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PERSON PLACE THING Podcast Interview: Graphic Designer CHIP KIDD, Part One

On June 20th, at 6:30 PM in New York City, the Designer Chip Kidd was honored to be a Special LIVE Guest on the “PERSON PLACE THING” Podcast. This happened at the MAD Museum in NYC.

This was a LIVE EVENT (on stage) where the Host of the Podcast, Randy Cohen, interviewed Chip Kidd under the premise they he would discuss his favorite “Person”, then “Place” & then “Thing”.

Here is PART ONE of the interview (and we’ll share PART TWO once it’s released).

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#Marvel Comic Book Trailer: SPIDER-MAN #1 by J.J. Abrams, Henry Abrams, Sara Pichelli

In stores now, Marvel Comics has just released SPIDER-MAN #1 written by J. J. Abrams & Henry Abrams. Illustrated by Sara Pichelli (Cover Art by Oliver Coipel). Now, this is a brand-new beginning for Spider-man & it’s a really great story line too so we’re all very excited!!

Here’s the Official BOOK TRAILER for Spider-Man #1!

But wait, there’s more! The cool thing is… the Book Designer, Chip Kidd, designed one of the variant covers & we’re really excited about that too!

Chip’s Cover Design is shown down below. The “white part” of the eye is die-cut (with a hole) and the “spider” is actually printed on the 1st title page. That, is shown below the main cover. So, if you’re a big comic book fan/collector then please be sure to ask for the “Die-Cut Eye Cover”.

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Person Place Thing Podcast Interview: Art Spiegelman (MAUS I&II, Garbage Pail Kids)

In a recent Podcast Interview at Randy Cohen’s PERSON, PLACE OR THING the Artist, Writer & Cartoonist ART SPIEGELMAN speaks with Randy . Best known for “MAUS” (Pantheon) , his graphic novel about the holocaust, he’s drawn dozens of NEW YORKER Magazine Covers, including the black-on-black memorial for the World Trade Center. He is less known for creating GARBAGE PAIL KIDS for Topps Trading Cards Company.

Here’s a LINK to check it out. Go ahead & listen to it, it’s great!

Here’s some photos sharing stuff that Art Spiegelman speaks about:

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Chris Ware’s “Rusty Brown” Book Signing Event, In Conversation with Marnie Galloway – Sept 24th (Illinois)

On September 24th, 2019 (at 7:00 pm) Chris Ware & Marnie Galloway will be making an appearance for the release of Ware’s latest Graphic Novel Book, “RUSTY BROWN” (Pantheon).

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  and  Building Stories.

“Rusty Brown” is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown  aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by  The Times  (London) in 2009.  Building Stories  was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both  The New York Times  and  Time  magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to  The New Yorker,  and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series  Art 21: Art in the 21st Century , and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.

Chris Ware will be in conversation with Marnie Galloway.

Marnie Galloway is a Chicago cartoonist who makes literary & poetic comics that experiment with book form and narrative structure. She is best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless comic, “In the Sounds and Seas,” which made the Notable Comics list in Best American Comics, and was highlighted in the Best Comics of 2016 by the AV Club. Other comics of note include  Particle/Wave , published by So What Press;  Burrow , self published with support from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; and  Slightly Plural , a short collection of poetry comics. She served as an organizer for CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, for four years, and has had comics published by the New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Saveur Magazine, Cambridge University Press, and Ask Magazine, where she currently works as the staff cartoonist.  marniegalloway.com

QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE
1854 W. North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

Phone: (773 ) 342-0910

OH YEAH, Here’s a LINK to the Official FACEBOOK EVENT Page for this Book Release/Signing.

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Chris Ware’s “Rusty Brown” Book Signing Event, In Conversation with Marnie Galloway – Sept 27th (Illinois)

On September 24th, 2019 (at 7:00 pm) Chris Ware & Marnie Galloway will be making an appearance for the release of Ware’s latest Graphic Novel Book, “RUSTY BROWN” (Pantheon).

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  and  Building Stories.

“Rusty Brown” is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of a couple people in the first half of a single Midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown  aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged to be the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and fourteen-year-old daughter. His  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by  The Times  (London) in 2009.  Building Stories  was named a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year in 2012 by both  The New York Times  and  Time  magazine. Ware is an irregular contributor to  The New Yorker,  and his original drawings have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in piles behind his worktable in Oak Park, Illinois. In 2016 he was featured in the PBS documentary series  Art 21: Art in the 21st Century , and in 2017 an eponymous monograph of his work was published by Rizzoli.

