Category: art
Merry Xmas from the NRA
from IT’S FUN TO BE RICH IN AMERICA by Norman Conquest & Michael Leigh
UPDATED (12/14) A young man clad in black and carrying two handguns shot up an elementary school in a small Connecticut town on Friday, leaving 18 small children and eight adults dead in one the nation’s worst school massacres, law enforcement officials said.
We think it’s long past time America gets rid of the NRA lobby and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Black Scat Review – Digital Edition Available!
In addition to the print version, we’re offering a digital edition of the first issue of Black Scat Review at the stocking-stuffer price of $3.50. This limited offer expires on January 2nd, 2013. Download an iPad, PDF or WebViewer version here.
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
High Spirits
Sure it’s shameless self-promotion, but remember… “everyone lives by selling something.”
Pass it on.
X-ray Visions
acrylics on x-ray by Monika Mori
When we first discovered the paintings of Austrian artist Monika Mori (known internationally as “Moo”) we were mesmerized by her abstract forms and bold colors. Her powerful imagery on x-rays using a palette knife opened a door to a world of fresh visions.
Black Scat is proud to announce the publication of Mori’s Shattered Rainbow—a highly personal series which includes both paintings on x-rays and works on stretched canvasses in mixed media. This is the first book publication of the artist’s work in the U.S. The unique Black Scat edition is limited to 150 copies. SOLD OUT
Scattered Rainbow is a stage where emotions collide, splinter and re-animate. It reflects the artist’s belief that art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
Sleepers Awake!
Black Scat Review awaits you like a shot of espresso. The new issue features steaming art by Florence Bocherel and Michael Leigh; eye-opening translations by John Crombie and Doug Skinner; plus jolts of piping hot fiction by Alphonse Allais, Pierre Henri Cami, Pedro Carolino, Crad Kilodney, Samantha Memi, Yuriy Tarnawsky, and Tom Whalen. And if that’s not enough to get you out of bed, check out the startling cover photo by S. N. Jacobson, and Elizabeth Archer’s revealing interview with Samantha Memi. Get your copy here.
Premiere Issue
We’re pleased to announce the release of the first issue of BLACK SCAT REVIEW.
Contributors include: Alphonse Allais, Elizabeth Archer, Florence Bocherel, Pierre Henri Cami, Pedro Carolino, John Crombie, S. N. Jacobson. Crad Kilodney, Michael Leigh, Samantha Memi, Doug Skinner, Yuriy Tarnawsky, and Tom Whalen. The issue includes an interview with Samantha Memi, author of Kate Moss & Other Heroines.
Cover photo by S. N. Jacobson
OUT OF PRINT
Black Scat News from London, Paris, Montreal & Austria
Exciting new books are on the way and you won’t want to miss them. 
We’ve just published Samantha Memi’s first collection of short fiction: Kate Moss & Other Heroines—#7 in our Absurdist Texts & Documents series. Memi is a gifted young British writer with a unique, offbeat voice. And if we didn’t know better we’d swear she’s a relation to the great French absurdist, Alphonse Allais. Also, the forthcoming first issue of Black Scat Review features an interview with the London-based writer.
The French humorist Pierre Henri Cami (1884–1958) is virtually unknown in America and Black Scat Books is proud to be the first to publish a collection of his writings & drawings in the States. A Cami Sampler
(Absurdist Texts & Documents #9) is translated by John Crombie whose Kiickshaws Press in Paris published several exquisite letterpress editions of works by Cami. Charlie Chaplin hailed Cami as “the greatest humorist in the world,” and if that’s hyperbole… well he’s certainly right up there alongside several Black Scat authors.
Another literary event coming your way—also in the AT&D series—is a text by the Romanian-born French poet and artist, Isidore Isou, founder of the art movement Lettrism. Translated by Doug Skinner, Considerations on the Death and Burial of Tristan Tzara has never before appeared in English. Isou recounts his bizarre and humorous behavior at Tristan Tzara’s funeral. It’s a rare tidbit of renegade art history.
In December, Black Scat will publish Shattered Rainbow by the Austrian artist Monika Mori. The book features a series of stunning abstract works created on x-rays with acrylics using a palette knife.
Florence Bocherel is an experimental comic artist/writer. She was born in London, but currently lives in Montreal, Canada. Black Scat will publish her graphic novel, Post-asphyx in 2013.
Hot Off the Press!
Black Scat Books is proud to present The Neglected Works of Norman Conquest. It includes two scarce early satirical works—Sartre’s French Phrase Book and Interiors: A Book of Very Clean Rooms—in addition to material published here for the first time. This full-color trade paperback marks the first major collection of the artist’s work to be published in the US.
You can find out by ordering a copy from Createspace or Amazon.
This is one book you don’t want to neglect.
