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...being overshadowed, the convergence of genres and fans allows for generous spillage. Of the publishers I spoke with, all were having successful sales. Several were debuting new books at the con. Drawn and Quarterly premiered the new "Acme Novelty Datebook," a hardcover collection of pages from Chris Ware's sketchbook ($39.95). Ware is one of the medium's outright geniuses and the chance to peer into his unpolished doodles should not be missed. Another great find was a little hardcover called "War Time and Play Time" ($15) by Luc Leplae. Born in Belgium in 1930, Leplae only started doing comix...
...Paris' Museum of Natural History, calmly ensconced in a spiky forest of prehistoric skeletons with huge tusks and twisted horns. A self-described "fine family's son gone bad," Cartier-Bresson grew up surrounded by art, and it has always been his first love. His father kept a sketchbook and his uncle Louis was a painter who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Villa Médicis. His wealthy Parisian thread-manufacturing family lived in a grand bourgeois neighborhood near the Europe Bridge, famously painted by Gustave Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio...
...enabled him to systematize his thinking about art. He made up whole strings of teaching theory about color and form, and about the relation of theory to practice, embellished with neat little diagrams of fuzzy squares and charging black arrows. The main fruit of his theorizing was the Pedagogical Sketchbook, the foundation of his teaching practice, which has been through numberless editions and translations since it first saw print...
...Arranged in a general chronological order, the book traces the evolution of Schulz's style, beginning with an unpublished G.I. sketchbook he created during World War II. Other rarities include his pre-Peanuts gag strips and developmental sketches for strips and books. Preserving the tone of a monograph Kidd adds some minimal commentary, pointing out stylistic changes or historically important strips. Of the more than five hundred strips reproduced, most come the 1950s and sixties, which connoisseurs consider "Peanuts"' heyday for its level of literary wit and shocking acerbity. Normally an example would be provided here but none translate well...
...anatomizing of anomie--Pussey!, David Boring--has made him the R. Crumb of Generation Y. (The Ghost World title is graffiti Clowes saw on a wall in Chicago.) Enid and Rebecca first appeared in 1993. "The characters came to me spontaneously, fully formed, when I drew them in my sketchbook," says Clowes in his Oakland, Calif., home. "They felt like two parts of my personality. Enid is the id, dissatisfied with everything, not sure where she belongs; Rebecca is more pragmatic, trying to make the best of it. That's my inner conflict...