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Kitchen Table Magazine - Number 7: The Future Issue
Softcover, 120 full-color pages, measures 7.5 x 9.5 inches.
THE FUTURE IS COMING! From the wreckage of late-stage capitalism, Kitchen Table Magazine reimagines Food and the Future. We talk with a Who’s Who of bakers and beekeepers and farmers and chefs in a sprawling survey about our collective journey into the great unknown, and what and how we might be eating in the future.
Things are so weird out there, we can’t accurately predict next week, let alone ten or twenty years down the road. And yet, here at Kitchen Table, we believe in a brighter future and see the potential for resistance and change that exists within ourselves and our communities. So in this world where the future is so uncertain, The Future Issue serves up a feast of ideas, stories, and art to help us imagine what’s next. Join us in shaping the future—one page, one meal, and one conversation at a time.
Kitchen Table Magazine - Number 6: The Pizza Issue
Softcover, 120 full-color pages, measures 7.5 x 9.5 inches.
OOEY-GOOEY, BREADY, SAUCY, CRISPY, CHEESY, CHEWY. Whether you stay pure and only worship the Virgin Margherita or whether you’re an adrenaline junkie who will enthusiastically order a take-and-bake white sauce pie topped with clams, you want—nay, you need—to chow down on Kitchen Table Magazine # 6: The Pizza Issue.
One of the most lovable forms of food, pizza is the staple of late-night work and kid-friendly sports practice celebrations, fuel for drunken nights and stoned days, a salve for hungover mornings, a bribe for the friends who helped you move. It’s convenience food after a long day, or a divine meal worthy of many pilgrimages; a blank canvas for cultural masterpieces.
Whether it’s a recipe passed down through the generations or one created yesterday and served with love to a chosen family, food draws upon our roots and allows us to honor and learn from the past to savor the present and grow in the future.
Pencil Magazine Issue 2
Softcover, 152 pages, measures 6 x 9 inches.
The magazine is 6" x 9" and features 152 (!) pages of original artwork and writing.
The Issue Two cover art is by Monica Larson.
The contributors are: Kristin Albrecht, Diana Baltag, Philip Brou, Joey Bruce, Raffaele Capasso, John Caserta, Saranya Chandrasekaran, Yu-Ching Chiu, Ariel Courage, Bogna Czurczak, Putri Early, Edoardo De Falchi, Wendy Drexler, Grace Dvorak, Charlotte Fleming, Nabiha Ghani, Din ne di, Alison Griffin, Ron Hotz, Nouran Husain, Rebecca Jansson, Herin Kim, Joanne Lam, Monica Larson, Arel Lisette, Brian Lutz, Olivia Mae, Fiona McCrae, Rick Moody, Mallory Murphy, Melissa Meyer, Neil Neill, Viktoriia Pek, Pat Peralta, Amy Jean Porter, Maia Pujara, Jabeen Qadri, Connie Saems, Sarah Shaw, Amanda Stern, Stephanie Tartick, Tyti, Sarah Thigpen, Weef, Ro Williams, Amelia Wiygul
Excerpt from Pencil Magazine: Here at Pencil Magazine, we focus on all the kinds of marks that can be made in graphite. But atop many pencils sits another essential technology — the eraser. If pencils represent the infinite possibilities of creation, then erasers represent the option to change course. Revisions are as much a part of the *work* of art as mark-making. In this issue, 46 (!) artists and writers from around the globe tackle erasers/erasing/erasure in drawings, essays, comics, and other text-image experiments.
A Tiger in the Land of Dreams by Tiger Tateishi
Hardcover, 34 pages, measures 7.5 x 10.25 inches.
A Tiger in the Land of Dreams is the first English-language edition of a legendary picture book from 1984. Tiger Tateishi, well-known in the worlds of art and comics, takes us on a journey through a surreal land with Torakichi, a constantly-morphing green tiger. The artist saw this strange tiger as a combination of an animal and a plant. Suitable for all ages, but this is the type of book you buy for the dreamy artwork.
