Fans of comics and popular culture from across the world are gathering in San Diego for the 40th Comic-Con International, the largest convention of its kind. For fans unable to make the yearly pilgrimage to San Diego for four days of comic madness, we’ll gladly suggest a few titles that
Never a slow news day here at the Yale Press! On Sunday, Peter Mansoor weighed in on the next steps for the President-elect in Iraq as part of the New York Times “Transitions” series of op-eds. His book, Baghdad at Sunrise, chronicles Mansoor’s direct involvement in the counter-insurgency efforts. Read
The latest issue of the New Yorker features artwork from Ivan Brunetti, editor of our very own Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories. Image from www.newyorker.com
The Comics Journal recently reviewed Ivan Brunetti’s An Anthology of Graphic Fiction (Yale University Press, 2006). Dick Deppey gives two reviews: “One for newcomers to the new breed of comics, and one for those who already know their way around.” He went with the newcomers first: If you’re looking for
How did the rulers of the Soviet Union pass the time during long Politburo meetings in the Kremlin? They doodled. Sketching on notebook pages, official letterheads, and the margins of draft documents, prominent Soviet leaders in the 1920s and 1930s amused themselves and their colleagues with drawings of one another.
From An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories by Ivan Brunetti, forthcoming in October. Stay tuned for more previews from this and other forthcoming titles from Yale University Press.
Here is a sneak peek at In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists by Todd Hignite, the founding editor of Comic Art Magazine. In the Studio will be available in September. 2.03 Art Spiegelman, detail from “High Art Lowdown,” Artforum, December 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Art Spiegelman. 6.26 Daniel
Ivan Brunetti discusses An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories forthcoming from Yale this Fall.
The “Masters of American Comics” exhibition opened last month at the Hammer Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. “The organizing principle behind the show,” says Publishers Weekly, “is deceptively simple: tell the history of comics in the United States from the beginning of the 20th century