books by Drawn and Quarterly

books by Drawn and Quarterly

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Drawn and Quarterly

Guy Delisle

Drawn and Quarterly, 2007

A rare and well crafted glimpse into a secret world
I finished this graphic novel about 2 months ago and it still stays with me. Guy Delisle excels at delivering "big picture" descriptions of life in Pyongyang and North Korea as well as the more unique (or odd) details of a Westerner just trying to pass his time on a ...

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book Two

Tove Jansson

Drawn and Quarterly, 2007

Finally, Moomin in English
Moomin is one of the most brilliant, quirky, funny and thoughtful comic strips ever made. Cleverly drawn, highly imaginative writing. Of Swedish origin myself I was lucky enough to grow up with Moomin, and also to find a complete set of the original 10 Moomin books ...

The Push Man and Other Stories

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Drawn and Quarterly, 2005

Bloody'ell!
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, The Push Man and Other Stories (Drawn and Quarterly, 2005) The Push Man is the kind of thing that's going to weird you out anyway, but it will do so even more when you realize that all of the little stories collected here were actually written ...

Acme Novelty Library #18 (Acme Novelty Library)

Chris Ware

Drawn & Quarterly, 2007

"Stunning" Masterpiece
With his latest "comic book" offering, Chris Ware has again demonstrated a mastery of the medium uniquely his own. His design sense and technical skill as an illustrator long unquestioned, his writing routinely (and especially here) deserves the same consideration. ...

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One

Tove Jansson

Drawn and Quarterly, 2006

It's too whimsical and funny to limit to younger audiences
In 1953 the London Evening News began running Moomin comics on a daily basis - and soon the little fantasy animals were published in over 40 papers around the world. Tove Jansson, creator of the strip, drew it for five years and these black and white strips offers her ...

Berlin Book Two: City of Smoke (Berlin)
Jason Lutes

Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

The second installment of the epic historical trilogy The second volume of Jason Lutes’s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second ...

Exit Wounds

Rutu Modan

Drawn and Quarterly, 2007

A subtle satire of family life, complicated and satisfying.
I have to disagree with the other reviewers on the artwork. The art in Exit Wounds is subtle, quiet, but it's gorgeous. I was first captured by the colors--mostly muted but with very carefully situated splashes of brightness for a beautiful punch. The color ...

Good-Bye
Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

“Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”— Los Angeles Times Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10” lists, ...

Shortcomings

Adrian Tomine

Drawn and Quarterly, 2007

Tomine in Top Form
Tomine has always been a great storyteller. His writing is wry and laugh-out-loud funny at times, but it's his drawings that really shine in this collected volume. His panels are wonderfully art directed and his renderings are beautifully nuanced and evocative. It's ...

What It Is

Lynda Barry

Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

A guide on remembering
One of the most important aspects of writing anything-- memoir, fiction, poetry--is the ability to remember. Sounds simple, but we forget so much naturally and are actively encouraged to forget what doesn't suit the needs of any particular group, usually family. Lynda ...

Acme Novelty Library #19
Chris Ware

Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

The penultimate teen issue of the ACME Novelty Library appears this autumn with a new chapter from the electrifying experimental narrative “Rusty Brown,” which examines the life, work, and teaching techniques of one of its central real-life protagonists, W. K. Brown. A previously marginal figure in the world of speculative fiction, ...

Red Colored Elegy

Seiichi Hayashi

Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

A Difficult Read
I pre-ordered this book without knowing anything about it or Seiichi Hayashi other than that both were highly regarded in Japan. D&Q have been publishing underground manga written in the 70's and I was hoping it would be something like the first three English offerings ...

Summer Blonde

Adrian Tomine

Drawn and Quarterly, 2003

Slap in the face
Just like his other two books of collections, this one is another SLAP in your FACE, when it comes to your emotions. As I read the stories I get drawn into the charcaters' simple events, yet complex emotions surrounding those events and feel hit when the end comes. I ...

Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Drawn and Quarterly, 2006

A darker grittier sadder view of modern Japan - the one without giant robots, sexy cyborgs, ninjas, or magical creatures
This is a collection of manga stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. If you have only experience with Astroboy or the more recent Pokemon/Naruto/mecha manga this will be a surprise and perhaps not to your taste. There are no magical creatures, cyborg computer hackers, fantastic ...

Berlin: City of Stones: Book One

Drawn and Quarterly, 2000

This book leaves me breathless
I'm not easily impressed by graphic novels (I hate the term "graphic novels," but will use it until a better one comes along). Partly this is because most of them--like most conventional novels (and films, for that matter)--are mediocre. But mostly it's because the ...