PBox World

Nudity Today Book Release and Exhibition

Dan Nadel — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:46:37 +0000

The Hole Gallery, PictureBox, and ARTBOOK present the exhibition

Curated by Jesse Pearson

Opening Friday, June 21, 6-8pm

Closing date, Saturday, June 29

Featuring work by Tim Barber, Jordan Bennett, Ren Hang, Jerry Hsu, Sandy Kim, Sasha Kurmaz, Maggie Lee, Nicole Lesser, Aaron McElroy, Lele Saveri, and Aurel Schmidt

Accompanied by a new book published by PictureBox and edited by Jesse Pearson.

Nudity Today might have been more accurately called Nudity This Minute or Nudity Right This Very Second. It’s a breezily made collection, an easily curated survey of a group of young photographers making art that involves images-in varying degrees of graphicness-of the naked human form. The artists featured in Nudity Today grew up amidst the changing moods and outlooks in photography that were engendered by a heady era that witnessed the explosion of the snapshot aesthetic, the birth of digital photography, and the proliferation of online networks and outlets for sharing and exhibiting images. As those things have shaped the means of photography, the continuing relaxation (or the decay, if that’s really the way you want to feel about it) of social mores has transformed its ends. So what we have running loose in the world is a veritable horde of emerging photographic artists who don’t mind getting nude, being nude, and doing things in the nude; models the same age who are just as-if not more-comfortable being undressed and performing for the camera; and democratically accessible tools of production and distribution. And so, voilà: A perfect storm of youthful boobs, butts, pussies, and dicks in a seemingly never-to-abate gust of photos.

Nudity Today
Edited by Jesse Pearson
Published by PictureBox
Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in., 208 pgs, 200 color.
ISBN: 9780985159573
U.S. $34.95

PictureBox at CAKE

Dan Nadel — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:18:05 +0000

PictureBox will be at the comics fest CAKE. I won’t be there, but we will be represented by the honorable Anya Davidson and the honorable Graham Kolbeins. The full assortment of PBox goodies will be present, so go check it out!

CAKE

June 15 & 16
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted

Brandon Graham’s Tusk!

Dan Nadel — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:26:12 +0000

So this is cool. Our own Brandon Graham will debut advance copies of Walrus at Gallery 33, Amsterdam.

The word is as follows!

Gallery 33 will soon be hosting multiple Eisner nominee and “one-man-comic-creating-machine” Brandon Graham, in an “open-studio” style exhibition and celebrating the world premiere of his new PictureBox book: Walrus. A limited number of signed copies of the book are available at the gallery before the official book launch end of June. Brandon will be in the space interacting with visitors, immediately putting what he creates on the gallery’s walls and windows.

Next to the Walrus book Brandon will have drawings and pages for sale and we will also have a selection of his other recent books and exclusive merch available to purchase.

The show will run from June 12th till July 5th at Gallery 33, Pazzanistraat 33, 1014 DB, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.

Public book launch event and show opening: June 14, 17:30 – 22:00

Catch Brandon working in the space: June 12 – 14 & June 16 – 18 from 14:00 – 18:00

Saturday, June 15th Brandon will be signing at the American Book Center Amsterdam at 15:00

New Brinkman

Dan Nadel — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:58:57 +0000

Mat Brinkman returns to the presses with Heads Collider, a 48 page exploration of drawing and color. For this one Brinkman drew heads on a sheet of rice paper, using the bleed through on the following pages as the basis of new drawings. So each page in this fine tome uses 3 drawings for each page — before, during, and after phases. The effect is like pulsing animation in print. This is a limited edition of 1000 copies co-published with the fine Le Dernier Cri of Marseilles.

News and Interviews

Dan Nadel — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:40:08 +0000

Summer has arrived, and with it a slew of coverage for various PictureBox releases.
Let’s start it off with Gengoroh Tagame at the Huffington Post and Hazlitt. Both excellent interviews with the artist. And of course now until June 15 Tagame is exhibiting original art at Shoot the Lobster, NYC.

Meanwhile, Blutch was interviewed by Matt Madden over at Comic Book Resources.

Our Sun Ra book received a rave over at The Paris Review.

And Sammy Harkham is on video not only at the LA Review of Books (he did, after all, win the LA Times Book Prize) but also on French TV (fast forward to 4:19).

Meanwhile, now going to the printers is: Pompeii, World Map Room, and School Spirits. Look for those in September. Phew. Busy around these parts.

CF and MERE at Desert Island

Dan Nadel — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:06 +0000

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.

PictureBox 40% Off Spring Sale!

Dan Nadel — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:23:23 +0000

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.

PictureBox at TCAF

Dan Nadel — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:11:45 +0000

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

All Blutch Events Canceled

Dan Nadel — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:26:00 +0000

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.

Interview Edition

Dan Nadel — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:00:12 +0000

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.