by Gary Arlington
$14.95
Softcover
127 Full color images
90 pages
9 x 6 inches
ISBN-13: 9780867197570
Publisher: Last Gasp

BLABWORLD Book Signing
Sponsored by The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art (with SOFA Chicago)
Navy Pier Festival Hall

Friday, November 5th, 2011, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Contributing artists, CJ Pyle, Fred Stonehouse, Michael Noland, Travis Lampe, Kari Laine McCluskey, Larry Day, and BLABWORLD founder, editor, and designer, Monte Beauchamp will be available to sign copies of the premiere volume of BLABWORLD, a 10 x 10 inch, full-color, 128-page, periodic hardcover book of works by leading contemporary painters, print makers, illustrators, and sequential artists worldwide.

Attend the book signing and purchase books at the Intuit Store, Booth 1524i.

Get a FREE 3-Day pass to both fairs!

Signings with Junko Mizuno, Joe Ledbetter, Buff Monster, Ron English, Camilla d’Errico (See schedule below)

Play Last Gasp Comic-Con BINGO with prizes!

Plus all the newest books, imports, rare stuff… Our booth is #1616.

SDCC exclusive junko mizuno print

2-print set. Edition of 60. Debossed digital offset.

Signing Schedule

Thursday

Camilla d’Errico – 2pm-3pm
Junko Mizuno 4:30pm-6pm

Friday

Junko Mizuno noon-2pm
Ron English – 2pm
Joe Ledbetter – 3pm
Buff Monster – 4pm
Junko Mizuno 5pm

Saturday
Junko Mizuno 11am

Copies of our HUGE, amazing 11″ x 14″ catalog will be available!

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 such as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, and Salvador Dali, as well as the early animated cartoons of Walt Disney and Max Fleischer, underground comics best exemplified by Zap, and classic films from the 1930s such as King Kong and Frankenstein. His highly polished, fantastic paintings are intricate narratives about evolution and the plight of man

Music by GLUE ONE, food by Rasta Tacos, and limited edition Todd Schorr designed T-shirt provided by Hurley.

Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Show runs June 26 – September 11, 2010

More Info
Full Press Release

Book Preview & Interview with The Pizz

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″ on thick artpaper, with a quarterbound cloth cover and gilded edges.

Book Preview

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212-243-3822

Last Gasp is proud to host a reading and book signing with Chip Kidd for his newest book BAT-MANGA. See you Thursday, November 13 at 6pm at 111 Minna Gallery!

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in Chip Kidd’s BAT-MANGA! The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Pantheon Books/October 28, 2008/$60.00 Hardcover, $29.95 Paperback) hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world’s most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys, courtesy of Saul Ferris.

This is the Dynamic Duo as you’ve never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won’t stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for the book.

More than a dazzling novelty, BAT-MANGA! is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics. The signed, limited hardcover edition will have a distinctly different cover, full-color printed endpapers, and an amazing extra adventure written by Jiro Kuwata (not included in the paperback), about a band of rogue alien robot art thieves at large in Gotham City. Who Could possibly stop them?!

About the Author

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. His two previous books about comics for Pantheon were Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. Both won the Eisner Award and were national bestsellers.

Author Reading
Thursday, November 13-San Francisco
6pm @ 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St., San Francisco, CA 94105

BAT-MANGA!
The Secret History of Batman In Japan
Compiled, edited and designed by Chip Kidd
Photography by Geoff Spear, From the Collection of Saul Ferris, Translated by Anne Ishii ● Pantheon Books/October 28, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-375-42545-5 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-375-71484-9 Paperback
www.goodisdead.com
www.pantheonbooks.com

BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of DC Comics © 2008. All Rights Reserved.

October 2 at 7:00pm at City Lights Bookstore in North Beach

October 22 at 7:00pm at Modern Times Bookstore in the Mission District.