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AbramsComicArts And Disney Publishing Worldwide Team Up For FUTURAMA Art-Book For October, 2024.

Welcome to the Art-Book of Tomorrow!

Shut Up and take our money as AbramsComicArts and Disney Publishing Worldwide team up with The Art of Futurama. The artbook will contain production artwork and never before seen material from the cult classic sci-fi comedy adult animated series.

The artbook will feature behind the scenes material of the 150 episodes of the series. The book will be written by Matt Groening with a introduction by David X. Cohen and a foreword by Claudia Katz.

📚The Art Of Futurama - October 8, 2024

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Flung Out Of Space: Inspired By The Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer. Abrams ComicArts, 2022. 9781419744334. 208pp. https://www.powells.com/book/-9781419744334?partnerid=34778&p_bt

I only know Highsmith from her books, and I've only read a few of her more popular novels. So it was a little strange to read the author's note at the front of this fictionalized graphic biography, in which Ellis notes "...Highsmith was an appalling person." Apparently Highsmith was, like her most famous characters, a charismatic sociopath. I wasn't sure I'd finish the book. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Templar's black and white and orange art is beautiful, and the pace of the book is masterful. I'm sure many will be drawn to the depiction of Highsmith's life as a lesbian in the early 20th Century US, which was informative and entertaining and wow am I glad things have changed. (She even meets a lover in a group therapy session for women with her "problem." Ha.) But my favorite thing about the book is that Highsmith wrote comic books during the Golden Age, which I hadn't known before. Stan Lee makes a notable appearance. (I really hope that bit of the book is absolutely true.) And throughout Highsmith is determined to make it as a writer -- she sees herself as a writer of good novels with criminal elements, not a writer of crime novels. Her attitude is often appalling, sure, but I have to say I didn't walk away hating her, and I do highly recommend this graphic novel.

Signing Garbage Pail Kids books at Abrams Comic Arts booth at SDCC 2019. Charlie Kochman, myself, Karen, and Topps’ Ira Friedman. Within minutes of meeting Chris Ware, Chip Kidd, & great GPK fans, at San Diego Comic Con!

Phenomena Book One: The Golden City Of Eyes by Brian Michael Bendis and André Lima Araújo. Abrams ComicArts, 2022. 9781419761690. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781419761690?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Something happened, and now our world is a place filled with strange creatures large and small, plus anthropomorphic animals and alien beings as well as humans. It feels like technology doesn't work anymore, like it's been replaced by living (possibly magical?) vehicles that fly, a place for swords and armor and such, but that's all not quite true and the truth of the world feels both elusive and stranger. (If that sounds like an homage to the work of French artist Moebius, it is, which Araújo makes obvious at times though he also more than makes this book a unique and beautiful thing all its own.) Oh and stories are a form of currency in the book, which is a lot of fun.

After Boldon (a boy) sees the Cyper warrior Spike fight for a meal, Spike's blade is stolen by a thief, Mathilde, who escapes on a jetpack. Boldon tries to help Spike, and the pair end up setting off after blade together, toward The Golden City of Eyes, despite the fact that Spike absolutely hates Boldon's voice. Along they way they run afoul of an otherwordly, villainous posse whose members are also after Matilde, and there's a more powerful enemy or two later in the book as well.