Discussed: Sigmund Freud, Terence McKenna, Georges Bataille Audio files of Peter Lamborn Wilson lectures are available at archive.org

This weekend come see us at the first annual The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, which we’ve organized with Desert Island. PictureBox will be debuting some fun new work there, including a brand new Jimbo mini comic by Gary Panter, as well as new comics by CF, Anya Davidson and Carlos Gonzales. Our signing schedule and other details follows below PictureBox at the Brooklyn Comics and PictureBox artists on site include: Anya Davidson, C.F., Carlos Gonzales, Gary Panter, Frank Santoro, Matthew Thurber, Lauren Weinstein. Our signing/event schedule is: 12-1 pm: Carlos Gonzales and Anya Davidson at PBox 1-2 pm: Gary Panter and Peter Saul in conversation with Dan Nadel...

External Stimuli : Olympus BioScapes International, Felice Frankel, Eye of Science

A very nice notice just came over the transom. Two PictureBox books have been named “Best Books Ever” by The Society of Publication Designers blog: Gary Panter and For the Love of Vinyl. Congrats to Helene Silverman for such a great and deserved mention of her fabulous design of Gary Panter. Thanks SPD!

The Blackberry Apocalypse was settling into a traffic menace and maybe Sasha was right that not much had actually changed, but I saw it differently. Over the digital streams and dammed expressways, my flag flew like gauze in front of the stars… Download: ZAZEN, Chapter 21 — “Into the Snow” (62k...

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• Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip [Joe Layton, 1982] # So dark, so perfect, so hilarious. So hard to be good at standup. You can watch it online over here, but we watched it on cable. We all fell over a lot.
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NOVEMBER 30 — MOTHER JONES “Iʼm no lady, Iʼm a hell-raiser.” Labor radical, agitator. NOVEMBER 30 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS… ST. ANDREW’S DAY. JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 30 IN HISTORY… 1667 — Satirist Jonathan Swift born, Dublin, Ireland. 1835 — American humorist and social critic...

NOVEMBER 29 — DOROTHY DAY The Roman Catholic Church may never name her a saint. We do. “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.” NOVEMBER 29 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 29 IN HISTORY… 1799 — American utopianist...

Stanley Lieber is a comics factory, a house of ideas, a bullpen bullet, a Jim Starlin drawing, a Herzog documentary.��� Check out his website to preview his new book, The Abandonment of Cruelty.��� He’s currently compiling a comics anthology called FAKE which will contain his new Actron novella...