San Diego Comic-Con News:  ICv2 caught up with Drawn & Quarterly Editorial & Marketing Manager Julia Pohl-Miranda at San Diego Comic-Con to get an update on the publisher’s planned releases.  
 
The company will celebrate its 25th Anniversary next year, and plans to release Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics And Graphic Novels.  The 512-page hardcover will include essays, historical material and interviews.  According to Comics Reporter, it will include new work from Michael DeForge, Guy Delisle and Lisa Hanawalt; and Margaret Atwood will write about Kate Beaton.  According to Pohl-Miranda, the retrospective will also contain work from every artist who has published material with D&Q.  Chester Brown is cover artist.
 
A new edition of Melody, by Quebecois author Sylvie Rancourt, is planned for spring 2015 release.  Pohl-Miranda referred to the book as the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, having been written in 1984-1985.  While the translated version of the French Canadian, self-published, inside look at the life of a stripper was picked up by Kitchen Sink Press in the 1990s (pictured here), the translated edition used new artwork by artist Jacques Boivin.  Later, Fantagraphics published an edition, Melody on Stage, under its Eros Comix imprint using Boivin’s art as well.  However, this new 350-page edition will include Rancourt’s original artwork, as well as a preface by Chris Ware.  MSRP is tentatively $22.95.
 
Planned for February 2015 release is Tadao Tsuge's Trash Market manga.  The volume is a collection of six stories about life in post-World War II Japan, originally published in Garo magazine.  The work will be edited and translated by Eisner Award-winning translator Ryan Holmberg, and the 272-page book will have MSRP of $22.95.
 



Another manga translation planned is Shigeru Mizuki‘s biography of Hitler, for 2015 - 2016.  The original manga was published in Japan in 1971, and follows the life of Adolf Hitler from his early life as a painter, through his rise in the Nazi political party, to his defeat in World War II.  D&Q has also released the first volume of Mizuki’s Showa: A History of Japan (see "Spiegelman, Mizuki, Nilsen, Seth") and will release the second, Showa 1944 -1953: A History of Japan, in November.   The publisher began acquiring North American publishing rights to Mizuki’s work in 2010 (see "D&Q Acquires Shigeru Mizuki Manga").
 
SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki, author of Skim and co-author of This One Summer (see "Yang, Guibert, Hatke, and Andre the Giant"), is planned for Spring 2015 release.  The story, based on Tamaki’s webcomic, is about a group of teenagers who are either witches or mutants.  "She’ll be adding new material to that, and concluding the story of life at this strange school," Pohl-Miranda shared.
 

First Year Healthy by Michael DeForge (Ant Colony) is planned for January 2015 release.  The short parable about mental illness tells the story of a young woman who has recently been released from the hospital after an outburst.  The 48-page hardcover book will have MSRP of $14.95.