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ince 1970, Last Gasp has published and distributed the art, writing, and photography of popular and underground culture. Last Gasp was founded in 1970 to create an ecological comic book. Our first publication, Slow Death Funnies #1, came out on the first Earth Day, April 15, 1970. Subsequent comics included the all-women’s comic It Ain’t Me Babe and Skull Comics, followed by dozens of other underground comix titles, including Zap Comix and later Weirdo magazine. Along the way, Last Gasp began publishing books on art, comics, punk literature, and popular culture. We continue to strive to create beautiful, engaging volumes that reflect our artists’ and authors’ visions. In addition to publishing, We are pioneers of remote bookselling. Our website is always open for you to browse a vast and peculiar selection of printed matter: graphic novels, art books, underground comix, adult coloring books, obscure magazines, punk lit, and more.
FALL & WINTER
HI-FRUCTOSE COLLECTED EDITION SEPT 2021
GREETINGS FROM DELUSIONVILLE RON ENGLISH DEC 2021
HEAVEN’S DOOR EXTRA WORKS KEIICHI KOIKE DEC 2021 “A DRUG IN PAPER FORM” CHRIS DYER’S 2ND KICK-ASS COLORING BOOK DEC 2021
SPRING 2022 PREVIEW EARLY KUSTOM KULTURE KUSTOMS AND HOT RODS PHOTOGRAPHED BY GEORGE BARRIS BY BRETT BARRIS JUNE 2022
THE OFFICIAL BARRIS KUSTOM COLORING BOOK BY GEORGE BARRIS MARCH 2022
SPRING 2022 PREVIEW THE LOWBROW ART OF ROBERT WILLIAMS
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THE LOWBROW ART OF ROBERT WILLIAMS
INK, BLOOD & LINSEED OIL
REVISED EDITION HARDCOVER AND PAPERBACK
THE COLLECTIVE WRITINGS OF ARTIST ROBERT WILLIAMS
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Last Gasp was founded in 1970 to publish a comic book warning of the ecological disaster facing the world. We have a new warning...
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LOW DEATH ZERO is a wild and outrageous collection of environmental-themed horror stories, a fat compilation by the most diverse team of Slow Death contributors ever assembled! Representing the “Old School” Slow Death crew, we have cover artist William Stout, Tim Boxell, Bryan Talbot, Errol McCarthy, and even (gasp!) ol’ man Gore himself, Richard freakin’ Corben, this time teamed with frequent Creepy/Eerie collaborator, Bruce Jones, himself a horror comics anthologist of terror-ific taste! As a bonus, there’s a rarely-seen Greg Irons page that somehow missed being included in Slow Death #11. There’s also a whole bunch o’ talents herein who came to prominence a tad later, including Rick Veitch (who actually got his start, back in 1973, in the Last Gasp comic book Two-Fisted Zombies) and Hunt Emerson (whose debut in underground British comix dates to the mid-’70s), plus Weirdo mag alumni Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Carel Moisewitch, Savage Pencil, Rick Altergott, and (almost-Weirdo) Danny Hellman, plus work by cartoonist vets Peter Kuper, Bob Fingerman, Mike Diana, and Kellie Strom. Relative newbies include Max Clotfelter, Cody Goodfellow, Mike Dubisch, Cameron Forsley, Kevin Jackson, Megan Jeffery, John Lucas, Charles Schneider, Garret Shanley, Skinner, Shane Oakley, Toufic El Rassi, M. Yafa, and especially Pat Moriarity, who, as
SLOW DEATH ZERO Edited by Jon B. Cooke Softcover, Sewn Binding • 128 pages Color and B&W • 6.63 x 10.19 978-0-86719-883-6 • $24.95 usual, went the extra mile. (Sorry for any mis-characterizations here.) Hat’s off to good ol’ Gaspar, the Friendly Host, Slow Death’s mascot/chattering skull who, for some of the stories within, turned over horror-host narrating duties ish to Cap’n Ronzo himself, our fearless leader who founded this darn comic book five decades ago!
STANISLAV SZUKALSKI Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) was an artist, anthropologist, and member of Chicago’s artistic elite during the 1920s who spent his last years in obscurity. Today he is remembered for his political and scientific views and his brilliant sculptures. Highly regarded in both the US and Poland between the World Wars, he lapsed into obscurity, living and working “America’s Cultural Siberia” (Southern California) until comic art collector Glenn Bray rediscovered him in 1973. Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonard DiCaprio. Stanislav Szukalski was one of the great sculptors of the 20th Century. Due to geopolitical upheavals in his native land, Poland, a large proportion of his work was destroyed. Yet thanks to the efforts of a group of dedicated art patrons, art critics, and personal acquaintances, the work of Szukalski is being re-evaluated and once again shown to the public.
