artists and young parents who swarm a run-down area for its affordability, inevitably reshaping the neighborhoods they take over. Creation looks at gentrification from the inside out, an artist mother making a home and neighborhood for her family, struggling to find her place amid the existing and emerging communities.

Softcover, 192 pages, B&W.

Cover price $21.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $9.49

1st printing.

Story and art by Lee Sensenbrenne and Keiler Roberts.

In this picture book for grown-ups, sibling duo Keiler Roberts and Lee Sensenbrenner render a compelling-and downright creepy-modern fable about kids who are hooked on their digital devices.

Creepy is the contemporary answer to the shocking tales of the Brothers Grimm and bedtime moral stories like the boy who cried wolf or the princess and the pea: in it, Roberts and Sensenbrenner provide a shrewd and comical commentary on the increasing digitization of childhood.

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 36 pages, full color.

Cover price $16.95.

2nd Edition - 1st printing.

Story and art by Brian Ralph.

A new edition of Brian Ralph's cult classic zombie graphic novel, now a Netflix Original series!

Daybreak is seen through the eyes of a silent observer as he runs from the shadows of the imminent zombie threat. The post-apocalyptic backdrop features tangles of rocks, lumber, I beams, and overturned cars that are characters in and of themselves. Drawing inspiration from horror movies, television, and first-person shooter video games, Daybreak departs from zombie genre in both content and format, achieving a living-dead masterwork of literary proportions.

Read the book before it hits the small screen this fall!

Hardcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $21.95.

1st printing.

Science Cartoons by Tom Gauld.

A dog philosopher questions what it really means to be a "good boy" while playing fetch! A virtual assistant and a robot-cleaner elope! The undiscovered species and the theoretical particle face existential despair! Facebook commenters debunk Darwin's posting of On the Origin of Species! Science vs science fiction! Why are there poodles pouring out of this wormhole? Gauld's Department of Mind-Blowing Theories presents one hundred and fifty comic strips topical and funny enough to engage any layperson with a rudimentary recall of their old science classes as well as those who consider themselves boffins of the contemporary physical and natural world.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 160 pages, full color.

Cover price $21.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Anders Nilsen and Cheryl Weaver.

In this collection of letters, drawings, and photos, Anders Nilsen chronicles a six-year relationship and the illness that brought it to an end.

Don't Go Where I Can't Follow is an eloquent appreciation of the time the author shared with his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver. The story is told using artifacts of the couple's life together, including early love notes, simple and poetic postcards, tales of their travels in written and comics form, journal entries, and drawings done in the hospital in her final days.

Don't Go Where I Can't Follow is a deeply personal romance, and a universal reminder of our mortality and the significance of the relationships we build.

Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7-in., 96 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.95.

Comics by David Mazzucchelli, Eric Drooker, Loustal and Fromental, Maurice Vellekoop, and Jacques Tardi. Mazzucchelli cover. 7.5-in. x 10-in.; part color, part black and white; 48 pages on white paper. Cover price $5.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Julie Delporte. Julie Delporte's Everywhere Antennas is a deeply affecting, sparely constructed novel, equal parts Walden and The Bell Jar. In soft, flowing colored pencil, Delporte shows her narrator coming to term with a rare and misunderstood sensitivity to the radiation emitted by the televisions, cell phones, and computers that permeate urban life. Everywhere Antennas is the portrait of a woman caught in the margins, struggling to balance the demands of technology and modern life with the need to find meaningful relationships and work. With Everywhere Antennas, Julie Delporte proves herself to be a master craftswoman of heartbreakingly personal, beautifully literate graphic fiction. Softcover, 7-in. x 8-in., 112 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

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1st printing. Story and art by Rutu Modan. In modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His father's death would certainly explain the empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself not only piecing together the last few months of his father's life, but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties. Exit Wounds is the North American graphic novel debut from one of Israel's best-known cartoonists, Rutu Modan. She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the 'Best Illustrated Children's Book' Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (four times) and the 'Young Artist of the Year' by the Israel Ministry of Culture. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. Softcover, 168 pages, full color. NOTE: For more works by Rutu Modan see Jamilti and Other Stories HC (2008). Cover price $19.95.

