Last Gasp Books

Four decades • 300+ comix • 250+ books • A Who’s Who of Lowbrow Art

Last Gasp turns 40 this year and to celebrate, we are throwing a party and art show at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco.
The Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show assembles a top-drawer lineup of artists – the haut monde [...]

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Our Holiday catalog is being printed and will be mailed out in the next couple of weeks.

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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 artwork by the masterful Todd [...]

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PEN Oakland has honored poet Diane di Prima with the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.
Diane is the author of many books, including the recently released new edition of Revolutionary Letters.
(The award has been renamed for the Vice President of PEN Oakland who was deeply loved, and who died May 15, 2008 of a massive heart [...]

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Two incredible poets — Diane di Prima & Maria Mazziotti Gillan — will be reading at Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood! (Easy access via BART and other public transit.)
Diane’s importance to modern poetry since the 1950s is well documented, well understood and well appreciated. From Revolutionary Letters to [...]

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