Chip Kidd
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Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer living in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut.
His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
His first book, Batman Collected, was awarded the Design Distinction award from ID magazine. He is the co-author and
designer of the two-time Eisner award-winning Batman Animated. He is the editor-at-large for Pantheon, where he has
overseen the publication of Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Dan Clowes’s David
Boring, and the definitive book of the art of Charles Schulz, Peanuts (designed, edited, and with commentary by
Mr. Kidd). He has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSweeney’s, Vogue,
The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, 2WICE,
The New York Post, ID, and Print. Chip Kidd’s new novel, The Learners has just been
published by Scribner.
His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he is Associate Art Director) have helped spawn a revolution in the art
of American book packaging. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Eye, Print, Entertainment Weekly,
The New Republic, Time, Graphis, New York, and ID magazines, and he is a regular contributor
of visual commentary to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.
Mr. Kidd is also the lead vocalist, percussionist, lyricist, and co-songwriter in
artbreak, a new band described as
“The New Pornographers meet The Cars” (Unbeige).
He does not, apparently, sleep.
WEBSITE: www.goodisdead.com
WEBSITE: www.myspace.com/artbreakwonderground
CHIP KIDD IN THIS EDITION:
SPOTLIGHT: Chip Kidd — Under the Covers...
Chip Kidd Discusses his New Novel and Designing the World’s Best Book Jackets
NOVEL EXCERPT: The Learners Chapter 1 by Chip Kidd
ART: The Book Jackets of Chip Kidd
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