"It may be time for you to take a trip to a strange land above the clouds where the tigers are green with blue stripes. It’s calming and odd and makes you feel like you have entered a dream. And, actually, you have entered the dream of Torakichi the Tiger. Torakichi oozes out of his translucent cube (of ice?), splashes in a pond, then transforms into a daruma-san, a fearsome looking god of luck without eyelids or limbs. There are Dali-esque adventures with Torakichi’s tail, and Escher-like stairs and mazes to wonder at."--Stephanie Tournas, Youth Services Book Review
“There’s no escaping the dream as long as this book is open.”--Yukiko Hiromatsu, author of Japanese Picturebooks: 100 Years, 100 Illustrators, 100 Books
Suspicious Activity by Nathan Cayanan *Signed*
Softcover, measures 6 x 9 inches.
Signed by Nathan Cayanan!
A gritty Filipino-American noir that blurs the line between crime fiction and graphic storytelling.
Suspicious Activity follows Bingo, an accountant for an Asian-American mafia run by Filipino-Americans in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley. Haunted by greed, violence, and paranoia, his story dives deep into identity, loyalty, and survival in the underworld.
Written and illustrated by Nathan Cayanan, a DC Comics Milestone Initiative alum, this hybrid novel/graphic novel merges cinematic prose with sharp sequential art like if Interior Chinatown had a three-way with Goodfellas and Fight Club at Comic-Con.
Midday Moon: The Art of Shiromizakana
Hardcover, 154 pages, 5.91 x 7.87 inches.
Illustration works drawn by the popular animator Yukiko Horiguchi under the name of Shiromizakana are now featured in the illustrator’s debut commercial publication!
This book is a self-selected debut collection of art works featuring an ensemble of diaphanously pretty girls. The splendid hardcover edition, which was only available at event venues before, is now available for general release. It is a one-of-a-kind book in which the works were selected and arranged by the artist because they are “works that were drawn with analog art materials.”
Featuring approximately 210 works of book cover illustrations, collaborations, and original works, this expanded edition also offers around 10 new analog art works. This book also includes works that have been revised or specially created for this edition.
This collection by Shiromizakana, who has been involved with many famous works as an animator, presents works that show the artist’s distinctive sense of light in illustrations. It is a must-see for anyone who loves Japanese anime-style illustrations!
※Shiromizakana is the pen name used by the animator Yukiko Horiguchi (LUCKY☆STAR, K-ON!, Tamako Market, 22/7, the movie HELLO WORLD, and the light novel Demons' Crest) for her illustration works.
Text is in Japanese.
Entei Ryu - ARTWORKS: CHIMERA
Hardcover, 336 pages, measures 7.48 x 9.13 inches.
The first art collection by Entei Ryu, an exciting concept artist active in gaming and video
Entei Ryu is a creator who makes full use of 2D and 3D media, from digital painting to sculpture, 3D printing and more. This book is a carefully curated collection of 2D (analog) and 3D computer-generated design works other than 3D objects such as figures. We hope readers enjoy Entei Ryu’s various works, including rough sketches, character designs, and 3D computer-generated digital works. Her works are depicted and reproduced in detail and are of overwhelming quality.
"Ryu is a 5-dimensional artist from the 22nd century who can manipulate the magic of analog and digital!"
―Hideo Kojima, game creator
Experience new forms of digital illustration with this art book! This book is recommended not only for gaming fans but also for creators working in the gaming and video industries.
POCKETS: Illustration Book by sekuda
Softcover, 144 pages, 6.5 x 9.3 inches.
The first artwork collection from illustrator sekuda!
Sekuda stylishly depicts people who express themselves just as they are, unbound by gender, through photorealistic portraits with impressive compositions that retain the slightly rough touch of illustration. Approximately 120 artworks are featured, including more than 20 works drawn exclusively for this collection.
Filled with the charm of sekuda’s works depicting various skin colors, body types and fashions, this book also features illustration making.
