Picturebox News

Here’s a very nice new interview with Brian Chippendale featuring some unseen art.

Here at PBox HQ we have taken in a bunch of new products. Cold Heat Special 6 is in stock and going fast! And note that we’re now carrying zines and projects from the British collective Famicon. We like these funny British people, and are pleased they’re allowing their publications to reach the colonies. Takashi Nemoto is representing with 2 new prints and one poster. This is the first time we’ve offered any artwork from Nemoto, and maybe the first time it’s been available in North America. So hop to it! We have School, a wonderful new zine about the female experience in contemporary Japanese culture and a blazing new tabloid collection of record covers and posters by Saeki Toshio. Last but not least, a hot new publication from Michael Williams detailing his views on Copenhagen.

A hardy PictureBox recommendation for two excellent gallery exhibitions in NYC. Jungil Hong: Growl Fowl spans Jung’s imagemaking efforts in painting, silkscreens and sculptures. Intimate, layered work by Jung. And Francine Spiegel’s Mud and Milk takes immersive, cinematic painting to new heights in order to explore our shared horror consciousness Both shows are musts.

Some very nice round-ups of recent Cold Heat activity over at Jog and All Too Flat. Check ‘em out and check back here shortly for Cold Heat products in stock.

PictureBox will be at the New York Art Book Fair this weekend. Hosted by Printed Matter at PS1 in Long Island City, this is a fantastic fair for visual book lovers, as it features everything from zines to high-end editions. It opens Thursday, Oct. 1, at 6 pm and continues through the weekend. Here is the info:


FAIR HOURS AND LOCATIONS

The NY Art Book Fair
October 2-4 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY

Free and open to the public: Thursday, October 1, 6-8 PM Friday and Saturday, October 2 & 3, 11-7 PM Sunday, October 4, 11-5 PM

PictureBox will be at SPX this weekend, September 26-27, with our full range of titles. Frank Santoro and Matthew Thurber will be in attendance. Besides our newest books, including Santoro’s Cold Heat 7/8, Thurber’s 1-800 MICE 3, Mat Brinkman’s Multiforce and Gary Panter’s Pee Dog 2, we will be featuring the phenomenal new Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror (now available in the shop), featuring stories by Ben Jones, Jon Vermilyea, Thurber, Kevin Huizenga and many others. We will also have a selection of new mini-comics, zines, and the legendary comic book series Real Deal.

We will have a Treehouse of Horror signing with on Sunday, 9/25, 12 pm -1 pm.

PictureBox Booth D9-11

Now in stock: The infamous new Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror featuring art and stories by Ben Jones, CF, Jon Vermilyea, Matthew Thurber, Kevin Huizenga, Will Sweeney and many others!

Norman Hathaway has posted a very kind remembrance of the great Peter Lloyd on the Overspray blog.

Welcome to our seasonal sale and newsletter. We have some excellent new and recent items in the store right now: We’re pleased to announce that Cold Heat 7/8 by Frank Santoro and Ben Jones and Matthew Thurber’s 1-800 MICE #3 are now in stock! Two mighty comics series making bold returns. And Anya Davidson has returned with an excellent new comic, Cosmic Collisions.

Also, back in stock we have Yuichi Yokoyama’s Painting and his full line of posters for your gazing pleasure.

And last but certainly not least, we’re carrying vintage original printings of airbrush posters from the 1970s by Kings Peter Palombi and Charlie White III. We have limited quantities of these masterpieces, so get ‘em while you can.

Other news:

ITEM: We are now offering some of our titles on the iPhone via Panelfly. So now you can read Powr Mastrs, The Goddess of War, Travel, and Storeyville on your iPhone!

ITEM: The PictureBox Gallery (online only) is bursting at the virtual seams with original art by Ben Jones, Gary Panter, CF, Charlie White III, Peter Lloyd and many others. Go have a look. 

ITEM: We owe a giant thanks to all of you who pre-ordered If 'n Oof and Powr Mastrs 3. You can look for those in March 2010. 

