In this illustrated biography of Daniel Johnston, his life and art are chronicled through extremely rare photos from his early childhood through all stages of his career, along with his own artwork, interviews with the people in his life, and an up to date discography.In January, 2005, the feature-length documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston premiered at Sundance Film Festival and at film festivals around the world that year. The movie was distributed in North America by Sony Pictures Classi

100 artists showcase their conceptions of the world's all-time favorite bad boy, Satan, in this subversive response to the popular traveling exhibit 100 Artists See God. 100 devilish works of art: sincere, irreverent, and parodic. Features the art of Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Don Ed Hardy, Sandow Birk, Shag, Frank Kozik, Ed Ruscha, Rick Griffin, The Pizz, Alex Gray, Dan Clowes, and R. Crumb, just to name a few.

A best seller in Japan this beautiful, award-winning manga appears in English for the first time. What impact did World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb have on the common people of Japan? Through the eyes of an average woman living in 1955, Japanese artist Fumiyo Kouno answers these questions. Kouno's light, free style of drawing evokes a tender reflection of this difficult period in Hiroshima's postwar past. Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is the winner of several pr

Revolutionary Letters is an American classic arising from the utopian anarchism for which Diane di Prima has long been a spokesperson. The first of these poems were written during the active days of the late 1960s, and published by the underground press throughout the U.S. and abroad. The new poems in this edition address some of the history of the past twenty years, and were written as the various occasions arose.Diane di Prima is the original outlaw poet she wrote herself a wild, authentic lif

Glenn Barr's robots, creatures, and vixens live in a seedy yet swinging, 1960s universe, drenched in the haze of a postindustrial hangover. Working out of the burgeoning lowbrow movement in Detroit, Barr creates kinky inner sanctums adorned with disembodied cherubs, morally bankrupt babes, and sizzling femme fatales. Clothbound. Co-published with La Luz de Jesus.

In this gorgeous book created with Alex Kotlowitz, Fitzpatrick introduces his drawing-collages as chapters in an ongoing project that is both personal diary and chronicle of Chicago. Co-published with La Luz de Jesus.Tony Fitzpatrick is an artist, actor and author of Max and Gaby's Alphabet. His work has exhibited at Chicago's Art Institute and MOCA, and NYC's MOMA. He lives in Chicago.Alex Kotlowitz is author of There are no Children Here, The Other Side of the River, and Never a City so Real.

By day their cartoon creations included Mickey Mouse, Superman, Beetle Bailey, Betty and Veronica, Wonder Woman, Batman, Charlie Brown, and the Cat in the Hat. But when night fell, they abandoned their pursuit of heroic deeds and good clean fun to draw the risque -- slinging ink to make kink. Collected in this volume for the first time are scores of rare, previously suppressed, underground sketches by mainstream cartoonists: Carl Donald Duck Barks, Steve Spider-Man Ditko, Otto The New Yorker Sag

Oversized postcards featuring Deathbot, Ninja Kitty, Space Bat, Yeti, Giant Squid, The Shadow, and many more! All of these are rendered in the aggressive, graphic, colorful visual language that has defined GAMA-GO.Every product Gama-Go makes is a limited edition of 250-500 pieces, never to be repeated. Popular characters reoccur seasonally, but in different one-of-a-kind designs. Based in San Francisco, Gama-Go products can be found in 250 stores and premiere boutiques around the globe, and the

In this novel, Laura is in the middle of a torrid affair with the trains that pass on the tracks at the end of her block. The trains are carrying weapons destined for the front lines of America's latest war, and Laura can't rest until she's consummated the affair by blowing one up! She plots and plans but meanwhile, the trains keep right on coming, haunting her.Aaron Cometbus has earned legendary status in the literary underground for the longevity of his self-published fanzine (Cometbus, which

The complete prints and posters of Josh Agle, a.k.a. Shag, the California-based artist whose bold, bright, irreverent takes on the swingin' styles and profiles of jetsetters, cocktail-lounge crawlers, scene-stealing supervillains and (literal) party animals have made him one of the most popular painters working today. Rendered in eye-popping, mood-enhancing colors, with a deceptively simple sense of design, the world of Shag transports viewers into a realm of hedonistic pursuits and elegant plea

"This book explores the work of Shag, America's hippest neo-tiki artist