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Br e c h t Ev e n sT H E WR O N GP L A C EWanton youth seen through lush,

dreamy and sweeping watercolors

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Rendered in vivid watercolor where parquetfloors and patterned dresses morph together,Wrong Place revolves around oft-absent Robbie,a charismatic lothario of mysterious celebritywho has the run of a city as chaotic as it is re-splendent. Robbie's sexual energy captivates theattention of men and women alike; his literal andfigurative brightness is a startling foil to the drea-riness of his childhood friend, Francis. With ahand as sensitive as it is exuberant, Brecht Evens’sfirst English graphic novel captures the strangechemistry of social interaction as easily as he por-trays the fragmented nature of identity. WrongPlace contrasts life as it is, angst-ridden and awk-ward, with life as it can be: spontaneous, uninhib-ited, and free.

BRECHT EVENS is a cartoonist, visual artist, andmusician based in Belgium.

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J o hn S t a n l e yMELV I N MON STERVOLUME 2

More maniac monster

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Continuing Drawn & Quarterly’s John Stanleyarchival series, Melvin Monster Volume 2 isabout the oddball monster boy who just wants tobe good, go to school, and do as he is told. Asatirical and funny sendup of the 1960s monstercraze of the 1960s, Melvin Monster is a classickids comic of the Silver Age.

Stanley’s reputation as a great storyteller and vi-sual comedian is richly deserved—few golden- orsilver-age comics stand the test of time the waythese comics do. As with all volumes in the JSL(Nancy, Thirteen Going on Eighteen), covers andinteriors are designed by the award-winning car-toonist Seth, who is the designer of the bestsellingPeanuts archival collection.

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• THIRTEEN GOING ON EIGHTEEN VOLUME 1978–1–897299–63–0 / $39.95 USD

JOHN STANLEY was a journeyman comics scripterin the 1950s and 1960s. He’s most famous for hisscripts for most of the Little Lulu comics pro-duced by Dell and is considered by many comicshistorians to be the most consistently funny andidiosyncratic writers to ever work in comics. Heleft comics bitterly sometime in the late 1960snever to return. He died in 1993.

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Amy Lo c kha r tD I R T Y D I S H E SFeminist art from the

trai ler park

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“In Lockhart’s carefully staged papier-mâchéworld, ubiquitous media images and personalnarratives are levelled by humble and whimsicalmodes of presentation, prompting eccentric newassociations in the mind of the viewer.”—CANADIAN ART

This PETIT LIVRE is a first class ticket into thecreepy cute and totally absurd world of Straw-Baby, and the mind of its creator Amy Lockhart.It chronicles the various facets of herprocess/thinking from her paintings and drawingsto cardboard sculpture of objects from her every-day life. Also included are stills from her anima-tions and photos of costumes used in her videos.Amy works in a variety of mediums, includinganimation, film and video making, acrylic paint-ing, drawing, costume making, comics and smallpress books and combines the various mediumsas much as possible and let them feed into eachother and out of each other.

AMY LOCKHART is an animator by trade, and re-cently was a visiting educator at the School of theArt Institute of Chicago.

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Kev i n Hu i z e n g aW I L D K I N G D OMThe new master of comics experimen-

talism returns with his everyman

Glenn Ganges

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“One of the most promising of a new generationof cartoonists, Huizenga's stories use a combina-tion of the quotidian and the surreal to explorethemes of science, nature, religion and family.”—TIME

“With art that ranges from clear-eyed cartooningto swirly expressionism, Huizenga takes his char-acters through poetic explorations of the pro-found.”—WASHINGTON POST

Standing out amongst his contemporaries, KevinHuizenga is the leading cartoonist of his generationwhose subtle mastery of the medium has earnedhim countless accolades and awards. Huizenga’scomics are at once straight-forward and experi-mental, serious and funny. His character is the sub-urban everyman Glenn Glanges, a modern dayDagwood Bumstead who tackles and stumbleswith such heady topics as mysticism and science.

In WILD KINGDOM, Glenn Ganges blindly interactswith the nature of his suburban neighborhood:dead house plants; a recipe for grey squirrel brain;and pigeons eating discarded french fries in theparking lot of a fast food joint. Huizenga juxta-poses Glenn’s ignorance of his surroundings withtelevision commercials highlighting society’s needsfor cure-all pharmaceuticals and “hot new things”like teeth whiteners. Starting off wordless, WILD

KINGDOM grows more complex page-by-page,ending with encyclopedic entries, biographical ex-cerpts, anthropologic flow charts and a cata-clysmic encounter of nature and technology.

KEVIN HUIZENGA lives in St. Louis with his wife; heis the author of the graphic novel Curses and thecomic book series OR ELSE and GANGES.

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S e t h S c r iv e rS T O O G E P I L EThe beautiful and delicate

world of airbrushed hosers

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Seth Scriver’s work is filled with lumpy men andwomen plucked from rural Canada—thick mus-taches, plaid shirts and winter caps exchangingnon-sequiturs and one-liners. AirbrushedGarfields, packs of wild dogs, flocks of birds, andmore packs of wild dogs race through Scriver’spaintings and drawings. Part of a crew of Cana-dian doodlers (like-minded folks such as MarcBell (HOT POTATOE, THE STACKS), Peter Thompson(LUCKY ELLO), Amy Lockhart (DIRTY DISHES) andKeith Jones (BACTER-AREA), Scriver exemplifies amodern cartoon painting aesthetic—a type of fan-tasy world created through a stream-of-con-sciousness drawing style. His drawings present apalpable view of a hectic world in which cartoonbears and hunters engage in slapstick adventures.

SETH SCRIVER, born and raised in Toronto, hasexhibited widely nationally and internationally.He attended the Nova Scotia College of Art andDesign and received an interdisciplinary Bachelorof Fine Arts.

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Dy l a n Ho r r o c k sH I C K S V I L L EOne of the best graphic novels of

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“Dylan Horrocks is clever, funny, and very, verygood at making comic books. His characters grabyou and haunt you and even make you worry forthem. Buy this guy’s comics. He knows whathe’s doing.”—Frank Miller (DARK KNIGHT RETURNS)

“[HICKSVILLE] is at once a celebration of the rich-ness of the comics artform”—DETROIT METRO TIMES

“A languid, Borgesian tale of love and theft thattreats comics—and an unabashed love of themedium's folksy energy and rhythms—with po-etic weight. [Hicksville] is a classic.”—AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN

One of the first contemporary graphic novels isnow back in print with a new cover and introduc-tion. Considered to be a classic by many,HICKSVILLE was named a “Book of the Year” byTHE COMICS JOURNAL and received nominationsfor two Ignatz Awards, a Harvey Award and twoAlph’Art Awards (Best Album and the Critics’ Prize).

World-famous cartoonist Dick Burger has earnedmillions and become the most powerful man in thecomics industry. However, behind his rapid rise tosuccess, there lies a dark and terrible secret, as bi-ographer Leonard Batts discovers when he visitsBurger’s hometown of HICKSVILLE in remote NewZealand. HICKSVILLE is where the locals treasurecomics and the library stocks Action Comics #1.

Award-winning graphic novelist appointed Uni-versity of Auckland Literary Fellow DYLAN HOR-ROCKS, award-winning graphic novelist and comicartist lives in New Zealand and was recently ap-pointed University of Auckland / Creative NewZealand Literary Fellow 2006.

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