At last, David Collier's most popular and well-received work, his comic book biographies, is being collected together in one complete book! ''Portraits From Life'' presents Collier's fascinating look at the lives of six individuals, from ''Grey Owl'' (recently made into a Hollywood film) to the recent ''David Milgaard'' story, about a man wrongfully accused of a brutal rape and murder. Also: ''The Ethel Catherwood Story'', about an eccentric early 20th century Olympic champion; ''Humphry Osmond'', a compelling look at the man who coined the term ''psychedelic''; and, finally, a look at the early exploits of Richard Collier, the artist's grandfather. Find out why R. Crumb and Chris Ware consider Collier among the most interesting cartoonists working today!

Celebrated Spanish cartoonist Max helped Drawn & Quarterly win the 1998 Harvey Award for Best Foreign Material with his story Orpheus and his breathtaking covers in a recent issue of the magazine. Now, D&Q is publishing Max's newest work, a compelling, beautifully-illustrated book that chronicles a man's disturbing dreams as he slips in and out of consciousness in a hospital ward over a period of forty days. The story here is vividly told in Max's crisp, expressionistic drawing style and features impressive gouache-painted covers and endpapers by this master cartoonist.

A collection of strips by the award-winning cartoonist team is comprised of Mr. Jean tales that its creators drew independently of one another and shares the story of their artistic partnership, struggles with deadlines, and personal inspirations.

Poetry Verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit Afterword by Comics Historian Jeet Heer A grittier and less sentimental predecessor to Norman Rockwell, Clare Briggs exemplified the larger journey of American society from small-town innocence to urbane sophistication. The son of a farm machinery salesman, Briggs left his rural home as a young man to forge a career as an illustrator and cartoonist, earning success in such big-city papers as The Chicago Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Tribune. Within a few years, he became one of the most popular and imitated cartoonists in America: Frank King, Milton Caniff, and the first generation of New Yorker cartoonists all emulated Briggs. Eschewing the roughneck humor of early comic strips, Briggs drew low-key strips in two modes: nostalgic reveries focused on memories of small-town boyhood and satirical strips about the squabbles inherent in married life. First published in 1913 by P. F. Volland and Company of Chicago, Oh Skin-Nay! is a collaboration between Briggs and poet Wilbur D. Nesbit and portrays a year in the life of small-town America through the eyes of the twelve-year-old boy—wood gathering, sleigh rides, games of post office, swimming holes, and sandlot ball games. This book is presented as a facsimile edition of double-page spreads containing short poems and full-page cartoons as well as an expanded afterword on Briggs by comics historian Jeet Heer.

Nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors star in this breezy and wryly funny story of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yopougon, a.k.a. Yop City. Full color. 132 pp. 7 x 9 3/4. 12,000 print. Young adult. Pub. 3/07.

"One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years." -Time.com Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality,Kevin Huizenga's short stories are based on the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes peculiar ways. Huizenga fuses the most banal aspects of modern culture with its most looming questions in a consistently genial style. Lighthearted, but with a healthy dose of nineteenth-century spine tingling, the narratives presented in Curses are insightful portrayals of reality. Huizenga's central character in his comics is Glenn Ganges, a seemingly middle-class man living in the suburbs whose blank-eyed wonderment at everyday experiences brings together such diverse aspects of our world as golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees, and hallucinatory vision, into a complete experience as multifaceted as our own lives. Huizenga is regarded by many as one of the most promising young cartoonists of his generation, whose artistic talent, singular writing, and studied substance prove the versatility of his skill. Curses collects his work from Kramer's Ergot and The Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, his award-winning and nominated comic-book series Or Else, and Time magazine; it is the most extensive selection of his comics to date in a single volume.