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The Art and Life of Chaz Bojorquez This monograph charts the life and career of Chaz Bojorquez, known as “Chaz,” a Los Angeles-born Mexican-American artist who began in the “Cholo” gang graffiti tradition but quickly arrived at his own groundbreaking style. This book includes previously unreleased photographs and traces the artist's story in fascinating detail.  > more THE ART AND LIFE OF CHAZ BOJORQUEZ US $50.00 CAN $60.00 / TRADE ISBN 9788862081214 / In stock

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NEW RELEASES Cheers!: Flip Book Photographs by Santiago Melazzini. Whether you like your chicken from your egg or vice versa (Which Came First?), your news oversized and in your face (Big News! ), your showgirls cheeky and upstaging (Magic), La Marca's latest twists on the flipbook form provide a perfect gift for all: Cheers! VIEW BOOK PAGE Which Came First?: Flip Book Photographs by Santiago Melazzini. Whether you like your chicken from your egg or vice versa (Which Came First?), your news oversized and in your face (Big News! ), your showgirls cheeky and upstaging (Magic), La Marca's latest twists on the flipbook form provide a perfect gift for all: Cheers! VIEW BOOK PAGE Big News!: Flip Book Photographs by Santiago Melazzini. Whether you like your chicken from your egg or vice versa (Which Came First?), your news oversized and in your face (Big News! ), your showgirls cheeky and upstaging (Magic), La Marca's latest twists on the flipbook form provide a perfect gift for all: Cheers! VIEW BOOK PAGE Magic: Flip Book Photographs by Santiago Melazzini. Whether you like your chicken from your egg or vice versa (Which Came First?), your news oversized and in your face (Big News! ), your showgirls cheeky and upstaging (Magic), La Marca's latest twists on the flipbook form provide a perfect gift for all: Cheers! VIEW BOOK PAGE

FEATURED LIBRARY | PICTUREBOX Brian Chippendale: If 'n Oof Brian Chippendale, drummer for the acclaimed and outrageously loud noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt and collaborator on Björk's 2007 album, Volta, is an increasingly in-demand graphic novelist, one of those artists who draw because they're compelled >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780982094754 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 650 pgs / 650 b&w. Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock I Was Looking for a Street Introduction by Luc Sante. “I'm proud to say I knew the man who wrote this book,” writes Elmore Leonard of cult crime writer Charles Willeford's moving memoir of his youth. “It is pure writing, never pretentious or forced, never >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780982094778 US $15.95 CAN $19.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis: Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell Text by Nick Mason, Peter Blake, Paula Scher. Hipgnosis was the biggest and best graphic design firm for the biggest and best bands of the 60s and 70s. Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in London in 1968 (with the addition of >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780981562216 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Hardback, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 450 color. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock C.F.: Powr Mastrs Vol. 3 Powr Mastrs Vol. 3--brainchild of C.F., who emerged from the fabled Providence, Rhode Island, art and noise scene and who also performs under the monikers Kites and Daily Life--is one of the most anticipated graphic >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780982094761 US $18.00 CAN $22.00 TRADE Flexi, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 120 pgs / 16 color / 104 b&w. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock Donald Baechler: Early Drawings and Working Slides Edited by Dan Nadel. Text by Naomi Fry, Donald Baechler. Never before printed or exhibited, Donald Baechler's early drawings--casually sketched, mostly in bars and restaurants--are loose, informal records of the artist working out his characteristic iconography: trees, globes, heads... One hundred images are p >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780982094730 US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE Hbk, 7 x 10 in. / 120 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock Ben Jones & Frank Santoro: Cold Heat Fiction by Timothy Hodler. Ben Jones is a member of the art collective Paper Rad--which lends their lo-fi, DIY aura to everything from Internet hijinks and zines to gallery installations and videos for MTV-ready artists like Beck and The >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415333 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Flexibound, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock Jonas Wood: Sports Book The rising Los Angeles figurative painter Jonas Wood is known for his bold colors and woozy perspectives--whether his canvases depict a perfectly autonomous cactus on a yellow milk crate, a famous Chinese basketball player or >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780981562285 US $20.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color. Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock NADA Catalogue For this catalogue to the 2008 NADA fair in Miami, each gallery submitted a single piece of art. Gathered, the images present a capsule of contemporary art today, from studio to marketplace. In tribute to >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780982094723 US $20.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE Pbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 216 pgs / 90 color. Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock MYTHTYM Edited by Trinie Dalton. Writer, artist, musician and prolific zine-maker Trinie Dalton has said of her work, "The idea of introducing and contextualizing artists by hanging their art on the same wall is a fundamental one in the art >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780981562247 US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hardback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color / 50 b&w. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock Ben Jones: New Painting & Drawing This volume is produced in conjunction with Ben Jones' first solo show in Athens, Greece. Jones is a member of the famed Providence, Rhode Island-based art group Paper Rad, which has lent its lo-fi, DIY >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415371 US $20.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE Hardback, 7.25 x 8.25 in. / 32 pgs / 20 color / 20 b&w. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Out of print/Not available Yuichi Yokoyama: Travel The Japanese manga artist Yuichi Yokoyama's latest work, Travel, is a wordless journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche. It takes the not unfamiliar plot backdrop of a train ride and turns it into a psychological >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780981562209 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 202 pgs / 200 b&w. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock Takashi Nemoto: Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby At long last, this underground Japanese classic has been translated into English. A seminal work of manga from the mid-1980s, Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby is a Candide-esque tale--if you can picture Candide as a mutated >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415326 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 194 pgs / 250 b&w. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art Edited by Norman Hathaway, Dan Nadel. Text by Mike Salisbury. Overspray is the conclusive account of the rise of airbrush art, and of the equally bright and glossy Los Angeles culture alongside which it came to prominence in the 1970s. Inspired by surf graphics, psychadelia >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415302 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hardback, 10 x 11.5 in. / 226 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock C.F.: Powr Mastrs Vol. 2 Powr Mastrs Vol. 2 follows hot on the heels of this elusive artist’s first volume-- in a series of six graphic novels--which was one of last year’s most anticipated debuts. C.F. comes out of the >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415340 US $18.00 CAN $22.00 TRADE Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 120 pgs / 150 b&w. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock Prospect.1 New Orleans Edited by Dan Cameron. Text by Barbara Bloemink, Lolis Eric Elie, Claire Tancons. As the accompanying publication to the largest exhibition of contemporary art ever assembled in the U.S., the Prospect.1 New Orleans catalogue is one of the most sought-after art books of 2008-09. Featuring new illustrated essays >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780981562292 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 408 pgs / 700 color / 50 b&w. Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock Michel Gondry: You'll Like This Film Because You're In It A how-to book from a famed director! This little paperback by Michel Gondry was inspired by his latest film, Be Kind Rewind. The movie stars Jack Black and Mos Def as two friends who enact >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415388 US $16.95 CAN $20.00 TRADE Paperback, 5 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 30 color / 90 b&w. Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock Mail Order Monsters Text by Kathy Grayson. This spectacular exploration of new trends in "fucked-up figuration" is the unconventional exhibition catalogue for Mail Order Monsters, the international traveling show put together by Kathy Grayson of New York's Deitch Projects. Bound in a >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780981562261 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Pbk with Prints, 9 x 12 in. / 46 pgs / 200 color. Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock Katherine Bernhardt: The Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg Text by Nick Stillman, Lisa Ruyter. Katherine Bernhardt's The Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg is a lush and punchy artist's book. Jerry Saltz has called Bernhardt's style "a hybrid of funk, punk, pop and every kind of Expressionism, be it abstract, >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415364 US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hardback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 120 color. Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock Gary Panter: Cola Madnes Available widely for the first time! Legendary underground cartoonist Gary Panter's comics are typically anarchic and fun, but they also delve deeper. Drawn in 1983, printed in 2001 and released here for the first time, >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415395 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Hardback, 5 x 7 in. / 212 pgs / 210 b&w. Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock Lauren Weinstein: Goddess of War This follow-up to Lauren Weinstein's critically acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel, Girl Stories, traces the life of a celebrated Valkyrie, great-granddaughter of Thor, from her earliest days to her present position as Goddess of War--bored, >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972295 US $12.95 CAN $16.00 TRADE Paperback, 10 x 15.5 in. / 32 pgs/ illustrated throughout Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Active/In stock Eddie Martinez & Chuck Webster Text by Geoffrey Young, Joao Ribas. This two-volume set features the psychedelic, expressionistic figuration of Eddie Martinez in one volume and the Thomas Nozkowski-esque abstractions of Chuck Webster in the other. Both Brooklyn-based artists, represented in New York by Zieher-Smith, are >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415357 US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hardback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Active/In stock Gary Panter Foreword by Mike Kelley. Text by Robert Storr, Doug Harvey, Edwin Pouncy, Richard Gehr, Dan Nadel, Karrie Jacobs, Bryon Coley. An intimate look at the work and life of a legendary artist. Gary Panter has been one of the most influential figures in visual culture since the mid-1970s. From his era-defining punk graphics to his >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780979415319 US $95.00 CAN $114.00 TRADE Slipcased, 2 Volumes, 9.5 x 11 in. / 700 pgs / 1000 color. Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Active/In stock Brian Chippendale: Maggots In this follow-up to his acclaimed graphic novel, Ninja--which was reviewed in such diverse sources as The New York Times, Art Review and The Comics Journal--the co-founder of the legendary Providence underground art and music >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972264 US $21.95 CAN $26.00 TRADE Paperback, 4 x 6 in. / 352 pgs / 350 color. Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock Yuichi Yokoyama: New Engineering Yuichi Yokoyama makes comics in a unique language situated somewhere between the primal drives of William Blake and the elegant geometries of Sol Lewitt--they are works of philosophical complexity and stunning visual power, of which >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972257 US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE Flexibound, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 226 pgs / 250 b&w. Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock Frank Santoro: Storeyville Introduction by Chris Ware. A perfect match of form and content, Storeyville was originally published in 1995 as a 40-page tabloid newspaper. Now rare, it was printed in black and white, along with a set of three muted tones >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972271 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Hardback, 11 x 16 in. / 48 pgs/ illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock C.F.: Powr Mastrs Vol. 1 According to The Comics Reporter, "If a reader were to pick up on any one cartoonist working at a furious and considered and accomplished pace right below the radar of most comics fans, C.F. might >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972288 US $18.00 CAN $22.00 TRADE Flexibound, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 120 pgs/ illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock Cheryl Dunn: Some Kinda Vocation Photographer and filmmaker Cheryl Dunn has been one of America's foremost chroniclers of the underground scene since the mid-1990s. This first retrospective looks at the worlds of street art, graffiti and life on the creative >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972226 US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE Hardcover with DVD (NTSC), 9 x 12 in. / 80 pgs/ illustrated throughout/ DVD Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock Ashod Simonian: Real Fun Ever wonder what indie rockers on tour do for the other 23 hours of their day? Real Fun answers that question with over 100 photographs of musicians lounging in the giant green room that is >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780971367098 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.5 x 6.5 in. / 128 pgs / 150 color / with CD. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock Brian Belott: Wipe that Clock Off Your Face Foreword by Donald Baechler. Text by Taylor McKimens, Joe Grillo. Brian Belott's first book is a compendium of all his disparate artistic practices--including collage, drawing, found photography and sound mixing--and it is also his first CD. The original CD/DVD included here offers the acclaimed Found >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972219 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Paperback, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 200 color / with CD / DVD. Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock Paper Rad: Cartoon Workshop Pig Tales Digest Foreword by Donald Baechler. This follow-up to the Paper Rad collective's recent hit, Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs, is both a return to form and a move forward. Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and the group's trademark lo-fi digital >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780978972202 US $14.95 CAN $18.00 TRADE Paperback, 4.25 x 6.25 in. / 96 pgs / 200 color. Pub Date: 04/01/2007 Active/In stock Nog a Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedoolia Edited by Marc Bell. Like their contemporaries and friends in the Royal Art Lodge (some of whom are featured here), this loosely affiliated group of Vancouver-based artists draw with and about each other, working on one another's pieces, creating >>more PictureBox ISBN 9781894994163 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 112 color and 112 b&w. Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/In stock Trenton Doyle Hancock: Me a Mound Artwork by Trenton Doyle Hancock. It's the Mounds versus the Vegans in their inaugural published battle, and the heat is on. This first monograph and storybook from a major young African-American artist describes an ancient conflict: the peaceful, organic Mounds >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780971367074 US $65.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 250 color. Pub Date: 05/01/2006 Active/In stock Black Dice & Jason Frank Rothernberg: Gore Artwork by Black Dice. Photographs by Jason Rothenberg. Underground rock darlings Black Dice just released their fourth album, Broken Ear Record from DFA/EMI. Music enthusiasts may consider this first book--an extension of their highly visual melange of sound, performance, and art, with a >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780971367081 US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 200 color. Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Out of print/Not available Paper Rad, B.J. And Da Dogs Artwork by Ben Jones, Paper Rad. Half artist's book, half graphic novel, this volume combines photographs, drawings, prints, and junk by the art collective Paper Rad--Jessica Ciocci, her brother Jacob, and their friend Ben Jones--with two graphic novellas (Spaceballz and < >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780971367043 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Out of print/Not available Free Radicals Edited by Leif Goldberg. Description: Free Radicals, a book of comics and drawings, is the product of the seminal Providence, Rhode Island Paper Rodeo group and its eponymous underground comics tabloid. The group, which has published 18 issues so >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780971367067 US $10.00 CAN $12.00 TRADE Paperback, 5 x 8 in. / 104 pgs / 100 b&w. Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Out of print/Not available The Wilco Book Edited by Peter Buchanan-Smith and Daniel Nadel. Essay by Rick Moody. Texts by Mark Twain and Bern Porter. Art by Fred Tomaselli. Photographs by Michael Schmelling. This is a book about Wilco and the pictorial, literary and musical world it conjures up on record and in performance. Created in collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, Wilco and Tony Margherita, this primarily visual book >>more PictureBox ISBN 9780971367036 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 200 color. Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock The Ganzfeld No. 3 Artwork by Michael Benson, Peter Blegvad, Blex Bolex, Paul Cox, Adam Dant, Ren»e French, Geoff McFetridge, Jim Nutt, Brian Ralph, Ron Regé, Jonathon Rosen, Karl Wirsum, Fred Tomaselli. Edited by Peter Buchanan-Smith, Rick Moody, Daniel Nadel, Andrea Codrington. Text by Alfred Hitchcock, Julie Lasky, Winfried Nubaummller, Lawrence Weschler. Tucked inside issue number 3 of The Ganzfeld, for your reading and looking pleasure, are humorous picture stories on color theory, milk, where we go when we die, and the lost genre of blank books. >>more Monday Morning ISBN 9780971367012 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 8 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 128 color / illustrated throughout Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Out of print/Not available The Ganzfeld No. 2 Edited by Daniel Nadel and Peter Buchanan Smith. Artists include: Edward Fella, Steven Guarnaccia, Red Grooms, Steven Heller, Maira Kalman, Gary Panter, Richard McGuire, Chris Ware. Comics aren't just for kids, and illustrations don't merely transpose text into image. Picture stories can do more than just tell a simple, illiterate narrative, and design, well, design infiltrates the visual aspects of nearly >>more The Kaput Press ISBN 9780971367005 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 10 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color / 96 b&w Pub Date: 01/02/2002 Out of print/Not available