<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Publishers Spring/Summer 2011 Catalog</TitleText>

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GCDS-9780872865150 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100884330 02 0872865150 03 9780872865150 15 9780872865150 BB 01 337 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Publishers Spring/Summer 2011 Catalog</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Everything Is Its Own Reward</TitleText> <Subtitle>An All Over Coffee Collection</Subtitle> 1 A01 Madonna, Paul Paul Madonna Paul Madonna produces two weekly strips, "All Over Coffee" in the San Francisco Chronicle and on SFGate.com, and "Small Potatoes" on TheRumpus.net, where he is also Comics Editor. Paul regularly travels internationally to draw and his work is shown in museums, galleries, restaurants and cafes.  His drawings are published in various book collections and publications, including his international newspaper coverage of the U.S. 2009 Presidential Inauguration, as well as in The Believer Magazine. In 2007 the first collection of All Over Coffee was published by City Lights Books to great acclaim. In 1994 Paul received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and that same year he was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine, for which he proudly received no money. Paul currently lives with his wife in San Francisco. 01 eng 240 20 comics; Paul Madonna; San Francisco 01 Starting in his hometown of San Francisco and traveling to cities such as Paris, Rome, Buenos Aires and Tokyo, Paul Madonna offers his second body of drawings and writings. This stunning new collection, a testament to the artist and storyteller's careful observation of both the external and internal worlds, outdoes the masterful performance of his first book, All Over Coffee, offering an even richer catalogue of pen-and-ink cityscapes, short stories, conversations and thoughts. Entertaining and moving, gorgeous to look at, Madonna's work remains unique and unclassifiable. This full-color, hardbound edition comes complete with a removable poster."The book is fantastic. Of time and tenderness. Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text. Ethereal and serious at once. The book is its own reward." -- Maira Kalman, author of And the Pursuit of Happiness among many other titles"In Everything is its Own Reward, Paul Madonna has not only pressed graphic fiction way beyond its present boundaries, he has created a new and stunning art form where the stand-alone brilliant visuals and the hauntingly human words synthesize into a pure and irreducible aesthetic vision. This book taught me something fundamental and true and beautiful about the ineffable thereness and thingness of life. Everything is its Own Reward is a work of genius." -- Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain among other books 02 "The book is fantastic.Of time and tenderness.Beautiful drawings. Beautiful text.Ethereal and serious at once.The book is its own reward."-- Maira Kalman, author of "And the Pursuit of Happiness" 08 "It's not the spirit of any particular place that Madonna captures so well but rather a quality of life, a state of mind, predicated on the luxury of having an existence in which the only dramas to speak of are personal." Art Practical 08 "mesmerizing . . . When his international images are paired with his sparse, poetic words-sometimes thought-provoking one-liners such as 'You don't get anywhere without searching' and sometimes long, meandering sections of dialogue and story-the effect is haunting." Oprah.com 08 "Madonna gets an extra chills-up-the-spine boost from his illustrations of semi-familiar San Francisco architecture and intersections, lucid as etchings of bleached Kodachrome shots." San Francisco Bay Guardian 08 "You don't have to have lived in or loved San Francisco to fall under the spell of Madonna's mysterious and largely unpeopled cityscapes. San Francisco isn't the only place he draws with the miraculously exquisite attention on display here (Paris, Rome and Buenos Ares also appear) but something about the fog off the bay makes it particularly well suited to his dreamy and surprisingly emotional pen-and-ink images. Madonna eschews well-known and much-photographed places in favor of the spaces between old Victorians, neglected corners, intersections that seem to cant dangerously into space, vistas of rooftops bristling with pipes and ganglia-like clusters of power lines, all paired with short enigmatic stories and reflections on art, memory and love. This book is the second collection of All Over Coffee, a 'strip' Madonna draws for the Sunday arts section of the San Francisco Chronicle. There's also a free app, too, if you'd like to see a sample, but only paper can do justice to the eerie radiance of Madonna's artwork, and the cumulative effect of its 176 pages is ravishing." -- Laura Miller Salon 08 "Paul Madonna is a San Francisco-based cartoonist who has spent the last few years crafting - and crafting is the word - a comic strip that offers snapshots of the city he lives in. It's a city of big skies, telephone lines, clapboard buildings, street lights, advertising signs, TV aerials, storm drains and long shadows as recorded in pen and ink wash. It is the equivalent of a late afternoon in a favourite city, the hum of the day dying away before the buzz of the night begins.Madonna's book reminds us that the reason so many of us love cities is because they give us permission to be voyeurs, to observe others, to see other lives on display in front of us in the coffee shop, the supermarket, the traffic jam, the commuter train, the neon-lit street. They are full of stories." Metropolis Now 08 "Paul Madonna is a pen master. His work is difficult to categorize but that he was MAD magazine's first art intern may help explain his ability to capture human experience in its odd fullness. In his All Over Coffee comic strip, published in the San Francisco Chronicle since 2004, Madonna's evocative pen-and-ink drawings of cityscapes are accompanied by handwritten bits of overheard conversations, mini-stories, and zen-ish musings like: 'It takes perpetual work to keep life simple.' The new anthology Everything Is Its Own Reward: An All Over Coffee Collection (City Lights) is a treasure chest that comes with a pullout poster inside." Boston Globe 08 "In this exquisite second collection from his long-running weekly San Francisco Chronicle series All Over Coffee, Madonna captures snapshots in time as he explores the relationship between image and text . . . With pieces depicting San Francisco, New York, Barcelona, and Tokyo, Madonna's work is something to savor." Publishers Weekly 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100884330/extras/PaulMadonna.pdf 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100884330/images/87286100884330L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100884330/images/87286100884330S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100884330 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20110501 08 48 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20110501 01 02 27.95 USD