Apr 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM | Nicole Cassanetti This weekend is MoCCa Fest 2012!!! Buy tickets on MoCCA's website and come visit the ABRAMS crew at booth B1! Here are some exciting things we have planned:
Apr 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM | Nicole Cassanetti Last night, Abrams ComicArts author Derf Backderf was invited to be a part of the monthly Comix Night and one of Brooklyn's best (IMHO) independent bookstores, BookCourt in Cobble Hill.
Here are some pictures from the event (click the thumbnails to enlarge)!
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Derf opened the talk promising those who haven't read the book yet that this is not about about Jeffery Dahmer the serial killer, but about the life right before that...
...He spoke about how Jeff Dahmer came to be a part of his circle of friends...
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...And other peculiarities that you'll have to read the book to find out (sorry!)
He told us about what is was like for him over ten years ago when news of Dahmer's killing spree hit the news...
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...and how it prompted the first of many attempts to create a graphic novel about his adolescent friendship with Jeff Dahmer.
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The cover of the self-published comic from 2002, "My Friend Dahmer"
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That eventually became the Abrams ComicArts book that Time.com had this to say about:
"I’m here to tell you, it’s astounding."
The Q&A section was jumping, and Derf left us all reaching to grab our copies and re-read the book...searching for little clues we may have missed the first time around.
If you missed Derf last night, don't fret...all you New Yorkers will have another chance tonight at Saint Mark's Comics or this weekend at MoCCafest 2012!
Here's a couple more photos from last night:
A prank where Derf and his friends snuck Jeff into the Honors Club yearbook photo.
Some of Derf's High School sketches of his friend Jeff Dahmer
Damher as Devo (my personal favorite)
Oct 24, 2011 at 11:42 AM | Sheila Keenan YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
Back when the government actually had money, they poured some of into . . . comics!
Federal and state agencies put comic artists to work telling Americans how to wage war, work harder, save more, and avoid social diseases. Professor Richard L. Graham, Media Services Librarian at the University of Nebraska, created and digitized an incredible collection of these comics, which are reproduced and discussed in his upcoming book from ComicArts, Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s-2000s.
Richie grew up on a Department of Defense base in Germany. His dad was in the Army motor pool. Graham senior would on occasion solemnly hand his son a copy of P.S. Magazine, the instructional comic produced by the legendary Will Eisner. Richie was warned: no dog-earring, no ripped pages, no torn covers—this was property of the U.S. military and had to be returned in perfect condition. As Richie tells it, “The old man made sure those comics were available in case of inspection, so I was introduced to that 'collector' mentality (keep it mint!) quite early.”
Here are 5 important things I’ve learned while working on Richie Graham’s amazing book:
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1. Girls know a lot about cars. |
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2. You can psych out the enemy. |
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3. Don’t worry about unemployment. |
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4. Ignoring stop signs will not turn out well. |
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5. Smoking in bed is a bad idea. |
Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s-2000s by Richard Graham, foreword by Sid Jacobson, is available now where books are sold!
Oct 13, 2011 at 11:01 AM | Abrams ComicArts
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Aug 22, 2011 at 3:11 PM | Ashley Rich 
