EXHIBITIONS & GALLERIES

Hello readers, if you aren't out of the city on vacation you should consider visiting one of the many excellent galleries here in Paris.

OK tourists flock to the city's exceptional selection of world class museums housing some of the world's great masterpieces, from an array of cultures and time lines but as well as these and the galleries selling top dollar art in the "Latin Quarter " there are several galleries dedicted to our sort of stuff.

Galleries here in Paris dedicated to the sale and exhibition of BD/Comic art include Galerie Petits Papiers and Galerie du 9em Art, while two of our favorites are a stones throw from our store, the Arludik on Ile de La Citié and Galerie Daniel Maghen at Quai  des Grands Augustins.

At the Arludik they mix up aniamtion, comic and game art with shows regularly changing every few weeks, currently they are displaying the enticing sounding show, "Girls Drawing Girls",

While at Galerie Daniel Maghen they have long had the reputation of being the address for fans of BD, recently they have branched out and are putting animation and illustration into their mix. Currently they are having a show with the Tasmanian Titan, Ashley Wood.

Ashley's incredible art doesn't come cheap so if your budget doesn't run to a piece, call by our shop and find consolation with one of the many books of Ashley's art we stock but do go and see this amazing collection of his art and prepare to be shocked and awed!

BIG GOLDEN AGE HEROES AT PULP'S ART

Hello readers, we're offering some pretty substantial images by the artist Greg Graziani depicting heroes from America's "golden age of " comic strip" art.

Each massive picture in acrylic on wood is 90 by 80 cms, and features the head of a popular hero from the " funny pages", they are as follows,

DICK TRACY

THE PHANTOM

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

BUCK ROGERS

Call in to see them and if you're swayed buy one or all four if you wish, we're easy, we just want our customers happy.

OUR WEB SITE

I mentioned this a few weeks back but it's worth repeating that we are now stocking our site with a lot of new titles.

You can now find an amazing assortment of books featuring art from your favorite games and some from the studios which create them, our pin-up category has been plumped up and foreign and domestic customers can find even more of the best in French art books.

Simply go to www.pulpsart.france or www.pulpsart.com you are sure to find something to your taste.

OPEN TOMORROW MAY 8

Hello readers, Pulp's Art will be open tomorrow between 13Hr30 and 19Hr30, so if you start getting either of cabin or hay fever then you know where to come for a cure.

It's nostalgia time here at Pulp's Art, as Adnan takes over from me while I take a short break for a few days; and also on account of this week's big new title from the US of A is Michael Golden's Artist Edition Portfolio.
This is the full 22 page story by Michael and Larry Hamma from the G.I. Joe Year Book # 2, in which the GIJ team are in Afghanistan looking to retrieve some high tech which Cobra and the Soviet Oktober Guard are scrapping over.
Each page of the folio is double sided, you have the text free side with Mike's dynamic art in all it's glory, while on the reverse you have the page complete with Larry's story.

And that's it, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow or when I get back, bye for now.

NEW AT PULP'S ART APRIL 30

Hello readers, it's quite a week here at Pulp's Art, we've lots of great titles and of course our book signing with JP Kalonji and Johan Walder on Friday and Saturday!

Men of steel seem to be popping up everywhere, the full theatrical trailer for Superman: The Man of Steel was released recently and looks to be the film fans have been waiting for. Meanwhile, Marvel's third outing for old "shell head" has been getting rave reviews, so thankfully this has arrived,

ART OF IRON MAN 3

HC in slipcase 280pp Color Black + White

Marvel

So by now you know what to expect from an art book based on a Marvel film, lots of concept art featuring the iron clad Avenger, his adversaries and allies and the locations where the action takes place.

Hard core fans of the comic book have been longing for iron Man's arch enemy The Mandarin to appear in the films and their wish has been granted and he's not come alone, uh-oh.

Our hero and the art department are tested to the limit in this epic production, see how the visual development team rose to the challenge.

We stay with films but move to the medium of animation with,

ART OF EPIC

HC 143pp Color Black + White

Titan Books

Blue Sky studios have taken a break from making wonderful animated films about prehistoric life as featured in their "Ice Age" series to tell a tale of tiny folk.

Can you picture minuscule noble, faerie and elve types, the leaf people,  battling from the back of birds for the honour and survival of their species and environment, brutish orc and troll types, the Bogons?

