Joseph
By Nicolas Robel
64 pages, 5.5 x 7.5 inches, Partial Color
$9.95
978-1-897299-31-9
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JOSEPH is another fantastical tale from surrealist master Nicholas Robel. A little boy with enormous hands and an overactive imagination copes with indifferent parents, teasing schoolmates and troubling dreams. Returning to themes explored in Fallen Angel—his first book from D+Q’s Petit Livres series—Robel captures the wonders and traumas of childhood in a short narrative that is as emotionally sincere as it is cryptic, while deftly melding the corporeal with the imaginary in his signature simple yet highly evocative style. Robel’s first book, Fallen Angel, is offered here as well.
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Walt & Skeezix 1925-1926
Frank King. Design by Chris Ware.
400 pages, 9.5 x 7 inches/partial color/ Hardcover book.
$29.95
978-1-897299-09-8
In this third volume of the much-praised Walt & Skeezix reprint series,the domestic side of Gasoline Alley receives full play. An old flame comes to visit Walt, with an eye towards marriage. Meanwhile, Walt pines for Mrs. Blossom, the neighbourhood widow. Out of these entanglements, a long engagement and wedding ensue. As with earlier volumes, this book will have a 80-page introduction featuring many private photographs of the cartoonist Frank King and his family. The introduction delves into the marketing of Gasoline Alley in the 1920s and 1930s, with many dolls and toys taken from the personal collection of Chris Ware, the series designer and award-winning cartoonist.
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Fallen Angel (O/A)
Nicolas Robel
64 pages, 5.5 x 7.5 inches/full color/ Trade paperback book
$9.95
1-897299-03-6
A little boy is haunted by terrible dreams until he meets a man with strange powers. Nicolas Robel (D+Q Showcase One) tells an allegorical tale with broad strokes and big-eyed wonder. An excellent companion to Robel’s new book offered this month, Joseph.
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Walt & Skeezix 1921-1922 (O/A)
Frank King. Design by Chris Ware.
400 pages, 9.5 x 7 inches/partial color/ Hardcover book.
$29.95
1-896597-99-8
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Chris Ware has often cited Gasoline Alley as one of his favorite comics strips, and he has lovingly edited and designed Walt & Skeezix: Book One, the first ever collection and multi-volume series of this classic newspaper strip by one of the pioneering giants of American comics strips, Frank King. Not only does this volume reprint the first two years of the strip in which Frank King’s friendly and nostalgic imagination took shape, but each book in the series features an 80-page color introduction by Jeet Heer of Canada’s National Post. As well, each book will feature never-before-seen archival photos and ephemera from the personal collection of King’s granddaughter. Walt & Skeezix is not just reprinting the classic American newspaper strip, it is the story of a great American cartoonist. An excellent companion to the new volume of Walt & Skeezix offered here.
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Walt & Skeezix 1923-1924 (O/A)
Frank King. Design by Chris Ware.
400 pages, 9.5 x 7 inches/partial color/ Hardcover book.
$29.95
1-896597-99-8
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Walt & Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 – 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern storylines. In Book Two, Baby Skeezix is kidnapped, Walt’s courtship with Phyllis heats up and cools down, and Walt makes a bet with his friend Avery to see who can cross the North American continent first. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer exploring the strip’s Chicago background and the attraction that King and other cartoonists felt for the Grand Canyon. An excellent companion to the new volume of Walt & Skeezix offered here.
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– Christopher