"THE SALON is ambitious and fun. And Bertozzi's artwork is gorgeous - - the drawings are great, and his use of colour is both startling and original. I was impressed."
-- Chester Brown, Louis Riel

" Whether this story serves as an introduction to this famous circle of friends or as an appendix to your knowledge of them, it is fun, very smooth, charming and goes down as easy as absinthe."
-- Gary Panter, Jimbo in Purgatory

"The Salon, is a marvel—full of ideas, gorgeous art, and deftly paced
storytelling."
-- James Sturm, The Golem's Mighty Swing

"SALON is by far NUB's most ambitious, most engaging comics project to date--a sly, sexy slant on Modernism and the Modernists who made it so."
-- Paul Pope, THB and Batman: Year 100

THE SALON
by Nick Bertozzi. 192 pages, full color, Spring '07 from Griffin.
When someone starts tearing the heads off modernist painters around Paris, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo realize that they may be next on the killer's list. Enlisting the help of their closest friends and colleagues: Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Alice B. Toklas, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, they set out to put a stop to the ghastly murders--only to discover that an addictive absinthe that painters around Paris have been using to enter famous paintings may in fact be responsible for all their troubles. Filled with danger, art history, and daring escapes, this is a wildly ingenious murder-mystery ride through the origins of modern art.

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THE GORDON LEE CASE
In a sad turn of events that makes one question the sanity of his neighbors, Gordon Lee, owner of Legends Comic Shop in Rome, Georgia, was charged with distributing "indecent material" to a minor when he accidentally gave away a preview copy of THE SALON featuring a page in which Picasso is nude. So far The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has spent tens of thousands defending Lee. Please donate and help Lee fight this important Free Speech case. Read a short article on the case from Metro Newspaper.