D&Q News -- Drawn and Quarterly's Peggy Burns has sent along the D&Q Newsletter for January, 2004. It has some terrific nuggets of news in it, so I thought I'd share some highlights.

• D&Q Spring 2004 releases include Adrian Tomine's first original comic book in over two years: OPTIC NERVE #9 is the start of a new three issue story arc.  A preview of the issue is available here. Tomine also presents ten years of illustration work this summer in the oversized coffee table edition SCRAPBOOK.  Comics strips from Giant Robot and Pulse! and illustrations for the New Yorker, Details, Esquire, The Eels, Weezer  and more.
  
  Seth presents a hardcover (at a softcover price of $19.95 US) PALOOKAVILLE collection of CLYDE FANS (April) and illustrates his father's memoir in BANNOCK BEANS & BLACK TEA (April). Issue #17 of PALOOKAVILLE should also be out by this Summer.
  
  The D+Q SHOWCASE: BOOK TWO (April) features brand new short stories from three talented cartoonists Jeffrey Brown, Pentti Otsamo, and Erik De Graaf.
  
  BULLY: MASTER OF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND (June) is a scathing critique of the Bush-Cheney administration by one of the best political artists of our time, Sue Coe.
  
  D+Q is proud to present  Frank King¹s GASOLINE ALLEY to be designed and edited by Chris Ware. This summer, BOOK ONE will be the first of a multi-volume series and is also the first time the series has EVER been collected in book form.
  
  Late Spring will see the arrival of Jason Lutes's BERLIN #11.  Many of these titles will be previewed in McSweeney's #13 edited by Chris Ware.



• Fall 2004 releases include a Yoshihiro Tatsumi reprint collection designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, Gary Panter's SATIRO-PLASTIC sketchbook, Michel Rabagliati¹s  PAUL MOVES OUT, R. Crumb's CRUMB: THE DEFINITIVE RECORD COVER COLLECTION, Harvey Kurtzman's JUNGLE BOOK, and a brand new original  (still untitled)  graphic novel by David Collier.



•  Joe Sacco's original D+Q hardcover THE FIXER has been generating headlines across North America since its October Toronto launch presented by the Beguiling.   In stores since November, about 95% of the print run is out the door. So get your copy now and read about Joe in the fine publications that have interviewed Joe, reviewed or spotlighted THE FIXER including  the 1/22 issue of Rolling Stone; on the best of 2003 lists of Time.com, Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly and Booklist; profiled for Salon.com, Publishers Weekly, Boston Globe, Globe & Mail, National Post, CBC¹s The Arts Today, The Toronto Star, The Oregonian, LA Weekly, Dallas Observer; and  reviewed/featured in  Toronto¹s Eye. The Onion, Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Willamette Weekly, Eastbay Express, Montreal Hour, Portland Mercury, Now Magazine and the Montreal Gazette.  THE FIXER will also be excerpted in the McSweeney¹s issue #13.
  
  Chester Brown's new classic LOUIS RIEL is a bona fide best-seller, having been on the Quill & Quire hardcover non-fiction bestseller list for two weeks running! LOUIS RIEL also made "the best of 2003" lists for Time.com and Quill & Quire and has been the subject of numerous feature stories and reviews across North America including The National Post, Quill & Quire, The Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, The Onion, Boston Phoenix, Montreal Hour, Montreal Review of Books, The Coast, Halifax Chronicle Herald, The Vue Weekly, Exclaim!, Prairie Dog, The Manitoban, Montreal Mirror, Fast Forward Weekly and The Georgia Straight.   Chester has been interviewed on several CBC radio shows including The Arts Today, Brave New Waves and Definitely Not The Opera as well as the television show Imprint.



• D&Q News.  Do you want to know what is going on with D&Q or one of our cartoonists?  Well, bookmark the D&Q news page. Here you'll find out about all of our events, signings, new releases and press hits. For instance, did you know that SUMMER BLONDE was in the NY Times Book Review not once, but twice?  The UK glossy Dazed & Confused featured Michel Rabagliati¹s PAUL HAS A SUMMER JOB?  Entertainment Weekly recently reviewed THE GOLEM¹S MIGHTY SWING?  And Publishers Weekly raved about the D+Q SHOWCASE BOOK ONE? We have too many headlines to list, so please visit our site to find out more!



• McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue #13, edited by Chris Ware.  In this issue you will find the following cartoonists who have been or will be published by D&Q: R. Crumb, Seth, Joe Matt, Joe Sacco, Chester Brown, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, David Collier, Debbie Drechsler, Jeffrey Brown, Ron Rege Jr., Gary Panter, Archer Prewitt, and Charles Burns.  You can get a copy for yourself here.



• New printings & reprintings: D&Q sold out of LOUIS RIEL and ACME NOVELTY DATE BOOK first printings in less than two months, but new print runs are now in the warehouse and ready to go out.  Joe Matt's classic PEEPSHOW recently came back into print as will Julie Doucet's MY NEW YORK DIARY and Jason Lutes's BERLIN: BOOK ONE this Spring.

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