This year’s catalog for the New Art Dealer’s Alliance annual art fair in Miami, NADA, was conceived and designed by PictureBox and Project Projects. The concept is of a fair in bookform: A portable exhibition. Each gallery was asked to submit a single piece of art to the book. The accumulated images are a capsule image of contemporary art in 2008, from the studio to the marketplace. It’s a visual tour de force of ideas and styles. In tribute to Miami, the catalog is printed in just a single color – deep blue – giving the viewing experience a luminous, aquatic feel. This gorgeous souvenier is both informational and simply am gorgeous artifact.

(W/A) Michel Gondry Known for films including The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well as music videos for Bjork, The White Stripes, and The Rolling Stones, Michel Gondry is one of the world's premiere directors. Written and drawn by Gondry, We Lost The War But Not The Battle marks his comic book debut. This action-packed comic tells the story of four friends, the French army, and a beautifully horrifying conspiracy to take over the world. The one has it all - guns, girls, death, friendship, Mia Farrow, and so much more!

“An absolute banquet of a book. MYTHTYM is so good and so unusual, I’m actually having trouble knowing how to begin talking about it.”-Pam Grossman, Phantasmaphile All web-store copies signed by Trinie Dalton! Trinie Dalton has long made popular zines on variety of subjects. She brings together artists, musicians, critics, novelists and cartoonists in one gorgeous stew. MYTHTYM compiles the best work from her previous zines on Werewolves, mythical beings, and the natural world. But best of all, this volume includes an entirely new, 100-page body of work on the theme of mirrors. This new section will investigate the mirror as a symbolic object in horror stories. The metaphorical mirror within the scope of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. The metaphysical implications of mirroring, especially in the ancient world of alchemy. Reflective surfaces. Disco. The mirror’s role in psychedelic, symmetrical art. The first mirrors to emerge in primitive cultures, and the roles they played in early mythologies. Mirrors as scrying tools. It can branch out from there, into light, rainbows, death, vampirism, magic. Not restricted legally to mirrors by any means. In fact if it were all about mirrors that would be too many mirrors. Contributors include: Aurel Schmidt Folkert De Jong Takeshi Murata Jim Drain Andrew Leland Aura Rosenberg Sue De Beer Leif Goldberg Matt Greene Francine Spiegel Derek McCormack Jesse Bransford Shamim Momin Amy Gerstler assume vivid astro focus David Altmejd Sammy Harkham Rachel Kushner Marnie Weber Bjorn Copeland Paper Rad About her zines, Trinie Dalton has said: “I don’t want my books to be cliquish, but at the same time I don’t see them as communal free-for-alls. Of course, many people I invite to participate are my friends, and are friends with each other, but I deliberately include not only established artists and writers but also young people who are relatively unknown in their field. The idea of introducing and contextualizing artists by hanging their art on the same wall is a fundamental one in the art world. To me, my zines are literary/art/music history anthologies, following the group-show or salon style. They’re like parties on paper, and I want to be an exquisite host.”

Hipgnosis was the biggest and best design firm for the biggest and best bands of the classic rock era. Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in 1968, Hipgnosis was a graphic design studio specializing in creative photography and working mainly in the music business designing album covers for many rock ‘n’ roll bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett and Styx, among others. For a dozen years Hipgnosis created timeless rock iconography. For the Love of Vinyl is the first book to document their output in detail, focusing on over 60 package designs – from cover to label – written about in entertaining detail by the men who created them. Also included are short essays by musicians (such as Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason), artists (Peter Blake) and fellow designers (Paula Scher) on their favorite covers, as well as unseen photographs and ephemera. Complementing it all is a lengthy critical and historical text examining Hipgnosis and its legacy. For the Love of Vinyl will be THE rock book of 2008.

