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James Jean - Pareidolia: A Retrospective of Beloved and New Works by James Jean
Softcover, 288 pages, measures 9 x 12 inches.
Pareidolia is a long-awaited collection of the art of James Jean, featuring works that span the majority of his career.
Born in 1978, Taiwanese-American James Jean became one of the most prolific artists/illustrators in commercial and fine art. He created numerous covers for American Comics and also collaborated on special projects with PRADA in 2007.
As much of his art has previously only been available for consideration formatted as album covers or other specialized commercial art, this book holds many visual treats for fans across the globe. Bilingual introductions by contemporary artist Takashi Murakami and film director Guillermo del Toro! Includes supplementary poster. Text in Japanese and English.
Jillian Tamaki - SuperMutant Magic Academy
Paperback, 224 pages, measures 6.3 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches
The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer--moody and atmospheric bestsellers. SuperMutant Magic Academy, which she has been serializing online for the past four years, paints a teenaged world filled with just as much ennui and uncertainty, but also with a sharp dose of humor and irreverence. Tamaki deftly plays superhero and high-school Hollywood tropes against what adolescence is really like: The SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep school for mutants and witches, but their paranormal abilities take a backseat to everyday teen concerns.
Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crush, the cat-eared Wendy. Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous, Tamaki's jokes are precise and devastating.
SuperMutant Magic Academy has won two Ignatz Awards. This volume combines the most popular content from the webcomic with a selection of all-new, never-before-seen strips.
Katsuya Terada - Hot Pot Girls Zine
Katsuya Terada Hot Pot Girls II Zine
Katsuya Terada x Giant Robot - I Love Coffee I Love Ninja Zine + Sticker
Softcover, 24 pages, Measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches, full color. Includes 3x3" sticker.
Released along with Katsuya Terada's Rakugaking solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this beautifully printed art zine.
I Love Coffee I Love Ninja includes various drawings and paintings by the artist expressing his love and/or neurotic addiction to the magical beverage. What caffeine junky can't relate to that joy?
Excerpt from the forward written by Katsuya Terada:
"Mornings, I wake up.
I don't feel like working at all.
There's tons of shit that needs to be done, but I don't want to do it.
This is when I throw myself into grinding beans..."
Katsuya Terada x Giant Robot - I Love Coffee Zine 2 + Sticker
Softcover, 24 pages, Measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches, full color. Includes a 2.8 x 3.7" vinyl sticker (girl with green hat)
Released along with Katsuya Terada's Dragon Girl solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this beautifully printed art zine.
I Love Coffee 2 includes various digital drawings by the artist expressing his love and/or neurotic addiction to the magical beverage. What caffeine junky can't relate to that joy?
No Forward for this edition is provided, however, Terada does include one page that reveals what this zine is about.
Katsuya Terada, Rockin' Jelly Bean, Hajime Sorayama - PussyCat! Kill! Kill! Kill! Book (SIGNED! by Hajima Sorayama)
Softcover, measures 10.2 x 14.2 inches, 72 pages.
*SIGNED by Hajime Sorayama*
This title consists of fantastic collaboration of the three internationally-renowned artists in the field of erotic illustrations Hajime Sorayama, Rockin Jelly Bean and Katsuya Terada and is showcasing high quality and tasteful art works at each turn of the page. These Great Masters begin each section with a personal introduction of their fellow artist, so the readers can enjoy their comments, and at the same time, understand their mutual influence on each other.
There is no doubt that this large-sized title will be a treasured book for erotic art lovers and fans of these artists. Also it is a good reference book for those wishing to learn the ways of erotic illustration.
Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill! Kill! Book
Note: This book contains adult content and thematics.
KAWS: He Eats Alone
Hardcover, measures 8.20 x 10.10 x 1.20 inches, 322 pages.
This publication documents the artist’s first exhibit in the Middle East, with more than 40 key pieces in sculpture and painting from the last two decades. The exhibit in Doha, Qatar, and its accompanying catalog also feature a number of KAWS’ commercial collaborations alongside his 5-meter-tall sculpture Companion (Passing Through) and his inflatable 40-meter-tall piece Holiday. Bound in cloth, this volume is a gorgeous collection of KAWS’ most exciting work.
Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally by his graffiti tag KAWS, is the mastermind behind one of today’s most recognizable artistic brands. A graffiti artist since adolescence, Donnelly received his BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. He then worked as a background artist for animated TV programs before becoming an independent designer. He has worked with artists like Kanye West and collaborated with brands such as Supreme, Nike and Comme des Garçons. He is currently represented by Skarstedt Gallery in New York.
Kim Jung Gi - 2022 Sketch Collection
Hardcover, 480 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches.
The 2022 Sketch Collection, Kim Jung Gi's latest sketchbook filled with masterful drawings created since 2018, is now available.
Originally scheduled for release in the summer of 2020, it was postponed due to the pandemic, but this provided Jung Gi with a unique opportunity. Instead of touring and working on projects, he was able to return to what he loves most: drawing incessantly and putting his imagination to the test. The result is 480 pages of mesmerizing illustrations.
The pages are filled with sketches, portraits, caricatures, cityscapes, comics, and all kinds of real-life characters, whose lines are so dynamic that they almost seem to move towards you as they try to leave the page. The various techniques and colors add to its complexity, making it an excellent reference for artists and/or students.
Marcel Dzama - The Berliner Ensemble 2
Moebius - 40 Days Dans le Desert B (New Edition)
Hardcover, 144 pages, black & white, with 8 pages in color, 6.5 x 9.75 inches.
This Moebius classic, first published in 1999, features 70 lush intricately detailed full-page pen & ink illustrations from Moebius' sketchbook, reproduced at the same size as the original art.
This current edition is augmented with 8 pieces in color and Moebius' original handwritten texts opposite some of his drawings. It is bound in hardcovers with painted edges, matching endpapers, and a matching ribbon bookmark.
From an interview with Moebius:
“…this is [...] a series of drawings I did in 1999. I was doing Blueberry and after a day working on Blueberry I wanted to rest a little doing that. Instead of watching TV, I used to spend my time drawing…You know, I had a book with me and I was carrying that book everywhere, to the dentist or waiting for the bus… I used to do those drawings without pencil and mainly with my Rotring, total improvisation you know because it is an accumulation of lines and details.”
Moebius - La Faune de Mars (Expanded Edition)
Hardcover, 200 pages, black & white, with 16 pages in color, 6.25 x 8.25 inches.
A new larger format, expanded edition of the 2011 limited edition sketchbook. This new edition is two inches wider and taller than the 2011 edition and adds 16 pages of color illustrations.
A fantasy notebook of animals found on Mars.
"Everyone now knows that the planet Mars is barren. Robots, equipped with small remote-controlled shovels, are being sent there at great expense, and they are stubbornly digging the soil in the hope of discovering fossils curled up with ancient bacteria.
"I found it simpler and less expensive in terms of technological investment to grab a blank notebook and let the pen run on paper, a dreamy and random stroke. Of course, this method of another age is far from providing the scientific guarantees that are required in any official communication, and I did not even try to get an article in Sciences & Vie.
"This notebook exists however, and the strange creatures that populate its pages exist with him and in him."
--Le Major - alias Moebius
Moebius - Lazlo Parker
Hardcover, 320 pages, black & white and color, 6.25 x 8.25 inches.
This new hardcover, from Moebius production, is in the same format as Le Faune de Mars and Le Major, and collects Moebius' abstract paintings and drawings. It's a rarely seen side of Moebius' oeuvre. Some of his abstracts have been published in the books Chaos, Moebius Transe Forme, the German Moebius exhibition catalogue, and the exceedingly rare Quatre-Vingt Huit.
This book is mostly art, with a few poems. In this 320-page book, there are only 7 pages of text. In french.
Comes with an ex-libris!
From the publisher:
Who is Lazlo Parker?
He is an obscure artist, rising from the depths of the Moebiusian subconscious, he is an expert in mecanico-organic shapes, a compulsive obsessive drawer, an amateur poet...
