#Abrams ComicArts

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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has been adapted into a graphic novel by Abrams ComicArts. The 2006 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel was previously turned into a film of the same name in 2009.

Adapted by French cartoonist Manu Larcenet, the 160-page post-apocalyptic tale is available in hardcover and e-book. Preview several pages below.

A nameless father and son try to survive with their humanity intact in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished and some survivors are left to raise others for meat.

Order The Road by Manu Larcenet.

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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

Adaptation by Manu Larcenet

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Abrams ComicArts Celebrates 25 Years of the Emmy Award-Winning Series Futurama with The Art of Futurama by Simpsons Creator Matt Groening

Abrams ComicArts Celebrates 25 Years of the Emmy Award-Winning Series Futurama with The Art of Futurama by Simpsons Creator Matt Groening #futurama

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Hey Evanstonians and Chicagolanders! I'll be doing a meet-n-greet and book-signing for HERE COMES CHARLIE BROWN! A PEANUTS POP-UP from @abramsbooks at the great Bookends & Beginnings this Saturday, June 22, 11am-Noon! Hope to see you there!

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Out this week: Devour (Abrams ComicsArt/Megascope, $24.99): 

This graphic novel by Jazmine Joyner and Anthony Pugh is about a family who moves to Alabama to take care of their matriarch, who is suffering from dementia, but the eldest daughter discovers there’s a lot more going on here, as she discovers her family’s secret legacy and their tie to the god Anansi.

See what else is coming to your friendly neighborhood comic book shop this week!

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Chip Kidd's Spider-man: Panel by Panel gets June 2025 release date

Abrams ComicArts will release Spider-Man: Panel by Panel, a new look at the early days of Spider-Man, in 2025

Abrams ComicArts will release Spider-Man: Panel by Panel, a new look at the early days of Spider-Man, in 2025. The long-awaited new volume is the second in ComicArts’ Panel by Panel series, which began in 2021 with Fantastic Four No. 1: Panel by Panel. Spider-Man first swung onto the comic book pages in August 1962 with the publication of Amazing Fantasy no. 15, created by Stan Lee and Steve…

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The Daily Panel 9/20/24

Image Credit: Abrams ComicArts

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Steve Darnall & Alex Ross: Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition (1997/2024)

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Comics Review: 'Mimosa'

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

adulting

gender studies

queer lit

romance

My Rating: 3 of 5 stars

What proclivities might rise to the top among a group of excitable adults, none of whom possess a remotely stable life? What accidents of emotional immaturity or interpersonal impropriety might steal one's focus? MIMOSA focuses on incomplete and problematic adults whom have grown a little too accustomed to ignoring how incomplete and problematic their lives happen to be.

If all of the worlds ailments occur at the hands of people whom have convinced themselves they know what they are doing, then it would follow that all of the difficulties encountered by the characters in this graphic novel are of those characters' own conjuring. The dynamics are multifaceted and the consequences are inevitable. Pride is understandably strong, but gatekeeping is disturbingly common. Not listening to friendly advice? Listening to too much to friendly advice? Ignoring friends in need? Favoring one friend over another? Adult relationships are only as troublesome as one makes them, and for the queer characters of MIMOSA, this credo includes everyone by necessity.

Readers hoping to encounter competent characters fervently navigating a world of plausible adult challenges need not apply. The whole cast consists of flagrantly disastrous human beings. Chris, a self-proclaimed anarchist at 40, is unmotivated, a slob, and a grudgingly functional single parent. Alex is an overconfident starving artist who lacks empathy. Jo is a musician struggling to find a voice, but who dabbles in the attention economy to pay the bills. And Elise is an exhausted optimist and an expert at ignoring reasonable advice.

Thematically, at its simplest, the graphic novel ponders if this is where western, urban living is, one-quarter into the century: Adults who hate being adults because the world around them refuses to acknowledge or reward their paltry efforts. Compartmentalization is strongly desired but never attained (e.g., Chris is constantly hunting for a babysitter, despite working from home every day). Relationships are largely a mirage at the intersection of effort and expectation (e.g., Elise is a comically classic example of a "U-Haul lesbian"). Introspection is an undesirable waystation (e.g., Jo seeks respite from her anger, but only receives validation after someone else in the gang experiences heartbreak). The book's diversity of personalities and the frantic breakdowns that result, when circumstances go awry, lend the title a thorny and complex, if frequently overamped deluge of emotional tension.

