new from Last Gasp

MYSTERIUM FIDEI (HARDCOVER)

Daniel Martin Diaz

$35.00

Mysterium Fidei , Mystery of Faith, is Daniel Martin Diaz's newest collection of art. His painting, prints, and drawings are inspired by devotional folk art, which he blends with archaic imagery and old-world aesthetics, immersed in the passionate imagery of his religion, especially the Old Testament.... (more)

coming soon from Last Gasp

KUSTOM JAPAN (HARDCOVER)

Michael McCabe

$34.95

California popular culture has deeply impacted the world throughout the 20th century, and the East/West dialog provides inexhaustible ground for inspiration. Today, the cultural stylizations of hot rod and kustom kulture are part of a nostalgic mystique thatis being adopted by a growing number of... (more)

Last Gasp special editions

IT FEEDS ITSELF: SIGNED AND NUMBERED SPECIAL EDITION

Eric White

$200.00

Eric White's hyper-intensive, distortedly lucid paintings explore the shifting boundaries between beauty and horror. Developing out of the artist's fascination with the illusionary properties and constructions of film, the paintings examine the varying layers of human perception by manipulating planes of focus and the reliability... (more)

highly recommended

BLOOD & DISHONOUR: DARK, BLOODY, & PERVERSELY EROTIC WORLD OF...

Nigel Wingrove, editor

$37.95

The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic, and by their membership in this exclusive group. Now, for the first time, a select number of this gorgeous,... (more)

highly recommended

BOOK OF VICE, THE: VERY NAUGHTY THINGS (AND HOW TO...

Peter Sagal

$24.95

Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, the mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" -- the man who put the second "L" in "vanilla" -- decided to find out if it's true. From... (more)

NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU: STORIES...

Miranda July

$14.00

Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection.... (more)

H.R. GIGER'S RETROSPECTIVE 1964-84

H. R. Giger

$19.95

This book covers twenty of the master surrealist's most abundantly productive years. Serving as a great introduction to H.R. Giger's remarkable body of work, Retrospective is filled with... (more)

THREE SHADOWS

Cyril Pedrosa

$15.95

Can you ever escape your fate? Three shadows stand outside the house -- and Louis and Lise know why the spectral figures are there. The shadows have come... (more)

KAPUT & ZOSKY

Lewis Trondheim, Eric Cartier

$13.95

Kaput and Zosky are the most mayhem-inducing, the most screams-of-terror-provoking, the most rotten, ruthless aliens in the entire galaxy. And they have the biggest weapons, too! So why... (more)

RANT: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF BUSTER CASEY (SOFTCOVER)

Chuck Palahniuk

$13.95

The mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk ( Fight Club ) takes the form of an oral history of one Buster "Rant" Casey, who may or may not be the... (more)

LIVE THROUGH THIS: ON CREATIVITY AND SELF-DESTRUCTION

Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor

$17.95

In a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography, cutting-edge artists explore their use of art to survive madness, abuse, incest, depression, and the impulse toward self-destruction... (more)

MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL MAGAZINE #301 (JUNE 2008)

Various

$4.00

Hardcore, punk rock, scene reports, radical politics. In this issue: Los Violadores; The Sears; Head On Collision; Antibodies; Tentacles of Destruction; Kola; Straight Jacket Nation; Spectres; Dean Dirg;... (more)

CABINET MAGAZINE #29: SLOTH (SPRING 2008)

Sina Najafi, editor

$12.00

Immaterial Incorporated's non-profit quarterly magazine of art and culture run by a staff from around the world. Each issue contains articles, interviews, specially commissioned artist projects, and a... (more)

AMULET, BOOK 1: THE STONEKEEPER

Kazu Kibuishi

$9.99

After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be... (more)

COMIC ARF: THE UNHOLY MARRIAGE OF ART &...

Craig Yoe, editor

$19.99

This great Arf book features one of the greatest comickers of all: Milt Gross! Gross drew a 1920s comic that left the last panel blank for aspiring cartoonists.... (more)

EXPLAINERS: THE COMPLETE VILLAGE VOICE STRIPS 1956-66 (HARDCOVER)

Jules Feiffer

$28.99

In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules Feiffer started contributing a strip to the only alternative weekly published in the US, a small radical... (more)

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE INSIDE: THE BEAT WITHIN (HARDCOVER)

Louise E.V. Nevaer, editor

$19.95

The Beat Within is a decade-old, nationwide writing program for incarcerated youth. "Words not Weapons" is the organization's credo, inspiring these young adults -- males and females of... (more)

FACE FOOD: THE VISUAL CREATIVITY OF JAPANESE BENTO...

Christopher D. Salyers

$12.95

Dating back several hundred years, the Japanese bento box is as integral a part of the country's culinary identity as sushi. Today, a contemporary version of the bento... (more)

IMPOSTERS (HARDCOVER)

James Knoblauch, Shawna Kenney

$24.95

Every year, millions of visitors to Los Angeles head straight to the heart of Hollywood and the Walk of Fame with vain hopes for a celebrity encounter. Visions... (more)