Steven Heller, Author, Seymour Chwast, Author, Seymour Chwast, Photographer ABRAMS $49.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1033-1
Presented in celebration of 150 years of design (beginning with the Victorian age and concluding with the Post-Modern), this chronologically compiled volume entertainingly documents the development of graphic art, an often undervalued cousin of the...
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Seymour Chwast, Author . Houghton/Lorraine $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-17917-6
In this lukewarm breakfast-time book, a patient mother summons her son to the kitchen. "Hurry, Harry," she says, with no apparent sense of urgency. "I have a surprise for you." Harry, listening from his bedroom, wonders what the...
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Seymour Chwast, Author . Blue Apple $14.95 (20p) ISBN 978-1-59354-157-6
Chwast (The Left-Handed Designer
) opts for a "just the facts" approach to the Hanukkah story—but since he's also one of the leading lights of modern graphic design, the end result adds up to something much more. A stepped-page...
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Seymour Chwast, Bloomsbury, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60819-084-3
Famed artist and graphic designer Chwast has turned his talents to the graphic novel form for the first time, and we can all be happy about it. In a highly compressed version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast takes us on a whirlwind tour of hell,...
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Seymour Chwast, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-200351-7
Chwast's distinctive, poster-styled art is well suited to children's books: his subjects are simply and boldly delineated; his palette is vivid and cheery. This alphabet procession, however, is somewhat uninspired--many of the representative images...
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Seymour Chwast, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-200627-3
A panoply of colorful circus characters gambol across the pages of this cumulative counting book, loosely derived from ``The 12 Days of Christmas.'' Beginning with one daredevil on a high wire, the ever-changing spectacle reaches its climax: ``In...
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Seymour Chwast, Author Voyager Paperbacks $6 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-201361-5
""A panoply of colorful circus characters gambols across the pages of this cumulative counting book, loosely derived from `The 12 Days of Christmas,'"" said PW. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Seymour Chwast, Author ABRAMS $49.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1289-2
In this colorful, finely produced retrospective of the work of illustrator/graphic designer Chwast, picture captions are the only text (apart from a brief interview written by the art director of the New York Times Book Review, Steven Heller), but...
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Seymour Chwast, Author Greenwillow Books $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14632-0
A pet turtle may be on the boring side, but as Merlin the magician and Mrs. Merlin find out in this clever lift-the-flap volume, it sure beats the alternatives. Merlin uses his powers to turn the turtle into a progression of increasingly large-- and
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Seymour Chwast, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-97495-7
The centerpiece of this book is a fold-out, six-panel cartoon image of stopped traffic, with dialogue bubbles providing the thoughts of frustrated passengers. The merest suggestion of a narrative sets up and issues from this image. While mother cat...
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Seymour Chwast. Abrams Appleseed, $12.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0107-8
The dress-up theme of this tall-format interactive book from graphic designer Chwast is introduced by a gatefold cover that looks like (and opens like) a man’s suit jacket. For a boy and girl just waking up, there’s a whole world to explore, but...
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Seymour Chwast and Mark Twain. Bloomsbury, $22 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60819-961-7
Adapting Twain is a dangerous thing: too often the old master’s pretend-ramshackle style and tall-tale sensibility gets taken straight, no chaser. Fortunately, Chwast (who previously adapted The Divine Comedy and The Odyssey ) brings just the right...
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Homer, adapted by Seymour Chwast. Bloomsbury, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-1-60819-486-5
The latest in an unofficial series of graphic novels based on the classics (The Canterbury Tales; The Divine Comedy), veteran illustrator and graphic designer Chwast interprets the Greek epic in straightforward but whimsical line drawings that...
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Seymour Chwast. Creative Editions, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56846-221-9
Chwast’s (My Daddy and Me) instantly recognizable style makes every jaunty spread of this episodic story worth framing. Its hero, Bobo the clown, looks part human and part doll—his ruffled collar, striped pants, and white makeup never come off....
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Seymour Chwast. Creative Editions, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56846-258-5
Chwast, who adapted The Odyssey and The Canterbury Tales into short graphic narratives, condenses Hugh Lofting's colonialist 1920 novel into a snappy albeit still colonialist comics-style picture book. Fourteen chapters occupy a multipanel page or...
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Seymour Chwast. MineditionUS, $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-66265-069-7
Before the titular cat makes its eventual appearance in this drawing game turned picture book, readers are treated to an oddball menagerie fashioned from quotidian objects, thanks to Chwast’s (Arno and the MiniMachine) visual sleights of hand....
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Seymour Chwast. MineditionUS, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-66265-117-5
Revealing timeless truths about human nature, proverbs’ vivid metaphorical language proves visual catnip for Chwast’s graphic design–driven compendium of 18 sayings, which range from cautionary to YOLO. “A leopard cannot change its spots,” declares...
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At War with War: 5,000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks; An Illustrated Timeline
Seymour Chwast. Seven Stories, $19.95 paperback (88p) ISBN 978-1-60980-779-5
Legendary designer Chwast takes a break from graphic adaptations of classics (The Canterbury Tales, Dante’s Divine Comedy) for this a sweeping chronology of the history of war. This volume’s antiwar message gets lost as its content amounts to a crib
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