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Brown Cuts Neighbors Have A Request

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bcn – bogarts, originally uploaded by lookseeseen.

First up. BCN has a facebook fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/BrownCutsNeighbors

Does anybody out there have visual documentation of shows and other live Brown Cuts Neighbors interventions? 1989-91 most desired, [...]

Photos from Anno Domini's Art of Zines Show

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ArtofZines11, originally uploaded by Marc Arsenault – Wow Cool.

The Art of Zines show opened at Anno Domini Gallery in Downtown San Jose this past Friday. Stacked on shelves along the walls are dozens [...]

In case you missed Fluke on tour recently with Andrew Jackson Jihad, you can pick up the latest issue from me at Anno Domini’s Art of Zines show in San Jose this Friday. Published in Tucson, Arizona, 2010. 68 pages, half size, offset print, $2.00 by hand, $4.00 by mail. interviews with Christ on Parade, [...]

NEWAVE! Got Boinged

There is a nice little writeup of the NEWAVE! Minicomics book by the esteemed Mark Frauenfelder on today’s edition of BoingBoing. Go read that thang.

NEWAVE! is now in stock and ready to ship from Amazon.

UPDATE: Some photos from the release party at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery.

Hotwire Comics 3 Out Today - New! Cerio, Hellman, Henderson, Sandlin, Mats?!

An unholy host of New York City-type cartoon art guys (and a couple others and at least one gal), many of whom have been or are currently published or distributed by Wow Cool (and nearly all the rest are old friends from SVA, minicomics or the Zero Zero anthology) get to step out in style [...]

Art of Zines Show at Anno Domini Announced

Get on down to the glorious DTSJ (that’s Down Town San Jose, folks) for the South First Friday art walk this coming February 5th; and, do not fail to stop in at Anno Domini for their Art of Zines show. Wow Cool will be at a table there hawking our wares, too. All the details [...]

Wow Cool at Art of Zines Show in San Jose

Plan to go see Wow Cool’s and about about a bazillion other publisher’s zines at Anno Domini’s 2009 Art of Zines exhibit. It opens on Friday, February 5, 2010. Reception begins at 8pm. There will be live music and Marc Arsenault (me) will be there in the stinkin’ flesh. Thanks to Cherri from AD for [...]

Call for ZINES- Art of Zines exhibit at Anno Domini

That’s pretty self-explanatory. Details follow.

For those that don’t know, Anno Domini is the best gallery in San Jose. They’ve been written about here before.

We at Anno Domini are resurrecting our Art of Zines exhibition (a former annual event) and we are contacting you because we are still in need of great zines. We believe zines [...]

Wesley Willis Joy Rides Documentary coming to DVD

Wesley Willis’s Joy Rides will be released on DVD December 8, 2009 from Eyeosaur. The trailer is above.

An underground rock icon and revered artist, the late, great Wesley Willis attracted and offended people the world over. Wesley Willis’s Joy Rides follows the life of the prolific and controversial artist on his journey from obscurity [...]

Yes Men Fix The World Limited Preview DVD Package

LIMITED-EDITION DVD GIFT PACK OF THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (2009)!
$30 for one, $50 for two, $65 for three, $100 for five, $500 for thirty

Whether you’ve already seen the film and are jonesing for a second fix, or haven’t because the multiplex nearest you wouldn’t play it, be the first on your block to [...]

Thanksgiving Treat: Power Animals at NYU

Recorded at NYU Open Studios, November 21, 2009.

The Stupid Pages 27 - Little Dog

This was drawn as part of my entry application for the Art Instruction Schools, probably in the late-80s-early 90s. You know, the draw Tippy The Turtle people that advertise on late night TV. I think they said I had promise. I never did sign up. As you can see from the link, they are still [...]

Jason Martin - Two Times!

The esteemed Mister Jason Martin of Brown Cuts Neighbors and Evolution Revolution fame – the wolfman hisself – is making two rare public appearances in the next few days. Be sure to visit him at the NYU MFA Open Studios on Friday at the Barney Building and DO NOT MISS the big event! Jason will [...]

Al Columbia's Pim & Francie New from Fantagraphics

As Orson Welles and Terry Gilliam have film adaptations of Don Quixote as their great incomplete masterworks; Al Columbia has Pim And Francie. A work over 15 years in the making, and never now likely to be ‘finished’, the pieces of it have been assembled as Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Fantagraphics Books, [...]

fognozzle – In the Stomachs of Fleas video

fognozzle and Erling Wold
Mark Alburger conducting the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

We, that is, fognozzle and Erling Wold, present for you a tale of fear, horror, xenophobia, political posturing and denial, all contained within a musical program piece of sorts, a savage delight for the senses and an allegory for today, this and that and [...]

Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund is Dissolved Leftover Funds Donated to Civil and Human Rights Groups

FOUR YEAR LEGAL BATTLE ENDS WITH SUBSTANTIAL DONATIONS TO CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS

CAE Defense Fund donated to Center for Constitutional Rights & New York Civil Liberties Union

Buffalo, NY – After a widely watched four-year legal battle, the CAE Defense Fund was officially dissolved last week, with its remainder of unexpended funds donated in [...]

Go Get Gladtree Journal #3

Gladtree Journal #3 is out now, and it can be yours for 12 bux. Featured inside are stellar contributions from Wow Cool & Brown Cuts Neighbors’ grown men Marc Arsenault and Jason Martin plus many much more!

The third installment of assorted written and visual pleasures… this one floats through the themes of geography/topography/cartography – landscapes [...]

Mommy Pregnant – drawing by 4 1/2 year old Marc Arsenault

My mother, Roberta Juracka, one of the longest working women in American television, drawn by a young me. Found in a bizarre Catholic baby book at my late grandmother’s house. No clear indication on my final status as a soldier of christ. (picture after the jump!)

Why We Do This: Shawn Kerri

Gary Panter may have been Punk Rock Art’s Father, but Shawn Kerri was definitely it’s mother. The style was already familiar from dog-eared copies of CARtoons. We weren’t sure what was going on, but we knew it was punk, and we liked it.

A tribute by Paul Grushkin with lots of art.

Commissioned art and a story [...]

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