HOUSTON -- Hard Knocks, Rolling with the Derby Girls -- THIS THURSDAY!

Domy Books is pleased to present

Hard Knocks
Rolling with the Derby Girls

A book signing with the photographer, Shelley Calton

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

HOUSTON -- A.D. : New Orleans After The Deluge w/ Josh Neufeld -- August 20

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Domy Books, in association with Pantheon, is pleased to present

A.D. : New Orleans After The Deluge

A presentation and signing by Josh Neufeld

Thursday, August 20, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
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7pm – Signing
830pm – Visual Presentation
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FREE ADMISSION

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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.

Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,” a proud fixture of the French Quarter; Abbas and Darnell, two friends who face the storm from Abbas’s family-run market; Kwame, a pastor's son just entering his senior year of high school; and the young couple Leo and Michelle, who both grew up in the city. Each is forced to confront the same wrenching decision–whether to stay or to flee.

As beautiful as it is poignant, A.D. presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it.

"Josh Neufeld is a master story teller. A.D. is intimate and yet seismic in its scope. Through six finely drawn lives, we end up with new understanding of both devastation and redemption. His art takes us to the depth of the humanity of those we cherish."
— Cornel West

“One of the best-ever examples of comics reportage, and one of the clearest portraits of post-Katrina New Orleans yet published” — Dave Eggers

“I particularly liked the combination of economy and strength in Neufeld’s work. His two-page spreads are very nice. And his use of varied colors for different chapters helps keep the reader involved.”
— Harvey Pekar

"Raw and painful, down to the detailed depictions of ruined homes and the frenzied dialogue among friends.” — Newsweek

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JOSH NEUFELD

Josh Neufeld is the writer/artist of the Xeric Award-winning graphic travelogue A Few Perfect Hours (And Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe). Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Neufeld spent three weeks as an American Red Cross volunteer in Biloxi, Mississippi. The blog entries he kept about that experience turned into a self-published book, Katrina Came Calling, which in turn led to A.D. Neufeld works primarily in the realm of nonfiction comics. His work has been featured in The Vagabonds, Keyhole, and Titans of Finance, as well as in numerous comics anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. He is a longtime artist for Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor, and his art has been exhibited in gallery and museum shows in the United States and Europe. Neufeld lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the writer Sari Wilson, and their daughter.

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LINKS
Josh Neufeld - http://joshn.home.mindspring.com/

What's on sale?? Here's a staff pick.

Art Brands: When Dogs Eat Beuys
a collection by Michael Klant

Alison says: "Art Brands has everything that I want in an art book. It's beautifully put together with a nice balance of images and thought-provoking essays; it's streamlined, clean and frivolous at the same time. In it Michael Klant, an artist and art historian, has collected a variety of products, some uncommon and some familiar, that share their names with famous artists from the Western European Canon. Did you ever want to see a Giotto glue stick? Okay! It's funnier than you might think."

Domy's Summer Sale runs July 17-24 in Houston + Austin. 40% off a bunch of stuff. Check it out dudes.

HOUSTON -- The Dollar Store Summer Tour -- July 6

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Domy Books, in association with Featherproof Books, is pleased to present

The Dollar Store Summer Tour

An evening of readings and performances
given by some of Chicago’s top literary talents,
monologists, performers, and drunks.

Monday, July 6, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
730pm, FREE ADMISSION