Congratulations to CHRIS WARE for receiving this year’s Grand Prix Award at the Angouleme 2021 International Comics Festival! This is a very high honor & we think he really really deserves it :) Congrats Mr. Ware!!
Congratulations to CHRIS WARE for receiving this year’s Grand Prix Award at the Angouleme 2021 International Comics Festival! This is a very high honor & we think he really really deserves it :) Congrats Mr. Ware!!
Listed here is a schedule for the month of July where you can join Kristen Radtke on her 2021 virtual book tour. Of course this is for her latest book, just recently published by Pantheon, SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS: 7/6 – 6pm EST – The Center for Fiction in conversation with Leslie Jamison 7/8 – 5pm PST – Writer’s Block and Black Mountain Institute in conversation with José Orduña 7/12 – 7pm CST – Women […]
Okay, real quick, we wanna thank Jimmy over at IEP Films over at YouTube for this great review! This video looks at Chip Kidd’s New Book, “THE PEANUTS POSTER COLLECTION”. This is a nice collection of 20 removable, frameable prints you can take out & display… oh yeah, here’s the video already!!
SPARK & FIRE PODCAST recently did a profile on the Designer who created the Iconic “Jurassic Park” Book Cover. Back in the day, a Designer named Chip Kidd got a dream assignment: Create an iconic book cover for a soon-to-be-blockbuster: Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. And when the pressure to perform is that high, it’s easy to get creatively paralyzed. SPARK & FIRE follows Chip on his journey in and out of stuck-ness as he creates one of […]
Coming to a Store Near You! Here’s a very recent Book Cover Design at Knopf by Chip Kidd. This is for “ALL IN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY” by Billie Jean King. An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life’s journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career–six years as […]
In a recent article of PENN STATER, the Official Magazine of the Penn State Alumni Association, Designer Chip Kidd was asked about his experience going to school there back in the mid 1980’s. This is his answer, in Comic Strip form, ha! You can also follow this LINK to read the short interview they did. Thanks Penn State!
Before there was Charlie Brown, there was Schulz. Take a delightful look into the magic of PEANUTS, its creator, and the lasting legacy he left on the world. A Brand-New Documentary about CHARLES M. SCHULZ (PEANUTS Creator & Cartoonist) will be premiering JUNE 25th, 2021 on Apple TV+. The Title of it is , “WHO ARE YOU, CHARLIE BROWN?” This documentary will be narrated by Lupita Nyong’o, Directed by Michael Bonfiglio, and Produced by Brian Grazer & Ron Howard. Many […]
FANTASTIC FOUR NO. 1: PANEL BY PANEL By Marvel Entertainment, Stan lee, and Chip Kidd, Illustrator Jack Kirby. Introduction by Walter Mosley, Commentaries by Mark Evanier, Photographer Geoff Spear & Essay by Tom Brevoort. Timed for the 60th anniversary, the iconic and influential first issue of the Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, deconstructed by award-winning designer Chip Kidd; with text by novelist Walter Mosley, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, and historian Mark Evanier; and photographs by Geoff Spear. The first issue of Fantastic […]
Virtual Author Event! On Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 at 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT, Tony Hiss will visit Gibson’s Bookstore virtually to present Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth, a book about wilderness conservation to save our planet and ourselves. CLICK HERE to read about how to get tickets to the event (which is FREE!) RESCUING THE PLANET (Knopf) is an urgent argument in support of protecting 50% of the earth’s land by 2050 – thereby saving […]
Tony Hiss, author of the new book, “Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth”, is on a Book Tour, well sort of. In the age of Covid-19 Mr. Hiss is doing a lot of speaking engagements on ZOOM. Down below is a recent example. Then, we found a graphic that shows other dates with other Podcasters & Bookstores. So be sure to check that out! Oh yeah, the Book Cover was designed by Chip Kidd! RESCUING […]