Blown Covers

explore-blog:

I don’t think there are “bad book” for children, mostly because people leave one ingredient out of the equation – which is the child… What you’re failing to realize is the kid is bringing [him or herself] to the book – which is also a failure to understand that books are collaborative. Fiction is collaborative – it’s collaboration between the person who wrote it and the person reading it… Kids improve the books they read.

On Halloween, Neil Gaiman visited the New York Public Library dressed as a dead Charles Dickens to read from his fantastic adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel & Gretel and talk to the library’s intellectual impresario, Paul Holdengräber.

Also see Tolkien on why there is no such thing as writing “for children” and Gaiman on why scary stories appeal to us.

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11/4/14

toon-books:

comicartsbrooklyn:

Check out that guest list!

Including Toon Books’ own Art Spiegelman and others! TOON will have a table there–right when you come in, upstairs. See you there!

10/8/14

Best American Comics NOTABLES List Featuring Toon Authors!

toon-books:

The Best American Comics 2014 Notable title list includes Toon’s own David Nytra’s Secret of the Stone Frog and Geoffrey Hayes’s Patrick Eats HIs Peas—plus books from Toon authors Lilli Carré and Renee French! And many other excellent comics, please read through and share this thoughtful list compiled by series editor Bill Kartalopolous.

10/8/14

guess what's coming at the end of the month?Neil Gaiman Exclusive Q&A: HANSEL AND GRETEL

toon-books:

TOON: You mentioned being terrified when you first heard Hansel & Gretel. Shouldn’t we try to protect children from being terrified?

NEIL GAIMAN: I don’t think so, no. I think we are better off teaching children that scary things can be defeated than we are lying to them and telling…

10/8/14

art-spiegelmans-wordless:

Here’s a video of an early study—an “outtake”—from WORDLESS! the slide tawk & live music extravaganza that composer/saxophonist Phillip Johnston and I will be touring with in October.

It’s a classic of comics timing by the great H.M. Bateman from a 1921 Punch magazine—cited by Alfred Hitchcock (another master of timing) as the inspiration for the famous Albert Hall sequence of The Man Who Knew Too Much!

[credits: Phillip Johnston: soprano saxophone, Nick Bowd, baritone saxophone, James Greening: trombone; video editing by Lindsay Nordell and Annalise Olson, with direction from Art Spiegelman]

check out the tumblr for the wordless US tour!

09/13/14

theparisreview:

Heinz Emigholz, from “A Portfolio.”

Our Heinz Emigholz…The one we published in RAW. Nice to see this here.

05/25/14

kingtrash:

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OOOOH! the hours spent in class playing with handwriting… This is a wonderful example of how it can twist your mind forever though….

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05/25/14

Have you ever stood on a lawn to be photographed? then Maira Kalman may one day do your portrait and Daniel handler will write about it…
Just posted on newyorker.com about their nice new book…
http://nyr.kr/RliXgv

05/6/14

Nice! Brigid Alverson announcing the TOON GRAPHICS in PW http://bit.ly/1rShVE3 including the first peak at the unique Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti…

05/4/14

On newyorker.com, watch what happens when Jesse Jacobs takes his characters out on a picnic…
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/04/eyeball-kicks-safari-in-a-weird-landscape.html#slide_ss_0=1

04/19/14

One of our Eisner Award Nominees is LINIERS’ gorgeous Big Wet Balloon. Could this be the first Eisner-nominee that was co-published in Spanish?

04/15/14

THREE EISNER NOMINATIONS! We’re just besides ourselves with glee… Not one, not two, but three Eisner nominations! Wow!

04/15/14