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PictureBox Summer Reading Suggestions ‘09

Looking for something to read while sweltering in the heat? Need some verbal/visual refreshment? We have some suggestions from our newest product pickings:

-Multiforce by Mat Brinkman. Finally, the entire Multiforce series from Paper Rodeo collected in one massive, over-sized volume. Brinkman affirms his status as one of the best “comic maker dudes” of our generation. Available in limited release ONLY.

-Pee Dog 2: The Captain's Final Log by Gary Panter and Jay Cotton. A “deluxe” reprint of this 60 page long opus d’filth. These days we’d call it a novella, but it’s certainly an ingenious comedic narrative: Think of combining Candide with Pink Flamingos and then sprinkle in a little bit of Caligula!

-Real Deal (various issues) by Rawdog and others. We have a limited supply of this incredible L.A. underground comic from those glorious late 80s and early ’90s. Get them while you can!

-The Wilco Summer Tour Program 2009. PictureBox worked with our pals Wilco to create this unique combination of artwork, interviews, comics and photos. Features wonderful new work by Frank Santoro, C.F., Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and others.

And naturally there is much much more online: a new Cold Heat Special and print, the Devin and Gary Limited Edition and a fantastic new portfolio/comic by Anya Davidson.

And of course don’t forget to continue to pre-order your copies of Powr Mastrs 3 and If ‘n Oof.

If you find yourself indoors, you can also check out the PictureBox Gallery for all your art-purchasing needs and our other enjoyable web sites, including Comics Comics.

Enjoy!

Lauren Weinstein featured in: Autobiography: My Life in Comics. 2:00 pm @ Union Pool, Brooklyn NY. (484 Union Ave, one block from the Lorimer-Metropolitan G and L stop) David Heatley (My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, Kramers Ergot), Lauren Weinstein (Girl Stories, The Goddess of War) and Julia Wertz (Fart Party, I Saw You) will discuss the process, pleasures, and problems of making comics based on their own personal lives and observations. Then stick around to get a book signed, hit the taco truck, and sip a summer drink with our featured cartoonists.

Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

More info here.

Our own Trinie Dalton will be doing her fantastic slide show and lecture this coming Sunday, June 21st, at 8 pm in L.A.

Trinie Dalton recently released her zine anthology, MYTHTYM, a compendium of three handmade books on mythological themes that collect the work of over 50 artists and writers. MIRROR HORROR is the first section in the book, a 100-page treatise on the topic of mirrors in art and cinema. This evening will entail a slide talk on mirrors in art history, focusing on witchcraft and magic, and Dalton will discuss her collection of Giallo horror film stills. For the second half of the event, Dalton will screen short animations by various artists. MYTHTYM will be available for purchase.

Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-483-8761

PictureBox will be at the MOCCA Festival this weekend, June 6-7, 11 am- 6 pm.

69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue, between 25th and 26th Streets
NYC

PictureBox has booths 301, 339, 338

So, without further ado:

New from PictureBox for MoCCA!

Mat Brinkman: MULTIFORCE Yes, you read that correctly – the entire saga at full size. 22 pages of comics genius. Sneak attack.

Ed Nukey Nukes and Jocko Levent Brainiac: PEE DOG 2: THE CAPTAIN'S FINAL LOG A 60 page opus d’filth from 1986 co-created by an artist we publish whose name rhymes with Shmary Kanter. Just 500 made.

Lane Milburn and Frank Santoro: COLD HEAT SPECIAL #9
Not a season goes by without a slice of such goodness.

Devin Flynn and Gary Panter: DEVIN AND GARY GO OUTSIDE SPECIAL EDITION Hand-collages unique objects. Just 100 made!

Raw Dog: REAL DEAL BACK ISSUES First printings how available!
v Lauren Weinstein: TWO GHOST STORIES zine

And new work from Matthew Thurber, Anya Davidson, Taylor McKimens, and others!
And…:

Special Event: Frank Santoro and Gary Panter in conversation at 3:45 on Sunday in the programming room.