Chris Ware will be in conversation with Marnie Galloway.

Marnie Galloway is a Chicago cartoonist who makes literary & poetic comics that experiment with book form and narrative structure. She is best known for her Xeric Award winning wordless comic, “In the Sounds and Seas,” which made the Notable Comics list in Best American Comics, and was highlighted in the Best Comics of 2016 by the AV Club. Other comics of note include  Particle/Wave , published by So What Press;  Burrow , self published with support from the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; and  Slightly Plural , a short collection of poetry comics. She served as an organizer for CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, for four years, and has had comics published by the New York Times, Cricket Magazine, Saveur Magazine, Cambridge University Press, and Ask Magazine, where she currently works as the staff cartoonist.  marniegalloway.com

QUIMBY’S BOOKSTORE
1854 W. North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

Phone: (773 ) 342-0910

OH YEAH, Here’s a LINK to the Official FACEBOOK EVENT Page for this Book Release/Signing.

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Neil Gaiman’s APPLE “Behind The Mac” TV Commercial Voice-over!

Okay, this news is almost too surreal to share but it’s the main reason we’re doing so, ha! Neil Gaiman was recently contacted by the Apple Computer Company to see if it would be alright if they used a small sample of his now super-famous “Inspirational Commencement Speech” that he did at the University of the Arts in 2012. The YouTube video of this speech as garnered over 1 million views! if you have never seen it before we have attached the video way down below.

But hold on! This post is mostly about the Apple TV Commercial (shown down below) and the fact that a book was made/inspired by the famous speech. The Book, titled “Neil Gaiman’s MAKE GOOD ART Speech”, was designed by Chip Kidd. Yes, the two of them collaborated on this project.

For Photo Reference, here are some graphics of the original book cover:

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Kirkus Book Reviews: “RUSTY BROWN” by Chris Ware #Pantheon

This post is just a quick shout out directed towards Chris Ware to congratulate him on getting a great book review over at KIRKUS REVIEWS. Here’s a LINK to check it out, so please do that.

Chris Ware speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con #SDCC2019

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JURASSIC PARK Letterpress Screen Print by Chip Kidd at Bottleneck Art Gallery!

Quote from Bottleneck Gallery:

“We are thrilled to announce our JURASSIC PARK ART project with the original designer Chip Kidd to release a screen printed / letterpress deluxe hybrid poster with a blind emboss and signature / numbering by Chip Kidd himself!

The JURASSIC PARK logo is one of the most recognizable images in not only film, but in CULTURE. It has been endlessly spoofed, homage, honored and stolen and become the mark of a franchise with over 5 films and counting. This image, specifically the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, was illustrated by the great designer Chip Kidd. Originally, it was the book cover and adapted by Universal to be the logo when the book was optioned and turned into a movie by Steven Spielberg. It went onto become the logo for the film and the actual logo for the park itself.”

Chip Kidd’s JP Art Print Set is available now and you can get them by clicking right here, BOTTLENECK GALLERY!

Wait, hold on! Here’s more information:

There are basically TWO different colored limited edition (200) prints. You can buy one or a complete set of 2. Here are the 2 choices:

Jurassic Park – White Paper Edition by  Chip Kidd. Letterpress with screen printed layer, 13″ x 10″ inches, Signed, Embossed and Hand-numbered Edition of 200. Co-released with ISH and Vice Press.

Jurassic Park – Red Paper Edition by Chip Kidd. Letterpress with screen printed layer, 13″ x 10″ inches, Signed, Embossed and Hand-numbered Edition of 200. Co-released with ISH and Vice Press.

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Publishers Weekly: Chris Ware Talks About “Rusty Brown” #Pantheon

Here’s a quick post to share a very interesting interview done by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY with Chris Ware about his new book titled, “Rusty Brown” (Pantheon, 2019).

Here’s the LINK to the article.

Please be sure to share this on your favorite social media!

The press on this new book has been amazing! Thank you PW & Congrats to Chris Ware too!

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Business Outlaws Podcast Interviews Designer Chip Kidd

Right now, on the main page of this website, we feature full-screen videos as a background display. It’s a fun way to share information & we change it around so please be sure to visit often.

But anyway! We wanted to mention the BUSINESS OUTLAWS PODCAST because this is the featured-video at the moment. If you haven’t seen it please be sure to check it out!

Here is the BUSINESS OUTLAWS Podcast in audio-form where you can just listen (Up Above). And also, just in case it’s been removed, we’ll embed the YouTube video down below so you can see it even if it’s been released from the main landing page. So please check it out, thanks!!

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