16 beautious drawings by Michael Williams, composed whilst residing in Providence RI for his exhibition at CANADA, New York. Here we have fish with boobs, cell phone angst, nightlife, and other manly yet sensitive surprises. Remember when life was fun? Williams does.

A truly awesome, white nuckle adventure starring Castle. Frank Santoro did the plot and layouts here and Jon Vermilyea did the art and story. Action, adventure and awesomeness in the best rock ‘n’ adventure comic going!

The best issue yet. This jam packed issue leads off with a cover by and conversation between Sammy (Kramers Ergot) Harkham and Guy (Hellboy: BPRD) Davis. Then it’s on to Kim Deitch’s essay on the meaning of life, and an illuminating discussion of autobiographical comics with David Heatley and Lauren Weinstein, followed by T. Hodler’s final part of his epic examination of the work of Steve Gerber. Also featured is a critique of the recent Masters of American Comics exhibitions, book reviews, Marc Bell, comics by Renee French and Frank Santoro, and much more. * guy davis, * steve gerber, * david heatley, * sammy harkham, * lauren weinstein, * kim deitch, * dan nadel, * timothy hodler, * comics comics

Core of Caligula is C.F.’s ongoing series of “daily life” comics. Funny, a little scary, and all together compelling, they follow an unnamed man as he tries to figure out who or what he is. Marked by the usual gorgeous drawing and design, Core of Caligula is the latest essential entry of C.F.’s work from PictureBox.

Aiming to put the odd new comic book series by Thurber (late of Kramers Ergot and cult band Soiled Mattress and the Springs). At once funny, surreal, and psychedelic, 1-800 MICE explores the world of Volcano Park and its intriguing residents, including Peace Punks, Mice Messengers, and Tree People. Thurber’s scratchy, expressive linework nearly bursts out of the panels, describing whole worlds in single pages. This one is sort of like a punky-hippy Hobbit.

The second exciting issue of the series. Here we meet sushi chef assassins and learn more about Peace Punks and other things in Matthew’s feverish brain!

PictureBox recently reunited with our pals Wilco to publish this special 32 page tour program. Here we have band lists, a lovely interview with Jeff Tweedy, photos, a how-to, and much more. This little gem is designed by Norman (Overspray) Hathaway and also features all new drawings, images and comics by Frank Santoro, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Sara Greenberger Rafferty and C.F., not to mention a gorgeous Charlie White III cover.

What’s this? A rockin’ new album by Devin Flynn and Gary Panter? Yes, it’s a breezy country/psych full length jam from Devin and Gary. Gary sings lead and guitar and Devin conjures forth ambitious, omnivorous and altogether ambidextrous soundscapes, not to mention some sweet harmonizing. The sound of this record is the sound of two dudes hanging out on a Spring day, having fun. Devin and Gary: they don’t just go outside, they go all the way.

A vintage “graphic novel” from 1986 by Ed Nukey Nukes and Jocko Levent Brainiac, two crazed Texans artists related to another artist PictureBox published whose name rhymes with Shmarey Canter. This is a masterpiece of comic book dementedness. Filth! Fury! Gawd! An essential addition to any library. Just keep it away from the kiddies. We found this cache in the trunk of a burnt out car by the side of the road just outside Lubbock, TX. In 1974. Get ‘em while you can. Just 500 made. First 50 orders signed by Jocko Levent Brainiac.

This twelve-issue, semi-monthly comic book by artists Ben Jones (Paper Rad) and Frank Santoro (Chimera, Storeyville) is a unique collaboration, applying Jones’s surreal, biting prose to Santoro’s elegant yet dynamic renderings. The result is an action comic like no other. Over the course of twelve monthly issues, Castle, the 18 year old hero of the story, embarks on a life altering adventure through Prozac, corporate rock, globalization, and, of course, sex. Along the way she meets Howard Stern, Barry McGee, and a well-preserved Adolf Hitler. “What I imagine some could think is the worst comic book ever and others like me feel is simply a compelling, straight-forward thriller drawn with audacious flair by Frank Santoro.”–Comics Reporter “A comic that feels like a cable from a world where the only thing that exists is a dimly lit bedroom in which you’re wearing ripped jeans and you just keep listening to and rewinding “Teenage Riot” over and over again. Outstanding”–The Comics Journal

Xylor Jane has been making visionary paintings and drawings for over a decade. This latest body of work envisions the artist marking time and space via the creation of grid-like paintings rooted in mathematical concepts. These remarkable objects are built up out of a complex use of numerology and very delicate, dab-by-dab painting technique. Of her work, The New York Time has written: “In ways alternately explicit and subtle, her work reveals the miracle and the drudgery of art-making as well as the wonders of the human mind and its needs.” This book, her first, contains 28 of her finest paintings, carefully reproduced, with an introduction by Trinie Dalton.

Willeford’s spare, laconic, unflinching memoir is one of his essential books – one of the essential books in the American vernacular, let’s say.” –Jonathan Lethem “I’m proud to say I knew the man who wrote this book. It is pure writing, never pretentious or forced, never melodramatic, but honest storytelling of the highest order. This is how to do it, if anyone wants to know: how to write simple prose from a young boy’s point of view and hold the reader spellbound. – Elmore Leonard PictureBox and Family are pleased to announce the release of Charles Willeford’s I Was Looking for a Street. This memoir tells the story of the author’s childhood and adolescence as an orphan, as he moves from railroad yards to hobo tent cities, to soup kitchens and deserts around Los Angeles and across the United States. The ensuing tale is at once a picaresque adventure through Depression-era America and a portrait of the writer as a young man of seemingly little promise but great spirit. Written late in Willeford’s career, this book is the work of a writer at the height of his powers, looking back without nostalgia or regret, and preserving in his clear and powerful prose the great American adventure of his youth. A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919–1988) is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. His career as a writer began in the late 1940s, but it was his 1972 novel Cockfighter (later adapted for the screen by Monte Hellman) that announced his name to a wider audience. His other books include The Burnt Orange Heresy, Pick-up, and Something About a Street.

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.