MIMOSA is wonderfully illustrated and wields patient pacing and composition to expose the dithering edges of rational human behavior when teased and stressed a bit too much. Bongiovanni's style pulls into focus the simpler, imperfect, and more fundamental lines and shapes the constitute the human body. The looseness of the author's style is at turns clever and deliberately (knowingly) inconsistent. For example, fingers curled in frustrated rage, eyeballs bulging in surprise, peculiar nose shapes — these characteristics and others give the characters life, but readers who desire more than flat artwork and the implication of movement will be disappointed. MIMOSA is a good graphic novel, but only in the context of queer adults in search of familiarity among a small community of literary solace; viewed otherwise, the book is banal, and as a consequence, its audience is decidedly narrow.

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Comics from Arcane for the week of May 4, 2024: The Night Eaters TP, Nightwing 2024 Annual, Superman: House of Brainiac Special 1, Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down 2, Blood Hunt 1 Red Band Edition, The Savage Sword of Conan 2, Conan the Barbarian 5-8 Patch Zircher virgin variants, FCBD Absolute Power 1, FCBD Conan the Barbarian Battle of the Black Stone, FCBD Hellboy/Stranger Things, FCBD The Valiants, and FCBD Jonny Quest

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Frank Miller Strikes Partnership With Abrams ComicArts (Exclusive) https://uk.news.yahoo.com/frank-miller-strikes-partnership-abrams-165453614.html

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Alex Ross and Steve Darnall's Uncle Sam returns after more than a decade with new cover by Ross!

Alex Ross and Steve Darnall's Uncle Sam returns after more than a decade with new cover by Ross! #comics #comicbooks

Abrams ComicArts has announced and revealed the cover of the August 6, 2024, publication of Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition by writer Steve Darnall and legendary international bestselling illustrator Alex Ross. The book features a striking new cover and afterword by Ross and a new afterword and an expanded illustrated essay on the history and iconography of Uncle Sam by Darnall. Out of print…

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Marvel Comics and Abrams ComicArts Announce “The Super Hero’s Journey” from Patrick McDonnell

The Marvel Arts series grows with Patrick McDonnell’s The Super Hero’s Journey. McDonnell calls the graphic novel a “love letter to the 1960s Marvel Super Heroes and their legendary creators.” The graphic novel will incorporate panels from ‘60s comics by creators Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, and Vince Colletta.

“We begin with the Watcher -- a being who exists outside the planes of space and time, who sees every moment that has happened, will happen, or is happening throughout the cosmos—as he observes Earth and the inner burdens of the Marvel Super Heroes. As the Watcher observes the villainous plans of Doctor Doom, who is harnessing the power of the Negative Zone and slowly spreading its negativity across our planet and destroying the human spirit, Mr. Fantastic is led on a meta journey that takes him through the pages of classic comic books and across scenes familiar and unexpected. Ultimately, our heroes discover a Zen solution in an unexpected fashion—one that aligns this book with the inspiring messages of McDonnell’s other beloved and award-winning books—leaving readers with a renewed sense of love, hope, and redemption.” (Marvel Comics)

The Super Hero’s Journey hardcover goes on sale on September 26, 2023.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Cover of The Super Hero’s Journey)

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The latest episode of It's a Podcast, Charlie Brown features a lengthy interview with me concerning, what else, HERE COMES CHARLIE BROWN! A PEANUTS POP-UP. My thanks to host Bill Pepper for the invite and the thoughtful questions and conversation.

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Nate Powell’s ‘Fall Through’ will land in 2024

‘Fall Through is emotional, critical, kinda sexy & funny & queer & idealistic & creepy— and it was the most fun I’ve ever had making a book.’

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“Mighty Marvel Calendar Book: A Visual History” book lined up for release later this year

Yes, we know we haven't even had Easter yet, but check out this Christmas treat! The Mighty Marvel Calendar Book: A Visual History by Chris Ryall drops 17th December into book and comic shops...

After some fine-tuning and additional concept art and prelim work added, the Mighty Marvel Calendar Book: A Visual History is now officially slated for release in December from Abrams ComicArts. Written by Chris Ryall, edited by Charles Kochman, the book is introduced by Roy Thomas and designed by Shawn Lee. Mighty Marvel Calendar Book: A Visual History presents seven years of Marvel history in…