“It is prankish that he is still so unknown” —George and Leonardo DiCaprio
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THE ART OF SZUKALSKI Foreword by Leonardo and George DiCaprio Edited by Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve Softcover, Sewn Binding • 200 pages Color and B&W Illustrations Throughout 8.5” x 11” • 978-0-86719-479-1 $39.95
INNER PORTRAITS by Szukalski Inner Portraits provides a major survey of Szukalski’s work as draftsman, painter, and sculptor. This is a new edition: upgraded, expanded, and newly re-designed. Many images and texts in this edition have never been published before.
Preface by Ernst Fuchs • Edited by Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve Hardcover • 208 pages • Color and B&W Illustrations 8.5” x 9.5” • 978-0-86719-879-9 • $35.00
BEHOLD!!! THE PROTONG stanislav szukalski
Extracts from the 39 volumes of my science “Zermatism,” based on new interpretations of petroglyphic communications, in which will be revealed the most precedent-shattering and up-turning of all notions on our origins. Including samplings from Anthropolitical Motivations, The Deluged Gods, and Listen to These Stones Introduction by Robt. Williams | Obituary by Ray Zone Edited by Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve Hardcover, Sewn Binding • 160 pages Color and B&W Illustrations Throughout 8.5” x 11” • 978-0-86719-876-8 $39.95
“Look what I have discovered (others saw it, but did not understand)!” —SZUKALSKI “He is the Michelangelo of the Twentieth Century” – ERNST FUCHS “I put Rodin in one pocket, Michelangelo in the other, and I walk towards the sun.” –SZUKALSKI “Stanislav Szukalski fits the definition of genius; his observations, though in question, were brilliant.” –ROBERT WILLIAMS
“His art is animated by palpable forces of scruple and opinion that are seldom seen in works of the heart, and the messages are so powerfully put forth that lesser minds than his must frequently decline to try to deal with them.” – JIM WOODRING
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eirdo was Robert Crumb’s legendary humor comics anthology that ran from 19811990. The Book of Weirdo tells the story of the deranged, despised, depraved, dirty, honest, ornery, perverted, gross, neurotic, insulting, fun-loving, tragic, ugly, grim, infantile, reactionary, unique, stupid & brilliant Weirdo magazine. A “low-brow” counterpoint to Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly’s rather high-falootin’ RAW, Weirdo influenced an entire generation of cartoonists, and served as a creative refuge for underground comix veterans and training ground for new creators. This book features the comprehensive story of the fondly-recalled magazine, along
with testimonials from over 130 of the mag’s contributors, plus interviews with Weirdo’s three editors—R. “Keep on Truckin’” Crumb, Peter “Hate” Bagge, and Aline “The Bunch” Kominsky-Crumb—as well as publisher “Baba Ron” Turner. This 288-page hardcover book is as much a comprehensive history of the alternative comics scene of the 1980s and early ’90s—from New York City punk to Seattle grunge—as it is the story of a single magazine, an exhaustive retrospective that includes rare and unseen artwork from that era, as well as new comics from modern-day artists paying homage to the great oddball mag. In 1981, amidst a seismic shift to the right in the country, Crumb responded by unleashing
A great book... the definitive work on the subject.” —R.Crumb
the savagely irreverent and satirical Weirdo onto the great multitude, and he generously welcomed to its pages not just his ZAP Comix underground cohorts, but also an entirely new generation of iconoclastic cartoonists. It was an irreverent, outrageous, often politically-incorrect, and taboo-challenging anthology that showcased Crumb’s finest—and most controversial—material.
THE BOOK OF WEIRDO
It was gut-busting, hysterical, and frequently offensive. But, by Jon B. Cooke most of all, it was FUNNY! Hardcover • 288 pages Though it finally gave up the 8.5 x 11 in. ghost by 1993, in its time, Weir- Black and white illustrations do was one of the very best of and photographs throughout its kind… a showcase for outISBN 978-0-86719-875-1 siders, freaks, and (naturally) $39.95 weirdos. In fact, truth to tell, it’s the ONLY one of its kind!
