Monte Beauchamp Bücher

From the 1920s to the 1950s, a small but useful advertising gimmick spread like wildfire into the purses, pockets, and kitchen drawers of millions of Americans. The give-away matchbook was one of the most pervasive means ever found of putting promotional images into the hands of the public. Small and disposable, matchbooks were not only a highly successful marketing tool for a wide variety of products, they were also the repositories for a wealth of anonymous design creativity. Fantasies of ocean travel, bathing beauties, regal leisure, and tropical locales adorned the covers, as did hand-lettered typography, stylized illustration, and eye-catching color. This red-hot celebration brings the ubiquitous matchbook's art to life in all its pulp panache and visual zing.

The preeminent anthology of the graphic arts, BLAB!'s list of contributors past and present reads like a Who's Who of the contemporary visual art world. Each issue functions on its own as a remarkable primer of contemporary cartooning and design. BLAB! focuses on creating stand-alone collections that assure the very best level of craftsmanship at all levels, whether it is the cartooning, printing, writing, or design. Both Print: America's Graphic Design Magazine and Graphis recently published lengthy features on the spectacular art and design of BLAB! 11.Includes: Columbia, Prewitt, Panter, Goldin, Spain, Ware, Blanquet, Allen, etc.

Monte Beauchamp's annual darling of the graphic design and illustration world is back with its most spectacular collection of cutting-edge comics, illustration, and graphic design yet. Blab! 's list of contributors past and present reads like a Who's Who of the contemporary visual art world, including Mark Ryden, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Joe Coleman, and many more. Blab ! is edited and designed by five-time New York Festival of Advertising award-winner Monte Beauchamp, whose work has appeared in Print, Graphis, Communication Arts and American Illustration . Under his guidance, Blab! has grown from a digest-sized black-and-white fanzine he began over 10 years ago to an annual coffee-table showcase event of impeccable production values and master craftsmanship, an objet d'art that has become a standard-bearer in the world of professional graphic arts. 2001's Vol. 12 features stunning front and back covers by Christian Northeast, as well as color stories by Richard Sala, the Clayton Brothers, Northeast, Peter Kuper, Peter Hoey, Lou Brooks, Fred Stonehouse, and children's book illustrator Mike Bartolas, appearing in Blab ! for the first time. Blab ! stalwarts Gary Baseman, Drew Friedman, Spain, Blanquet, and Walter Minus are also back, along with Blab ! newcomer and Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh, who contributes a four-page color story, and several others. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Fueled by the front and back cover paintings of Mark Ryden, the outsider art movement's leading contemporary painter, Vol. 11 broke new sales records for our preeminent anthology of the graphic arts. Blab 's list of contributors past and present reads like a Who's Who of the contemporary visual art world. Vol. 11 earned raves from both Print and Graphis magazines. Blab is edited and designed by five-time New York Festival of Advertising award-winner Monte Beauchamp. Under his guidance, Blab has grown from a fanzine begun almost 20 years ago to an annual coffee-table showcase of impeccable production values, wild experimentation and master craftsmanship. Blab is an objet d'art that has become a standard-bearer in the world of professional graphic arts.This volume features leading contemporary cartoonists and illustrators like Gary Baseman (creator of ABC's Teacher's Pet), Christian Northeast, the Clayton Brothers, New York Times art director Steven Guarnaccia, Zap artist Spain Rodriguez, Richard Sala, Jonathon Rosen, Peter Kuper, Doug Allen, Drew Friedman, and many others. Vol. 11 and also include a feature on the popular Krampus devil cards that comprise the accompanying Fantagraphics title The Devil In Design (also edited by Beauchamp).