A gorgeous, hilarious and beguiling artists book by Katherine Bernhardt. Bernhardt excels at vivid imagery with, as The New Yorker noted “slashing brushstrokes and dripping, vivid color … used to depict images of women”. Bernhardt herself compiled this volume as a collection of her work about fashion models and celebrities. Her paintings sit next to their inspirations: a vivacious but cutting portrait of Kate Moss sits across from its source photograph, and the stuff of fashion magazines – Bernhardt’s main source – is treated with as much care as Bernhardt’s own paintings. Both the body of work and its roots are explored in detail. Also included is a photo-tour of Bernhardt’s studio, candid snapshots, and two revealing essays by Nick Stillman and Lisa Ruyter.

Two old friends are bound together in a two volume, full color set co-published with the fine gallery ZieherSmith in NYC. One 64 page hardcover features the paintings and drawings of Eddie Martinez. The other focuses on the paintings and drawings of Chuck Webster. These two Brooklyn-based pals, represented by Zieher-Smith, New York, are enamored of the romance of paint, making bold, colorful statements on canvas and paper. Martinez combines fearlessly expressive paint handling with a feel for cartoon imagery and personal symbology. Webster, on the other hand, makes minimal talasmanic paintings that are formally rigorous and impeccably polished. Together they present a friendly yin-yang of contemporary painting. The books are linked together by an interview with the artists and a selection of their collaborative drawings. Essays by Joao Ribas and Geoffrey Young are also included.

“Nemoto is the undisputed master of filthy comics. His work is brutal and horrifying and sure to shock even the most jaded comics reader. And yet underneath all his absurd depravity is a beautiful and touching story of a father’s love for his giant mutant sperm son.”-Johnny Ryan At long last, this underground Japanese classic has been translated into English. A seminal work of manga from the mid-1980s, Monster Man Bureiko Lullaby is a Candide-esque tale–if you can picture Candide as a mutated sperm brought to life by radioactivity. Unremittingly explicit, this is the comics equivalent of Henry Miller at his best: direct, honest and insightful while simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. Tokyo-based Takashi Nemoto, who was born in 1958, has been called the R. Crumb of Japan: Nemoto and Crumb share a similar, surreal drawing style and pessimistic, satirical stance, for which both have faced their share of negative criticism. Due to his unapologetically squalid subject matter, Nemoto has long been a controversial figure in Japan–clashing violently with mainstream Japanese morals–and is just now receiving some critical success there. Reviewers are finally looking past his gross-out humor to find farflung influences and connections like Mark Twain, Otto Dix and Andre Masson. Book design by King Terry.

A gorgeous poster printed circa 1977 of Peter Palombi’s iconic image for the Eddie Harris record “This is Why You’re Overweight”, as featured on the cover of Overspray. We got a very limited stock of these original run posters from the artist himself. Palombi signed all of them. Don’t miss this chance to get a vintage airbrush poster signed by one of the Kings!

“A blend of Marvel’s Thor comic, a Wagnerian space opera, and Anthony Mann’s Westerns”-Richard Gehr, The Village Voice Lauren Weinstein’s follow up to her critically critically and commercially successful graphic novel, Girl Stories. Goddess of War traces the life of the title character, from her majestic beginnings as the best Valkyrie and the great granddaughter of Thor, to her present position as the Goddess. But she’s bored of determining the outcome for all wars on earth. So she leaves her isolated planet of vampires, wolves and volcanoes to visit Earth, where she quits her job being a Goddess to be with her lover, the Apache Chief. This angers her boss, the king of the Gods, and he decides to exact vengeance upon them. Will he succeed in punishing them or will the lovers escape the hand of fate? Goddess of War is based on the character that Weinstein plays in her rock band, Flaming Fire. The story will be told in deluxe, oversized format with both pen and ink and etchings. This is volume one of the continuing adventures of Valkyrie.

Translated from the Japanese original, this book combines two of Yokoyama’s central themes: fighting and building. One set of stories, entitled Public Works, details massive structures being erected across a landscape. Plot is pushed aside in favor of sheer formal verve as we watch buildings about which we know nothing, come into being. The other set of stories, Combats, is one sequence after another of elegantly choreographed battles. Yokoyama builds things up and tears them down. Comics have never seen a talent that combines this level of formal ambition with exquisitely drawn depictions of fashion, art and architecture. This is the most surprising and revolutionary graphic novel released this year. Take a chance on a modern manga master.

