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We Want Your Vote

We'll be at SPX 2006. Vanessa Davis is nominated for the Ignatz industry award for "Promising New Talent." If you're at the show and like Spaniel Rage be sure to cast your vote.

Vanessa has a new full-page strip in the latest issue of Arthur.

Spaniel Rage was recently reviewed by Bookslut.

New in the Shop

      Torrential by Jonathan Bennett
      Sturgeon White Moss #6
      Kramers Ergot 3
      Coctails Book
      Coctails Record
      Coctails Dolls
      Bob Moog Doll
      Pupshaw Tote Bag

BP Distribution

Diamond Comics will be soliciting orders for Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis, Destined for Dizziness by Souther Salazar, and New York Sketches by Adrian Tomine in the October issue of PREVIEWS. Order these BP books through your local Diamond retailer.

New York Sketches will be available through Distributed Art Publishers in January.

BP at MySpace

We're working on a MySpace profile for BP. We hope to get some sort of Blog going eventually. So if you're on MySpace send us an invite.

McSweeney's Recommends...

We were delighted to come upon this by McSweeney's. We always hoped that our line of books would be ranked among chocolate cake with vanilla butter-cream frosting, polyethylene sleeves, and listening to baseball on the radio.


New in the Shop

We've picked up some new goods in our recent travels for the shop, including:

      Several books, prints, and objets d'art from Julie Doucet
      Anders Nilsen's latest, "Lists, Cartoons, Floorplans, Poem, Other"
      Minis from St. Louie's finest Dan Zettwoch and Kevin Huizenga
      Signed and doodled in copies of Gary Panter's "Satiro Plastic" sketchbook
      Comic Art #5 (all issues are sold out except for number 5 and number 7. Get 'em while they last.)
      A couple of recent issues of John Porcellino's "King Cat"
      A couple of 7" projects from Switzerland's Elvis Studio
      Ron Regé "Girls Against Pain" silkscreen print
      Plus, we still have a handful of signed copies of our latest project with Adrian Tomine, "New York sketches 2004"

Recently Restocked:

      Tom Gauld's Mini Comics
      Genevieve Castree's Pamplemoussi
      Kramer's Ergot 4 (less than 50 copies left, and then they're gone)

Upcoming BP projects

      Redbird #1 by Dan Zettwoch
      Elvis Road by Helge Reumann and Xavier Robel

The Drama

Vanessa Davis, Ron Regé, Jr., and Marc Bell all have one-page strips in the new issue of The Drama.



SPX Expo Sept 23-24, 2005

We'll be at this year's SPX. See you there!

BP in The Cartoonist's Eye



Read more here.


Davis at the Gothamist

The Gothamist features an interview with the charming Vanessa Davis, author of Spaniel Rage.


NY Sketches

A limited number of signed copies of Adrian Tomine's New York Sketches are now available in the Shop

Kangaroos and Corndogs

The Book Review section in the July 27th issue of the East Bay Express has a full page write-up/interview on Souther Salazar's Destined for Dizziness. Read it here.

San Diego Wrap Up

Whew. San Diego is a fun show but it sure is exhausting. Thanks to everyone who came by.


More photos.

Comic Book Holocaust

Johnny Ryan's third collection of his self-published sketchbook parodies Comic Book Holocaust which features a BP 3-color letterpress cover is now available at the www.JohnnyR.com webshop.


Comic Art to BP

We're proud to announce that we'll begin publishing Comic Art Magazine with the next issue (Summer 2006). Todd Hignite previously published the magazine and will remain as editor. We've been big fans of Comic Art and we're honored to be involved.




Attention Retailers

We now have three books available and are working on distribution. Currently, you can order directly from us (wholesale@buenaventurapress.com) or Last Gasp.

BP in The Cartoonist's Eye

The Cartoonist's Eye a show curated by artist Ivan Brunetti, opens September 8, 2005 at Columbia College's A+D gallery in Chicago. A selection of Buenaventura Press prints will be included in what just might be the best comic art show ever. For details on the show please see the story on Tom Spurgeon's The Comics Reporter.

Buenaventura Press books are available at these fine retailers:

      Comic Relief - Berkeley, CA
      Pegasus Books - Berkeley, CA
      Giant Robot - Santa Monica, CA
      Modern Times - San Francisco, CA
      Meltdown - Hollywood, CA
      Golden Apple - Hollywood, CA
      Giant Robot - Santa Monica, CA
      Comickaze - San Diego, CA
      Samurai Comics - Phoenix, AZ
      Million Year Picnic - Cambridge, MA
      Chicago Comics - Chicago, IL
      Big Brain - Minneapolis, MN
      Atomic Books - Baltimore, MD
      Rocketship - Brooklyn, NY
      Bookcourt - Brooklyn, NY
      Jim Hanley's - New York, NY
      The Beguiling - Toronto, Canada
      Page 45 - Nottingham, United Kingdom
      Here Shop - Bristol, United Kingdom


San Diego Comic-Con International: July 14-17, 2005

We'll be sharing a booth (Booth 1945, to be exact) with editor/cartoonist Sammy Harkham (Kramers Ergot, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase #3, the forthcoming Crickets series) and doodle punk Souther Salazar (Destined for Dizziness!, Dragonfly).

