{"product_id":"the-buildings-are-barking-paperback-by-bill-griffith","title":"The Buildings are Barking Paperback by Bill Griffith","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2023-07-18)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e24\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781683969136\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter fifty years together, Diane Noomin's death left her husband Bill Griffith alone. He processed her death by doing the same thing he did every day of their shared life: comics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Buildings Are Barking\u003c\/i\u003e is Bill Griffith’s tender, poetic, deeply felt comics tribute to his wife, life-long partner, muse, copy editor, and fellow cartoonist Diane Noomin. “I’m still unable to accept her death. I relive all 49 of our years together every day. How could anyone so alive, so funny, so lovely, be gone? Who am I without her?” Griffith summons all of his comics-making expertise in order to bring his beloved Diane back to life in a remarkable act of mourning and memory.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis cartoon avatar Griffy has long provided grounded, snarky counterpoint to the pop-culture-damaged flights of fancy uttered and enacted by Zippy The Pinhead in the \u003ci\u003eZippy\u003c\/i\u003e strip.  Here, it's the Griffith character who is damaged enough by grief to become sincere and express his emotions, while both Noomin and her avatar Didi Glitz (in artwork taken from her own comics) manifest to bounce off the bereft Griffith with wisdom, advice to live life, and sharp sarcasm of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReturning to Noomin and Griffith's shared origins in underground comics, \u003ci\u003eThe Buildings Are Barking\u003c\/i\u003e is Bill's first original work for the single-issue comic-book format in over forty years. His comic strip \u003ci\u003eZippy\u003c\/i\u003e has run in daily newspapers since 1985, after a decade as a weekly, and he has recently created several graphic biographies for the book market, including \u003ci\u003eNobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead\u003c\/i\u003e (Abrams, 2019) and \u003ci\u003eThree Rocks: The Story Of Ernie Bushmiller, The Man Who Created Nancy\u003c\/i\u003e (Abrams, 2023). Fantagraphics has published a dozen \u003ci\u003eZippy\u003c\/i\u003e collections and other Griffith anthologies since 1990, and his 2015 book \u003ci\u003eInvisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist\u003c\/i\u003e is still available in hardcover. Diane Noomin's best-of collection, \u003ci\u003eGlitz-2-Go\u003c\/i\u003e (Fantagraphics, 2012) is available in paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Griffith\u003c\/b\u003e is the artist behind the legendary weekly comic \u003ci\u003eZippy\u003c\/i\u003e. Griffith's prolific output has been included in such publications as the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Lampoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. Along with Art Spiegelman, Griffith co-founded the influential anthology \u003ci\u003eArcade\u003c\/i\u003e and is credited for coining the popular phrase, \"Are we Having Fun Yet?\" In 1980, he married cartoonist Diane Noomin. He currently lives in Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46556388524193,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781683969136","price":9.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781683969136_750f2adc-de56-440e-97a4-6bdf23116af7.jpg?v=1781813608","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-buildings-are-barking-paperback-by-bill-griffith","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}