Abrams Comicarts imprint: 43 books
Showtime at the Apollo
The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem’s legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox’s definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo.
Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers who...
Undocumented
A Worker's Fight
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Undocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Every day, these men and women join the work force and contribute positively to society. The story is told via the ancient Mixtec codex—accordion fold—format. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the...
PS Magazine
The Best of The Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Will Eisner—best known for his influential comic book series The Spirit and his groundbreaking graphic novel A Contract with God—believed in the teaching power of comics, and from 1951 to 1971 he produced PS magazine for the U.S. Army. This Preventive Maintenance Monthly (called PS because it...
The Bridge
How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
More than 130 years after its completion, the Brooklyn Bridge remains one of the most extraordinary landmarks and symbols of Brooklyn and New York City—and the story behind this architectural marvel is just as extraordinary.
The Brooklyn Bridge was originally designed by John Augustus Roebling,...
The Warren Commission Report
A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Within days of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a seven-member commission to investigate the assassination. In its report, the Warren Commission determined that there was “no credible evidence” conflicting with its conclusion of a lone gunman. Artist Ernie Colón,...
by William Stout
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Howlin’ Wolf, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters—say their names out loud and you can just hear the blues. Now, acclaimed artist William Stout visualizes these artists and their music with 100 stunning portraits. This graphically powerful collection includes...
Only What's Necessary
Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the...
Kirby
King of Comics (Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular super heroes, including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were...
by Paul Levitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Will Eisner (1917–2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel. This seminal work from 1978 ushered in a new era of personal stories in comics form that...
by Nick Bertozzi
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (192887) is the most famous and influential of the Pop artists, who developed the notion of 15 minutes of fame, and the idea that an artist could be as illustrious as the work he creates. This graphic novel...
The Art of Daniel Clowes
Modern Cartoonist
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic...
Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns
The Lost Art of William Steig
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Children, octogenarians, and everyone in between know the work of William Steig, the beloved cartoonist and award-winning children’s book author whose work graced the covers and pages of the New Yorker for more than 70 years. In Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns: The Lost Art of William...
by R. Crumb
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first...
by John Pound
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Garbage Pail Kids—a series of collectible stickers produced by Topps in the 1980s—combined spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire. The result was an inspired collaboration between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay...