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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.
Multimatter (2024) - Defective Pudding - “Defectivepudding’s Sketchbook” Zine
Paperback, 6 x 6 inches, 30 pages front and back.
This piece is a part of the group exhibition Multimatter: Prints, Sculpture and Things at GR2 Gallery running from April 6 to April 23rd, 2024.
Prints will ship out within regular fulfillment times.
EYE: YONEYAMA MAI
Softcover, 272 pages, 11.6 x 8.3 inches.
Amazing work from the illustrator & animator Yoneyama Mai in one beautiful book!
From working on visual development for the anime film Promare, to production of the end credits for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and more, Yoneyama Mai is active in the world of anime and illustration. This edition features a complete archive of the illustrations that make you feel the flow of emotions and movement that Yoneyama Mai is known for.
This is the first collection of original works by Yoneyama Mai, who has more than one million followers on Twitter and is getting attention from both animators and creators! Enjoy the vivid colors and delicate details in Yoneyama’s work.
An Extraordinary Ordinary Day - The Art of 526
Softcover, 140 pages, 8.3 x 5.8 inches.
Delight in the casual, yet heartwarming, slices of everyday life in 526’s illustrations.
The much-anticipated commercial debut collection of 526 on the theme of “daily life,” showcasing moments from the lives of people today captured in single illustrations.
526 is a new creator whose ability to evoke empathy has been getting a lot of attention: in 2021, their illustrations posted on social media received more than 840,000 likes. Featuring students, parents, pop idols, office workers and other people of various ages and occupations as the main characters, the meaning and emotion expressed in the illustrations and titles are sure to enhance reader’s enjoyment of 526’s work even more.
This book is sure to play an active role in expanding awareness of people’s everyday lives against the backdrop of ordinary scenes in Japan today.
Take a look at each of these lovely slices of daily life captured by 526.
Blitmap #3
Softcover, full color pages, 6.75 x 10 inches.
A CONTINUATION OF A THRILLING NEW SCI-FI SERIES SET IN A BREATHTAKING SOLARPUNK METROPOLIS! SET IN THE DIGITAL WORLD OF BLITMAP!
Under the shadow of an ancient cataclysm, Blitnauts and Logos factions battle for power, while The Static's elusive realm entraps and corrupts all who submit to its mystifying call.
Written by Jack Timmer and illustrated by Matias Basla.
Each issue is blind bagged, coming with a surprise cover. No cover is the same!!
Yukinori Dehara - Tosa Fighting Dogs Comic/Zine
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.
24 Minutes to Bedtime! by Daniel Kwan illustrated by Felicia Chiao (SIGNED!)
Hardcover, 64 pages, 8.75 x 12 inches.
This edition includes a signed bookplate by Felicia Chiao!
Written by Everything Everywhere All at Once director Daniel Kwan, 24 Minutes to Bedtime! brings the multiverse to the bedtime story, illustrated by the wonderfully talented Felicia Chiao, one of Giant Robot's absolute favorites.
Illustrated by Felicia Chiao, the story follows Winston, who invents a time machine that allows him to time jump around his house, narrowly avoiding his increasingly agitated parents and their efforts to brush his teeth, change his PJs, and just tuck him into bed already. Everything goes smoothly until Winston encounters alternate versions of himself in alternate timelines, forcing him to confront his choices head on.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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:
Felicia Chiao - Coloring Book One
Softcover, 64 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches. 30 black and white illustrations for coloring.
A beautifully printed, staple bound coloring book featuring original artwork by acclaimed illustrator and painter, Felicia Chiao. This stunning new publication comes printed on a custom toned paper and features 30 black and white illustrations.
Following the smash success of Sketchbook 6, Paragon Books is thrilled to present San Francisco-based artist and illustrator Felicia Chiao's Coloring Book One. This coloring book is the very first opportunity fans will have to test their coloring creativity on Felicia's sumptuous art, presented in crisp outline. Carefully curated by Felicia herself, Coloring Book One features 30 scenes that will guide you through her fantastical worlds and challenge your coloring skills with her signature toned fiber paper.
Final Testament to the Moon (Vol 1) by Sayaka Mogi
Softcover, 100 pages, 5.83 x 8.27 inches.
