A collection of bodysuit tattoos -- tattoos that cover the entire body as one intricate piece of work -- by the freshest innovators of the medium. Work by 13 tattooers, including Grime, Jason Kundell, Paco Excel, Adrian Lee, Horitaka, and more. This edition maintains the high production quality of the previous editions, with vellum overlays protecting the incredible artwork. Trade paperback in slipcase. This is the fifth edition, with a new slipcase. ...beautiful, a true work of art. -Skin Art m

"Following on from his best-selling Tintin: The Complete Companion, Michael Farr portrays the little-known but fascinating life of Herge, the remarkable artist behind Tintin, the boy reporter who continues to thrill and delight an ever-widening audience. In seven separate sketches, he presents his picture of a man whose life is the key to his creation. "

The art and history of one of the leading galleries in the Lowbrow art movement. Copro/Nason has recently transcended the limits of Lowbrow by incorporating gothic-inspired visions of fantasy, horror and surrealistic excess into an ambitious program mixing acknowledged masters like Robert Williams and Mark Ryden with newer talents such as Ron English, Lori Earley, Sas Christian and Audrey Kawasaki. Jam-packed with over 450 photos and illustrations.

"The eye-opening story of the life of an average Arab-American struggling with his identity in an increasingly hostile nation. Using the graphic novel as his medium, Lebanon-born Toufic El Rassi chronicles his experience growing up Arab in America. Keen observations, clever insights and painful honesty make El Rassi's work shine as a critical 21st century memoir. "

"Collects 250 tattoo designs by Mitch O'Connell&mdash

There has never before been a book filled with this many photographs of equal Beat Era personalities -- the most comprehensive photography collection of the people, players, and friends of the Beat era in American literature. Includes photos of: Kathy Acker, David Amram, Karel Appel, Al Aronowitz, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, James Broughton, Joan Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Ernesto Cardenal, Carolyn Cassady, Don Cherry, Francisco Cle

A collection of Edward Colver's captivating photographic works. For over 25 years, Colver has been one of the main documentarians of the Southern California punk rock scene. This timeless coffee table album is a testament to the impressive career of one of the 20th century's most important underground photographers.

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