Phew, that was a lot. Now, onto the sale!

For one week (Sept. 8-15) we are reducing our prices by up to 35% on many items in the shop, and for the first time we’re offering “Value Packs” for your shopping convenience. That’s right, we’re making it that much easier to enjoy PictureBox goodness. The sets are as follows:

The Overspray Deluxe Set: Pimp-out your bookcase and walls with a copy of Overspray: Riding High With the Kings of California Airbrush Art, as well as two enormous Peter Palombi posters: This is Why You’re Overweight and Exotic Pets.
All for just $35!

Powr Mastrs Set: Need to catch up on Powr Mastrs before the third one drops! Well, get the first two volumes and CF’s miniature masterpiece, Core of Caligula, for an even $20. 

80s Grotesque Set: Pee Dog 2: The Captain’s Final Log and Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby. Feeling overwhelmed by the world? Hopeless and ruined? These two graphic romps through sexual confusion, misery and poop jokes will lift your spirits and have you up and around in no time! Cheap therapy for just $20.

Young Painters Set: Here at PictureBox we sure do love a good painting. So much so that we’ve published books with some of the best damn painters around. Get 6 publications by Eddie Martinez, Joe Bradley, Jonas Wood, Michael Williams, Chuck Webster, Katherine Bernhardt and Brian Belott for just $40. That’s a lifetime of gallery-going for one low price. 

The Ben Jones Approved Set: Three books beloved by artiste Ben Jones. Mythtym, by Trinie Dalton; Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama; and Jones’ own New Painting and Drawing. See from whence Jones draws inspiration and sample these goodies. $35 is a small price to pay for a glimpse of immortality.
 
Rock Set: If you’re not to busy playing Rock Band, how ‘bout immersing yourself in a multi-generational rock-out with these fab books. For the Love of Vinyl will teach you the meaning of album design; The Wilco Summer Tour Program will leave you in stitches; Real Fun will bring you back to your indie rock roots (or give you new ones); A fantastic Chuck Berry poster by Charlie White III will loom over you; and all of this can happen while listening to Gary and Devin whale away on their psych-country trip. Rock to build a truck on for just $50.

And that’s it. We hope to see you on the road in the next couple months, either at The Small Press Expo in Washington D.C. or The New York Art Book Fair. Thanks!

At least, Cold Heat 7/8 is in stock now, people! The return. And a triumphant return it is. And there is an excellent article about the whole Cold Heat universe over on Robot 6 . Check it all out.

We are pleased to announce that PictureBox graphic novels will now be available via Panelfly, the brand new iPhone comics application. Panelfly boasts intuitive functionality, a clean, elegant interface, and a wide selection of titles. Currently available for your digital reading are: Storeyville, Powr Mastrs 1 & 2, Travel and The Goddess of War, with more to come. Click here to enter the iTunes store and download Panelfly now.

PictureBox pal Jon Vermilyea is opening his first solo exhibition Sept. 4th (8 pm) at Secret Headquarters in L.A. Looks awesome.

Secret Headquarters
3817 W Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Give Jon a hug for us!

I received some very sad news today: Peter Lloyd, the great artist featured in Overspray, has passed away. I never met Peter, but by all accounts he was a wonderful man besides being a truly extraordinary artist. Peter’s work can be seen in the PictureBox Gallery and of course in Overspray. He excelled at pristine visions of space and light. His paintings were immaculately composed and rendered, and his imagination ran towards the cosmic, as well as the comic. My heartfelt condolences to his family. We have lost one of our best.

Pal Ryan Sands at Same Hat has posted some phenomenal photos of Yokoyama in action in SF! Yuichi, we miss ya! Come to NYC baby!

This Saturday Yuichi Yokoyama will make his first North American appearance at the grand opening of Viz Picture’s San Francisco store New People. He will do a live painting performance on 8/15 at noon and then a signing at 3 pm. Go see him and tell him hello from the PictureBox gang back east!