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Ralph Bakshi
Mar 29th
The life & art of director Ralph Bakshi, By: Chris McD & Jon M. Gibson the book also shares Quentin Tarantino’s appreciation for Bakshi’s work. Release date set for 4/08 & can be pre-order on Amazon. Bakshi will be @ the San Diego Comicon . Also there was a gallery opening for his new tee shirt collaboration with Supreme NYC this past week. Via: Meathaus
Paddington Bear
Mar 12th
Is currently celebrating his 50th Anniversary Year, Paddington appeared in 1958 Written by Michael Bond and first illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. The polite immigrant bear from Darkest Peru, with his old bush hat, battered suitcase and marmalade sandwiches has become a classic English children’s literature icon. Paddington likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble. However, he is known to “try so hard to get things right”.
KRAZY!
Mar 6th
Douglas & McInyre, the University of California Press, the Vancouver Art Gallery co-curators Bruce Grenville, Tim Johnson, Kiyoshi Kusumi, Art Spiegelman, Will Wright, Toshiya Ueno and exhibition design by Atelier Bow Wow. Put together a very rare 272 page book that covers a century in the world of comics, animated cartoons, anime, manga, graphic novels, computer/video games and visual art. The book will show examples of original sketches, notes, concept drawings, final production drawings, animation cells, three-dimensional models and published works . Spiegelman’s drawings of his Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Lotte Reiniger’s 1927 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Will Wright’s video game Spore and Yuichi Yokoyama’s manga, New Engineering.
The exhibition also includes works by Moyoco Anno, Lynda Barry, Marcel Broodthaers, Chester Brown, Cao Fei, Milt Gross, Pierre Huyghe, Ichiro Itano, Tim Johnson, Yoko Kanno, Satoshi Kon, Harvey Kurtzman, John Lasseter, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Winsor McCay, Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Junko Mizuno, Mamoru Nagano, Claes Oldenburg, Mamoru Oshii, Katsuhiro Otomo, Nick Park, Raymond Pettibon, Seth, Iwatani Toru, Chris Ware, Masaaki Yuasa and many more.” the book will be available in May and the Exhibit will be leave Vancouver and headed to NYC in early 2009, Moresay say will keep you posted.
Milo Manara
Feb 29th
Maurilio Manara is best known as Milo Manara, A Italian Comic writer and artist who creates his own medium with his provocative pictures of females. Manara has recently come out with his Limited Deluxe Edition KamaSutra 72 page art book. Which can be pre-ordered off his official site Milo Manara, for 180.00 Euros. The book is printed on special pearl paper and shows unpublished drawings by
New Yorker cartoons
Jan 10th
Produced by The New Yorker Magazine, 342 cartoons from September 2006 to September 2007 includes the work of over 60 beloved New Yorker artists. Can be purchased at Cartoonbank
The Manga Bible
Jan 9th
Features the art of acclaimed comic book artist Siku, whose work has graced the pages of Marvel and 2000AD. Resource: Active Anime
The new Animation Magazine 20th Anniversary volume
Jan 3rd
315 pages features colorful reproductions of all of Animation Magazine’s cover arts for the past two decades about all the talented people, features, TV series, shorts and games that have shaped the animation world in the past 20 years in one collector’s edition. Celebrate the art, technology and business of animation and VFX with insightful interviews and articles penned by the likes of John Lasseter, Bill Plympton, John Canemaker, Craig McCracken, Sylvain Chomet, Peter Lord, Leonard Maltin, Nancy Cartwright and Linda Simensky. Buy Here.
Harry Potter
Dec 18th
J.K. Rowling has already written a follow-up to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last in the Potter series, at Amazon, who purchased one of seven copies of the book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard at auction for 1.9 million British pounds, or just over $3.9 million dollars. The book, which is alluded to in the Potter series, is a handwritten tome of wizard cautionary tales, written and illustrated by Rowling. All of the proceeds from the auction will go to a charity she helped establish known as The Children’s Voice campaign, which helps provide a better life for institutionalized children. Amazon.com
