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Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of lowlife Bohemians and revolutionary mentalities shatter the conservative myths of the Fifties and lay bare the emerging sexual experimentation that would shape the Sixties.

DINNERS & NIGHTMARES

POPagandist, billboard bandit, post-pop pundit, post-punk prankster, countercultural cartoonist, subvertising executive, culture-jammer. The artist with his finger on the pulse card of the nation. Ron English takes on the icons of pop culture and puts a little "English" on them. A Robin Hood of Madison Ave., Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture and its popular visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly on his hundreds of pirated billboards. Ron exists as a pop culture anomaly, somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up, real life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery laden with strong socio-political undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive pop-culture savvy, and Dali meets Disney technique. Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the didactic approach to art and life, Ron has offered up an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there's always room for a little good-natured fun.

POPAGANDA

Literature & Fiction

A cutting-edge collection of 110 contemporary underground and mainstream artists, illustrators, and graphic designers from a networked community of self-made artisans. Each uses different media, but the common thread is that all work independently to manufacture their own products. This showcase also includes contact information for each artist in the back of the book.

Panda Meat: Source Book 1

History & Criticism

'The Saddest Place on Earth' is a beautiful collection of the acclaimed Californian painter's work.

SADDEST PLACE ON EARTH

Grand Central Press / Last Gasp

This title explores the work of Shag, America's hippest neo-Tiki artist; Leroy Schmaltz, the granddaddy of 1950s Tiki Americana; and the authentic Oceanic art that influenced them both.

Night of the Tiki HC

A literary and artistic exploration of human sexuality -- and a fun dirty book, featuring today's smartest, raunchiest, funniest, filthiest, most beautiful, and most arousing adult comics! Best Erotic Comics 2008 smashes the divide between literary/art comics and adult comics by including both the hottest work from the literary/art comics world -- and the highest-quality work from the adult comics world. Artists include Daniel Clowes, Phoebe Gloeckner, Gilbert Hernandez, Michael Manning, Toshio Saeki, Colleen Coover, Ellen Forney, and many others. The wide variety includes work that's kinky and vanilla, sweet and perverse, and straight, lesbian, and gay. Features recent comics, a handful of vintage Hall of Fame gems -- and some works never published before! Color and b&amp;w. 
Work by: Belasco, Marzia Borino &amp; Mauro Balloni, Susannah Breslin, Katie Carmen, Cephalopod Products, Daniel Clowes, Vince Coleman, Colleen Coover, John Cuneo, Dave Davenport, El Bute, Jessica Fink, Ellen Forney, Phoebe Gloeckner, Daphne Gottlieb and Diane DiMassa, Justin Hall, Gilbert Hernandez, Molly Kiely, Ralf Konig, Dale Lazarov &amp; Steve MacIsaac, Michael Manning, Erika Moen, Quinn, Sandez Rey, Trina Robbins, Toshio Saeki, and Dori Seda. Cover art by Ellen Forney.

BEST EROTIC COMICS 2008

Chris Mars' painting style, examples of which graced his album covers, is marked by nightmarish landscapes and grotesque distorted figures. He draws inspiration from his older brother's struggle with schizophrenia. 'Tolerance' features 160 full-colour illustrations of Mars' unforgettable and haunting artwork.

TOLERANCE

Last Gasp/La Luz de Jesus

Chicago, its citizens and its folktales inform this collection of images. Fitzpatrick gives us fantasy and fact, architectural landmarks and obscure neighbourhood bars, and his own heroes, real or imagined.

WONDER Vol. 3

Plastic Antinomy Magazine is focused on bringing regional and national attention to the visual arts of San Francisco and its sister city of Oakland. This issue features Josh Keyes, Gary Baseman, Eric Parra, Wave Organ, Sentient Salon, Shirley Shor, Alixis Amann, Ron Garrigues, Alicia Escott, and The Oyster Pirate Workshop. Through its print and online magazines, Plastic Antinomy fills a critical void and provides focus and coherence to the San Francisco Bay Area's vital and diverse arts scenes. Plastic Antinomy is dedicated to educating the public about visual arts in order to help develop a deeper understanding and respect for the arts as well as to help develop the Bay Area's arts and artists. With dialogue comes growth. Plastic Antinomy provides the forum. Hype, buzz, dialogue, criticism, call it what you will. It is the talking about that gets things noticed. San Francisco and the Bay Area have a very real, very vital art scene that is suffering from a profound lack of dialogue. And because of this lack, our art is often ignored by the art world at large and shockingly, by San Franciscans themselves. When confronted with the bounty of visual art that fills the Bay Area, the response is apathetic silence. Visual art is so ubiquitous to San Francisco and Oakland that we have disengaged from it. Enter Plastic Antinomy, a quarterly art publication dedicated to bring focus, coherence and well deserved attention to San Francisco Bay Area visual arts by talking about them in direct, honest and (hopefully) entertaining reviews, interviews and articles. Not everybody will like what we have to say. Good. If we all share one opinion or are afraid to say otherwise, neither the arts scene nor the artists grow. It is antinomy, the paradox of opinion, that encapsulates that very idea.

Plastic Antinomy Number 3: The Blue/Green Issue 2009

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