CF’s new book, MERE, will make its American premier Friday, 5/24 at Desert Island, Brooklyn (540 Metropolitan Ave).

Come on out from 7 to 9 pm and celebrate the release with C.F.

About MERE: In 2012 C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex-all of them infused throughout by C.F.’s absurdist humor and loose improvisatory drawing. Those comics, along with unpublished art and photos, are collected here. 

It’s the PictureBox 40% Off Spring Sale!

From now through Tuesday, May 21st use the coupon code MAY at check-out for 40% off savings on all books, including brand new releases like Sun Ra + Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972, C.F.’s  MERE, Ben Jones’ Men’s Group, Blutch’s So Long, Silver Screen, and The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame,  and . You can even pre-order Nudity Today!

Or why not catch up on some goodies like the recent LA Times Book Award winner Everything Togther, or Peter Saul’s signed and numbered drawings collection, Conceptual Art?

There’s a world of books here for you to grab at a one-week-only discounted price. Have at it.

PictureBox at TCAF This Weekend

We will be at TCAF in full force, with special guests Gengoroh Tagame, Chip Kidd, and CF (debuting his new book, MERE).

Here’s the skinny: Free and open to the public at Toronto Public Library, 789 Yonge St., Sat-Sun 9 - 5. More info on panel locations at TCAF.

PictureBox is Table 112

Chip, CF and Tagame will be signing the entire weekend and participating in panels.

The schedule is:

SATURDAY

11 am - 1 pm: Tagame and Kidd signing

1:30 - 2:30pm / Marriott 200: Maurice Vellekoop in conversation with Chip Kidd

1 pm -3 pm: CF signing 

2:45 - 3:45pm / Marriott 200: Gengoroh Tagame w/ Chip Kidd, Graham Kolbeins, and Anne Ishii

4 pm - 5 pm: Tagame and Kidd signing

7 pm -10 pm: Tagame: Queer Mixer: Church on Church, 504 Church St.

SUNDAY

11:00 am - 12:30 pm: CF and Tagame signing

12:15 - 1:15pm / Pilot: Queer Comics Panel w/ Chip Kidd

1:30-2:30 / Marriott 200: Design Panel w/ Chip Kidd

12:15 - 1:15pm / Marriott 400: Show Debut Spotlight Panel w/ C.F.

2 pm - 4:00 pm: CF and Tagame signing

CF’s new book in now in stock. Order it and pick up a side dish of Sun Ra or Carlos Gonzales. Enjoy yourself.

Hang in there! It’s Frel! From C.F.’s book, MERE, out in May from PictureBox. 

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The PictureBox Subscription Plan: Everything published by PictureBox in the year 2013!

This year will most likely include the following titles:

SPRING/SUMMER

-Ben Jones: Men’s Group (art/comics/design by Los Angeles master)
-Blutch: So Long, Silver Screen (graphic novel translated from the French)
-The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame (gay erotic comics, translated from the Japanese)
-C.F.: MERE (Joseph Beuys + Roy Crane = best comics)
-Sun Ra + Aye Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972 (photography from transformative year)
-Shigeru Sugiura: Last of the Mohicans (classic 1974 graphic novel translated from the Japanese)
-Brandon Graham: Walrus (cartoon drawings school you))
-Jesse Pearson, ed.: Nudity Today (nude photography from 11 young artists)
-Chris Martin: Drawings (35 years of shamanistic drawings)
-Julia Chiang: Coming Together, Coming Apart (emotive paintings and sculpture)
-Joe Bradley: Drawings (Most anticipated, long awaited book of 100 works)

FALL:

-Diplo + Shane McCauley: Blow Your Head 2: NYC (photography on the floor)
-Anya Davidson: School Spirits (debut graphic novel of contempo life)
-Richard Kern: Contact High (naked women smoking weed)
-Frank Santoro: Pompeii (an intimate love story set against art)
-Seiichi Hayashi: Gold Pollen and Other Stories (Gorgeous and searing late-1960s comics translated from the Japanese)
-Yuichi Yokoyama: World Map Room (graphic novel translated from the Japanese)
-Eddie Martinez: Paintings (bravado painting survey)
-Matthew Thurber: INFOMANIACS (graphic novel satire of digital life)
-Osamu Tezuka: The Mysterious Underground Men (Classic 1947 graphic novel translated from the Japanese)
-Wes Lang (the American iconographer’s first monograph)

And probably a few more, but you never can tell. Whatever we publish in 2013 you shall receive. Plus, any advance order premiums (bookplates, signed copies) will be included as well.