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Rutu Modan. In modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His father's death would certainly explain the empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself not only piecing together the last few months of his father's life, but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties. Exit Wounds is the North American graphic novel debut from one of Israel's best-known cartoonists, Rutu Modan. She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the 'Best Illustrated Children's Book' Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (four times) and the 'Young Artist of the Year' by the Israel Ministry of Culture. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. Softcover, 168 pages, full color. NOTE: For more works by Rutu Modan see Jamilti and Other Stories HC (2008). Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Leslie Stein.

I Know You Rider is Leslie Stein's rumination on the many complex questions surrounding the decision to reproduce.

Opening in an abortion clinic, the book accompanies Stein through a year of her life, steeped in emotions she was not quite expecting while also looking far beyond her own experiences. Instead of focusing on trauma, this is a story about unpredictability, change, and adaptability, adding a much-needed new perspective to a topic often avoided or discussed through a black-and-white lens.

Hardcover, 7-in. x 8-in., 140 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Maria Medem. Antonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her recollections feel more vivid than her surroundings. At times, the isolation is unbearable. Until she meets her flower. Her flower gives her purpose: a reason to get up each morning, to ring the bells of the town, to wake up the fields, and to feel alive. And yet a relentless thought eats away at her-what will happen once her flower dies? Her quest to save the flower begins alongside a charming traveler from the land of mirrors. The pair embark on a journey filled with music, swimming holes, and folk tales whispered late into the starry night. They march through the fields to the beat of turtledove calls, occasionally stopping to get drunk off the fruits of the strawberry tree. Slowly Antonia opens up to the world beyond her town, to the people who inhabit it-and to the endless possibilities of community and friendship. Softcover, 332 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Fine $9.00

1st printing. Story and art by Gabrielle Bell. Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York, with a subtle humor. Bell tackles a string of forgettable, unrelated jobs-including nude modeling, artist's assistant, art teacher, and jewelry maker - that only serve to bolster her despair, boredom, and discomfort in her own skin. Bell's self-scrutiny leads her to dream sequences that allow her to rise above her banal actuality and hyperawareness. Bell's daily comics allow her to escape the harsh, judgmental gaze of the world and the monotony of daily life. Her unpolished art speaks to a desire to record all the messy details while the pain and confusion are still fresh. Hardcover, 112 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Sylvie Rancourt. In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Sylvie began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, Melody, which Rancourt wrote, drew, and distributed. Later, Rancourt collaborated with artist Jacques Boivin, who translated and drew a new series of Melody comics for the American market. The Rancourt drawn-and-written comics have never before seen English publication. These stories are compelling without ever being voyeuristic or self-pitying, and her drawings are formally innovative while maintaining a refreshingly frank and engaging clarity. Rancourt shares a world that, in someone else's writing, might be scandalous or seedy, but in hers is fully realized, real, and often funny. Softcover, 6-in. x 7 1/2-in., 352 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $22.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Michael D. Kennedy. "Have I settled down yet?" The question rings eternal across all ten stories in this highly anticipated debut collection of comics fiction by New Yorker and New York Times contributor Michael D. Kennedy. A series of individuals leave the West Indies and attempt to find their footing in the damp dinge of England's counties. A child on his daily trike ride is stalked by a sinister, shape-shifting ligahoo. A blues singer's wife hallucinates untoward revelations in the grips of high yellow fever when she inhales spores from psychedelic mushrooms growing unchecked in their apartment. A man dwells on his absent father, paints the man into a duppy myth, and bears the consequences of this fantastical undertaking. Inspired by the folk tales and oral traditions of his Caribbean roots, Milk White Steed is a dreamlike venture into the messy truths of everyday West Indian lives. Softcover, 5-in. x 8 1/2-in., 284 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. By Tove Jansson. Moominvalley is flooded, so Snorkmaiden and Moomin head out to rescue anyone stranded in the deluge. They bring home Miss La Goona, the leading lady of the visiting circus, who turns out to be quite a demanding houseguest. Nonetheless, Moomin, having read a few too many romantic novels, falls head over heels in love with her, and chaos ensues! Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8-in. x6 1/2-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.