If you can't then this book will conjure all the imagery you could want, from what I hope will prove a heart warming crowd pleasing comedy with a sound environmental message.
The quality of the "Ice Age" series and "Rio" features from this studio should inform you that this book features top notch imagery and being the first book to celebrate the art work of the Blue Sky team it's a welcome and over due addition to the ranks of our Art of collection.

Keeping it sweet, why here's another Mark Ryden book coming round the bend,

MARK RYDEN PINXIT

HC 352pp Color Black + White

Taschen

Hot on the heels of Mr Ryden's last collection of his cute but cruel art work "The Gay 90s" comes this whopping big career retrospective from the Kaiser of art book publishing Ben Taschen!

It will dwarf your copies of Mark's previous books such as "Blood" and "Fushigi Circus" but if you wanted just one book of his work for your book case then "Pinxit" would be the one!

Keeping it alternative, here's the latest tome from Low Brow libraries favorite son,

GARY BASEMAN THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN

HC 208pp Color Black + White

Skira Rizzoli

Gary Baseman is one of the most prolific artists in any field, he's drawn and painted images and textiles and designed toys, games and apparel, if you can stamp a style on it chances are Gary has!

The book is based on the first career retrospective of Gary's art held at the Skirball Cultural Centre.

The title eludes to the fact that this was a very personal project for Gary, it's as if one were invited into his parlour to discuss his family back ground and how the rich cultural tradition of his Ashkenazim family mingled with the multi cultural vibrancy of his home town, LA to inspire his unique talent.

How about some comic art now but comic art by an animator,

MASSIVE SWERVE # 5

HC 88pp Color

Robert Valley

In this latest self published book animation ace Robert Valley concludes the sad story of his friend Techno's decline begun in Massive Swerve # 4 and entitled, "Pear Cider and Cigarettes".

I wrote of Robert's previous chapter in Techno's story that he brought all the visual story telling skill one would expect from an animator but also the story telling talent of the novelist, in the sensitive handling of the emotionally charged material, this still holds true of this the conclusion to the story.

We finish with some classic old school comic art, as if to emphasise the fact that this week we have a little something for everyone,

JACK DAVIS ARTIST'S EDITION

HC 176pp Black + White

IDW

The latest Artist's Edition focuses on another thorough breed from the E.C; stable of amazing comic talent, this time the work of Jack Davis gets the "treatment".

Jack Davis used dynamic brush strokes and elongation to dramatic effect in stories of horror, suspense, westerns, war and finally in satirical humor for virtually all of EC's titles.

In these faithful reproductions of the original pages one can get a real free for the genius of this one of a kind artist.

Pulp's Art will be closed tomorrow for 1 May but I hope to see you here following the brief break.

ABOUT THOSE CROODS

Hello readers, a quick word about "The Croods" movie, I reviewed the book before having seen the film and reported that certain critics I'd read had been cool towards the film but as far as the book was concerned I thought the book to be a winner.
Well, so is the film and by a stretch, I don't want to heap scorn and derision on those critics who don't get what a joy, what an exhilarating rush this film is, or the evident fun all involved were having, because their lives must be awfully dull if they thought sitting through this film was just their job and so it wouldn't be fair of me.

For my part, I recommend you go, see and enjoy "The Croods" film then pop in here and buy the art of book!

PULP'S ART UPDATE

Hi again readers, here's a couple of things I'd like to bring your attention ahead of the weekend.

We've just received the final installment of this excellent mini series, sequel to a much loved classic,

LONG JOHN SILVER # 4

HC 62pp Color

Dargaud

Xavier Dorion and Mathieu Lauffray conclude their acclaimed sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", in which LJS and the salty sea dogs from the good ship Neptune finally find the fabled city of Guyanacapac and a whole heap of trouble into the bargain.

Then go see this before one of the Fat Ladies sings,

The Brizzi brother are two talented artists who count Disney Animated Features among their distinguished clients.

Right now the Galerie Daniel Maghen is hosting an exhibition and sale of various pieces drawn by the brothers depicting moments of the highest drama from the world's great Operas.

I'm a fan of the brothers work and I'll be making my way there soon, meanwhile let me remind you that we have one of the few books to feature a significant amount of the brothers' work, the glorious Medieval romance L'Orlando Furioso; see images from it below