ALL THIS FOR $300 (plus a one-time shipping fee). THAT’S A 45% SAVINGS OFF THE COVER PRICES.

When I think of this year of publishing I think of the following words: sex; contemplation; beauty; bite; weed, hilarity; terror; intimidation; inspiration; canon; history; cartography; stupefied; bonafide.

Notes:

1) If you subscribe at any time in 2013 you will receive ALL of the above books.

2) If you change your address, please send an email to: orders@pictureboxinc.com

3) You might see other items pop up on the web site that PictureBox distributes but does not publish. Those will not be included in the subscription.

4) If you wish to order additional items throughout the year please note that we cannot combine the shipping with subscription items.

5) Things happen in life. Sometimes people are flakey. Sometimes they are especially well-organized. Sometimes the dog hides under the couch. What I’m trying to say is that some of these titles and schedules may change. But I guarantee that your $300 will get you at least 20 satisfying printed experiences at a discount of 45% or more.

We have a buncha new stuff in the store, including new Negron, Pham, Davidson, CF. Etc! 

Hey, let’s recap the week!

Tonight: Tomato House (301 Saratoga Ave., Brooklyn) for Michael McMillan: Series ZZZZZ and Other Stories, 5-7 pm. Michael will be there. I’ll be there. We’re debuting his first publication in 40 years, Series ZZZZZ and Other Stories. 

Tomorrow: The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival in Williamsburg this Saturday, November 10, 12-7 pm. PictureBox will be downstairs at tables 1 and 2, right when you come in. 

Signing Schedule: 

12:30 - 2:00 - Michael McMillan and Matthew Thurber

2-3:30 - Family Sohn

3:30-5:00 - CF and Jonny Negron

 - Infinidick by Family Sohn. 48 pages, signed and numbered two-color risograph edition of 300. 

 - DNA Failure: British Weapon Comics by Jon Chandler, Leon Sadler and Stefan Sadler. 96 page, softcover edition of 1000. 

 - The ZZZZZ Series and Other Stories by Michael McMillan. 24-page full color edition of 1000. 

We will also have excellent things from the usual crew, as well as fresh imports, including, but not limited to: Captain Goodvibes: An enormous and enormously awesome collection of 1970s Australian surf/hippy comic strip. Must be seen to be believed. Bob Peak: The definitive monograph on the iconic all-consuming pimp of illustration. AND: CF’s beer design, pristine Gothic Blimp Works from 1969, and some fiiiiine zines.

Come on down to the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival in Williamsburg this Saturday, November 10, 12-7 pm. I co-organize this every year and this one’s our best yet. PictureBox will be downstairs at tables 1 and 2, right when you come in. 

PictureBox is debuting THREE new publications with author signings.

1)The ZZZZZ Series and Other Stories by Michael McMillan. An oversize 24-page publication in conjunction with McMillan’s exhibition, which I also curated, at Tomato House, Brooklyn (opening Friday night!). This is McMillan’s first solo publication in 40 years, lovingly printed in a full color edition of 1000. 

2) Infinidick by Family Sohn. Thousands of years of human history has led us to this point: A collection, with new material, of the beloved husband-and-wife comic strip, long serialized on PBox, that sheds light on important issues from genital utility to feelings of unusual love. 48 pages, signed and numbered two-color risograph edition of 300. 

3) DNA Failure: British Weapon Comics by Jon Chandler, Leon Sadler and Stefan Sadler. Three cartoonists telling interlocking stories from a single universe. This is work defined by keen observation and an attention to the ongoing movements of objects and personalities. In other words, a fully realized cartoon world. What makes it unique is that the sensibilities at work here are fearless in their ideas. Essential, highly advanced comic-making. 96 page, softcover edition of 1000. 

We will have excellent things from the usual crew, as well as fresh imports, including, but not limited to: Captain Goodvibes: An enormous and enormously awesome collection of 1970s Australian surf/hippy comic strip. Must be seen to be believed. Bob Peak: The definitive monograph on the iconic all-consuming pimp of illustration. AND: CF’s beer design, pristine Gothic Blimp Works from 1969, and some fiiiiine zines.

Signing Schedule: 

12:30 - 2: Michael McMillan and Matthew Thurber

2-3:30:  Family Sohn

3:30-5:00 CF and Jonny Negron

See you there. 

A ton of new stuff in the shop from the likes of CF, Sammy Harkham, Famicon…