Last Gasp Books

Todd Schorr: Designed for Extinction Opening reception: June 26, 4-7pm Book-signing for Schorr’s latest monograph American Surreal hosted by Last Gasp. Designed for Extinction is a solo exhibition featuring the paintings of Los Angeles-based artist Todd Schorr, a leading figure in the world of “pop surrealism” and “lowbrow.” Schorr is undeniably inspired by Renaissance masters [...]

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Our Holiday catalog is being printed and will be mailed out in the next couple of weeks. DOWNLOAD In the mean time, you can download a pdf of it here. Ordering information for Mail-Order customers is here. Ordering information for Wholesale customers (i.e. stores) is here. Here’s a sampling of some of the pages: Cover [...]

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Frankfurt Book Fair is always a strange and exciting show. This year was no different, and we met and spoke with a wide range of folks from all over the globe. Here are some of our best-dressed customers. Some more shots of the stand:

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Attention New Yorkers Todd Schorr will sign copies of his new book American Surreal at Jonathan Levine Gallery this Saturday, Oct 10, from 3-5pm. The book is a collection of Todd’s most recent mind-blowing paintings, documenting the work of one of pop surrealism’s most talented artists. The works are elegantly presented at 10 x 15″ [...]

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Todd Schorr will be signing his beautiful new book, American Surreal, this Saturday, August 15th. The new book picks up where his bestselling book, Dreamland, left off and includes the exquisite ape themed paintings that were unveiled earlier this year. The large format, hardcover, 100 page book was published by Last Gasp, San Francisco, and [...]

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Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, Joe Ledbetter, James Jean, The Pizz, Scott Musgrove, Ron English, and Travis Louie will all be signing at the Last Gasp booth (#1616) at Comic-Con this year. Todd Schorr will be signing American Surreal (preview) and Dreamland Mark Ryden will be signing The Tree Show book, Tree Show Micro-portfolio (preview), Sweet [...]

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We’re super-excited about our newest book, Todd Schorr: American Surreal. It just arrived at our warehouse and you can see a preview here. This is the latest collection of paintings by one of contemporary surrealism’s most influential artists. American Surreal picks up where Dreamland, Schorr’s previous bestselling collection of mind-bending paintings, left off. The viewer [...]

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Last Gasp will be in New York for Book Expo at the end of May. We’ll be at booth #4651, at Javits Center showing our newest books, including advance air copies of American Surreal and other exciting releases.  We will also have books and previews from the many wonderful and exciting publishers we distribute.  As [...]

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We went down to LA this past weekend for Todd Schorr’s opening at Merry Karnowsky Gallery.  What a show! If you missed it, your next opportunity to see Todd’s work will be at his museum retrospective opening June 20 at the San Jose Museum of Art. It seems a few other people, including Vanity Fair, [...]

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Arrested Motion has posted an interview with artist Todd Schorr.  Todd’s work is brilliant and Last Gasp is excited to be publishing our third book with him.  The new book is called “American Surreal” and includes all work done since the last publication, Dreamland.  This weekend Todd has an opening at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in [...]

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