{"id":81824,"date":"2025-08-21T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81824\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:02:11","slug":"book-club-recap-with-chip-kidd-print-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81824\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club Recap With Chip Kidd \u2013 PRINT Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PRINT Book Club supports independent bookstores as an affiliate of Bookshop.org.
If you make a purchase through the book links below, PRINT may earn a small commission.<\/p>\n

Did you miss our PRINT Book Club with Chip Kidd? Register here to watch the recording<\/a> and buy your copy of The Veracity Trap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What would happen if a true original in the world of design wrote a love letter to The Silver Age of comics? Chip Kidd\u2019s The Veracity Trap, that\u2019s what. Kidd\u2019s love for comics began with a childhood fascination for Batman (the Adam West and Burt Ward TV version from 1966-68). Looking back on that show even now, and with a design lens, Kidd says that the show was graphically groundbreaking\u2014the camera work, the visual sound effects. <\/p>\n

I loved that they were all-powerful beings that didn\u2019t want to rule the world, but rather serve it.<\/p>\n

Chip Kidd, on superheroes<\/p>\n

When Abrams approached him to write an original Marvel title, Kidd\u2019s answer was yes, even if he was a little intimidated. With illustrator Michael Cho on board, the two worked on a premise that put both Kidd and Cho in the story. When infamous Norse troublemaker Loki opens a portal between the Marvel realm and Kidd and Cho\u2019s studio, you have meta storytelling at its finest. The spread below, when Thor and his comrades discover that they exist in \u201ca codex called a comic book,\u201d perfectly illustrates this blurred line between creator and their creations. <\/p>\n

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For more of this fun discussion, register here to watch the recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Veracity Trap, as described by the publisher, is a \u201cmind-bending, visually sumptuous saga that takes the Avengers\u2014and you, the reader\u2014to places that challenge everything we thought we knew about super heroes and the very nature of heroism . . . villainy . . . and existence.\u201d <\/p>\n

Chip Kidd is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, and editor. His books on comics include Only What\u2019s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Shazam! The Golden Age of the World\u2019s Mightiest Mortal, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, and Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross, among others. <\/p>\n

Get your copy of The Veracity Trap<\/a> by Chip Kidd.<\/p>\n

All images of the book and interior spreads courtesy of Chip Kidd and Abrams Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PRINT Book Club supports independent bookstores as an affiliate of Bookshop.org.If you make a purchase through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-81824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}