Dan Clowes meets Walker Evans in this collection of subway and street portraits by Adrian Tomine, whose work readers will recognize from Time, Rolling Stone, Dave Eggersis Best American Nonrequired Reading and the cover of The New Yorker. New York Sketches features 15 full-color reproductions of the beautiful ink-and-watercolor drawings that Tomine began after moving from California to the city. Each shows his unparalleled eye for detail: a police officer scrutinizes a stylish young mother; a girl remains content but completely motionless through four subway stops; a disgruntled worker kicks a chair while he sweeps. This remarkable portfolio is printed on finely textured 130-lb. Cougar paper, accordion folded so that images can be detached for framing or displayed upright together. It is the only full-color project featuring new art from Adrian Tomine, one of the most respected and perhaps the most widely visible alternative cartoonists of our time.

Adrian Tomine: New York Sketches 2004

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Buenaventura Press

Girls, Girls, Girls! Step right up and don't be shy. This intimate, accordion-folded and concertina-bound portfolio of 20 never-before-seen "Pinup Girl" portraits from the world's most respected cartoonists opens up to reveal more than 10 feet of original and subversively erotic "girly" comics. Featuring R. Crumb's "Lela," a robust vision of overflowing femininity, Dan Clowes' "Doris," the last girl on earth, Adrian Tomine's "Yuki," a young woman captured in a serene domestic moment, and Gary Panter's "Cave Girl," a menacing yet alluring female amid raptors and pterodactyls, this highly collectible volume is not simply a collection of traditional pinups, but a string of 20 "mini-narratives" set in environments as disparate as the bedroom and the bowling alley, the circus or the Cenozoic. Includes work by Rick Altergott, Peter Bagge, Johnathan Bennett, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Robert Crumb, Daniel Clowes, Kim Deitch, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Tony Millionaire, Mitch O'Connell, Gary Panter, Archer Prewitt, Ron Rege, Jr., Richard Sala, Adrian Tomine and Dan Zettwoch. The portfolio comes in a transparent plastic box.

Private Stash: A Pinup-Girl Portfolio by 20 Cartoonists

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Caroline's Web: Four Trimesters with Caroline and Pakito

Sury, Caroline

Literature & Fiction

Finnish artist Amanda Vähämäki and Italian artist Michelangelo Setola have created the enigmatic 'Souvlaki Circus', a series of pencil drawings that weave a patchwork narrative of metaphoric truths about humans and nature.

Souvlaki Circus

Vähämäki, Amanda

This new comic-strip collection explodes with over 100 parodies of the world's greatest works of literature. Everything from Homer's "Odyssey" to Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear &amp; Loathing in Las Vegas" gets the savagely ludicrous Ryan treatment. Ryan gleefully desecrates these masterpieces, going further than those "Mad Magazine" parodies ever dared!

The Klassic Komics Klub

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ryan, Johnny

Graphic Novels

The definitive collection of Jerry Moriarty’s celebrated comic strip “Jack Survives.” This oversized, full-color edition gathers for the first time all of the strips and presents them in the way the author intended. Introduction by acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan).

The Complete Jack Survives

MORIARTY, Jerry

Injury #2

Ted May

Kramers Ergot, the most influential and acclaimed anthology of the past decade, returns in its seventh volume as a gigantic full-color 16 x 21 inch (that's bigger than a full page from your daily newspaper) hardcover! While past issues explored an innovative blend of art and comics, this collection focuses on expanding the boundaries of the narrative comics page. #7's massive page size has given these contemporary artists an opportunity to tell stories at a scope not seen since the expansive Sunday newspaper comics of the early twentieth century. Including over 50 of the world's greatest cartoonists, it draws on the talents of established cartoonists, newcomers, elegant stylists, and unpredictable innovators such as Al Columbia, Carol Tyler, Chris Ware, Paper Rad, Jaime Hernandez, Blanquet, Daniel Clowes, Mat Brinkman, Kim Deitch, Anna Sommer, Anders Nilsen, C.F., Adrian Tomine, Joost Swarte and many others.

Kramers Ergot 7

The music of "Mount Eerie" and "The Microphones" has always been a very personal, almost voyeuristic, view inside the mind of Phil Elverum. "Dawn" delves deep into an intensely creative period of Elverum's life, with a beautiful mix of journal writing, jokes, photographs, and music. This 144-page hardcover collection chronicles a winter spent alone in a cabin in arctic Norway, wrestling with ghosts, gathering wood, acting out myths--3 months of unfiltered brain torrents interspersed with drawings. It comes with a 17-track CD of songs written during that time, songs that have become well known over the years through recordings and live performances. The CD is a kind of lost album finally recorded properly, pared down to just guitar and vocals. Also included is a 16-page color photo booklet.

Dawn

Elverum, Phil

Music

A remastered deluxe edition of 2003's groundbreaking collection is now being officially and widely distributed! Originally self-published as a softcover book, "Kramers Ergot 4" introduced Sammy Harkham's forward-looking editorial vison, in which art and comics fuse and explode into a mindbender of a book that cartoonists around the world have continually praised as a cultural milestone and a personal inspiration. Featuring the work of Paper Rad, Marc Bell, Genevieve Castree, Anders Nilsen, Souther Salazar and many others, this new edition is a 304 page hardcover accompanied by a booklet of bonus material, with sketchbook journals, comics, and art documenting the 2004 "KE4" promotional roadtrip.

Kramers Ergot 4

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