Krampus, the Devil of Christmas by Monte Beauchamp
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n European folklore, the Krampus is St. Nikolaus’s dark servant—a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long, slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps! The Krampus terrorized the bad until they promised to be good. Some he spanked. Others he whipped. And some he shackled, stuffed into his large wooden basket and carted away, then hurled into the flames of Hell! Such scenarios were delineated by skilled and imaginative Old World craftsmen, printed on penny postcards and disseminated throughout Europe. The rare examples featured in Last Gasp’s line of Krampus products are, perhaps, the best history has left to offer.
A devilishly difficult 1000-piece puzzle measuring 20 x 29”. This puzzle features one of the most popular historical Krampus images.
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KRAMPUS: THE DEVIL OF CHRISTMAS HARDCOVER
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GREETING CARDS IN TIN #1
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PLAYING CARDS #2
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PLAYING CARDS #2 10PACK
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STICKER COLLECTION IN TIN
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CREEPY KRAMPUS COLORING BOOK
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A Child’s Christmas in San Francisco John Briscoe
At the core of A Child’s Christmas in San Francisco are seven poems, composed, author John Briscoe tells us, by generations of San Francisco school children. Over the week before Christmas these children paired iconic San Francisco food and drink with the days of the week. Each day got a poem featuring a particular food or beverage. Those included Red’s Tamale (Tuesday), sourdough (Wednesday), Bull Pupp (Thursday), It’s-It (Friday), pisco (Saturday), cioppino (Sunday), and the martini (Monday). In this way, Briscoe observes, the young poets showed “a precocious affection for the culinary tradition and abiding spirits of Christmas in their City of St. Francis.” Briscoe was one of those children. “For the occasion of those seven days, we composed ditties of juvenilia, in verse from bad to worse, to celebrate the days of the week and their paired food or beverage soulmates. From Sutro Heights to South Beach, from Bernal Heights to the Bayview, we composed, and competed, and conceded to the best of us.” These then are the best productions of San Francisco’s youthful versifiers. As presented by Briscoe, they are sly and surprisingly sophisticated comic verses that bring to life a forgotten San Francisco, one spiced with wicked innocence and fueled by the city’s unique culinary offerings. Like the season it recalls, this book is celebration, a feast that is guaranteed to delight.
“An ode to the city’s culinary and poetic heritage. Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5” —Foreword
A Child’s Christmas in San Francisco By John Briscoe Clothbound, with jacket • 80 pages Black & white photographs throughout ISBN 978-0-86719-885-0
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t the core of A Child’s Christmas in San Francisco are seven poems, composed, author John Briscoe tells us, by generations of San Francisco school children. Over the week before Christmas these children paired iconic San Francisco food and drink with the days of the week. Each day got a poem featuring a particular food or beverage. In this way, Briscoe observes, the young poets showed “a precocious affection for the culinary tradition and abiding spirits of Christmas in their City of St. Francis.”
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he Grateful Dead scene from the mid ‘80s onward — captured by San Francisco photographer Susana Millman as she became part of the Grateful Dead family, “A Fly on the Wall with a Camera.” Alive begins with Susana’s friendship with Jerry Garcia, who was a matchmaker in her marriage to Grateful Dead publicist and biographer Dennis McNally and even walked her down the aisle. Photos from Garcia’s years with the band in the ‘80s and ‘90’s demonstrate Millman’s warm, intimate style and unique access to happenings onstage, offstage and backstage.
ALIVE WITH THE DEAD ~or~ A Fly on the Wall with a Camera By Susana Millman Foreword by Mickey Hart Hardcover • 256 pages • Full color 12 x 9 • ISBN 978-0-86719-882-9
A VISUAL FEAST of over 500 photographs offering an insider peek into the Grateful Dead scene from the mid-eighties on. “The book is just fabulous. It’s unbelievable. It’s a tour de force, something very special.” — Ken Nordine, creator of Word Jazz
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treasure trove of memorabilia, photos and writings, the Grateful Dead Family Album is both a candid family history of one of America’s most enduring rock bands and a priceless time capsule of ‘60s rock culture and counterculture. The long strange trip continues -- for the 30th anniversary of the original publication, author Jerilyn Lee Brandelius presents the timeless story about one of the greatest bands to ever walk this earth. For countless fans in the USA and around the world, the Grateful Dead are more than a rock band. They’re a way of life. Like no other musical group of the time, the Dead helped define the Sixties, a time of endless explorations of love, revolution, and, of course, rock and roll. Attention: Dead Heads, rock fans, thrill seekers, the just plain curious. Not just another narrative or chronology, the Grateful Dead Family Album is an intimate, elaborate scrapbook, a celebration painstakingly assembled from the private memorabilia of the Grateful Dead’s extended family, band members, relatives, working associates, and friends. Compiled by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius with the cooperation of the Grateful Dead, this panoramic assemblage explores the flip side of the Grateful Dead phenomenon--what the years have looked like from the other side of, and away from the stage. It is a time capsule of three unforgettable decades, filled with histories, anecdotes, testimonials, fragments, artifacts, poems, souvenirs, and, of course, hundreds of unique photographs.
