Trade Books of the Month

por | May 6, 2016 | |

  • ZONZO
    Spanish cartoonist Joan Cornella's first book, the viciously funny Mox Nox, has struck such a nerve on social media that his Facebook page has garnered over 3.7 million fan followers, three-quarters of a million Instagram followers, and a quarter-million Twitter followers. A quick glance indicates why: Each single page strip is a wordless, full-colour, hand-painted marvel of the comic strip form.
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  • Picasso: Transfigurations 1895-1972
    In collaboration with the Musée National Picasso, Paris, the Hungarian National Gallery holds an exhibition from the works of the most influential artist of the 20th century. The selection focuses on almost all of Picasso’s periods; particularly concentrating on the continual alterations of the shape of the human figure, the continuous attempts at capturing features, as well as the sort of innovations that the completed works entail.
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  • OMG Posters
    OMG Posters features works by 40 different artists that sparked the explosive growth of the gig poster scene. Each poster listed includes information about artists, techniques and other works in their portfolios.
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  • Portuguese Commandos
    This is the story of the Portuguese commandos: their beginnings, their unique operations and their legacy and influence in subsequent sister units such as the Buffalo Battalion of South Africa.
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  • The Dapper Don
    With access to secret Spanish police files and wire-tappings, the rise of the Irish mafia on Spain's Costa del Sol is exposed in this explosive new book.
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  • Biographic: Kahlo
    The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world’s greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 40 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in an entirely visual way. The result is a quickfire journey of vivid snapshots that is the fastest way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose lives have most influenced our own.
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  • Spanish Fever
    Fantagraphics Books is proud to introduce readers to the latest generation of Spanish cartoonists in Spanish Fever, an anthology of contemporary comics from Spain showcasing the best of the new wave of art comics hailing from a country with one of the strongest cartoon traditions in Europe.
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  • Where’s B**ksy?
    A stunning, 224-page hardback of all of Banksy’s most significant works, this is the only survey out there that looks at his whole street art career, from his early works of 1999, to Dismaland (2015), to his recent, and still brilliant, creations of 2016. The book details his most significant works one piece at a time, with photos and in-depth analysis of the history of each work and its often-deeper meaning.
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