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The post arrives every morning at 10 a.m. It’s usually royalty statements, international catalogues, theTLSorLondon Review of Books. Regular post. But this morning, we received a bound proof ofThe Hiveby Charles Burns.
This morning we were kids again, browsing the comics racks and pulling out that cellophane-wrapped issue you were after. There is nothing like the joy of finding, to your surprise, the book you’ve been obsessing over. We publish in September.
Oh, my. Would you look at that? Building Stories looks set to be as beautiful as we first hoped. Chris Ware’s highly anticipated treasure trove hits British shores in October.
At Comics: Philosophy and Practice this weekend in Chicago, Chris Ware revealed more details about his highly-anticipated latest project, Building Stories, coming from Pantheon this October. As attendee Kathleen Dunley put it, Building Stories is “many little books in a beautiful box.”
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share more of this exciting new graphic novel with you.
“Chris Ware’s BUILDING STORIES is the rarest kind of brilliance; it is simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, shockingly intimate and deeply insightful. There isn’t a graphic artist alive or dead who has used the form this wonderfully to convey the passage of time, loneliness, longing, frustration or bliss. It is the reader’s choice where and how to begin this monumental work — the only regret you will have in starting it is knowing that it will end.”
- J.J. Abrams
Are You My Mother? is the long-awaited new graphic novel from Alison Bechdel. Equally rich and funny as Fun Home, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother–daughter gulf. The result is a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and the novels of Virginia Woolf to Bechdel’s own adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother – to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. It is published in May.
The author of Fluffy returns with the story of what happened when she asked God to find her a husband. Of course, with Simone Lia it’s never quite that simple though. In Please God, Find Me A Husband! we find her talking to God, spending a fortnight in a nunnery, searching Australia for a hermit and riding horses with a Crocodile Dundee lookalike. Quite an eventful search for inner peace! The book will be published in April.
The Vicar Woman is a creepy, dark and very odd book indeed – but it is all the better for that. A vicar arrives on a small island to take up a new post but not everything is as it seems. There are whispers of a missing girl, of secret abortions, and of a fearsome ghost. What the islanders want most is absolution, and they turn to the vicar for an answer. Strange and discomforting, it is an intricately realised menagerie of bizarre characters bound by one curse. It is published in March.
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes was published in February. We posted a sample page a few days ago. It contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Illustrated by Bryan Talbot, who has worked on comics such as Judge Dredd, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Hellblazer and Sandman, it is a fine addition to the evolving art of graphic memoir. Joe Sacco called it ‘one of the best collaborative efforts…in the comics medium’.
In January we published Paolo Parisi’s graphic biography Coltrane, an innovative and insightful look into the life of one of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Scenes from session recordings are juxtaposed with moments from his real life, taking a deeper look at his love affairs, addictions, and childhood that helped shape his music. Echoing his seminal album A Love Supreme, it is an absolute must-have for hepcats and jazz fans.