This anonymous book is the product of a lone late 1990’s genius from Providence RI, and it channels all that scene’s energy into comedy gold. 64 pages of hilarious cartoons about dogs, people, money, and fashion. This is like Bloom County for peace punks. Not to be underestimated.

Cheryl Dunn’s first retrospective book delves into the worlds of street art, graffiti and life on the margins of America. For Dunn, street art isn’t just about images, it’s a way of viewing the world. In artists like Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, and Chris Johanson, Dunn found a share sensibilities: they were all documenting urban life and its discontents in their own unique ways. And so she documented the artists as much as their shared subjects, along the way compiling an impressive body of portrait and documentary photography of the street art scene as well as a moving group of images of urban America. The accompanying sixty-minute film documents thirteen American artists (Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Mike Mills, Ed Templeton, Margaret Killgallen among them) who were invited to Tokyo to mount simultaneous exhibitions in 2001. Through candid interviews, riveting footage of art in action (and a massive demolition derby in the streets of Tokyo), the film captures these artists just before they broke through to the mainstream. The DVD includes almost a dozen extras. Cheryl Dunn is a photographer and filmmaker based in lower-Manhattan. She has organized and participated in exhibitions in venues including Deitch Projects, The Luggage Store and New Image Art. Her work was prominently featured in the Beautiful Losers exhibition and book.

Ever wonder what independent musicians do the other twenty-three hours a day when they’re on tour? Real Fun answers this question with over one hundred photographs of musicians and bands in their downtime—sleeping, eating, fishing, and just goofing off. Ashod Simonian has traveled with scores of the finest bands in indie rock. His dreamy, lush Polaroids capture the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon, Pavement, Elliott Smith, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Broken Social Scene, Wilco, and more. Many of these bands also contributed essays and memoirs to the book, making it an essential collection of wisdom and memories from the road by bands both popular and obscure. Real Fun is accompanied by a CD of exclusive tracks by bands featured in the book, including: All Smiles, Califone, Dios, Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble, Fuck, Irving, Kaito, Les Georges Leningrad, Jason Lytle, Mt. Eerie, Norfolk & Western, Panty Lions, Pine Marten, Preston School of Industry, Radar Bros., Sleeping States, Slumber Party, and Stereo Total. These tracks were selected by Simonian especially for Real Fun. They are a kind of public soundtrack to this compendium of private moments.

Our most lavish, elaborately produced volume. This first monograph and storybook from young Trenton Doyle Hancock describes an ancient conflict: the peaceful, organic Mounds may have been created by the same father, Homerbuctas, who made their violent, nightmarish enemies the Vegans, but the two clans have been caught up in a tragi-comic struggle. Me a Mound combines biblical allusions, gags, food, and sex as it describes their saga in Hancock’s laconic Texan prose and lays it out in his explosively colorful paintings. It’s filled with new work created just for the book and a comprehensive overview of Hancock’s oeuvre. The story sprawls across sheets of actual trading cards, a massive fold out poster, and dozens of tipped in pages. Unforgettable.

Cola Madnes is a graphic novel masterpiece by Gary Panter circa 1983. Starring a young Jimbo just trying to get an ever lovin’ cola, Panter’s drawing is at its most minimal here, his ratty line delineating a cosmic/comic world of nature, technology and junk food. Want to read a great novel this week? Look no further. He’s the best.

This second hardcover collection of Eisner Award-nominated artist Ben Templesmith's Wormwood moves beyond the simply bizarre and into the sublime lunacy that is Lephrechaunia as Wormwood and his posse search for the Leprechaun Queen, the only being capable of lifting the terminal curse that our hero has contracted. But if rabid leprechauns and inter-dimensional travel isn't enough to get your head spinning, enter the Squidmen, a terrifying collective of 'gatherers,' hell bent on ingesting everything they can get their tentacles on! Features a new cover and extras from Templesmith.