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Located in Canada and in their second decade of business, Drawn and Quarterly Publications is dedicated to offering high quality editions of the best in independently created comics. The standard Copacetic pricing on Drawn & Quarterly publications is 10 - 20% off (or more, if on sale -- see below) the retail/cover price of each item. Unless otherwise noted (usually on out of print -- o/p -- items that we only have a few remaining copies of in stock), all the prices that follow incorporate this discount.


Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Summer Blonde Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly Optic Nerve $17.77
($19.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This is the hardcover edition.  Collects Optic Nerve 5 - 8.  Each issue is a stand alone story.  Tomine's best collection?  Maybe...
Everything, Volume 1: Blabber Blabber Blabber Blabber Lynda Barry Drawn and Quarterly $22.22
($24.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Having, in What It Is and Picture This, given us her latest and greatest, Lynda Barry now takes us back to her (artistic) beginnings – the years 1978-1983 – and gives us a guided tour from her current, older and wiser vantage point.  It pretty much goes without saying that  all Lynda Barry fans will find this volume a treasure.  In addition to including the entirety of her first published (and looong out of print) book collection, Girls + Boys, Blabber Blabber collects over 100 pages worth of her earliest comics work in book form for the first time!  The format of this, the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly's "Everything Lynda Barry" series, preserves that of What It Is and Picture This, and it seems likely that subsequent volumes of the series will continue to do so as well.  The archival work is presented here cocooned in a design that is a product of her current sensibility and that includes comics 'n' collage introductions and annotations produced specifically for this volume.  As a result, the entire feel of this book is very much a piece with those preceding it and allows new arrivals to the world of Lynda Barry to feel right at home.  And, in a moment of copacetic synchronicity, the opening epigraph to this work is taken from Gahan Wilson's classic of childhood angst, Nuts, the re-release of which we celebrated in last month's listing.  To wit:  "The hardest part about growing up was trying to figure out what was growing up and what wasn't, and you were never sure at any point whether or not you got it right."
The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists Seth Drawn and Quarterly $22.75
($24.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		And speaking of finely crafted books from Drawn & Quarterly, here's the latest from the cartoonist who more than anyone else is responsible for what might be considered the D&Q "house style", whose conscious integration of book design as a formal element into the structure, significance and meaning of his comics works may very well be his most lasting contribution to the medium.  The GNBCC is a follow-up to his first "sketchbook" graphic novel, Wimbledon Green.  Not exactly a sequel, it is set in the same quasi-fictional/semi-factual world and (re)creates an unequalled sense of Canadian comics cameraderie.  Complete with exhaustive index and reproductions of Seth's cardboard constructions.
Daybreak Brian Ralph Drawn and Quarterly $19.75
($21.95 list)
Daybreak
Read more and comment... 		After years spent in the small press comics wilderness, Brian Ralph finally makes it onto bookstore shelves everywhere with this handsome, finely crafted (embossed!) hardcover volume from Drawn & Quarterly that collects the three softcover volumes orginally published by indy stalwart, Bodega Press.  A co-founder of the Providence, RI-based art collective, Fort Thunder, Ralph made his mark with the (now out of print) wordless graphic novel, Cave-In, published by Highwater Books.  Daybreak employs a formally unique hybrid of second-person and direct address that it would be hard to pull off in any medium other than comics to tell a tale of post-apocalyptic zombies that puts the reader right in the thick of it.
Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton Drawn and Quarterly $17.77
($19.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Beaton's phenomenally popular webcomic series gets the deluxe Drawn & Quarterly treatment in this 166 page hardcover volume.  Beaton had previously self-published a chunk of earlier strips in Never Learn Anything from History, but this volume is quite an improvement both production quality-wise and value-wise.  The Nova Scotian Beaton gives history and literature (as well as popular culture of various eras) a fun, and feminist (post-feminist?), spin by situating it squarely in contemporary internet-connected consciousness and letting it rip.  Worlds collide as traditional linear temporality collapses in on itself when we project ourselves into the past and claim history for the present; and it's all good.
The Death-Ray Daniel Clowes Drawn and Quarterly $17.77
($19.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award Winner, Daniel Clowes originally wrote and drew this work a few years back for what remains the last issue (#23) of his epoch-making comics book series, Eightball.  Here in this laminated, oversize, full color hardcover edition from Drawn & Quarterly it is represented in a "revised" version.  We have not yet had the opportunity to do a page by page comparison between the two versions of the story (sadly due to our inability to locate our copy of the issue of Eightball in question), but are confident that the story will continue to pack the same wallop that it did back when it first appeared – especially to those readers who are encountering it here for the first time.  We remember well when Clowes first announced that he was working on "a superhero story set in the 1970s" and he stated that his doing so was "a sure sign that I have lost my mind" (or something along those lines).  Yet, for all that, when it arrived on the stands, it was another Certified Clowes Classic™.  And here it is again for all those who weren't there the first time around – and for those who were, as well.
Berlin: City of Stones Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $15.95
($19.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Collecting the first eight issues of the ongoing series.  Get a head start by reading this PDF preview.
Berlin #16 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
($3.95 list)

