The always-great artist and animator Lilli Carré has a solo show at Western Exhibitions in Chicago that opened last week and will run through May 19th. She is showing two animation loops as well as works on paper based around the “moving hold” animation technique. If you’re in Chicago, it’s a great chance to check out her original work in-person!

Lilli Carré Moving Hands
Show runs from April 20th to May 19, 2012

Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A
Chicago, IL 60607
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm and by appointment

An abridged collection of letters from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo (Grove Press, 1960).

RIP Barney Rosset

After years of false starts, we’ve finally managed to begin posting regularly to our blog every weekday. It’s been a couple of months now and we were feeling like it really needed its own name, besides the “blog” that sat at the top of the page. So after quite a bit of deliberation (naming things is hard!), it’s our pleasure to introduce our new blog title, Indoor Studies! We got the name from a book by the 19th century naturalist John Burroughs. We loved the idea of a naturalist writing a book named for the indoors, but he’s also a great writer and an interesting person. And the name just stuck out to us. We always came back to Indoor Studies as it really summed up what we were doing, sharing our view of the wide world from our desk indoors (while looking out our back windows at the trees and the birds of course).

We hope to do more and more stuff with the blog and it really is still in development. For right now, it’s pretty well summed up by “things we make + things we like” but the beauty of this format is that it’s ever-changing and evolving. Let us know what you think and if you have any ideas–we love collaboration! Speaking of your ideas and thoughts, we now have comments enabled on individual posts, so let’s hear your 2 cents (and make those the nice 2 cents, while you’re at it).

photo of John Burroughs at his Study Table from Indoor Studies (originally published 1889)

Everybody’s favorite books blog Paper Cuts recently mentioned the Penguin edition of Huckleberry Finn that Lilli Carre did the cover for. Check it out here:

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/classic-comics/

The great book design blog Caustic Cover also featured Lilli, including our new book Nine Ways To Disappear (thanks to Tommy T. for the link):

http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2009/04/lilli-hans-and-anders.html

And you can always keep up with Lilli at her new blog! www.lillicarre.blogspot.com

Tiny Showcase has a limited edition letterpress print called “The Physicality of Tortoise” that’s signed by Jo and includes a signed copy of Quietly Sure – Like the Keeper of a Great Secret. There are only 31 out of 100 left, so get yours while you still can!

http://www.tinyshowcase.com/index.php

“Valentino Achak Deng is back from Marial Bai, Sudan, with astonishing photos of the school he’s built in his hometown. Come see him and Dave Eggers TONIGHT at 8:15pm at 849 Valencia Street, San Francisco. They will show slides, talk about Valentino’s foundation, and the future of southern Sudan. This is your last chance to see Valentino for a while. Don’t miss it! “

We just received our first copies of Lilli Carre’s Nine Ways to Disappear and we are excited to be debuting it this weekend at Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland! Come see us at booth #102–not only will we have special Fest discounts, we’ll also be accompanied by the fabulous Martine Workman!

Focus Features is coordinating a series of events around the world premiere of Away We Go, the newest release from Sam Mendes starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. It was written by Vendela Vida and Dave Eggers and they’re going on a mini-tour of screenings as a fundraiser for 826 National, The Teacher Salary Project, The Believer, and Voice of Witness.

May 1: San Francisco
May 7: Los Angeles
May 9: Seattle
May 14: Ann Arbor
May 15: Chicago
May 16: New York
May 31: Boston

Friends of Nancy: Comics at the RISD Library
April 16 – June 26

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 16, 5:00-7:00pm
Library, Second Floor, Room 223

Fleet Library at RISD
15 Westminster St.
Providence, RI 02903

Friends of Nancy: Comics at the RISD Library is an exhibition of comics and graphic novels which will be displayed at the RISD Library. The exhibition includes an eclectic mix of groundbreaking contemporary and historical cartoonists from the Library’s collection of Artists’ Books and Special Collections, and will feature original pages and hand-printed mini-comics by Allison Cole, Cybele Collins, Jo Dery, C.F., Leif Goldberg, Carlos Gonzalez and James McShane. The opening reception will be held on April 16th from 5-7pm in room 223, the Special Collections Reading Room on second floor of the RISD Library.

Tonight at Powell’s on Burnside (in Portland), author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson of When Elephants Weep will be speaking about his new book The Face on Your Plate which, “explores our relationship with the animals we call food, challenging us to become conscious of how our food choices affect our moral selves, health, and environment.” The title alone is a reason to attend. More info here: http://www.powells.com/events/