Conversations
ABH Conversations (formerly called Quarantours) features video interviews hosted by Jamie Thome, or text-based interviews with book artists, illustrators, cartoonists, writers, poets, librarians, and book collectors, expanding our ability to bring you fresh bookish content.
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Regin Igloria, multidisciplinary artist and educator, will be teaching multiple workshops for Artists Book House throughout Summer 2026. We asked him about his background, practice, and connection to ABH.
On 23 July, 2020, we visited Evanston-based artist Mardy Sears. She is a printmaker, ceramicist, and artist book maker.
Take a little walk to the edge of town, and go across the tracks to where the Schnappviecher looms like a… well, like a Schnappviecher, and you’ll find cartoonist Marie Enger binding that prickling shiver up the back of your neck into the shape of ink on paper.
Mimosa, the new queer graphic novel from Archie Bongiovanni opens with middle aged queer people lamenting the state of their careers and sex lives and let me tell you I feel seen.
ABH Conversations: Martha Meyer, Evanston Public Library library assistant and Blueberry Award Founder and Committee Leader
Recently, Evanston Public Library announced that Kate Gardner’s How to Find a Fox is the first winner of the newly minted Blueberry Award.
For this ABH Conversation, Jamie Lou Thome talked with international book artist and curator Maria Pisano.
Maria G. Pisano is a book artist, printmaker, curator and educator. Her oeuvre is published under the Memory Press imprint.
I first encountered Jessi Zabarsky's work when she tabled at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo many years ago. I WANT TO EAT EVERYTHING said the cover, above a cartoon bunny flung over a pile of fruits and vegetables and pastries and—I had to buy it.
As a children’s librarian who loves discovering exciting and cinematic picture books, I am a major fan of the brilliant Terry and Eric Fan (aka The Fan Brothers), who live in Toronto, Canada.
For this ABH Conversation, Jamie Lou Thome talked with Brandon Graham about writing, making art, raising children, and life in general.
Karen Bonner’s debut novel, Witching Moon, is magical tale of healers and mysterious immortals living just the other side of our awareness. Karen created this magical space while working full time as an anesthetist in Atlanta, Georgia.
The sun brands a square into the rug. Archer shouts.
—This is the pit of fire for the enemy!
I have worked as a Children’s Librarian at the Evanston Public Library now for nearly 20 years. I find many aspects of my job rewarding, and one of the things I most enjoy is discovering great new picture books. I also love discussing picture books with patrons and co-workers.
Linda Smith and Rose Camastro-Pritchett met as young women in Quincy, IL. Each went on her way, Linda to San Francisco, and Rose circled the globe.
Our current round of collaboration began when one sent the other a question and a challenge: "Write so the land can read you and finds you beautiful. How do you know?"
The dining room on Congress Street was the place where everything happened. At night it served as my bedroom, where I slept on a twin bed that came with bed bugs, which I hunted down. I attached them to little wooden carts with twine. Well, not really.