Drawn & Quarterly has announced its release schedule for the first half of 2015, which includes new graphic novels by Jillian Tamaki, Marc Bell, Bendik Kaltenborn, Anders Nilsen and more.
 
D&Q gave ICv2 a preview of several of these releases in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con (see "New Edition of Classic Stripper Autobiography"): Melody, Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics And Graphic Novels,  Jillian Tamaki’s Supermutant Magic Academy, Tadao Tsuge's Trash Market, and Michael DeForge’s First Year Healthy.  Now the new cover art for the autobiographical graphic novel tale of Quebecois stripper Sylvie Rancort has been finalized.  The 352-page, black and white paperback will release on June 9th.  MSRP is $22.95.
 
Jillian Tamaki’s bestselling This One Summer (co-authored with her cousin Mariko) has been showing up on a lot of “Best of 2014” graphic novel lists (see "PW's Top Graphic Novels of the Year" and "Amazon's Best Graphic Novels--2014"), so updated details and cover art for Supermutant Magic Academy, her next book, based on her webcomic  series, are worth mention.  The book will collect the entire serialized webcomic, as well as adding new material.  The 224-page, black & white (with some color) paperback will release on April 28th.  MSRP is $19.95.
 
Adult Contemporary is a collection of absurdist comics by New Yorker and New York Times illustrator Bendik Kaltenborn.  The 176-page, full color hardcover will release on June 23rd.  MSRP is $24.95.





 

Intelligent Sentient? by Luke Ramsey is a series of images tied together not as narrative, but a progressive theme focusing on the world’s interconnected nature.  There is a loose story about a society of giant people, strange art, and inexplicable scientific experiments, but it can be read forward or backwards as the reader sees fit.  The 64-page, 10.875" x 8" full-color hardcover releases on February 3rd.  MSRP is $19.95.
 
Marc Bell, author of Shrimpy and Pau and Pure Pajamas, will release his first full-length graphic novella, Stroppy, which involves a songwriting contest for the All-Star Schnauzer Band that turns the hero Stroppy’s life upside down.  The 64-page, full color hardcover will release in May.  MSRP is $21.95.






 
Anders Nilsen’s Poetry is Useless is part travel diary, park sketchbook, part history of Nilsen’s career, visually referencing his previous works Dogs & Water, Rage of Poseidon,  and Big Questions. The sketchbook-as-graphic-novel includes appendices and a foreword by Nilsen.  The 224-page, full color hardcover releases in June.  MSRP is $34.95.
 



Anna & Froga, Fore! is written by Anouk Richard, and translated by Helge Dascher. The children’s book stars Anna, Froga, Bubu, Ron and Christopher are in for another round of fun and games (and visual puns), involving a golf outing, a piano class, and a close encounter with a lifeguard.  The 40-page, full color hardcover will release in July.  MSRP is $14.95.
 
Additionally, D&Q will release new volumes for several ongoing series.  Walt & Skeezix Book Six: 1931-1932, by Frank King, will release on April 7th ($39.95).  Palookaville: Twenty-Two, by Seth, will release on April 14th ($22.95). The third and final volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s s Eisner-nominated history of Japan, Showa: 1953-1989, will release in July ($24.95).  Moomin Book Ten: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip will arrive in June ($19.95), and Moomin and the Martians by Tove Jansson will arrive in July ($9.95).