NEW HARDCOVER EDITION!
GRATEFUL DEAD FAMILY ALBUM Jerilyn Lee Brandelius Hardcover • 256 pages • 8.5 x 11 in. Color and black and white photographs throughout • 978-0-86719-873-7 $39.95
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n autobiography of Dirk Dirksen and his rise as the promoter of the Mabuhay Gardens as told by Dirk Dirksen. Dirk Dirksen almost single-handedly made the early beginnings of Punk Rock possible in San Francisco, by providing an all-ages, low-admission-charge venue where anybody could play and almost nobody was rejected. He suffered 7 broken noses, a broken ankle, an above-elbow replacement and various internal injuries while fending off deluded humans who mistakenly equated “Punk Rock” with violence--a notion implanted by corporate media, the enemy of authentic cultural evolution everywhere. From 1974-1984 (or was it 1986?) Dirk curated thousands of shows at the Mabuhay Gardens, 443 Broadway, and the upstairs On Broadway Theater. This is Dirk Dirksen’s story told to us by Dirk Dirksen and some of his friends, enemies, onlookers and assorted hangers on. Dirk was a multifaceted person. Stories by music critic Joel Selvin; Mabuhay owner Ness Aquino; Rolling Stone writer Michael Goldberg; poet Peter Urban; Ginger Coyote of Punk Globe; Jennifer Egan; Jennifer Blowdryer; artst Winston Smith; and many more from band members and attendees of the Mabuhay.
Shut Up You Animals!!! The Pope is Dead. A Remembrance of Dirk Dirksen The History of the Mabuhay Gardens By Dirk Dirksen, James Stark, and Ronald Turner
224 pages • Softcover 7.5 x 10.25” • 978-0-86719-874-4 Black and white Photos and Illustrations $17.95
“I wasn’t running the San Francisco Opera. I was running a club in no-holds-barred North Beach where people came to let loose, and that meant taking no prisoners and giving no quarter at the front door.” —Dirk Dirksen
STATUS FACTORY THE ART OF RON ENGLISH
WHO KILLED HUNTER S. THOMPSON? THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE MASTER OF GONZO
MITCH O’CONNELL TATTOOS
POP SURREALISM KIRSTEN ANDERSON
THE SNOW YAK SHOW MARK RYDEN
BEYOND THE DARK VEIL POST-MORTEM AND MOURNING PHOTOGRAPHY
TALES OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CACOPHONY SOCIETY
THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN ART
JAY HOWELL’S PUNKS GIT CUT ZINE ANTHOLOGY
DON’T HAVE FEELINGS, DON’T MAKE A SCENE THE ART OF SKINNER
GANGSTA RAP COLORING BOOK AYE JAY
SELECTED BACKLIST
LITTLE FLUFFY GIGOLO PELU JUNKO MIZUNO
PURE TRANCE JUNKO MIZUNO
THE STRANGE TALE OF PANORAMA ISLAND
MIRROR, BLACK MIRROR THE ART OF CAMILLE ROSE GARCIA
NEVERLASTING MIRACLES THE ART OF TODD SCHORR
KUSTOM KULTURE VON DUTCH, ED ‘BIG DADDY’ ROTH, ROBERT WILLIAMS
HI-FRUCTOSE COLLECTED EDITIONS ANNIE OWENS AND ATTABOY
BAREFOOT GEN A CARTOON STORY OF HIROSHIMA
INCURABLE DISORDER THE ART OF ELIZABETH MCGRATH
THROUGH PREHENSILE EYES SEEING THE ART OF ROBT. WILLIAMS
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