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Berlin #15 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
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Berlin #10 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
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Berlin #9 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
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Berlin #7 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
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Berlin #6 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
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Berlin #5 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $3.50
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Berlin #1 Jason Lutes Drawn and Quarterly Berlin $2.95
($2.95 list)

Read more and comment... 		It all starts here.  24 pages of history and angst in pen & ink printed in black & white.
Optic Nerve #12 Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly Optic Nerve $5.95
($5.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		The first half of this issue, consisting of "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as 'Hortisculpture'", shows Mr. Tomine following in the footsteps of his mentor and role model, one Daniel Clowes, in playfully and inventively incorporating the newspaper comic strip format in to that of the comic book.  Tomine has taken the formal replication a bit further, however.  Here we have a story artfully divided into four-panel, black and white "dailies" and full-color, full-page "Sundays."  Titled "Hortisculpture," the strip "runs" one Sunday strip shy of five full "weeks." The second story, Amber Sweet, is classic Tomine, but... in full color!  The issue closes out with two pages of meta-comics, with Tomine ironically inserting himself into the work to provide behind-the-scenes commentary on its creation, his attachment to the "floppy" form of comics (aka comic books), and his feelings of hope, pride, frustration and despair about the very comic you're holding in your hands. 
Pure Pajamas Marc Bell Drawn and Quarterly $20.00
($22.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		There's a little bit of everything and something for everyone in this fulsome, full-size hardcover volume that collects odds and ends from the last ten years of Mr. Bell's illustrious Canadian comics career, in both black and white and full color.  Bell's comics strongly evoke the glory days of R. Crumb's early psychedelic comics as well as those of fellow Canadians Julie Doucet and Chester Brown.  But the comparisons stop there, as Bell's work is a wholly original synthesis of these sources and much more.  Anyone not already familiar with Marc's work should take a gander at some of his work here.  All the rest of us already know it's the cat's pajamas.
Big Questions - S/N hardcover Anders Nilsen Drawn and Quarterly Big Questions $64.95
($69.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Deluxe, Signed and Numbered, Hardcover Edition (of 1000) Please note that this edition – in addition to possessing a signed and numbered tipped-in plate – includes the entirety of the standard softcover edition, plus 3 appendices that comprise an additional 55 (or so) pages that are not in the softcover.  What you get is:  the extra, non-essential stories from Big Questions #1 & #2; all the covers of the original series – including an unseen (by us, at any rate), unused (to the best of our knowledge...) extra cover for #5; "bird strips" from other publications that did not appear in the original Big Questions series.
Big Questions Anders Nilsen Drawn and Quarterly Big Questions $37.77
($44.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		The tiny seed that was planted in the back of Mr. Nilsen's mind during the course of an artist workshop exercise that took place at the D.H. Lawrence Ranch in Taos, NM in 1996 has now at last reached its maturity in this sequoia-like 592 page tome that collects the entire continuity originally published in the (mostly) long out of print series.  The first six issues were self published before Drawn & Quarterly – the publisher of this collection – picked it up and added the series to their then burgeoning but now defunct series of regularly published pamphlet comics.  Big Questions defies easy categorization, and many have written much about the original issues  (including, in brief, us). We'll try to have something intelligent to say shortly on the event of its book publication, but for now will cede the floor to Anders himself in this interview posted on CBR on 12 August where he talks about his comics career and answers questions Big and small.  The uninitiated are encouraged to read this brief, yet poignant PDF preview.
Long TIme Relationship - signed hardcover Julie Doucet Drawn and Quarterly $50.00
($29.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This is a brand new, uncirculated copy of the signed and numbered edition, originally released in July 2001.  It is #304 / 400.