New & Used BLAB!

by Mark Mothersbaugh, Monte Beauchamp (Editor)

"Like the New Yorker - for mutants." --Los Angeles Reader New BLAB! , meet Used BLAB! Together they make the most impressive and expressive illustration and comics compendium around. BLAB! is the annual forum for a diverse roster of the finest illustrators of our day to do essentially as they please, a publication that carries the proud tradition of unfettered graphic innovation into the future. The "used" side of this book brings together the finest of BLAB! , including the work of such luminaries as Gary Baseman, Peter Kuper, Blanquet, Christian Northeast, the Clayton Brothers, and more. The "new" side features never-before-seen work specially created for this book, with contributors including Haley Johnson, Sue Coe, Jonathon Rosen, Spain, and an introduction by neo-Dada pop star Mark Mothersbaugh. The many faces and voices of BLAB! are reproduced in a resplendent back-to-back package that provides multiple points of entry. A best-of collection, an art and design manifesto, and a new kind of visual art form in itself, New & Used BLAB! is the best survey of progressive illustration today.

Genres: Art

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2002

Reviews

[Meghan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love all the issues of this blab. These are some of my favorite illustrators turned fine artists and comic artists. Good stuff.