Ivan Brunetti. Yale Univ. Press, $24.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-300-18440-2
Brunetti (Cartooning: Philosophy and Practices) has a long career as cartoonist, educator, and editor, and this new book serves as both a partial collection and memoir. Along with his well-known, highly satirical and personal comics and magazine...
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Ivan Brunetti. Toon (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-943145-17-1
In a lighthearted exploration of compound words, New Yorker cartoonist Brunetti introduces a classroom of schoolchildren, rendered with the round heads and flattened perspectives that characterize his artwork. After receiving a homework assignment...
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Ivan Brunetti. Toon, $12.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-943145-34-8
Cartoonist Brunetti (Wordplay) stages another concept-driven comic for early readers. “For your homework, you’ll draw 12 things, but in sets,” a teacher wearing a plaid shirt and bow-tie instructs. In full-bleed and four-panel spreads using dialogue
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Ivan Brunetti, Author, Ivan Brunetti, Illustrator . Fantagraphics $24.95 (172p) ISBN 978-1-56097-792-6
An introduction written by the author's therapist describes the process of creating these comics as “excruciatingly painful” and “painfully frightening.” This puts Brunetti's minimal output—three issues of his
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Ivan Brunetti, edited by Françoise Mouly. Toon, $16.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-943145-39-3
An idiosyncratic guide to drawing comics packs a lot of information into relatively few pages, covering doodles and basic shapes, characters and emotions, settings and perspective, lettering and layout, and how to develop a story. It also introduces
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Ivan Brunetti. Toon, $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-66266-517-2; $7.99 paper ISBN 978-1-6626-6518-9
Scattering a range of brightly colored geometric forms on a classroom floor, a brown-skinned teacher invites a room full of students, portrayed with varying skin tones, to “see how many things we can make from these simple shapes.” The kids,...
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