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Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan in stores today!
The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.
Learn more about Bat-Manga!: Check out some images from inside Bat-Manga! and read an interview with Chip and Saul Ferris at About.com. Or read Chip’s recent interview with TIME Magazine. You could even watch Chip’s presentation of Bat-Manga! at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Or you could just skip all this mumbo jumbo and order yourself up a copy of the Limited Edition hardcover at Amazon.com
or Barnes & Noble or the unlimited edition softcover at Amazon.com
or Barnes & Noble.
RECENT CLIPPINGS
The BDR on Being Digital
Joseph Sullivan over at The Book Design Review covers, so to speak, an oldie but a goody from Chip’s portfolio (and one that hasn’t yet made it into the Work. section of this site, but never fear: it’ll be there soon enough), Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital (1995):
I was lucky enough to live in London in ’94 and ’95, and I picked this up in a bookshop in Camden Town. I had no idea who Chip Kidd was, and only a marginal interest in graphic design at that point. But even I knew, back in ’95, that this was a pretty sexy way to package ideas.
[read “The BDR on Being Digital” in its entirety…]
Graphic Designer Chip Kidd
Chip hits the pages of TIME Magazine in the run-up to the publication of Bat-Manga!:
I’ve seen pictures of your place and you have tons of collectibles. What the oddest one you have?
There’s a water gun from England, which is a figural water gun of Batman basically bent over...I don’t know how far you want me to go with this.No, keep going.
I was amazed that this thing got made. It’s legit, too, not a knockoff. His arms are behind his back. The water comes out of his mouth and the trigger of the gun is basically...what you think it would be. The plug you pull out and put more water in is, well, the other end.
[read “Graphic Designer Chip Kidd” in its entirety…]
Real Headliners
From the true barometer of fame, The Post’s Page Six:
ONE of The Post’s famous headlines is now a rock band. Novelist and designer Chip Kidd was so taken by our Aug. 27, 2006, headline, “Artbreaking” - about famed quadriplegic artist Chuck Close’s battle with a condo project threatening to block his studio’s sunlight - he adapted it for the name of his group.