The comics

This trailblazing survey of an art form preferred by the  masses was the pioneer study of the subject. It shows the evolution and  subgenres of the comics from The Yellow Kid in 1895 through the  first decade of the modern comic book in the 1940s. First published in 1947 and long out of print, this is considered by  diehard aficionados of the comics as the best book ever written on the  subject, and not just because it was the first. In this far-reaching study  Coulton Waugh set down information that is now common lore, that the comics  are revealing reflectors of society. For general readers and scholars  alike, this new edition has a comprehensive index and an introduction by M.  Thomas Inge, the notable scholar of popular culture and author of Comics  as Culture.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Waugh, Ciulton

History & Price Guides

Luna Press

Waugh, Coulton

The song of Mary and David : a romance

Wolcott, Charles

The song of Mary and David: A romance

Aceite De Oliva Olive Oil

Maria Florez

LUNA Press is proud to present Inventing Reality, an anthology highlighting the work of twenty-seven contemporary New Orleans photographers. The collection, curated by D. Eric Bookhardt, presents a vision that is both subjective and representative of a broad spectrum of techniques, providing an overview into the creative renaissance that is taking place in the city today.  "In photography, this city and the surrounding region have long been a spawning grounds for visionary or magic realist imagery dating to Clarence John Laughlin's surrealist works of the 1930s," writes Bookhardt. "Today a coterie of younger emerging artists, often reflecting alternative socio-cultural milieus, have in concert with their more established peers expanded this visionary vocabulary." 

Bookhardt's insightful essay details the rich history of photographic arts in New Orleans, and his individual introductions to each photographer's series provide context for the works of 2013 Guggenheim Fellow Deborah Luster, David Halliday, Josephine Sacabo, and Louviere+Vanessa, among other established and emerging artists. The array of photographic practices used by the artists ranges from wet-plate collodions, orotones, photogravures, x-rays, and silver gelatins, to modern digital processes. The resulting anthology is a lyrical insight into personal visions, dazzling in their variety of approaches. As Russell Lord notes in the book's foreword: "It is a story about identity, tension, perception and the psychic mystery of photography in New Orleans."

Inventing Reality: New Orleans Visionary Photography

Bookhardt, D. Eric

"This series was inspired by the life and work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun who was one of the greatest poets and intellectuals of the American continent. She created the most renowned salon of her time from behind the bars of her cloistered cell. And in that cell she studied science and philosophy; wrote poems, plays, and music; and championed women's rights to intellectual and spiritual freedom. In the end, after resisting valiantly for over twenty years, she was silenced by the Inquisition. It is my hope that these images will help break that silence so that we may once again 'hear her with our eyes.' This work is dedicated to women everywhere who, whatever their confines, prevail. They are our hope." - Josephine Sacabo 10 x 12 1/2 inches, 113 pages 34 photographs including 4 double-page foldouts Cover: foil stamped hardcover Binding: smythe sewn Paper: 170 gr Munken Pure Published by Luna Press 2018 Printed by Oddi Printing Corporation

Lux Perpetua

Arts & Photography

Sacabo, Josephine

Photography & Video

French Quarter Fables: Volume I Written &amp; illustrated by Dalt Wonk $25 10 x 12 ¼ portrait 110 pages, 36 full color illustrations Paper: 115 gr Munken Print Cream Cover: Soft cover, foil stamped Published by Luna Press Printed by Oddi Printing Company Most of my life, I've been a writer. Of plays, in particular. They've been produced in small theaters here and there - New York, London, New Orleans and elsewhere. How did I come to write a book of illustrated fables in verse? I suppose the simplest and most honest answer is the delight I get from small animals wearing clothes. This curious delight is more wide spread than you might think. Not long ago, in the French Quarter, where I've lived for more than 30 years, someone started up a new Mardi Gras parade called "Barkus". People dress their dogs in costumes. It was an immediate hit and has grown into a major Carnival event. The fables were, in a sense, my love letter to the French Quarter. The animals, flowers and insects are almost all Quarter denizens and they appear in their natural habitat: a frog in his courtyard lily pond, a rat in the stone riprap on the levee and a roach in the kitchen of a restaurant. Gradually, I enlarged the scope of the fables to include far-off lands and exotic animals. But I've kept the title FRENCH QUARTER FABLES, since the majority takes place there and all were written there and are, no doubt, influenced by its singular, suggestive atmosphere. - Dalt Wonk

French Quarter Fables Vol. 1

Dalt Wonk

French Quarter Fables Vol. II

These collages are assembled from images taken from "La Nature", a 19th century French magazine. Simon Blake meticulously dissects the illustrations from this magazine with carbon scissors and surgical scalpels. He then pastes these pieces together to form new, original, imaginative pictures, to which Wonk has added intriguing, humorous captions."Word and image combine seamlessly to bring to life a fantastic world. An alluring journey. A beautiful sense of bewilderment."- David Gordon Green

Lonely Voyagers

Simon Blake

Graphic Design

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