Festival Signing Schedule

Saturday:


11 am-12 pm: Frank Santoro
12 pm -2 pm: Lauren Weinstein and Frank Santoro
2-3 pm: Matthew Thurber
3:00 pm-5 pm: Lauren Weinstein
5 pm - 6 pm: Frank Santoro

Sunday:

11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Lauren Weinstein
12:30 pm -1:30 pm: Frank Santoro
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m: Gary Panter and Devin Flynn
4 pm - 6 pm: Lauren Weinstein

See you soon!

Here’s a very nice review of For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis in today’s New York Times Book Review

A few fun things: First, we’re pleased to announce the return to the stage of Devin and Gary this Friday night in Brooklyn.

Devin & Gary Go Outside
(featuring Ross Goldstein)

with Angela Jaeger and Byron Coley
The #1 Hit Record “Devin & Gary Go Outside” will be for sale, along with special collage package, housemade by Gary and Devin.

Silkscreened poster by Chris Capuozzo, above, will also be for sale.

Friday, May 29, 8PM

Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
$10

And second, yes folks that’s C.F. on the cover of Bookforum right now! Both he and Lauren Weinstein have excellent new comics in the current issue.

Some quick updates here. Our man in the mask, Brian Chippendale, recently played NYC under his Black Pus guise. There’s a nice review and some video here. And, CF is currently selling some of his fantastic music (cassettes, CDs)
here.

Join us this Friday for a delightful evening of OVERSPRAY madness at Desert Island in Brooklyn. Author Norman Hathaway will bring the funk to this signing. We will also be displaying vintage poster classics from the vault!

Friday, May 15, 7-9 pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
(718)388-5087

We have two amazing graphic novels scheduled for November 2009 and February 2010. They are fantastic, vital works of art and we need your help to release them.
Powr Mastrs 3 (104 pages, 5.75” x 7.75”) continues CF’s visionary narrative about the complex relationships between mysterious beings in a place called New China. If 'n Oof is Brian Chippendale’s 650 page, 5” x 7” magnum opus, a sprawling, hilarious tale of two pals wandering through a desolate, hostile landscape.

Sure to be among the best graphic novels of our time, they need your support. Like a lot of publishers, I’m looking for new ways to navigate the current terrain. To that end, I’m attempting to raise the money for these books ahead of time.

So I am looking to you, as a community of readers, to help make these books a reality. Everyone that orders advance copies of these books (up until August 1) will receive the book itself and a signed silkscreen print. Everyone that orders in advance by June 20, 2009 will have their names listed (hand-lettered in the book and their level of support (see below). We need about 400 of you per book to step up and help make this a reality. Let’s come together as a community.

Preview If ‘n Oof by downloading this PDF.

Preview Powr Mastrs 3 by downloading this PDF.

There are four ordering options:

Level 1:

Buy one of the books. Everyone that buys one of the following receives a silkscreen print and their name will be in the book.

A) Powr Mastrs 3: $18 plus an original, signed silkscreen print by CF.
B) If 'n Oof: $29.95 plus an original, signed silkscreen print,

Level 2: $45:

Buy both books and receive both prints as well as a discount off the retail price and your name in the books.

Level 3: $80

Buy both books and you will receive both prints PLUS an original 5” x 7” one-color drawing by the artist of your choice (CF or Brian Chippendale) and your name in the books.

Level 4: $150

At this level you will receive a full color, 5” x 7” drawing by CF or Brian Chippendale. PLUS both books and the two prints and your name in the books.

Go have a listen to our own Trinie Dalton on the radio show Bibliocracy talking about Mythtym.

PictureBox will be exhibiting at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival 2009 May 9th and 10th. Frank Santoro and yours truly will be in attendance.

Here’s a little something we’ve been working on. PictureBox Gallery. Formal announcement to come…

Trinie Dalton will be reading selections from MYTHTYM this coming Saturday, 4/25, at 7 pm at: Observatory in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Here’s the info:

Free admission

When: Saturday, April 25th, 7pm

Where: Observatory (same building as Proteus Gowanus, Cabinet Magazine, & Morbid Anatomy Library). 543 Union Street (at Nevins), Brooklyn, NY 11215

Subway: R/M to Union Street ~or~ F/G to Carroll St.

Directions: http://observatoryroom.org/directions/
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