"The objective was to create shapes showing nothing in particular, but inhabited and fed by a powerful and unbridled sense of representation, light, shade, forms, perspective, and expertise."
Legendary French cartoonist Jean Giraud Moebius was a multi-faceted artist who left a deep impact on the minds of people all around the world. His most read and re-read stories feature the characters of: Blueberry, which Giraud signed Gir; Arzak from the eponymous work; Major Grubert from the Airtight Garage; Stel and Atan from the World of Edena; John Difool from the Incal; or Moebius himself from Inside Moebius, his autofictional graphic novel.
Beyond the figurative representations that built his success, Moebius was interested in more abstract forms, hybrid creations alluding to both the unpredictable logic of nature and the regular workings of the machine. Lazlo Parker is the alias inhabiting one of the notebooks in which Moebius experimented with this unexpected style, creating new and intriguing forms, further widening his vast range of expression.
Moebius - Le Chasseur Deprime (New Edition with an Ex-libris)
Softcover, 60 pages, black & white, 12 x 9 inches.
This graphic novel features the return of Major Grubert of the Airtight Garage! These pages, created between 2006 and 2008, are full of Moebius' trademark tightly rendered pen & inks of fantastical images and vistas. Beautifully printed with rich blacks on thick watercolor paper.
Major Grubert, traveling through a sci-fi desert, seeks out Madame Van Peebles, a striking femme who leads him through his subconscious: a tour de force of wild transformations and trippy surrealism!
"I expect full cooperation from you, do I make myself clear? Take a seat on the couch, we'll start the session immediately."
Major Grubert is back in his ultimate adventure within the Hermetic Garage, in search of the sponsors of his assassination...
Out of print since 2009, Le Chasseur Deprime ("The Depressed Hunter") is back in this new printing and accompanied by a beautiful color ex-libris (bookplate)!
This edition adds:
Momentary - by Ilya Kuvshinov
Paperback with cover sleeve, Measures approximately 7.8 x 1 x 8 inches, 192 pages.
Ilya Kuvshinov is an illustrator and comic artist from Russia, based in Japan. In this first collection of his work, readers will find full-color, perfectly rendered illustrations of adorable girls with large, manga-influenced eyes. Backdrops and environments referencing Japan are illustrated with just as much detail and love. Momentary also features sketches interspersed, showcasing his ability to capture movement with his first pen strokes. Written commentary (in both Japanese and English) from the artist himself also accompanies these beautiful full-color pages.
More Heroes & Heroines: Japanese Video Game + Animation Illustration
Softcover, 208 pages, measures 7.5 x 10.2 inches.
Following former best selling title; Heroes and Heroines, this title showcases the most trendy and updated illustrations by about 60 prominent character designers covering both video game and animation. Featuring a bilingual interview with Shiro Miwa, a leading comic artist who is also a character designer of 7th Dragon 2020 (cover art).
Featured animations and video games design from these titles: Girls and Panzer; Kantai Collection; Kill la Kill; Attack on Titan; METAL GEAR SOLID V; and much more.
Text in Japanese and English.
New Retro Illustrations: Retro Reimagined by a New Generation
Softcover, 192 pages, 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
“New retro”, a combination of the word “New” and “Retrospective”, is a newly coined phrase meaning “appreciating and enjoying something old while reimagining it into something modern.” This book introduces 40 up-and-coming illustrators working in this “new retro” style. Through the 300 illustrations showcased in this one book, readers can appreciate and enjoy retro culture, items and motifs reimagined and transformed into something new.
Nikki McClure - "What Will These Hands Make?" Children's Book
40 pages, full-color, hardcover book. Measures 8 x 11 inches.
This is Nikki's most ambitious and detailed book to date.
This lyrical picture book follows a family through one day in an amazing small town — and muses on the possibilities that just one day can hold — from enjoying treats at the bakery, to admiring handmade goods from local artisan shops, to observing the new construction in town.
Illuminating themes of community, creativity, and collaboration, What Will These Hands Make? dares the reader to dream up everything they can be and all the ways they can leave their little corner of the world better than they found it.