Filling In The Picture on Drawn and Quarterly’s Late 2008 and Early 2009



Unlike Fantagraphics, which does a more traditional Fall/Winter, Spring/Summer sales catalog, Montreal's alt-comics publishing empire Drawn & Quarterly does a catalog for the calendar year. Going from the back half of this catalog and a few on-line bookseller listings, one can see their next several months slowly start to take shape. Here are five books I particularly look forward to seeing.

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ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #19, HARDCOVER, 97818972299562, DECEMBER, $17.95.
The great Chris Ware returns to his excellent-so-far Rusty Brown serial with what is becoming an annual holiday treat of major significance. The only way I can describe how I look forward to these new ACMEs is to recall the way I felt about those turn of century movie fantasy wallows that showed up for a few years in a row there. I can't believe I'm following a serial that last came out a year and a half ago with such focused interest.

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AYA OF YOP CITY, MARGUERITE ABOUET AND CLEMENT OUBRERIE, HARDCOVER, 9781894937900, SEPTEMBER, $19.95.
The first book in this series by Abouet and Oubrerie was like nothing else that's come out in recent memory, and I want to be among the first to read its follow-up. On the one hand, it's this beautifully observed and funny soap opera; on the other, it's a melancholy love letter to an all-too-brief period of cultural vibrancy and possibility, since faded.

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MELVIN MONSTER VOL. 1, JOHN STANLEY, HARDCOVER, FEBRUARY, $19.95.
Let the latest great reclamation project begin with this publication from the limited run of comic books that made up the great John Stanley's primary contribution to the mid-1960s monster craze. One of the two or three best Dell comics ever.

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SKITZY: THE STORY OF FLOYD W. SKITZAFROID, DON FREEMAN, HARDCOVER, 9781897299586, OCTOBER, $19.95.
This one just looks like a lot of fun: the well-known children's book author (Corduroy) looks at the day in the life of a man split between artistic and business pursuits. What could be a tedious exercise in the hands of some artists should in the late Don Freeman's fall somewhere between light on its feet and outright elegant due to the artist's judiciously applied line.

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THE BURMA CHRONICLES, GUY DELISLE, HARDCOVER, 9781897299500, SEPTEMBER, $19.95.
Because the English-language follow-up Shenzhen preceded Delisle's noteworthy Pyongyang in the original French, or at least that's what I've been led to understand, that would make this the true sequel to Delisle's internationally lauded hit. It's as interesting a subject as North Korea, that's for sure.

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