Domino @ Tomato House, Oct 12th!
Posted: October 1, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a comment
Well, this is gonna be fun. Tomato House, an incredible gallery run by Matthew Thurber and Rebecca Bird in Brooklyn, will be hosting a group siging for four of DOMINO’s publications, with Jonathan Petersen signing Space Basket, Clara Bessijelle signing Face Man, Molly Colleen O’Connell signing Difficult Loves and Sakura Maku signing Dark Tomato #1. Nearly all of DOMINO BOOKS artists from 4 of our first publications will be present, along with their books, prints, zines and more! Come by and meet the artists and pick up some books! Refreshments, books, people, original art, etc will all be on hand.
Tomato House is located @ 301 Saratoga Ave (C Train to Rockaway Boulevard in Brooklyn. Walk 1 block to Saratoga, make left, walk 3 blocks to 301) (646) 801-7783 or (347) 770-7813 http://www.tomatohouse.org/
Here’s a handy map by Jonathan Petersen illuminating the directions even further:
Bessijelle Nominated for Ignatz / DOMINO at New York Art Book Fair / BLONDE WOMAN by Koch at 282
Posted: August 30, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentSome cool September happenings at DOMINO. I’ll be visiting Stockholm for most of the month and away from the internet so I thought I’d get you all caught up now:
Clara Bessijelle has been nominated for an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent! The Ignatz Awards take place at SPX in Bethesda Maryland on September 15th. While DOMINO won’t have a table at the show, Bessijelle’s nominated book The Lobster King WILL BE AVAILABLE AT SPX through John Porcellino’s excellent Spit and A Half table! If you are at the festival, be sure to stop by and pick up a copy (and don’t forget to vote for Bessijele in the Ignatz’!) of the long out of print comic—Spit and A Half will also have plenty of copies of Bessijelle’s DOMINO publication Face Man for sale as well!
The New York Art Book Fair happens September 28th through the 30th in NYC. DOMINO is honored to have a table at this event that we have long admired. The DOMINO table will be entirely run and represented by Molly Colleen O’Connell! O’Connell will have copies of her new DOMINO book Difficult Loves as well as prints, zines, and all kinds of beautiful things.
We’re excited to let you know about a release party for Aidan Koch‘s new book The Blond Woman, which will take place on on Saturday September 8th at 282 Broadway Cartoon House (the place where DOMINO operates in that also serves as a home for many cartoonists). That’s 282 Broadway Apt 2, Sept 8th @ 8pm. Koch’s work is a favorite of mine—intellectual statements that hold within them unashamed expression. The Blond Woman looks like the strongest work yet from this author.
Lastly, as I noted before, the DOMINO store will be accepting orders for the month of September—but as I will be away from our inventory for the entirety of the month, orders placed will have to be shipped out on Oct 9th. Thanks for your patience!
Domino Vacation—place orders now!
Posted: August 27, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentHey everyone. I’m heading out of town next Monday to spend September in Stockholm. Ill be back in New York on October 8th. Feel free to order anything from the DOMINO store while I’m out of town—just keep in mind you’ll have to wait until I return in October to have it sent out. If there’s something in the DOMINO shop that you’d like, I really encourage you to order it by Wednesday of this week so I can send it out before getting on a plane. Maybe you’ve been meaning to order a copy of FACE MAN by Clara Bessijelle, who is nominated for an Ignatz award for Promising New Talent—well, grab one now!
Or maybe you haven’t read any of the DOMINO books yet and you want to try all 5 of them at once? You can get them all together and pay nothing in shipping. Whatta deal!
Please consider supporting THE PROJECTS
Posted: August 20, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a comment
Dunja Jancovic, Jason Levian and Lisa Magnum who are organizing a 3 day experimental art and comics festival in Portland called THE PROJECTS. Here is how the festival is described in the words of the organizers:
I think this is an idea whose time has really come. I’ve gone to many comics festivals in my life, and always enjoy being in a room with countless other creative people. But I have always felt the model of artists sitting at tables with their work is not the best use of all these artists traveling to one spot. I really think something like this project is a really essential step for art comics—the strength of what is being created in comics today far outweighs the institutions that the work exists within. There is a potent community within comics but far too few resources and institutions that have the pure integrity of what is being proposed here.
