Ken Krimstein sells the world rights to his graphic novel biography of Yoko Ono to Thames & Hudson for publication in 2027
Ken Krimstein sells the world rights to his graphic novel biography of Yoko Ono to Thames & Hudson for publication in 2027 Ken Krimstein has sold world rights to a new graphic biography of Yoko Ono to Thames & Hudson for 2027 release.
The Yoko Ono book follows her life from wartime Tokyo to Fluxus, conceptual art, and her years with John Lennon. Thames & Hudson will publish the hardcover in the US and UK, with the deal brokered by agent Jennifer Lyons..
"The book traces key moments of Ono's life—from escaping fire-bombed Tokyo in a donkey cart and going to grammar school with the future Emperor of Japan, to her role as a founding member of Fluxus and pioneering conceptual artist performing at Carnegie Hall, to her time in London with John Lennon and the cultural blowback that followed. "at Thames & Hudson will publish a hardcover edition in the autumn of 2027 in the US and the UK.
The deal was struck with Krimstein's agent,Ken Krimstein is best known for creating gag cartoons, but this is the next chapter in a more ambitious second act. , from 2018, won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist.followed in 2024. He teaches at DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been a New Yorker contributor since the early 2010s.
, though Lennon was perfectly able to do that himself. Born in Tokyo in 1933, she was already a central figure in New York's avant-garde and Fluxus circles. , the Chambers Street loft concerts. before she met Lennon at the Indica Gallery in 1966. Recent years have seen a serious institutional reset, including Tate Modern's, further museum tours, and prose biographies.
Thames & Hudson is not a traditional comics house, which may be the point. The London-based publisher specialises in illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture. Balliett, longtime president and publisher of the U.S. operation, buying world rights signals that the house sees this as an art book that happens to be drawn, rather than a graphic novel in and of itself. Founder of Bleeding Cool.
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