The cover and contents give a colorful impression. Works inspired by the worldview in movies, which are featured on the PIE Comics website, are also a must see. We hope you enjoy the sense of the mysterious in sekuda’s colorfully vivid worldview.
Japanese Woodblock Prints 1680 - 1980: Worcester Art Museum
136 pages. Hardcover.
A major new survey of an internationally significant collection of Japanese woodblock prints.
This wide-ranging volume brings together over seventy five significant woodblock prints from the collection of Worcester Art Museum, MA, spanning three hundred years, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. Organized chronologically, it begins with rare, and in some cases unique, examples of Edo-period (1603-1868) woodblock ukiyo-e prints, many of which were sourced from the museum's seminal John Chandler Bancroft collection, donated in 1901. Encompassing a diverse range of sizes, materials, and subjects, among the renowned artists represented are Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Hiroshige.
This volume then surveys later periods and artists associated with Japanese print output during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) periods including many produced by artists working as part of the Shin-hanga "new prints" and Sōsaku-hanga "creative print" movements. The works from this time period include designs by such influential artists as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kamisaka Sekka, Hashiguchi Goyo, Yoshida Hiroshi, Kōshirō Onchi and Ito Shinsui.
Finally, later post-war prints featured in the catalogue, dated to the 1950's onwards, manifest the influence of international art movements including Cubism, Surrealism and Popart.
Giant Robot - Robot Power The Lost Zines Vol. 2 (Re-print)
Zine measures 8.5 x 7 inches, 192 pages, black & white.
Giant Robot history reprinted! Robot Power zine was made between issues 17-21 of Giant Robot Magazine, now compiled as a four-issue collection comprising of issues 17.5, 18.5, 19.5 and 20.5 Culture that is still relevant and interesting to this day. Re-discover it all!
Original zine printed in 2000.
Giant Robot - Small Art Society Zine: Issue #2 (Japan Edition)
Measures 4.25 x 6.75 inches. Softcover, 188 pages, full color.
Giant Robot proudly presents its second issue of Small Art Society. This issue commemorates travels to Tokyo, Japan for Giant Robot 30 Years Exhibition at mograg Gallery. Photograph contributions from Eric Nakamura, Cassia Lupo, Po Yan Leung, Jenn Lima, Den Gojobori, Erick Martinez, Lap Ngo, Kelly Yamagishi and Christian Leon Guerrero. Small but mighty - an amazing collection of photos contained in this lil zine!
Gemma Correll - Mental Illness, Combat Sports & Other Comics Zine
Paperback, measures 7 x 7 inches. 28 pages.
Gemma Correll's illustrations are a delightful blend of simplicity and charm.
The comics within this zine were published by The Nib between 2018-2013.
Printed on recycled paper in the USA.
One Little Goat - Theo Ellsworth and Dara Horn
152 pages, 9.8 x 6.9 inches. Hardcover, black and white pages.
A lost afikoman, a time-traveling talking goat, and a never-ending seder illuminate the meaning of Passover in Dara Horn’s hilariously deadpan graphic novel.
A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman―the hidden matzah required to end the meal―and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them. Now the family’s “wise child” must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it―and to discover the questions he needs to start asking. black-and-white throughout
Theo Ellsworth - The Understanding Monster (Book Three)
64 pages, measures 9 x 11.25 tall. Hardcover, full color.
This highly-anticipated third book completes Theo Ellworth's epic adventure, which the New York Times calls "an urgent (and often very funny) attempt to explain a coocoo-rococo cosmology made up of garbled fragments of role-playing games, Transformers episodes, relaxation exercises and horror movies."
Eleanor Davis, author of How to be Happy, writes: "Theo Ellsworth's comics don't make normal sense; they make a sort of super-psychic sense. His stories are filled with pure terror, pure hope, and pure, weird, unwavering love."
In The Understanding Monster - Book Three, our hero, Izadore, awakes to find his mind, body and soul reunited. The last Monks of the Imaginary Man lead him on a journey beyond Toy Mountain to discover the true nature of the relationship between creativity and reality.