There used to be many werewolves, but now only few remain.. here is detailed the tragic fate of werewolf twins Skoll and Hati in this, the final testament to the moon.
“I want to hurry and grow up…”
The first volume of Sayaka Mogi’s ongoing series, this book introduces the werewolf twins who play an integral role in the story of the wolfkin tribe. This work both stands alone as an independent story and functions as a continuation of the Kodansha digital series Red Riding Hood’s Wolf Apprentice and the overarching world of Humans, Beastkin, and Hunters. Sayaka Mogi continually refines their line with the spinning of this new epic yarn of fantasy / adventure / drama.
New Fashion Illustration: Outfit Ideas for You
Softcover, 192 pages, 9.4 x 6.5 inches.
This is the second title of "Fashion Illustrations Series," which shows the latest trends in fashion illustration! Forty new artists have contributed a selection of their own special style of illustration, this time featuring twin styles. While the previous edition was all about women's fashion, this edition features a more diverse range of fashion illustrations, including men's, unisex, body-positive, and multinational styles. This title also focuses mainly on works by illustrators in their teens and twenties, guaranteeing a showcase of the very latest trends. As in the previous book, we have selected the paper quality for each page individually to maximize the appeal of the illustrations, making each turn of the page an exciting sensory and stylistic experience.
Written in Japanese.
Rakuda Laughs - Katsuya Terada
Softcover, black & white comic imagery, 112 pages, 8.2 x 6 inches.
Black & white comics with 16 pages in color, and two double-sided color foldout pin-ups.
Yakuza bad-boy Rakuda is framed for the murder of his gang-boss by an ambitious young white-collar criminal.
New father and troubled yakuza Rakuda gets a call from his colleagues tasking him to dispose of a random body. The job is fishy, but when you are a gangster sometimes you have to just do what you're told. But in this case, who gave him the job is the problem. A young hustler named Amazaki has tasked him to take care of a corpse without any info on who the body is and how to get rid of it. Turns out the body belongs to their gang lord... Now the gang and the cops are after Rakuda. And with danger around every corner, there are now very few moments for jokes in Rakuda's world.
Katsuya Terada (born in Okayama, Japan in 1963) is a rare comic artist who has amassed success and followers on both sides of the Pacific. A self-defined "doodler," Terada's art has been seen in some of the most recognizable works to come out of Japan in the last two decades. His international breakthrough was his designs for Blood: The Last Vampire. His collaborations with properties such as The Legend of Zelda, Iron Man, and Hellboy further cemented his place within an international audience.
The Art of yoco: For Eternity and a Second
Softcover, 152 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
yoco is an illustrator who is active mainly in the BL (boys’ love) genre and who is particularly known for her exquisite, painterly illustration style. Her dramatic compositions evoke pure scenes of longing, while also fulfilling a slightly voyeuristic desire to take a peek inside a beautiful, ephemeral world of pure and delicate boys and young men, rendered in pale colors and fine lines, but also with a hint of melancholy and shadow. The Art of yoco For Eternity and a Second is the long-awaited first collection of the artist’s illustrations and paintings that have appeared in many BL novels, along with newly drawn illustrations.
Mari Naomi - I Thought You Loved Me
This Gen-X memoir, which is told in prose, collage, and sequential art, explores queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and the flawed nature of memory as Mari works to uncover a long-lost best friend that she can no longer remember but can’t let go.
Jodie was Mari’s best friend through their teens and twenties. As young Mari began to explore her identity as a bisexual, biracial outsider in a rich, white town, Jodie was her constant confidant, even kissing Mari out of the closet. The two were inseparable as they sought to gain a foothold in life and love as young feminists, Jodie an entrepreneurial sex worker, and Mari working in the boys’ club of video game development in the late ‘90s. Then, suddenly and mysteriously, Jodie ends their friendship. Years later, Mari is stunned when she discovers why.
Now much older, Mari is ready to forgive, but her memories of Jodie seem to have vanished. Through journal excerpts, letters, conversations with friends, and cross-country travel, she pieces together lost memories from a lost friendship, in an attempt at catharsis. The reader follows in real-time as the author unravels her own mystery, examining the expectations of friendship, the unreliability of memory, and the struggle to let go.
Junji Ito - Fragments of Horror
Hardcover, 256 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga.
An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase Junji Ito’s long-awaited return to the world of horror.