Debut projects for the show:

      New York Sketches by Adrian Tomine (a collection of fifteen new prints)
      Comic Holocaust by Johnny Ryan (features a 3-color letterpress cover printed by the Buenaventura Press)
      King Cat #64 by John Porcellino

We'll also have new projects:

      Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis
      Destined for Dizziness! by Souther Salazar
      Various handmade limited edition art books by Julie Doucet
      Lists-Cartoon-Floorplans-Poem-Other by Anders Nilsen
      Various handmade art books and mini comics by Brooklyn's Paping group:
         editor/artist John Meijas, Shawn Cheng, and Sara Edward-Corbett
      Various comics from England's Tom Gauld
      Various comics from Toronto's Ryan Carriere
      Prints and books by Jordan Crane
      Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino
      Prints by Sammy Harkham, Anders Nilsen, Jeffrey Brown, Souther Salazar, John Porcellino and many others.

Signing schedule:

      Sammy Harkham - Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
      Adrian Tomine - Friday 11-12, Saturday 5-6
      Souther Salazar - Saturday and Sunday

Sammy Harkham at Meltdown Gallery July 1-26

Sammy Harkham has a show at Hollywood's Meltdown Gallery that features original drawings for his new "Somersaulting" strip in Drawn & Quarterly Showcase #3. On Monday the 18th, Sammy will be there from 6-10pm to sign his new book, and Souther Salazar, Johnny Ryan, Marc Bell, Steven Weissman, Austin English, and many others will also be on hand.

http://www.meltcomics.com/events/archives/00000061.html

Adrian Tomine's New York Sketches

A former long-time California resident, Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) moved to New York City in 2004 and soon began producing portraits of his new home's inhabitants. New York Sketches features fifteen full-color reproductions of these beautiful ink and watercolor drawings, each of which shows the artist's unparalleled ability to document the kind of details we easily overlook: a stylish young mother and child are carefully scrutinized by a police officer; a seemingly content girl remains strangely motionless during four subway stops; a disgruntled worker kicks a chair while sweeping a restaurant floor. The images in this stunning Buenaventura Press portfolio are printed on finely-textured 130 lb. Cougar paper that has been accordion folded, allowing the images to be detached and framed or kept intact and displayed upright.



New Postcard

We just printed a new postcard with an awesome painting by Jeffrey Brown. We'll be doing another mailing soon, and if you're not on the mailing list and want to be, send your physical address to mailinglist@buenaventurapress.com




MoCCA Art Festival June 11-12, 2005, New York

http://www.moccany.org/artfest-main.html

Buenaventura Press will be at table B-5. Brooklyn cartoonist Vanessa Davis will join us to sign her new BP book Spaniel Rage and Jonathan Bennett (Esoteric Tales, Torrential, Mome) will share a table with us. If you are in the NYC area on the Thursday before MoCCA, be sure to join Vanessa Davis for the Spaniel Rage release party.

www.pianosnyc.com



Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2005

http://www.torontocomics.com/tcaf/

Thanks to Peter Birkemoe and Christopher Butcher for putting together a memorable show. We're looking forward to coming back in 2007.



Ad Gallery

We just added an online gallery of the BP ads to the website. Special thanks to Ron Regé, Ivan Brunetti, Gary Panter, Souther Salazar, Seth, Johnny Ryan, Marc Bell, and Jeffrey Brown.


Update on New BP Books

The pre-ordered copies of Destined for Dizziness and Spaniel Rage will ship out this week. Both Vanessa and Souther drew some very nice sketches in them. Thanks for your support.

The two new books are now officially available and we will be distributing them over the coming months. If you don't see them in your local shop, send the shop's buyer to our website.

Retailers please email us at wholesale@buenaventurapress.com for details.


New Books

Our first two books are almost here: Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis and Destined for Dizziness by Souther Salazar. We plan to ship out copies in the second week of April and you can preorder them in the shop. As a promotion, both books will be available either signed or unsigned. Please specify your preference when ordering.



We have added 3 comics to the shop from the fabulous British cartoonist Tom Gauld. He contributed the 6 single page biographies interspersed throughout Kramers Ergot 5, great stuff. Also, check out La Mano's beautiful first book, Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino.

APE is coming up soon. Vanessa Davis and Souther Salazar will be joining us for the debut of our first books. We hope to see you there.