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October 12, 2008
BOOKS IN ENGLISH
MAP OF MY HEART (Drawn and Quarterly Books, Montreal: 2009)
Map of My Heart collects selections from King-Cats 51-54 as well as issues 55-61 in their (near) entirety, including such classic KC strips as "I Saw Where the Root Hog Lives," "Psalm," "Forgiveness," "Introduction to the Night Sky," and "Punt No Tell," among many, many others. Over seventy-five individual comics and stories are included, PLUS: extensive endnotes, maps, bonus comics, journal entries, and the complete 24 page mini-zine, The Kukoc Cat Named Maisie! 360 pages, softcover, $25.00. AVAILABLE NOW!
THOREAU AT WALDEN (CCS/Hyperion Books for Children, New York: 2008)
BACK IN STOCK! On Independence Day in 1845, the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau moved into a small cabin, built by his own hands, on the shore of Walden Pond outside Concord Massachusetts. He lived there for two years, two months and two days, and wrote a book about his experience called Walden, which has gone on to become one of the most influential philosophical works in the world.
Walden's message of self-reliance, self-reflection, social criticism, and harmony with nature has resonated with readers for over 150 years. Thoreau at Walden is an impression of Thoreau's time at the pond, with text taken directly from Thoreau's own published writings. Henry David Thoreau is one of my biggest inspirations as an artist and human being, so this project was very near and dear to my heart.
110 page graphic novel by John Porcellino, from the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Introduction by author D.B. Johnson, coloring by JP Coovert; with endnotes and a quotational cross-reference. Printed in brown and black ink. Hardcover: $17.00.
KING-CAT CLASSIX (Drawn and Quarterly Books, Montreal: 2007)
This 384 page hardcover collection compiles the "best of" the first fifty issues of King-Cat, 1989 - 1996. It features such classic strips as "Hold Everything" and "Ringtail Revenge" (starring Racky Raccoon), "Three Balls," "Ed, the Happy Trucker," "October," "Justify My Love," "Desperation Angels," and much much more, including the All Sam issue and the Violent Garden, Ranks of the Damned, and Cadillac March series in their entirety.
Rounding things out are a generous selection of King-Cat articles, essays, "Snornose Pages," Top 40s, letters columns, cover images, and an extensive set of endnotes by yours truly, John P.
Beautifully designed by Tom Devlin, this book is a giant chunk of King-Cat history, much of it unseen for over fifteen years!
6" x 9" hardcover book with dust jacket, 384 pages. Over 140 individual comics and stories, $30.00.
DIARY OF A MOSQUITO ABATEMENT MAN (La Mano, Minneapolis: 2005)
In my younger days I worked for five years as an exterminator - a Mosquito Abatement Man, and wrote about my on-the-job experiences in King-Cat. This new collection contains all the Mosquito Abatement stories as they originally appeared in King-Cat from 1989 - 1999, plus 30 pages of new comics (drawn in 2004) to round things out. Nicely designed by Tom Devlin, this book received the 2005 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection. Two color covers, 106 pages, squarebound. $12.00
PERFECT EXAMPLE (Drawn and Quarterly Books, Montreal: 2005)
This collection contains all the King-Cat stories taking place in the year 1986: Live Evil (from King-Cat 50), Belmont Harbor (KC 47), Perfect Example (52 - 53) and Escape to Wisconsin (from issue #50). An epic story of teenage confusion: Girls, friends, girlfriends, guitars and punk rock. Full color covers, nice multi-color interiors, squarebound. 124 pgs, $17.00
NOTE: This is a new edition of Perfect Example (originally published by Highwater Books in 2000). The content is the same as the Highwater edition, however the "bio" at the end has been updated to 2005, and the covers have been re-designed.
Posted by John at October 12, 2008 06:26 PM