As an artist and small publisher, I want the world I devote so much energy to to be full of things like this event. If you are involved in comics—or art in general—I encourage you to think about donating to this project. Thanks!
Croatian items and Amanda Konishi comics in the distro
Posted: August 18, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentToday we’re pleased to be able to offer some beautiful comics from Croatia, via the amazing publisher FIRMA, as well as an incredible silk screened comic by Amanda Konishi
Circles Cycles Circuits by Dunja Jancovic
Dark Shine by Aleksandar Opacic
2004-2009 Sketchbook by Igor Hofbauer
Clara Bessijelle nominated for Ignatz Award!
Posted: August 13, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentClara Bessijelle has been nominated for a 2012 Ignatz award for Promising New Talent!
The Lobster King by Bessijelle is currently out of stock but we will be reprinting it this month in time for the awards. In the meantime be sure to pick up a copy of FACE MAN, Bessijelle’s best comic to date!
Warren Craghead books now available
Posted: August 3, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentToday we’ve added a bunch of Warren Craghead books to the DOMINO STORE. Craghead is the author of one of my favorite books ever made in comics—How to Be Everywhere—so we’re very honored to be able to offer these books. Here are some but not all of the titles we have available from Craghead.
Find more by Craghead in the DOMINO SHOP.
Melting by Andrew Burkholder
Posted: August 2, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentWe have a beautiful new comic by Andy Burkholder up on the DOMINO site today. It’s called MELTING. Click the below image to read the rest of the strip…
Burkholder is an incredibly prolific cartoonist which I think sometimes overshadows how exciting his work is. There is an elegance of a Jeremi Onsmith in his art but coupled with a bordering-on-cruel sensibility. I feel drawn in by it and then slapped around—like being voerly nice to an unpredictable baby or cat. This particular strip is one of my favorites from Burkholder. Lots moreto look at over here.
Space Basket by Jonathan Petersen available now—Fifth publication from DOMINO BOOKS
Posted: July 19, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentDOMINO BOOKS is proud to announce the publication of Jonathan Petersen’s SPACE BASKET.
$5, 28 pages. Black and white with color cover. Newsprint interiors. 8 x 10.
Jonathan Petersen’s work has long been a favorite of artists like Marc Bell, Keith Jones and Jeff Ladouceur. A sculptor, image maker and cartoonist, Petersen’s comics are propelled by a strong narrative engine: characters move abruptly from scene to scene and new personalities are introduced as old ones are unceremoniously tossed aside. Petersen draws his cast and his scenery with great feeling and stark compositions that at first glance feel like a comforting space for the eye to enter into—but closer inspection reveals a complicated world that feels both alien and drably familiar.
Space Basket is Petersen’s first book published in the USA, and for most readers, their first chance to see Petersen’s work. While Petersen has self published countless zines, most had very small print runs and were usually given out to artists and friends in Canada. Until now, tracking down work by Petersen was no small task.
The story begins with friends traveling to a large cliff—with that simple catalyst, a story unfolds that is at once straight-faced adventure, mysterious travelogue, and unsettling comedy. None of the different tones ever feel out of balance, as Petersen’s style of storytelling is so his own that—like the best works of art—Space Basket creates its own set of aesthetics.
“I love the beautiful, unforced folk qualities of Jonathan Petersen’s work. Don’t be like those jive turkeys in Toronto and ignore this stuff. Someday we all may be lucky enough to know the mighty oeuvre of “Jonny P.” His stuff is funny too.” -Marc Bell, author of Hot Potatoe
This is DOMINO BOOKS fifth publication. All of our previously published books are available in the DOMINO SHOP.
Art books, zines, more
Posted: July 11, 2012 Filed under: News Leave a commentLots of new things added to the DOMINO shop recently. Go pick these up—some of them we have very few of.
A Small Adventure Story by Jonathan Petersen
Hair Extensions by Wiley Guillot
Freddy’s Dead by Austin English
Diamond Comics 4 edited by Jason Levian
Diamond Comics 5 edited by Jason Levian
Drawings inspired by American Psycho by Benjamin Marra
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