CF and MERE at Desert Island

May 21st, 2013 by Dan Nadel

CF’s new book, MERE, will make its American premier Friday, 5/24 at Desert Island, Brooklyn (540 Metropolitan Ave).

Come on out from 7 to 9 pm and celebrate the release with C.F.

About MERE:

In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex-all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here.

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PictureBox 40% Off Spring Sale!

May 14th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

From now through Tuesday, May 21st use the coupon code MAY at check-out for 40% off savings on all books, including brand new releases like Sun Ra + Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972, C.F.’s  MERE, Ben Jones’ Men’s Group, Blutch’s So Long, Silver Screen, and The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame. You can even pre-order Nudity Today!

Or why not catch up on some goodies like the recent LA Times Book Award winner Everything Togther, or Peter Saul’s signed and numbered drawings collection, Conceptual Art?

There’s a world of books here for you to grab at a one-week-only discounted price.

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PictureBox at TCAF

May 9th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

We will be at TCAF in full force, with special guests Gengoroh Tagame, Chip Kidd, and CF (debuting his new book, MERE). Here’s the skinny:

Free and open to the public at Toronto Public Library, 789 Yonge St., Sat-Sun 9 – 5. More info on panel locations at TCAF.

PictureBox is Table 112

Chip, CF and Tagame will be signing the entire weekend and participating in panels. The schedule is:

SATURDAY

11 am – 1 pm: Tagame and Kidd signing

1:30 – 2:30pm / Marriott 200: Maurice Vellekoop in conversation with Chip Kidd

1 pm -3 pm: CF signing 

2:45 – 3:45pm / Marriott 200: Gengoroh Tagame w/ Chip Kidd, Graham Kolbeins, and Anne Ishii

4 pm – 5 pm: Tagame and Kidd signing

SUNDAY

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: CF and Tagame Signing

12:15 – 1:15pm / Pilot: Queer Comics Panel w/ Chip Kidd

1:30-2:30 / Marriott 200: Design Panel w/ Chip Kidd

12:15 – 1:15pm / Marriott 400: Show Debut Spotlight Panel w/ C.F.

2 pm – 4:00 pm: CF and Tagame  Signing


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All Blutch Events Canceled

May 6th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

Unfortunately we have to cancel all North American Blutch events due to passport difficulties: McNally Jackson, Bergen St. Comics, and TCAF.

We hope to reschedule but it’s uncertain. Apologies to all. The Comics Reporter has the story.

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Interview Edition

April 22nd, 2013 by Dan Nadel

Lots of talking for PBox artists.

-Here’s Craig Thompson interviewing Blutch over at Boing Boing. This is a great interview — the best way to get to know Blutch, whose book So Long, Silver Screen, is out now. He’ll be here in North America soon enough!

-Jonny Negron is interviewed over here. Nice one.

-Brian Chippendale has had a whole slew of press for his new record, All My Relations. Here he is at The Quietus, Geek, Decibel, Tiny Mix Tapes. And here he is writing about his recent trip to Dubai.

 

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LA Times Book Prize to Sammy Harkham

April 20th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

Last night Sammy Harkham won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his book Everything Together. A big congrats to Sammy!

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Storm Thorgerson, 1944-2013

April 19th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

Storm Thorgerson passed away yesterday. He was one of the all-time great graphic artists. I worked with him for about a year on our 2008 release, For the Love of Vinyl, which is the only definitive book on the Hipgnosis output, andI admired his work for a decade before that. Aubrey “Po” Powell wrote a tribute to his friend and Hipgnosis partner that says it best. The Guardian has a fine obituary and a series of tributes as well.

Rest in Peace, Storm.

 

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Sun Ra + Ayé Aton Release

April 17th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

Celebrate the release of the new book:

Sun Ra + Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972

With a slide show conversation between John Corbett and David Grubbs (also performing music).

 

April 30th, 7PM

Blonde Art Books

92 St. Nicholas Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11237

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News from Around

April 17th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

First up, Eddie Martinez, longtime PBox pal and subject of a new book coming this fall, got great reviews on Artforum.com and on GalleristNY for his excellent new show in Brooklyn at The Journal Gallery, Matador.

Timothy Callahan chose Blutch’s So Long, Silver Screen, as the book of the show at last weekend’s MoCCA Fest.

 And congratulations to Sammy Harkham on his Eisner nomination for Best Graphic Album–Print for Everything Together.

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Double Blutch Events

April 15th, 2013 by Dan Nadel

 

Join Blutch to celebrate the release of

So Long, Silver Screen

Tuesday, May 7th, 7 pm

David Mazzucchelli in conversation with Blutch
Book signing to follow.

McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince St., NYC
212.774.1160

and then,

Signing and Original Art Exhibition

Wednesday, May 8th, 6 pm

Bergen St. Comics
470 Bergen St., Brooklyn
768.230.5600

 

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This blog is going to take you to school. You will learn about all things PictureBox: old dudes; obscure design; good painting; bad painting; dogs; annoying product endorsements. And so forth. All from me, Dan Nadel, your PictureBox host.

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