July is owned by Art Chantry
Today we’re announcing a special deal in which we’ll be providing throughout the entire month of July 2015 a free ebook with every purchase of Art Chantry Speaks, so you’ll be able to read this amazing title either as a physical book or on your laptop, desktop computer, smartphone or Kindle device.
This physical and ebook combo will be an ongoing special featuring a new title every month.
Please keep in mind, dear readers, that most Feral House and Process Media publications, as they feature many photos or illustrations, are designed for an offset-printed book, and not for phones and other electronic devices. So decisions made regarding the trim size of the book or where certain images appear within cannot be replicated on an iPhone or Kindle. Nonetheless, it could be nice to tote around these books on your handy electronic device.
In Art Chantry’s heretical history of 20th Century Design you’ll be getting extraordinary ideas and lessons that would never appear in any fussy Fine Arts course, and to better implement those, hundreds of color images are included. Chantry is of course an influential designer on his own, and will be making appearances in Tacoma, Portland and elsewhere, but the first one is at Fantagraphics’ retail store in the Georgetown area of Seattle next Saturday on July 11. Mark your calendars! Here’s a post about it: http://fantagraphics.com/
To view an excerpt from Art’s book, see him speak on a video trailer, and to be able to purchase the physical book that provides you the free ebook, go here: http://feralhouse.com/
We also want to thank all the librarians that Monica Rochester and I were able to meet and speak with at last week’s American Library Association convention in San Francisco! Thanks so much for all your interest in Feral stuff!
BTW, new at the store is a Feral House tote bag, t-shirts, and sterling silver Process Church trouser-ripper rings!
What’s in Art Chantry’s Filing Cabinets?
Prior to its current gentrification, the Belltown area of Seattle was better known for crack cocaine than for its exclusivity. And that’s where I visited Art Chantry’s apartment/office in the early ‘90s when he was putting together images for the book, Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story. Chantry’s metal cabinets creaked with an astonishing amount of clippings and Northwest history, which he was posting on old-style boards.
Digital typography and even crop marks seemed contrary to Chantry’s religion and would get his ire going.
And now Chantry has come forward with a book of graphic and commercial art design and history, a beautiful, iconoclastic classic. At this time one can only order Art Chantry Speaks through the Feral House website. If you wait another month or so, you’ll be able to get it from stores and Amazon.com You can see sample chapters from this book, along with a video trailer, here: http://feralhouse.com/
This guy holds an opinion or two.
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Coming soon (May 22) in Brooklyn is the release party for Pulp Macabre: The Art of Lee Brown Coye’s Final and Darkest Period. It’s really amazing how this remarkable pulp artist lost the use of his primary hand and arm, and was forced to relearn how to draw with his left hand, rendering his art even creepier and crazier. Coye’s grandson and his publisher will be in attendance.
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