Last Gasp Books

Mitch O’Connell is, among other things, a tattoo flash designer. 250 of his designs are collected in MITCH O’CONNELL: TATTOOS. The good news, for all of you tattoo and Mitch lovers in Tokyo, is that he’s making an appearance on Thursday, September 4th, at “The Ghetto“. Here’s Mitch from his MySpace blog:
I’ll be at “The [...]

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Howdy! This week’s highlights include: the second volume of the massive, stunningly reproduced, widely praised “Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!” volume; a sexy and geeky photo collection of the costumed women of Comic-Con; the design-eriffic, girl-tastic new book from Ragnar; a densely- illustrated, blow-by-blow account of Sweden’s legendary [...]

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This year’s Comic-Con was a blast. I’ll be posting pictures from other years and other conventions and fairs in the coming weeks. For now, here’s a taste of San Diego Comic-Con 2008… four and a half days of pure madness.

This is what the booth looks like before a couple of days of setup.

We’re [...]

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Subversive Ron English, the artist behind our book Abject Expressionism is on tour pasting up his Abraham + Obama = “Abama” image.
Abraham Obama Mural
West Coast Tour

Los Angeles, August 16
1321 West Sunset Blvd
San Francisco, August 18—19
111 Minna
Denver, August 21—22
Andenken Gallery
English has created a few music videos as well.

Believe in Obama by The Electric Illuminati

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Comic artist extraordinaire Rob Sato (creator of Burying Sandwiches) says:
If you are ready and able, please come and see the group art show “You Only Excist (sic) Because of Us”. It starts this weekend with a reception on the 16th at the Giant Robot Gallery in San Francisco and continues until September 17th.  Also, please [...]

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We received a nice letter from our friend Kal who makes robots that breathe fire and fly and hug you and stuff like that.  He’s having a show in New York.  If you are there, you should go to the show.
Hello you,
I am about to embark on a one month visit to the fair and [...]

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Our newest manga is Tokyo Zombie, a hilarious, outrageous horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers and jiu-jitsu experts who deal with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. We’ve getting some great reviews:
Comics Village
Comics Reporter
Jog Likes Comics

Patrick Macias

Ain’t It Cool News

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Our book Dying of Thirst: New Paintings by Gary Baseman received a rave review in the New York Times. Here’s an excerpt:
Gary Baseman, a painter and illustrator who created the animated series and feature film “Teacher’s Pet” and a successful line of collectible vinyl toys, is descended from the Wacky Pack generation. Like Panter’s [...]

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