video: “Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is,” that has over 2,000,000 hits and counting. He also returned to Penn State recently, where he presented his lecture, “Fail Better.” Honors AIGA medal (2014) National Design Award for Communication (2007) International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Design (1997) Personal life Kidd lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He was married to the late poet and Yale Review editor J. D. McClatchy; the couple married in November 2013. He continues to edit comics at Pantheon and frequently writes about graphic design and pop culture for publications including McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Vogue, and Entertainment Weekly. Published works Fiction The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (2001) The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys" (2008) Graphic novels Batman: Death by Design (2012) – art by Dave Taylor Comics (short) "The Bat-Man," in Bizarro Comics (2001) – art by Tony Millionaire "The Trust," in Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross (2003) – art by Alex Ross "Batman with Robinson the Boy Wonder," in Bizarro World (2005) – art by Tony Millionaire Nonfiction Chip Kidd: Book Two: Work: 2007-2017 (2018). Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts (2015) Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It (2014) Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design (2013) The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga (2013) Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal (2010) Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross (2010) True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World (2010) – co-authored with Lisa Birnbach Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (2008) Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 (2005) Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross (2005) Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits (2001) – co-authored with Art Spiegelman Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz (2001) Batman Animated (1998) – co-authored with Paul Dini Batman Collected (1996) References Further reading Foreword by Chip Kidd to Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Profile Books, 2010, External links Chip Kidd interviewed on Conversations from Penn State Inventory of the Kidd archives available at Guide to the Chip Kidd Papers, RBM 9528; Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University. 1964 births American graphic designers AIGA medalists American gay writers Living people LGBT people from Pennsylvania Penn State College of Arts and Architecture